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Monday, 18 August 2008

One demo in the can ::

I was working on some string quartet parts at 11:30 this morning when the power went out. Fortunately there’s a UPS so I was able to save and shut down. But the power stayed out until 4:30 (when I’d just given up on the blender and used a lighter to start the gas stove and heat some corn soup).

During the outage, I read, slept, and played a little piano. When the power came back on, I more or less finished the piece for piano and string quartet. It’s about 2 minutes long and maybe a little deceptively simple. I’ll put it in the category of “demo complete.”

Other tidbits...

I don’t think I’ve heard the Freefall version of The Dregs’ Cruise Control since I saw them live in 1980! Awesome.

This morning the surgeon asked if I was regaining sensation in the lower jaw. I told him “yes, but a lot of it is pain!” We laughed. But seriously, there’s now enough feeling around the lower jaw to be able to feel where my lips are on cups, not dribble so much, and notice when I do. I’m beginning to venture beyond soup, shakes, smoothies and various baby-food-like blenderized concoctions; today, tuna with just mayonnaise seemed like quite a delicacy.

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