Up 7. Coffee, breakfast.
Noodled at piano. Listened to an interview w/ a Zen writer I kind of like.
Send the show/log/playlist to KSPC. All done! Also sent file of the gospel show to an online acquaintance who asked for it.
Read 50 p. Garnier.
Bridge work 3 to about 6. Nailed down first graf of section, worked on second (on “through-composed” form and the notion of autonomy) - getting too long.
Ordered in, Thai, ate w/ Bree. Listened to Hammier Bliuett, Marcello Melis, Don Moye - Bars.
Online a bit more.
Played piano more - chromatic scales getting better up to the 160s, harder at 170-180. Touched on Stella and Dancers in Love. Cut it a little shorter than usual, figured out Duke’s tempo for Dancers in Love - around 205, fast as hell, and he sounds so relaxed. Looked at some videos getting some ideas for voicings on Stella.
Recycling, short walk. Read 15 p. Ryan Walker, Long Term Raisin. 1 p. poetry notebook.
Sat 20 min. Lights out after 11.
1/21
Up 7 or so. Started working on the Carnap paper by 8, finished by 11. 1600 words. I think that is my writing for the day.
Took a break for an hr. Sent the paper. Started another online task.
Called dad 2 just before 3.
Finished what I started before 2; some posting.
Can’t recall doing anything worth noting until about 6:30. Worked on radio show, finished about 9, inc. playlist log and upload.
Trash, short walk at 10. Wrote 2 p. In poetry notebook, finished Ashbery, Quick Question. Sat 20 min. Lights out around 11:30.
No book work, piano, or prose reading, but finished 2 significant projects that are not recurring.
1/20
Up for a while at 5, back to sleep at 7, up for real at 10. Breakfast/coffee, spent some time following the inauguration.
I would say I started the day at noon. (I want to do today in some detail, so I can understand where more of my time is going.)
12-1. Posted yesterday’s entry. Downloaded a phone recording from yesterday, put it on soundcloud, posted to an online community (w/ some explanation). Couple of tweets. Snack.
1-2. Watched an 11 min. video critical of Buddhist philosophy. Got a little too involved in twitter. Sat Zazen 15 min. Other than that, unproductive hour.
2-3. Watched a video by The Regrettes. Ok pop. Read about 15 p. (244-263) Carnap, Logical Syntax of Language, w/ breaks for cooking videos when it got too hard.
3-4. Finished cooking video. Read a short WSJ article (on procrastination!) Spent most of the hour looking at another paragraph of my bridge chapter, about autonomy. Made a few rough revisions, had a hard time getting into it.
4-5:15: Shower, made coffee, therapy w/ Bree.
5:15-6:30: Online, this and that, accomplished little.
6:30-8: Worked on radio show. Got to near the 1:30 mark. Didn’t want to record my next talk segment, so started entering the playlist online, did about 1/4.
8-8:30: Updated this. Checked a couple of our online grocery orders.
Took out recycling, short walk. After doing the crossword, found I’d forgotten to fix something in yesterday’s, which broke my streak. So now I feel released from continuing it. Also phasing out Spelling Bee.
9:30-11: Worked on the Carnap paper, wrote a couple more grafs.
Lights out midnight.
1/19
Up 8. Breakfast, coffee.
Got myself to digitize a song from Pylon vinyl box set, last think I need for the radio show. Could start recording tonight.
Paid an online bill Bree reminded me about.
Sat 15 min.
Got myself to writing at between 12 and 12:30 — revised a paragraph, with difficulty and breaks, by 3.
Read almost 50 p. Garnier. Shower.
Joined Daphne Brooks’ Zoom talk in the EMP Popular Music Books in Process series.
Finshed quota of Garnier. 30 min. piano - chromatic scales, lose control of tempo playing both hands around 150-160 bpm; also made a number of attempts to play 2 choruses of “Stella By Starlight” w/ metronome.
Spent about an hr. on radio show - recorded first back-announce segment, assembled next set, about 40 min. in now. Glad I’m working ahead.
Took out trash, short walk outside. Crossword. Caught up in poetry notebook (2 p., pretty fast and sloppy), no Ashbery b/c Bree went to bed and I left it on the nightstand. Lights out about midnight.
1/18
Up 7. Breakfast, coffee.
Sat 15 min. Cushion. Tried to put my phone behind me so I wouldn’t check the time but worried it had gone dead. (Had 1:20 left, just impatient.)
Got a little involved in the radio playlist again. I have 1:22 of music, have to rip or download a couple more things.
Bridge work 11:30-2. Finished draft of chapter info (under 600 words, but it took a few days to rework.)
Therapy 3-4.
Made lamb and zucchini for dinner, and ate w/ Bree, 5-7 or so. Listened to most of Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign.
Didn’t do a great deal in the evening - read quota of Ashbery at some point, but didn’t write in poetry notebook. Couple of emails, online tasks. Crossword (hard for a Tuesday), took out recycling, short walk.
Had enough of a second wind to read 50 p. of Garnier (it’s breezy) and do some more playlist assembly. Lights out 1.