Sometimes there are genuine clear-cut markers of progress, even when it comes to something as overall ghastly as my health. I notice that since my move, I'm managing to function pretty well in the evening without any caffeine after supper, until bedtime at a reasonable hour. So my body's albe to produce that much more energy, thanks to better ( Read more... )

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For years now I've gone back and forth between mrigashirsha@gmail.com and bbaugh@me.com as primary versus secondary addresses. I'm not about to get rid of either, but now that Mom's close, I'll be helping her more with computer stuff, and am arranging more of my setup to match hers for ease of show and tell. So you may get faster service pinging me ( Read more... )

It took a while, but Mom is here, has given her new place an appraisal, and we're unwinding. Tomorrow morning the movers bring her stuff. :)

Today's the day. Mom moves up from Portland. All good vibes welcome, in whatever way it seems best to you to vibrate. :)

One of the more intriguing concept albums in my collection is Max Richter's Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons. It is what it sounds like, more or less. Richter is a British composer who's taken the score for the Four Seasons and poked at it some. Some passage survive intact, others have been adjusted to varying degrees. The ( Read more... )

Hello, folks. It's been rather a while since I was in touch here. Let's catch up ( Read more... )

Props to Mom for seeing this on some blog and telling me about it. :)

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This is just amazing, and I want to share it with you all.

Mom's visiting this weekend, and I went looking for some classical music to add to my library. I saw the iTunes store giving front-page attention to new recordings of Beethoven by Daniel Barenboim. Well, thought I, Barenboim's an awesome conductor, let's see...and here's the complete ( Read more... )