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Greetings, gentle reader. Nothing much to say today, just finished practicing the piano thanks to Garage Band. You can blame Inxs’ song “Beautiful Girl” for making me try this, that and my feeling that the multiplicity of doing things on a guitar as being a little too challenging to my quantized brain. I’d thought of the bass at one point, just for the fun of feeling it, but like KMS wanted a Mustang convertible up until her friend L got one, I sorta lost interest when I heard SEL was taking up the fretless. I may grow up and out of that, but for now, the piano’s pretty close to impossible. I did grasp the scale-thingy sort of in Lesson #2 on the first try. (“Ode to Joy”) It was really a pretty cool moment, when the notes’ labels corresponded to my fingers. Oh it was still a trainwreck, but I got that the B was my 2nd finger. Worth it.
The Teen has been having a difficult time of late, I took most of yesterday and all of today off to be with her. Now I’m sort of tempted to take tomorrow too, sorta for both of us, but I think my work here MIGHT be close to done. She’s laughing at things we say to each other (instead of the TV) for the first time in 2 weeks.
Oh, SCORED her MN driver’s license and a job app at a place that SSP suggested, really one of the coolest little cafes in the Twin Cities. ES is still in WA, I shall go read her blog after this. She has made me rethink my “just a degree” plan in a couple of ways, not the least of which would be actually partnering with her (and others perhaps) in some venture generating tech screed for corps with money. But her role-modeling of it as a serious concern, a real art, is both encouraging AND daunting. Her simple, casual excellence is a wonder to watch and a frightening thing to emulate, let alone reach.
Two rides on Serenity today, damned cold my friends. 40 degrees F has lost of it’s “Gosh, that’s warm” aspects, and is now on the OTHER side of the divide. Weird, how that happened, though the cold I am fighting may be a part of it. I improvised a semi-decent headset installation in my grey helmet, I should test the hot-melt glue to see if the earpieces remain in place and that place is right. Pretty cool, a pair of $25 logitech headphones, carefully broken into their constituent parts, and glued in to make a pretty ok wired helmet. The white helmet actually has earpiece-pockets, so I think I might pick up a SECOND pair to use in there...or I will sacrifice the pair I have at work, though that will take some soldering. (Soft cups on those, might help with comfort a bit. Maybe I’ll hit Target and see what they have...or (shudder) Wal Mart.
TR and I are going to see “Sherlock Holmes” on Sunday, at a cute theater-plus-restaurant. Should be fun, she’s a “Calm Field” to be with, a mellow fun that I’ve missed for a while. Plus, pretty cool movie for $3! (Though the last time we met, the arc-lamp in the projector was at least 2x over it’s rated life, the hot-spot was dancing to every conceivable input including wind-direction, magnetic field variations and traffic vibrations.)
Must remember to pick up a CD player for VJG, and burn her a selection of tunes suitable for sleeping. She’s rediscovering music, and I’d like to try to do for her what SSP did for me in this area.
Ok, the “best” for last. Today is the 21st anniversary of KMS walking down the “aisle” of my then recently-departed grandfather’s house to marry me. My first, her 2nd. It ended amicably, in spite of a long, grinding erosion that I surely must take the blame for initiating: there is so much I doubt that I did back then (VJG says I’m wrong to doubt The Really Big Thing) and I now know (thanks to painful le
