Theft

Man, the ultimate hassle. Robbed while walking around the track at the Y. All my stuff, my phone, my pager from work, my Social Security Card, my checkbook, uncashed checks for over 1000 dollars, my credit card, and who knows what else...

I ran around trying to take care of a million things on Wednesday. Closed my checking account, opened a new one, changed my automatic deposits to the new account, got a new driver's lisence, called the Credit bureau to flag my social security number, called the social security administration to request a new application for my card, called the dmv to notify them of a stolen lisence. Whew, what a horrible experience.

Keep Writing

There are many ways to communicate. While Enlish is rich, enormous, subtle, and diverse, it can still create confusion. Touch is good, a brush, a kiss...

Happy New Year

Played the oboe Brandenburgs at a friends chamber music party on New Year's Day. What a nice way to spend the first day of the year. The second party was heavy on food, with a firm emphasis on sugar. Just perfect for my fasting blood test to take place on Tuesday a.m. Yikes.

Nice quintet rehearsal today. We planned a program for a February 3rd recital including a Bizet Children's Suite, an Albinez suite both of which are piano transcriptions, then an original couple of works for Quintet - Bitsch and Michael Eastwood, a young English Composer. Should be fun. Now I'm busy at work trying to write a little jazz piece for us. Yeah...good luck with that then.