This morning I woke up fairly early and somehow felt less tired, so I got up and went for a walk to the big kikar and back. It was cool out but not too cold. I wore my light jacket, but actually unzipped it on the way back.
This morning David and I had several errands to run. Our first stop was the old mall (Mul HaYam) to go to the iDigital store there. They are the official Apple dealer in Israel, and I went there to try to find out how much it would cost to upgrade our newest Mac (an iMac that is about a year and a half old) to the maximum amount of memory, which I believe in 16 GB. This is what I would need in order to use the virtual organ that I like (which I wrote about here yesterday). They didn't know the answer right away, so they took my number so that they can call me back when they do. The main complication is that their lab is located in the Tel Aviv area, so there are issues of shipping and also of whether I can get it done tax-free (Eilat is in a tax-free zone). Our second stop was the post office because I needed to get more stamps for letters to the States. The last stop was Shufersal, where we did our weekly grocery shopping.
After coming home and resting a bit, we decided to take a drive and went on the short loop, this time going up on highway 12 and returning on highway 90, which is the opposite direction from what we usually go. When we got back to town, we went straight over to Ice Park & Mall and ate lunch there at Greg. David had vegetable soup and bread, and I had an omelet sandwich.
This afternoon and evening, I began working more seriously on my "Folk Song for Strings". I'm adjusting the expression values so that the Synful Orchestra (a synthesized orchestra based on recorded sounds of real instruments but with a lot of sophisticated processing going on, too) will sound more like a real, professional string orchestra is playing it. I made good progress, but I still have a lot more work to do.
Today was my oldest child's 33rd birthday. I think this makes me feel even older than my own 60th birthday last month did! LOL
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