99f, 18% humidity, 43f dew point
My perspiration is sweating.

We have new corps officers.
I played tuba in church today.

Last Tuesday I was told the springs corps bandmaster requested he bring his own pianist for today.

Then I received a test saying there was no praise band, and the new officers were going to use music videos. I responded immediately, that the springs corps band WAS a praise band and there would be live music by live musicians, of whom I am one.

When you have live musicians, use them. Do not replace them with videos!

But with the corps pianists requested, I could take the day off and rest. So I was told.

The springs corps master long wanted me to play tuba, as they lacked low brass. I contacted him since their regular pianist would be there, to fulfill his vision of me playing tuba with them.

So today, we're all there and the piano is closed up and empty. I asked the springs corps bandmaster where his pianist was. I told him our new corps officers said he, the bandmaster, requested to use his own pianist today. He told me he made no such request, and she isn't coming. She only plays at the springs corps, and with me here, she doesn't need to come.

Do you see what happened here?
Our new corps officers lied to me.

Last week we had a problem when they used their own words to a song, projected by computer onto a large screen TV.
But they were different from the words in the bulletin, and neither were the words I sent.
Their communication gets a D-.
I scrambled last week to get my players their different words, and then that didn't work because they used yet ANOTHER set of lyrics on the TV.
My players were confused, and I told them best we could to was to wing it, and since the song was simple, they could improve a basic harmony and rhythm.

These new officers are effing up big time, and they lack the integrity to take responsibility, communicate and listen.
They appear punitive and ready to blame somebody else.

One bought this piece of wood fencing and propped it on stage behind the altar, to go along with the "gate" sermon.
He didn't secure the fencing and when it fell backward on the stage during service, it knocked over a boom with a mike on it, a guitar stand taking the guitar with it, and those fell into us, taking down our stands while we tried to protect our instruments!
It is a miracle the bandmaster's guitar wasn't broken and ruined.
The mike... our mike is ruined. My lead singer's mike.

Later a member approached me, upset because she was told I was leaving the corps and moving to California. Another lie.

I assured her I wasn't leaving, and what she heard was a rumor.

There is more developing. There are some very good people in the Salvation Army, and there are others not so good. Our new officers are in that latter category.