I got up early this morning and walked all the way to the gym and back. I didn't, however, work out there because I wanted to leave plenty of time later to go down to the bakery, where I got challah, and the candy store.
I taught on one 2-unit Berlitz lesson today: 9:00-10:30. It was an individual student, a German-speaking Swiss woman whom I have taught before and who is very nice.
We ate lunch today at Il Pentolino. We had our usual choices there except that they didn't have whole-wheat spaghetti today. Also, my Palermo sauce was not NEARLY as good as it usually is. Oh well.
I finished all of the first week's activities for my Survey of Music Technology course. In the last couple of videos, the professor went into some detail about how graphs showing frequency components of a sound are made. He did not describe exactly how Fast Fourier Transforms work, but he did show some of the trade-off in using them and what they can be useful for besides just displays. In particular, they can allow you to change the speed and the pitch of sounds independently, something which can NOT be done in the usual representations of digital music (or analog, for that matter!). This was definitely something beyond what I learned in my previous class.
We took a short drive up the Arava this afternoon, going only as far as Samar.
We lit candles, drank sweet wine, and ate whole-grain challah to celebrate the beginning of Shabbat this evening.
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