October 9 - Bending to the Tasks

Well, at least the weather's beautiful.

New Encore behaves for edited page 6 of Psalm 31, and computer for video of Some Stuff: VI. Pastoral Adagio, but, during dinner with Harriet, notice that the Mac is not powering back to 100% (steadily descending to 97-86-95 when being transported powerless from room-to-room before replugging). Google the issue, and evidently no big deal, but then when looking at full screen playback of



VII. Postlude in iMovie before "sharing" computer just turns itself off. Remember this "random shut down syndrome" with old Mac last year and definitely not ready to have it happen again. Not pleased. Fan still runs while everything is dead, suggesting that something is still alive in there. Change computer chord to the old reliable-but-frayed one, just in case that's the issue, and said power cable indicates recharging (yellow vs. green). Try to turn it back on. No good, although white light in front comes on briefly. Wait a few minutes. Call Erling, who's unavailable. Look on the back for charging-up lights. Try again, and this time computer makes the sound of itself turning off, as if it had been on with a dead screan. Try again and it comes back on. Feel like it's playing with my mind. Felt that way last summer, too, with the power-drain-on-sleep problem.... No further problems in the evening, though on edge, prepared for it to happen anytime. Google the random-shutdown syndrome, but posts seem to reference earlier MacBook in 2006.

What will become of us, came the question on bended knee....

October 8 - Hope Deferred...

A welcome day at home with Harriet, wherein Some Stuff: IV. Several Aborigines and



V. The Lonely Trombonist are produced for YouTube uploading. While editing Page 5 of Psalm 31 the newer Encore program crashes... as it did when used quite a while back. Back to old version, but that crashes even more, and further, display of palette and toolbar -- while temporarilly fixed -- reverts to a weird array. Seems like there's nothing to do but try the update yet again, and it behaves better... by now have edited piece in both programs up to this point... Late in the evening, feel a cold coming on, picked up, no doubt, from the beloved...

October 2 - Never the Same, Yet

Another day of Psalm 30: Part II editing, with the weather a bit cooler, concentrating deskside on getting a slightly belated October 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music up and running (with Tom Moore's delightful interview of Alex Shapiro -- we immediately become friends on Facebook), three dining adventures with Harriet, and the day's videos, finishing up Two and a Half Pieces with III. Recapitulation (first use of cutaway in Imovie, plus taking a turn at picture-in-picture), and beginning some for



Some Stuff with III. The Angry Flutist. Discover, quite accidentally and surreally, that Twelve Preludes and Fugues ("Topical") has been picked up by four other video sites --



World News, Witty Sparks,



Apni Community, and Lux Info News -- and that



Animal Farm: Donkeys has hit 400 Views, particularly by folks from India...