50. A perfect day

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Friday 

It was an almost perfect Hardly Strictly Bluegrass day. The weather couldn't have been better -- blue sky most of the day with some pretty stratus clouds at the magic hour to give the sky some color as the sun set. It wasn't cold but I did have to use the porta-potties several times which I don't have to do when it's hot. 

I was able to hear the acts I was interested in while working -- Shawn Colvin, Boz Skaggs -- plus others that hadn't been on my list like Delta Rae and Mavis Staples. But that still leaves the work to talk about.

The huge order of compostable bags never showed up (don't ask). I went through all the bags I could find, but finally ran out and had to switch to regular bags that then have to be emptied into the compost dumpster. I started working about an hour early because I wanted to see how the vendors were setup. And then it was slow at first so I started working more of the public areas rather than sticking to the vendor area. I suspect I will be out on the field much less tomorrow. Just before the music stopped the vendors were all in great shape. I took a break to give them time to shut down, and then I helped shutting down some of the public stations since most of the crew is new. By the time I made it back to the vendors they had trashed most of the stations and left lots of black (devil) bags that I had to open up and sort. It took me an hour and a half to process all their mess and I could have done a bit more if I had had another half hour. Officially, I worked a normal shift. Unofficially I worked nine hours not counting my breaks.

Tomorrow the music starts an hour earlier, so I will start a half hour earlier than I did today. I'll probably leave at the same time, so I had better take longer breaks... and I will be spending less time in the field which may come as a shock to the others. But Saturday is so overwhelming anyway that they may not even notice. 

Still, I'm pretty pleased with the way the day went and I may (or not) be able to do a little better tomorrow. Not counting watching the the setting sun light up the trees around Hellman Hollow, the high point of my day was eating the veggie paella one of the vendors gave me while sitting (in the shade) on the tire guard of a generator which gave me a massage chair effect.

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