busy and bass and reflections  ¶ 9:11 PM

  happyspendingtimetogether

furthermicrotuningland  ¶ 12:23 AM

  Goodtimes goodfriends old&new.  ¶ 9:18 PM

  Good.  ¶ 11:19 PM

  I finally put in a new application at Dunkin' Donuts.  ¶ 2:11 PM

  And all I really know is I wanna know,
And all I really know is I don't wanna know...

And what's life without an occasional surprise?  ¶ 8:30 PM

  Independence Day was quite nice, in fact, despite my having to listen to "God Bless the U.S.A" during a minute or two of the fireworks. With Dave and his friends (who I think I can finally call my own friends), I watched the works in Albany. Jefferson Starship was there. They were pretty good, I thought, but the sound system was wretched. As I told Alex Lord, they seemed to be singing in some sort of invented vowel language. I stood corrected, as I did pick out a "ch" sound a few minutes later.

We went back to a house and there was party. Card games were played by the straight-laced, which indeed includes myself. There was minimal stupidity there, and in fact, it was mostly fun.

I slept only a bit, and I also failed to nap this afternoon. My brain is quite awake, it would seem, with much to think about. I haven't exactly figured out what to do with myself this afternoon, but I may work that out eventually.

Hearts,
A  ¶ 3:19 PM

  drem (intentional misspelling)

-I have a job in which I collect little tomatoes and put them in my car. Then, I vacuum-seal the car and a work a handpump. Little bits of tomato get sucked out and fly the back windshield, leaving holey tomatoes.
-I run out of tomatoes, so I use cheese instead.
-I have a talking dress-shirt, but I don't want anyone to know it can talk.
-Now, I'm hanging out with a bunch of people in the car I use for sucking bits out of tomatoes and cheese.
-I show them what I can do with cheese. They're mildly amused.
-Now, we're driving in the rain, and the car has become a convertible, and I have big blocks of holey cheese that are getting wet.
-"What do I do now?" I ask.
-The guy sitting next to me decides that the thing to do is to make a drumset out of the cheese, so he begins to do that.  ¶ 12:28 PM

  broken bike
pictures of everything
more thinking of 4D puzzle
christian rock songs
nothing else of note  ¶ 12:15 AM

  I had another idea for a 4-dimensional video game / puzzle. It kept me up all night, and the charming thing about it is THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES. I woke up at 12:53 pm, and nobody was harmed.  ¶ 1:33 PM

  Yeah, so I moved home. I've been doing not very much: hanging out, watching TV, taking baths, playing poker, riding my bike, watching movies, failing to see Fahrenheit 9/11. I finally started the ugly and disturbing task of attempting to clean my room today. Sigh. It's bad. But getting better.

I've got little things for jobs. I'm going to lead a couple of "storytimes" at the library, which is like books and singing, entertaining little children, y'know. That's cool, actually, because now that I've had success student teaching, I don't want to suddenly retreat from interacting with kids. Also, I may teach piano lessons, and I'm definitely going to dogsit. Been thinking about volunteering at the zoo again. It was good for me last summer.

I'll be ordering X. J. Scott's Li'l Miss' Scale Oven, which is a tuning program that will allow me to break free of some of my current limitations. To break completely free of my current limitations, I would have to upgrade to a powerbook and get some good softsynths, but this will be an excellent start. I'll no longer be limited to 12-note retuning or equal temperaments up to 24. I can try bigger rational scales, such as Harry Partch's 43-note scale, and bigger equal temperaments such as 26, 31, 41, and 72. I can also get into nonoctave scales like 88cET. I built a great 10-note scale yesterday (a dekany) and I made sense of it by color-coding the keyboard. Soon I'll be able to make 20-note scales, 36-note scales, whatever I can think of. I've got ideas for all that stuff now, but what's the point if I can't play them?

Ok, I guess I'll go attack my room some more. At 1:00, I'll break for some Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. At 5:00, I'm making dinner. Sometime I'll take a bath. This is my plan for the day.

Love to all,
Andrew  ¶ 12:06 PM