Yay, I'm getting a relaxing night even as The Work Trip approaches and I didn't sleep well last night.

Mindful toy night, can't go all out, but I can access the relaxation that this butt play affords me, enough to swap over to music appreciation in the living room with the $$,$$$ stereo playing a shuffle of all the music I acquired during 2013 ( Read more... )

Brian reignited my love for music, he told me, you don't have to wait until you retire, you can slowly step up, you can learn more, you don't have to let it suck you in, you can chill, just,

pieces of music,

I don't have to master it all now,

I can gather pieces

Just playin' around in GarageBand as I work through the GarageBand for Dummies book.  Trying out various instruments and mashing the keyboard, kind of an improv jazzy Bug afternoon.  Matching a drum track to a melody track.  I've still got an intuitive feel for the keyboard from my childhood training.

Looks like a pleasant day outside also, I should ( Read more... )

I cannot find the GarageBand project files I created eight years ago, they are not on this laptop -- perhaps were never on this laptop, which I purchased five years ago.  I thought I was careful to copy over all my files but must have overlooked the GarageBand files.  I still have the resulting music files, I listen to them every so often.  But I ( Read more... )