retrosteve's Journal: 2003 Oct 1

Sleep: 1:15 to 12pm, 10.75 hours
Food: Two meals, 2 small snacks, one large snack.
Exercise: walk/scooter 2 km.

Well, let's see how long Slashdot will pay for me to keep a personal journal on their permanent servers.

Today we picked out my birthday presents for my upcoming birthday, and I got them early -- a book on Jazz Piano (excellent), a standards fake book (great), and a DVD (the Whole Nine Yards) from the bargain bin. I spent an hour or two learning chord progressions and voicings. I'm hoping I can really start to comp from chords again, it's been so long I am really slow now.

Also went to Musslan (a slick seafood place) for dinner with some ex-goyada folks. Good to see them, caught up on gossip. Didn't eat, since the food was not my favorite and was double the price I wanted to pay.

Tried to play "Take Five" with and without the CD. I am too slow to play with the CD, even with the chords in front of me. That's a definite loss since 10 years ago, let's track and see how it improves.

P.S. R.B. aka geekgirl is fascinating. Just met her yesterday online.

It's 1:25 am and I'm just now getting tired. Bedtime.