Long day at work

Monday: Up around 9. Shower and downstairs for a bowel of cereal, while Oscar ate in the kitchen. Down basement, morning practice and drums. Email. Tidying. Grabbed the lunch MB had packed for me, and headed out, the long way around.
In the office, some fussing around, then a phone call with some folks that want to use an SDK that I designed. Sharp and not so. The rest of the day I spent working letting something resize, that never had before been resized. That was fun and rewarding. Got a call from MB around 1 am.
Driving home, Somerville Ave all torn up, looking like a disaster area. Back home, hello to MB, some soup and grilled cheese. Cleaning. Down basement, and to complete the day.

Fung Wahhhhhhhh!

Rain

Thursday: Slept until about 10. Up, shower, fed Oscar and had some cereal. Oscar explored the house a little, but I put him back outside when I saw him scratching. Fleas probably. Down basement morning practices and drums. Email.
Dropped DVDs off, and then to work the long way around. Spent most of the day fixing the list selection behavior to match OS X's. It's pretty embarrassing we waited this long to fix this, but the code it lives in is pretty hard to figure out. I heavily commented it, hoping to help the next poor soul who has to muck with it. Cleaning up headers to remove stuff that is not needed anymore. Tofu burrito. Some talk with Al, Dv and B.
Headed home around 8pm across town. Rainy today. Leftover Chinese, and Lost (First of S2). MB came home, and chat. She went upstairs and I continued my entertainment experience. Down basement, email, guitar. Researching looping boxes. Now to complete the day.

Moving forward

Wednesday: Woke around 10. MB working at home today. Good-morning to her, shower. Downstairs and fed Oscar. A bowl of cereal. Downbasement morningpractices and drums. Packed up a box of VHS tapes and DVDs to send back to MM. Put away laundry, answering some questions for MB for a tax form she was filling out. Off to work, stopping at the PO and mailing the box. Chilly and overcast. At the office, doing some design work. B helped me figure out why something I had checked in wasn't working. Some back and forth with Apple about Carbon and Cocoa. Big mess. Caught a discussion of some new UI stuff that has been under development, and added a few comments. Began looking at a small but satisfying project involving list selection. At 7:30, drove up to meet Shawn. To the space, and an electric rehearsal, focusing on improvisation. Need to overcome some technical hurdles in the electronic realm. Dropped him near his house. Back home, unloading, hello to MB. Had some cheese toast and a milk-banana-honey smoothie watching Six Feet Under on DVD. Now to complete the day.

Back to work

Tuesday: Woke around 9, MB heading out. Email. Felt like bumming around. Realized we didn't have any canned food for Oscar. Fed him some dry. Shower. Down basement.
Morning practices, drums. Walked out, mailing a new copy of the DVD off to the duplicators. Picked up some cat food, milk, bananas and such at the store. A guy approached me offering to buy my food for me with food-stamps, if I would give him the cash. I declined, but gave him a couple of bucks. Back home, fed Oscar, some breakfast watching Lost. Headed out. Remembered I was going to do laundry, so back. Long way around. A chill in the air today. In at the office, mostly working on tracking new extensions to an add-on API that we host. Some argument with Al about floating windows and such. Stayed late, checking in a batch of code. Home around 10, MB had just gotten in as well. Some hanging out. Tea and yogurt, watching Lost. Now down basement for some guitar and to complete the day.

Tracking at Bill and Ruby's

Monday: Woke around 9:30. MB was working at home. Up and shower. Downstairs and fed Oscar. Smoothie and some green tea, while MB worked. She sketched some diagrams of starch molecules for me. Down basement, and email. MB headed out to OCBC to help host a celebration for the completion of the restoration of a large Tiffany window. Morning practices. Drums. Upstairs and composted a bunch of old food.
Off to work, across town. Bright day, on the cool side. At the office, working more on the Carbon Cocoa integration issue. Got some nachos for lunch. Worked until 6:30. Quiet day.
Drove over to JP to the home of Bill and Ruby. Did some tracking on the song that Christine had done the vocals for a couple weeks back. Lovely. Easy. They told me how they had a special drain system installed in their basement to prevent flooding. Drove back home. Always manage to get a little lost on the way back from JP. MB was still out when I arrived. Started doing some important, irksome, paperwork. A quick burrito. Now guitar and evening practices.

Satsang 1

Sunday: Woke around 9:30. MB heading out to OCBC. Email. Shower. Downstairs and fed Oscar. Breakfast of eggs and such. Spent a little time petting him, then gave him a brushing. Huge hairball extracted, I sent him outside. The time got away from me while emailing, and suddenly it was almost time for Wnd to come over. Down basement and morning sitting. Wnd arrived at 12:25. She's studying reflexology, and used me as a practice subject. D from the workshop arrived early. Hanging out. People slowly arrived for the workshop reunion gathering, and we began at 2pm. After our session, chatting and snacks. MB returned home. The last person left around 5. Some more hanging out with MB. Down basement and some practices and web surfing. Left for guitar circle at 7. Got to the space a bit before Victor. A good session: Victor's new piece. Flying Home. Askesis... MB, me, Victor, Chris, Dev. Moving Force and headed home around 10.
Made some bruschetta, soup and salad while MB showered. Eating down basement. Now to complete the day.

LRS Dedication, Future plans

Saturday (Mom's house CT): Woke around 9:30, then back to sleep for an hour. MB and I both had dreams about breaking the law, hers involving Angalina Jolie and stolen jewels, and mine involving bogus credit card transactions with MB as an accomplice. Sitting, while MB showered, then the reverse. Downstairs and hanging out while mom cooked breakfast. MB talked to her about future plans.

We drove down to the garage mom's been renting. I helped move some boxes around up in the elevated storage area she had constructed. Then we moved a piece of exercise equipment up to a friend's condo. (The friend wasn't up yet, having had a late night.)

Over to Koky's. We hung out a bit, then MB and I played some guitar, standing. MB said she felt rusty. I played a bit of a new piece I've been working on. Rug cleaning people came and left. The bill was settled during Asturias.

Back to mom's and a snackish sort of lunch, with humus, tofu salad, almond butter and so on. We took Max the dog out for a walk around the condo complex. When we arrived back at mom's it was a little before 5. Email. Upstairs for some personal practice.

Slightly dressed up, we headed over to my old Alma Matter, Long Ridge School. This evening was a celebration of the school's 70 years of activity, and the dedication of the new large gym facility. A tour around, me pointing out memories from over 30 years ago. We saw mom's new office. Then to the new building for the do. Didn't see many old classmates, but met many people who were very complimentary of my mom's work with the students (she's a reading specialist, and quite a good one). She began teaching at LRS in 1971, and here she still is all these years later. Some noodles and salad. A band began playing, but it was a bit too loud given the acoustics of the room. We saw the building's architect wandering around checking on things. He said "the room's too loud." I saw my old teacher Guy Bailey. We stayed until 9:40. Goodbye to mom. Hugs.

MB dozed. A largely uneventful drive back to Boston. Settling in, and now to complete the day, and bed.

Early morning, down to CT

Friday: Woke to MB's alarm around 6:30. Didn't find sleep again, so up a bit after 7:30. Email while MB was in the shower, than a shower for myself. She headed off to work. Fed Oscar. Cereal and a smoothie. Watched an episode of Six Feet Under. Down basement for morning practices. Brief drums. Skype conversation with A & R. Printed out the GCNE repertoire list. Victor showed up on his scooter around 11:30. A good session, going over what we need to do for the performance project. Chrysanthemum, Flying Home, Lifelight, B2A etc. He left around 1pm. Found myself on the couch, and napped for perhaps a half an hour.

Headed off to work, the long way around, a lovely cool sunny day. Got more pieces of the Carbon Cocoa hybrid working, through bailing-wire and duct-tape, mostly. Got some nachos from the place downstairs. MB called and we made lose plans to hang out, since she was coming into the square, but then she got caught up in other stuff. Worked until 7:30 or so.

Back home, email. Evening practices, concluding around 9. Packing. A little guitar, and MB came home. We packed the car. A quiet drive down to CT, arriving just before 1am. Hello mom. The collapsible bed collapsed, much to my surprise. But I didn't startle.

Meeting in Everett

Thursday: Woke around 10, finally having had a good night's sleep. Email. Shower. Down basement and morning practices. Drums. Email. Tidying. Fed Oscar and had a smoothie. MB had made me a lunch. Off to work across town.

Still playing with Carbon and Cocoa. Messy and undocumented. At 3 I took off and went to a meeting in Everett. A cop stopped me and forced his helpful directions on me. Quite odd. Interesting meeting, looking forward to a big shift. Back home briefly to pick up guitar. Ant called and we spent some time talking about how to incorporate some suggestions into the L3 DVD, then set up a phone call for tomorrow morning.

Back to work, more of the same. At 7:30, met Shawn on the bench. He's back to his bald look. Told him about life changes. Across town, taking back roads to avoid traffic. Good rehearsal. Things are feeling pretty strong. Ready for some gigging. Gave him a ride home listening to some political comedy... Only problem is, nothing about the Bush administration seems funny to me anymore.

At the homestead, MB had just gotten in. We had the last of the eggplant and some potatoes and salad. Explaining the results of the meeting to her. Hugs. Then down basement for email, and now evening practices.

Dee

Wednesday: MB woke me as she headed out to work. Heard the sound of my car being repeatedly locked and unlocked with the key-fob. Couldn't get back to sleep. Email. Yogurt. Oscar. Lost. Back to bed for a couple more hours. Shower, and down basement for morning practices. Drums, feeling strong. Email. Headed out, the long way around.

At work continued with my Cocoa/Carbon integration experiment. Called a lawyer. Pizza. Talked to B about my progress, and the bigger picture. Stayed until 6:30. Talked to Ht on the way out, who was borrowing a smoke machine for Halloween.

Back home, MB was teaching a BD class. Down basement. No one showed up for the little gathering I had suggested. Took the time to work on the KKC image gallery. My mom called, and a brief conversation. MB checked in, and we had some dinner together: boiled potatoes and salad. Talking about where things stand and the future.

Down basement and evening practices. More email. Now guitar.

Is silence happy or sad?

Tuesday: Woke somewhat early, MB needing to talk a bit. Couldn't get back to sleep, so some yogurt and cereal. Watched an episode of Lost. Back to bed. Slept in.

MB was working at home today. Shower. Down basement. Hooked up the audio interface for MB. Off to work, stopping at K-Mart to buy lamp oil.

At the office, mostly concerning myself with integrating Cocoa and Carbon. The way these two APIs coexist is not particularly well documented. Eventually found a solution, perhaps. Left around 10.

Back home just as MB arrived. Hello. And down basement for evening practices. Email. Now some guitar and to bed.

MB returns

Monday: Couldn't sleep due to late night green tea... So slept in, eventually. MB returned from her trip to So. Carolina around 2 PM. Shower. Down basement and morning stuff. Drums, feeling powerful. Put away some CDs, and off.

Dropped off DVDs. Veggie burger, and the long way around to work.


Worked until fairly late. Back home, arriving around the same time as MB. Some hanging out and talking. Down basement.

Frith and MB's car breaks down

Thursday: Woke a bit after 10. Downstairs and breakfast (cereal smoothie). Watched some Lost. Down basement and morning practices. Drums. Shower. Laundry (finding some towels that had been abandoned in the washer). Headed out, slightly warmer today, and still nice and sunny.
At the office, finding and squashing bugs. Many had been already squashed, so punting the reports back to the authors. B and J were discussing hardware plans. Slice of pizza. Richard called. Good to talk to him: planning the next course. Met Shawn at 7, and took the number 1 bus into Boston. Jordan Hall, a lovely old room, with gilt trim and a large pipe organ in the back. The music of Fred Frith. The first three pieces were all tightly composed, for small ensemble. After an intermission Frith performed a solo for prepared electric guitar, which then bled into several larger group pieces. A good retrospective of his work. The student players seemed quite excited (some of them confused) to be on stage, playing this material. We also saw our friend Olivia (Cth's house-mate) and "Mr Curt."
Took the bus back. MB had left me a message saying her car had broken down on 93. Called her, and all was OK. Gave Shawn a ride back to his place. MB called just as I arrived home saying she was at the mechanics. Picked her up. Leftover pasta, and talking about future plans. Down basement, for guitar and to complete the day.