Back from my walk

According to Gmaps Pedometer, my usual weekend walk is a shade under three miles. Or a little over, depending on how far I go past the Campbell Park bridge. Many thanks to revjohnny on healthy_fen for discovering this little gem for the pedometer-deprived.

Tracks and other albummage

Final mix on "Paper Pings", "Silk and Steel", and "Stuck here". It's sounding good. No, you can't hear it yet, but if you preorder the album (or you've already done so) I'll point you at a web page where you can listen to the tracks as I work on them. I'll have it up sometime this week, I hope.

Earlier this afternoon I did some work on tools, mostly the Makefiles, and wrote a first draft of the dedication. Progress is being made.

Earthlight

On the way home from dinner at Spencer's with the flower_cat I saw a beautiful crescent moon with the rest of the disk clearly visible, lit by earthlight.

Largely as a result, I've had "The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens" running through my head most of the evening except when I was mixing tracks.

I saw the new moon late yest'reen
Wi' the auld moon in her arms
And I greatly fear, my master dear
That we shall come to harm.

I'm specifically hearing Buffy Sainte-Marie's version from Little Wheel Spin And Spin, accompanied by mouthbow. Been a while since I played that album, but it's the sort of thing that sticks with you.