Friday, December 14, 2012

14 December 2012

I slept much better last night. I think there were several reasons. First, I think the chest cold is very gradually getting better. Second, I took some additional medicines that could have helped a bit, especially with the cough. Finally, I deliberately avoided any deep breathing during the night, since I noticed that that was what set off some of the coughing. Anyway, it was nice to get a good night's sleep. I still wasn't quite feeling up to going out for a walk in the morning, but I did walk down to the local pharmacy and the bakery for pick up more medicine and challah around noon, so I got some exercise..

I taught 3 units of Berlitz today: 9:00-10:30 and 12:30-1:45. Actually, in fact, the student didn't show up at all for that last unit.

We ate lunch again at Greg today. David had pappardelle with tomato sauce on the side, and I had their "Home Fries" salad.

This afternoon I upgraded to the latest version of Hauptwerk, the program that allows me to play real pipe organs in my computer. It is actually downloading as I write this. I also ordered more memory for our newest Mac so that I'll be able to play larger instruments. This is necessary because all the samples are stored in RAM for quick access.

This evening I continued working on the Synful Orchestra version of my "Folk Song for Strings". I'm now working on various subtle tempo changes to make it sound less robotic.

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