I slept well, got up early this morning, and walked to the gym and back. I even went on a couple of the machines. When I left the apartment, it was not even slightly light out yet, but the birds were singing a magnificent symphony as I walked up the green strip! I don't think I've ever heard better bird-singing. On the way back, I stopped and stretched in the pergola by the big kikar, and later I petted both of my gingi outdoor cats, Fluffy and Mielo, and each of them in his turn walked with me for some distance. It was so good to be back into exercise again!
This morning, we checked out a new store in town called סופר-סטוק SuperStock. It's kind of like MaxStock that came in a year or so before we left Tsfat, and they're both a little like the 99-cent stores in the U.S. I found some good flip-flops for us there, so a bought a couple of pairs (20 shekels for each pair). From now until next winter, we wear almost no other footwear than flip-flops unless we are hiking.
After SuperStock, we continued to ShuferSal, where we did the weekly grocery shopping. David was going to sit in the car, but it really was a bit too hot for that, so he went in with me. EVERYBODY was there this morning, I think, so it was very busy. At least they had a lot of registers open, so we didn't have to wait too long to check out. Still, it was pretty tiring for David.
We ate lunch again at Greg café. David just had a little cheese cake, but I had their omelet sandwich, served on kosher-for-passover bread, of course. This brings up a mystery that I have not yet solved: why do ALL the restaurants that are open during Passover have this special bread, but yet there was NONE of it available at the supermarket?
Today I began investigating reverb plugins for Digital Performer, my digital audio workstation (DAW). Several come either with it or with my Mac system software, and I managed to find some free ones to download from the internet, as well. I'm going to need them to do the topic that I'm choosing for my week 5 homework in my Intro to Music Production class. Now I've got to figure out the technical details of presenting them. It's going to more of a tech challenge that previous weeks where I was able to choose more theoretical projects and thereby avoid technical difficulties. This week, there are NO purely theoretical topics available. It was cool, though, experimenting with the different reverbs and hearing my virtual orchestra transported instantly between many different types of spaces (cathedrals, large halls, medium halls, concert halls, etc.) at the mere press of a button.
This evening David and I went for another lovely walk. The birds were still singing in the green strip. It didn't seem quite as glorious as this morning, but maybe that's just because there were so many other sounds in the daytime. Also, the crows were contributing just a tad too much to the mix! LOL Put a fader on them (music production joke!).
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