Friday, 15 November 2013

Last night I happened to be awake enough to notice that David got up to go to the bathroom around 3:00 a.m., which is not at all unusual. I went back to sleep, but when I woke up around 4:30, I noticed he was still not back in bed. At first, I didn't realize how much later it was, but when he didn't return for a number of minutes, I decided I had better get up and check on him. It's a good thing I did, because he was lying on the bathroom floor and had obviously fallen sometime earlier, although I had NOT heard it as I thought I would (and have, on previous occasions). He was conscious and seemed find other than some pain and stiffness and a little blood from his arm. My concern was how to get him up. I knew that the blood would make the floor slippery, so I had to clean that up first. It looked like his hand had a cut on it, but we later found out that was just dried blood from the arm. Anyway, I didn't panic, and eventually he was able to get up on his arms and knees and then use the bathtub to stand up. After he had sat for a bit on the plastic chair in the bathroom, we got him safely back to bed, and I went back to bed, too. Of course, I did NOT get up early at all this morning, but I did have time to do the cardboard recycling and buy challah at the bakery before breakfast.

I taught 6 units of Berlitz lessons today: 9:00-10:30, 10:30-12:00, and 12:00-1:30. Then we went over to Il Pentolino for our traditional Friday lunch.

We lit candles, drank sweet red wine, and ate delicious challah to welcome Shabbat. Even our cat, Pascal, gets in on the act -- he likes the tiny, dark seeds and the pieces of rolled oats that are on the crust of the challah. I put some of them in a small dish for him, and he eats every last one of them! Our other cat, Katom, sometimes checks to see what he's eating, but Katom isn't interested in those seeds at all, and he seems to think that Pascal is crazy (which he just might be, LOL!).

This evening I began work on my next project for my online class, Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists. These week, we are required to use the Mixolydian mode on Eb, and the tempo must be 100 bpm. I'm doing a short setting of the Dreidl Song (a favorite chanukkah song in the U.S.), with an oom-pah bass line and a countermelody about the main melody. The countermelody actually starts several measures before the main one in order to make the piece the required length of approximately 30 seconds.