July 10 - All Boxed In a Word

Big outing is to buy supplies at Staples, continuing the filing project, plus two more pages prepared for publication of Symphony No. 2, edits and beginning posting on YouTube for



The Playboy of the Western World: Act III - A through



D, placing Antigone: XIV. I Shall Save You Yet on Facebook, and chatting with Loren and Harriet on the phone. Perhaps it's the heat, but late in the afternoon, the front door -- which has become increasingly difficult to shut -- requires multiple slams, so noisy that Frank stops by to check up on the situation. He brings us up to speed on multiple past and present items in the neighborhood, including a posible prostitution situation and a death in a shower that was not discovered for six months. What a world, again...

July 9 - Second-Story Story

Checking the mail for Harriet, and there's another ASCAP royalty check, so it's time to go shopping...



that and banking, incorporating a nice review of Fresh Voices X (including Job: A Masque) by Adam Broner into the August 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music, two more pages of publication-preparation for Symphony No. 2, plenteous filing, an evening



bike-pool-spa



encounter, posting Antigone: VIII. Where Are You Going on Facebook, plus editing and uploading to YouTube The Playboy of the Western World: Act II A-D, including



B and



C. Also a call to Harriet, and we determine the most auspicious time to go up to Washington.

July 8 - Air, Sustenance, Shoes

Edit and upload onto YouTube The Playboy of the Western World: Act I, including C (above) and D (below).



Also more of the same re 21st-Century Music, filing, pages (11-12) prepared for Symphony No. 2: I, email socializing, and the daily long-distance chat with Harriet.



Big outing is to drive bike to local gas station for



tire pumping.



Just before retiring hit Facebook one more time and learn, with sadness,



the evening's riot in Oakland,



right down to the



Foot Locker.



What a world...

April 5 - Holy Trinity!

First day of Spring Break. Big question is: stay or go? Southern California always seems appealing when the local weather is unsettled, and unsettled it is most of the day -- each cloudy stretch signifying flight, each sunny one complacency. Additionally, while Diablo Valley is off, St. Mary's is again up and running -- but have been advised that attendence is not mandatory when not on the teaching hotseat, so we shall see.



Finish both Psalm 15 and Song of Solomon: III. Do Garbage Band recordings of these plus 14 and II. Also write the San Francisco Symphony Shostakovich/Grieg double bill for Commuter Times and 21st-Century Music, beginning the May 2010 issue of the latter at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com. Discover a glitch in the March version of same -- correct it online by placing revisions of pdf and jpeg in Cyberduck, which, since embedded on our site linked to the Duck, instantly fixes. Nice.



All this industry calls for a reward, and the weather seems to be settingly down (after getting a few sprinkles out of its system), so off to Napa we go, past the Wine Guy,



over the River with the Mayacamas Mountains,



Eucalyptus Row, a



spotted sun, the




Vacas



Stag's Leap, and



Mt. St. John beckoning.



The walk, in worlds more pleasant conditions than yesterday (although brisk), starts up again from the Napa/Sonoma



Border Meadow and leads past



vineyards



(masquerading their location, but we know better), an amazing



sign



(Mahon? As in The Playboy of the Western World's Old Mahon?),



low clouds,



low sun, the



Petrini Winery, a



viewful



overlook,



deep woods,



to the crest of the range, where it's all downhill from here on Trinity Road sometime later.



Home for spaghetti with Harriet (one of the few things I can cook), beginning both Psalm 16 "Preserve Me" and Song of Solomon: IV. Pulchra es (You Are Beautiful) -- the latter which will be recapitulated for VI. and additionally used in Vespers.