I woke up early this morning and walked all the way to the gym and back. Then, a little later, also before breakfast, I walked down to recycle the cardboard and buy challah for Shabbat at the bakery.
I taught only one 2-unit class today: 11:00-12:30. However, the student had to leave early (and told me so at the very beginning), so we actually quit at 12:00.
We had our traditional Friday lunch at Il Pentolino today.
I worked on extending my harmonization program to handle inverted chords (in addition to ones in root position). It works OK now, but some of its voice-leading is legal but awkward, so that's my next project for improving it.
We lit candles, drank a sip of sweet red wine, and ate challah to welcome the Shabbat just before the sun began to fade from the mountains across the valley. Pascal (our mostly-black cat) joined us, as is his tradition (OK, he's really after the rolled oats and the seeds from the challah!), and even Katom (our American cat with the Hebrew name) wandered through for a bit but seemed quite uninterested.
This evening, we took a short drive up the Arava as far as Be'er Ora, and then I watched the first 5 video lectures for week 3 of my class "Write Like Mozart". Now we're getting more into chord progressions and typical patterns, a topic I'm less familiar with.
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