Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid
I know of several musicians that might find this useful. Fortunately my musical work doesn’t put me in a high-noise environment at present.
Sunday morning. ☕️🖋️
Sinéad O’Connor - I Am Stretched Out on Your Grave
Still haunting after all these years.
From a conversation earlier today on Facebook. “It federates into Mastodon” has got to be one of the most 2023 things I’ve said all year.
This is almost the end of my fifth half-week of remote working this summer, with three more to go. It’s still difficult to get used to, and now I see why so many people lost their minds during the pandemic. For me it’s a constant battle to either keep physically active or intellectually stimulated during my downtime.
Currently reading: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin 📚
You might imagine that the outside world is a conveyor belt with a stream of small packages on it, always going by. The first step is to notice the conveyor belt is there. And then, anytime you want, you can pick up one of those packages, unwrap it, and see what’s inside.
This is the second time in a month that one of my contact lenses has shredded - not something that should be happening with monthly lenses after only two weeks. Fortunately this time around I caught it before I put it in my eye, unlike last time when I had to endure three hours of intense discomfort before my optometrist opened so they could fish it out.
My office today - judging a competition in Ottawa.
🎵 Technical Resources for Advanced Pianists: www.foleymusicandarts.com/blog/2023…
The frustration of writing several paragraphs of a blog post and then losing them after forgetting to press save before accidentally closing a browser window.
One of these days the weather is going to improve ☕️
Some thoughts on Angela Hewitt’s article on memory in the Guardian - Talking About Memory
Ready for an evening of teaching at The Royal Conservatory in Toronto.
Saw the surgeon today for a follow-up after gallbladder removal surgery in March. 3 of the stones were close to a cm in diameter and 1 was lodged in the bile duct. He said it was only a matter of time before something serious happened, so I’m feeling very grateful right now.
I’ve been blogging since 2005, and in the last few years I’ve struggled to find time to write for my blogs in addition to my regular work. Here’s my potential solution: Reimagining my Writing Process, or How I Intend to Not Plan My Blogging Activities 📝
15 Layers of Turntable Scratching with DJ Shortkut foleymusicandarts.com
Yesterday evening I asked Bing AI to draw pictures of monsters teaching other monsters how to play piano. Had the realization is that this is basically what I do all day for a living.
🎵 Here’s a student of mine doing a run-through of Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen in preparation for her recital on Tuesday: (Facebook link)
🖋 It’s great to see there’s a fountain pen community on micro.blog! Here’s a Waterman Man 100 I picked up at the Scriptus show in Toronto late last year.
Trying out micro.blog this morning. I’ve been thinking lately how I can return to blogging and what kind of ideas or process could make it viable. When blogging works, it’s unplanned and spontaneous.