Sunday, 25 June 2017

I slept well last night, woke up fairly early, but didn't get up for some time. When I did finally get out of bed, I ate a light breakfast right away.

I didn't take any pictures today, so today's pic of the day is another shadow photo I took yesterday:

I spent quite a bit of time today watching video lectures for my online course, The Technology of Music Production. Much of it is still only marginally useful to me, since I don't actually record any audio in my work. However, the part on MIDI editing was quite useful and caused me to read that section of my Digital Performer manual rather carefully. This will allow me to more easily edit things like crescendi (where an instrument gradually gets louder), decrescendi (where it gradually gets softer), and gradual tempo changes (retards and accelerations). I have been doing this in a clumsy, slow, and often not very accurate manner, but the things I'm learning will help make this process better, faster, and more accurate.

David and Bassia treated me to brunch at Uga Chaga today, and I really enjoyed that. After I finished, I bought a cake there for tonight's play-reading group, and then I walked down to the pet store and bought a mouse for Goldfinger. I traveled both into town and back home by bus, since it's getting too hot to walk that far near the middle of the day (especially since there's less shade then).

In the late afternoon, I watched a couple of episodes of "That '70s Show", which I enjoyed very much.

In the evening, we started reading "Ondine" in our play-reading group.

I walked a total of 1.7 kilometers today.