Quiet

Sunday: MB headed out early. I woke around 9. Decided not to go to
KKC, but rather to sleep in. Did so until noon. Very good. A quiet
"morning" not doing much of anything except eating breakfast and
hanging with the cats. MB showed up around 3. We spent a little time.
She left again at 4. Played some guitar. Down basement for a
comprehensive practice. Made some coffee. Victor arrived just after
8. We worked on Chrysanthemum. MB showed up a bit later. Mostly talk
about "Tuning the Air" and where the circle is going, or might go.
Third Relation. Askesis. And, another run through Chrysanthemum.
Victor talked a little about a Nova special involving tracing the
wanderings of early humans via the genetic record. Helped MB pack
lunches for tomorrow. Ate a little food. The rain continues.

The rain continues

Saturday: MB was up and out early to practice dance at Third Life. Up and cats. Was showering about the time MB got back. She brought me a scone, which I had some some coffee and yogurt. My mom called, and we chatted for a while. My old grade-school had a fund-raiser, and two people paid $19,000 for reserved parking spots, and then two other people paid $14,000 for the privilege of their child being "director for a day."

Down basement and morning things. When I came up, talked to MB's parents and her brother for a bit. Packed my car, and headed off to work. Remembered I needed to do some dry-cleaning. Back home, then stopped at the cleaners.

At work, took a walk out. Browsed in some bookstores, and got coffee at Starbucks. Back in the office, worked on the add-on project structure.

On my way to Shawn's, stopped for some pizza. Picked him up at his house. He's found a new place to live, and is the midst of packing. A good rehearsal. We're adding "Hope" to our repertoire. Ended around 8:30. Dropped him back at his place.

Back home, some Spanikopita thanks to MB. Snacks. Gave her a "head vacation." The cats were perched on my leg looking at her in a very amusing fashion. Then, emails.

Streaming to Speakers

Friday: Spent a good amount of time in the morning putting away our gifts from the night before. Hooked up the speakers and the "Airport Express" and got music streaming from my laptop. Put the humidifier down basement. It's been raining for a week. I don't think I'll need the humidifier again until next winter. Guitar. Ate some eggs, coffee and toast for breakfast. Morning stuff in the basement.

Dropped off the DVD on my way to work. We've come up with a best guess at a solution for the "compare and swap" problem on Intel: use 64 bits. B was in today after being out yesterday. Took a stab at it, but I'm no assembly guru on Intel. Pizza. Stayed until 8:30ish.

Back home. MB was out at a BD gig for a birthday party. Completed first half of practices, then came up and said hello to MB. Installed an OS update on the iMac, while doing some guitar practice. Can now stream from the iMac to the new speakers. Back down basement for the completion of the day's work.

Anniversary

Thursday: 4th Anniversary. MB got up early and headed out to do belly dance practice at Third Life. I slept in a bit, then up shower, took care of cats, brief sitting in the dance room and put away laundry. Drove out and bought some wrapping paper and so on. Stopped for an egg sandwich and a coffee at the donut shop. Back home and wrapped presents, then put them in the living room. Off to work. Rain, and more rain.

A day spent puzzling the double delete issue. The best guess we have at the moment, is the ABA problem that arises given the way that "compare and swap" works on Intel. Some pizza. A coworker came into my office behaving flat and agitated. I was feeding into it, acting annoyed. Then I saw that his behavior was entirely his stuff, so I allowed myself to relax. His mood immediately brightened.

Back home around 7. Basement practices. Checked in with MB. She ordered food. More basement practices. At 8:45 we ate Indian food. They'd messed up the order a little. After dinner we drove out and returned the incorrect food, and they gave us a refund. Then to the video store and picked up "The Squid and the Whale." Back home, unpacked presents, then ate rice pudding while watching. Very good film. MB headed to bed. Me too, soon.

Unstructured

Wednesday: Up and another somewhat unfocused morning. I'm not sure why my days are like this lately. It's as if I still need unstructured time in compensation for all the stuff I've been through recently. Down basement and brief morning stuff. Out and did some shopping. Rain.

A shortish day at work. Tracking down a double-delete bug with add-ons. Talked to my mom. Went out and got some pizza. Stayed until about 8:30.

Back home, more laundry, put out the garbage and recycling. MB returned. We walked out and got subs at Leone's, then ate them at home. Remembering our wedding. Down basement for a time, then guitar, now down basement again.

Glenda

Tuesday: Slept until around 8:30. Another unfocused morning. Tried to write down some of my thoughts on the possible new guitar project. Down basement and morning practices. Phoned in a request to the vet's for stuff for Gus. Walked out and picked up some essentials at the grocery store. The cashier's name was Glenda. Made a quick breakfast. Emptied the dishwasher. Headed out.

Picked up the stuff at the vet's. Chilly, rainy day, and likely to stay this way for a while, I've been told. At work, some short meetings (that were still longer than they needed to be) about the state of the Intel port. Some email exchanged with a contact I have about the state of XCode. Not very encouraging. Checked a good round of fixes in. Headed out around 7.

Between my late departure from work, and the traffic caused by the rain, I didn't get to KKC until 7:40. But, a good yoga class anyway. Wendy seemed to be giving me really good pointers tonight. Back home by 9:10. Conference call with friends. Hanging out with MB. Conversation, coffee, toast and a little pie. Practiced guitar for a half hour.

Root

Monday: Lazy morning. Felt drained for most of the day. Around 11, went and, in celebration of Geshela's birthday, had lunch with folks from Kurukulla at the Friendly's in the mall. (You can get lunch before noon, which is important for monks and nuns who have taken vows not to eat past 12.) Enjoyable conversation. Gave Tsunma-la and Nyima-la a ride back to the center. Filled water bowls for the first time in a month. Ate some birthday cake with friends in the library. Picked up a package I had mailed myself at the PO. Back home and some fussing around, then in to work.

Brief day at the office. Decided to make some fixes to some redundant code in the name of expediency. Headed home around 7.

Practices in the basement, then a lovely evening with MB.

OCBC gig

Sunday: Woke around 7:30. Morning stuff. Loaded the car. Stopped at the donut shop for a quick breakfast. To OCBC just after 9 AM. In the main space there was a circular arrangement of tables with snack foods on them, with another circle of chairs in the middle. I thought this was not good for our performance based on the flow of the service, so we rearranged it to have our chairs in a semi-circle outside the circle of tables. The gang all arrived. Dev is back! Sound checks and so on. A brief circle-up and then some circulation to begin. Quite good I thought. There's a composed feeling when the music is present. Great last chord. Eye of the Needle. Third Relation. Calliope. Chrysanthemum. Growing Circle. Moving Force. Everything went pretty well. There's a lot of work to do to really be a performance team. In one break where we ate cheese and crackers with the folks in attendance. I washed my hands before taking up the guitar again. Bridge and Jane were there. After, packing and farewells. Good spirits and many thanks.

Fish

Friday: Not much sleep last night. Up around 9:30. Took care of cats. Brief sitting. Made some coffee. Victor came over around 11. Chrysanthemum, Moving Force and Larks. After he left did some filing. Headed to work around 1 PM.

Short day in the office. Backed out a bunch of changes from yesterday, after realizing something about the code I was working on that wasn't clear to me before. Got a slice of pizza, an energy drink and some chips. Lunch at my desk. Got some basic functionality up and running on Intel. Left around 4:30.

Back home, MB wasn't there when I was expecting her. Took a nap sitting on the sofa until around 5:20 when she showed up. We headed north and attended a seminar together. Back home around 11:30. Some stuff to do in the basement still.

Back to Shawn

Thursday: Up around 8:30, but had a lazy morning again. Working on framing my schedule for an upcoming project. Down basement for brief practices. Headed to work around noon, taking my electric rig with me.
Lunch out with the guys at Penang. Long time since we were there.
More work on Intel buffer conversion routines.
Lovely weather out today.
Headed out to Shawn's at 7:15.
A little food with him on his porch, talking about our project, and my trip.
He played me a couple of compositions. Very good. Excellent production. The first piece was very moving... about the end of his relationship with Christine. But, you know, relationship never really ends. We are all related in some sense, and always will be.
Then, some drums in tow, to the space, and an abbreviated rehearsal. We needed it. Broke a string right at 10 PM.
Back home, and made some noodles, watching Stephen Colbert skewer the Republicans on a web video of the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Right on, man.
Ate noodles. Soon down basement.

Carrot juice

Wednesday: Slept a little extra. Down basement for brief morning practices. Then headed out to Victor's, leaving around 10:30, and arriving at his place just after 11. We worked on Chrysanthemum, Moving Force and Larks. Also talked about what might be needed to get to the next station. He made me some yummy carrot juice.
In to work, and pizza for breakfast.
Intel port coming along, but XCode didn't rebuild all files it needed to. Did a clean rebuild, and walked out to get a burrito while it was going. Then, the text server kept crashing on me.
Worked late, leaving around 10.
Put out the garbage and recycling. It's been wet and raining off and on all day. Spent some time with MB.
Down basement and practices.

Back to yoga

Tuesday: Woke at 7:30, but decided (if you can call it that) that I needed another bit of sleep. Up around 8:30. Cats. The cable modem fell on its face last night, but was up again this morning. Brief morning practice in the basement. Coffee and eggs. Victor showed up, and we worked on Chrysanthemum, making good progress. Larks and Moving Force also. We talked about how opening the energetic body can improve musicianship as he was leaving.

In to work, and bug fixing related to the Intel port. Alx has discovered bugs in the OS related to the change in processors. I got some help (debug library) from someone at Apple. Read an interesting article about why Adobe is postponing porting their products to Intel. Lunch at my desk. Got some coffee in the late afternoon. Headed off at 6:45.

Got to yoga a little late, but slotted in without disturbing the class too much. Great to have a session with Wendy again. She had us do some shoulder stretches at the beginning that I really liked. Balance postures also. Headed home at 9 PM. A phone call. Then hanging with MB. Some soup, a salad of sorts, toast and tea. Down basement for evening practices. Sleepy. The cable modem is dead again. Now it's back.

Back to work

Monday: Up around 7:30. Lazy. MB headed out. Shower. Brief sitting. Headed to the dentist's office at 9 AM. Ran into Tsun-ma-la while walking to the office. Teeth cleaned, and got a night-guard to wear for a while, which will hopefully prevent me from cracking any more crowns. Stopped at the pharmacy. Then picked up a egg-bagel sandwich.

In to work for the first time in three weeks. Good to be there. Catching up on email. Getting a computer set up to do Intel work on. Great progress has been made while I was gone. Alx was puzzling out why click-detection wasn't working. I started looking at low-level "number crunching" sorts of issues. Took a walk out to deposit my check and for coffee and pizza. Headed to Victor's around 8:15.

Arrived at Victor's house about 8:50. We worked on Chrysanthemum, then some Moving Force and Lark's. Said hello to Jane as she was coming in, and I was leaving. Back home, some hanging with MB, then down basement for practices.

Back at KKC

Sunday: Up around 8:30. A bit lazy, shower, then down basement for brief morning practices. Headed to KKC at 9:50. MB was off to a BD workshop, leaving shortly after me. Good to be back at the center. The talk was on the subtle lack of reality inherent in all things. Had lunch with Wnd at the Mexican place in Union Square. A lazy afternoon. Email. House cleaning. Took a nap. Some guitar. Walked out and got some pizza, which I ate on the back-porch. Down basement for daily practices. Headed off to Guitar Circle. Body beat. Worked on our repertoire for the gig on Sunday at OCBC. Some talk about our goals. I played Chrysanthemum for the group and Victor and I decided to work it up as a duo piece for Sunday. After, I talked with Victor a bit about my immediate goals, and challenges. We're meeting tomorrow at 8. Filled the tank, and it cost almost $50. Back home, and some food with MB (eggs, potato and toast). Talking about the circle. Need sleep.