July 17 - Legendary Progress

Another impressively warm day, but nevertheless clean out an even larger L section of the adjunct library, such that at last there's order in there (of course, now the rest of the house has been re-challenged, with temporary files all over the place), such that only Harriet's section of the space needs doing upon her return, and, lo and behold, rediscover misplaced items including

Score to Steve Reich's Tehillim
Never-used daypack (unfortunately a little gnawed)
Road maps of Oregon and Washington
Tax forms from two years ago
Topographic map of Montara Mountain
Topographic maps of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
Trail map of Auburn State Recreation Area

This year's belated state refund arrives (while talking on phone with H), and in depositing it, forget a writing implement (second time in a week -- first was trying to pay at kiosk for parking at the end of Driver's Flat Road), so cruise two shopping plazas trying to find a place with a pen (discover a post-office, but no scrivening item therein), finally winding up a friendly baked goods outlet, purchasing a bit for good measure.

Start the September 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music, continue reconstruct (after a long hiatus) of the December 2005, do two more pages (four total) publication-preparation for Symphony No. 2: II (Part 2), do one page same for Psalm 20, plus two new videos, being San Rafael News: VII. Pontoon Tattoo and



IX. The Reproductive Organs. Also post Antigone: XVIII. It's You on Facebook. Ah, yes, and finally have discovered how to size embedded YouTube videos here...

July 16 - Icumen In

There's finally enough order in the adjunct library that there are clear aisles north-south and east-west forming an L with respect to the access from the rest of the house. As for the rest... well, it's definitely still an ongoing project. And out the door, blazingly/sunnily toasty inland, we go to call San Anselmo postoffice to arrange for rendezvous next week, pick up the August 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music in Berkeley, review SFSound's solo/duo acoustic/electric concert in dramatically dreary/frigid



San Francisco (specifically the Community Music Center), with



Kyle Bruckman,



Matt Ingalls (Hadley evidently otherwise engaged),



John Ingle, et. al. (report in 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com Monday, Commuter Times on Friday, and by September 1 at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print) -- sitting with Patti Deuter and friend, and chatting with Adam Broner and friend, returning through heavy 37 traffic, to do progressive-score videos for



San Rafael News: III. Death Catch and



X. Sylvia Dryer, posting on YouTube. Surely somewhere in there, do first two pages of publication-preparation of Symphony 2: II (part 2) -- a lot of twos... and make ready to post Antigone: XVIII. It's You on Facebook. Oh, yes, also check the Goat Hall mail for Harriet (brief hands-hands free call over the bridge, and some financial greetings upon arrival) and catch up with Miriam while her all-baroque internet radio station is playing an intriguing early-clarinet roccoco Stamitz piece).

July 15 - Don't Forget Your Trowel

Another hot day (above or below 100, depending on who you believe), and get all the academic work from the last 8 years at DVC (springs, summers, and falls... 30 semesters) into file boxes and establish two rows of files in the adjunct library, finish the publication-preparation of Symphony No. 2: II. first fugue exposition (20 pages total), figure out what the Ken Burns effect is in iMovie (there's no definition in the program -- Apple figures everyone has watched the man's documentaries -- some of us have only read about them, but googling the situation reveals that this refers to sequential slides moving slowly in random directions) and how to turn it off to produce a video for San Rafael News: VI. Ozymandias.


Call all three of Sorrel's phones to wish her a happy birthday, also talk to Harriet and Loren, email back and forth with Erling, and bike out to the pool/etc. to read the Nolo press book on non-profit status for SFCCO... basically we have to fill out non-profit and tax-exempt forms, so perhaps we can at least begin this process within the month.


Supply run, and home to do a second visual SRN movement:



II. Conference Room Technique / How to Survive - am pleased to re-encounter the original CIA document online, which can now be dealt with via the "grab" function ("snapshots" are the result, and certainly a clearer name) in Preview. Put both of above on YouTube, and Antigone: XVII. Take Her Away on Facebook.

July 12 - Racing Against the Flame, Always

More filing, etc., and make a dash to DVC to record Symphony No. 2 ("Tamalpais"): I. Andante con moto, having a long catch-up chat with Doug, then home to finish the edits of



Diocletian, including III. Happy Funeral Music and



IV. What Shall I Do?, posting all six excerpts from the Theatre of Yugen performances on YouTube late, plus another Antigone (XV. You Think You Knew) post on Facebook.

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 1 - Baby Maybe

Start editing the Cats, Dogs, and Divas 2007 performances (posting I. Introduction through



VI. Not), and it looks (and often sounds) good enough that I have to call Harriet twice to congratulate her. Spend an inordinate amount of time on Facebook, posting



Antigone: VII. I Can't Sleep (relatedly appropriate), and touching base with many old friends. More filing and another bike/pool/spa run.

June 27 - Away and Up

Finish the posting of Antigone on YouTube (the last movement takes a while to stick), attack another pile of files in the adjunct library, meld Magnificat: VI. Et Misercordia into Vespers, do some 21st-Century Music work, learn how to use the Wondershare program to copy and edit video, and head east in the late afternoon toward Sacramento, up into the



Auburn Recreation Area, towards the



Sierra on



Mosquito Ridge Road,



descending



and



ascending



the



North Fork



Middle Fork



American



River



Canyon and into the forest to video



A Walk Through California: Placer (Cows and Cars).



Beyond Duncan



Creek and



Ridge and



French Meadows (totally drowned, evidently, by the)



Reservoir



Overlook,



it's the final roadwalk in the upper reaches of Middle Fork



American River,



from Talbot



Junction



northeast



to



the



Campground



Trailhead



of the



Granite Chief



Wilderness. With the exception of the greater Petaluma and Foresthill areas, have now walked from the California Coast to this point.


What next?

June 26 - Departures and Arrivals

Harriet is off to Washington State for the next few weeks. After helping her get on the road, edit and post Antigone from XVI. DUET - "Antigone / You, Too" through



XVII. SEPTET - "Take Her Away to the concluding XXI. CHORUS - "There we are". Deal with another stack of files in the adjunct library (mostly back issues of 20th- and 21st-Century Music), work on the August 2010 issue of the Journal, meld in the sixth movement of Magnificat into Vespers, continue a general cleanup which Harriet began, and take a bike/pool/spa jaunt in the 75-degree dusk.

June 25 - Stages

After the ordeal of finishing the taxes, printing out copies (grateful to have replaced the cartridge 5 minutes before the office supply store closed the day previously), and sending off (turns out the local UPS doubles as a postoffice -- yes! -- thanks to Harriet's advice) -- H and I deliver to Fairfield's Missouri Street Theatre the



errant cemetary pices for those not responsible enough to do it themselves.



Following



this,



we



zip back through that burg to our town,




putting the next Magnificat item (the fifth) into place in the Vespers, and editing and beginning to post



Antigone: XI. TRIO - "What Is This" through



XV. ARIA - "You Think You Knew".




Oh yes, also in the midst of this, take a break (H staying home to pack) and drive to Marin (with financial greetings at the postbox) and San Francisco (totally fogged in, cold) for the third



Sex and the Bible cast party at David Garner and Crystal Philippi's, with



Kim Anderman,



Maria Mikheyenko, Vicki Holder, and Nanette McGuinness, and Steve Mobia, viewing the latter's video of the last night's misbehaving performance, then



returning to Harriet's arms, etc, in this her last night before the big Washington State trip.