July 24 - Up and Gone

Up at 4:30am and out by 5:15 with the half-glow on the area's picture palace,




the local Micky D's / Chevron aglow (only place in town this early to pick up NYT),




Mt. Diablo coming into view.


By 6, park with a view of palms and the Briones Hills


at a fronded beanery to grade remainder of papers before Theory (which turns out to feature last day's fine final compositions).



Music History class includes nice extra credit presentations from Mark Pagel



and Alan Buckley,



Then off to Marin to check on banking (Mission San Rafael / St. Raphael's looking diminuative against the Hill)


and postbox (with Red H [looking more Green and Golde] dominating the scene).



Home over the Marinwood / Novato divide,



past the north wall of American Canyon on I-80,



diverting up Rockville (past hay bales)



and Abernathy Roads (adjacent to Gomer School and



Fairvield Vineyard Foothills. More diverting behavior in evening vis-a-vis Mice and Men V 2 F 8 publication preparation.

July 18 - Of Mice and Malfunctions

Back to DVC to record instrumental versions of the Mice and Men excerpts that correspond to Mice Suites No. 1-3, and record 12 movements, after a bit of struggle trying to get the Triton initialized, and sans sound effects due to a power outage, evidently between yesterday and today. As well, internet is out in the lab, but not via ethernet in classroom, so another workaround is needed to get the online MIDI file sent last night, then turns out wrong selection was sent -- oh, well... Return with vigorously moving traffic before the distant, tan Concord-Pittsburg divide (not very Californiany names...),


blitzing past the vegetation at the Cordelia truckstop to Lord-Knows-Where.