I beg forgiveness

I have never been an observant Jew, and I've never observed Yom Kippur before, but it feels like a good thing to do.

If I have offended, injured, or neglected anyone during the last year -- or before that, even -- I am truly sorry. If you would like a more personal apology, or if there's anything you want me to do to make amends, please talk to me. In any case, I will be trying hard to do better this year.

If there is anyone who has, or believes they have, offended, injured, or neglected me, if there is anything for me to forgive, you are truly and sincerely forgiven. I hold no grudges for anything done before this moment; please gently but firmly remind me if I appear to be hanging on to one.

May you all be written and sealed in the Book of Life for a good coming year, and may those of you who are marking this day by fasting have an easy one.

Done recently (20100912 Su - 0916 Th)

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Good grief! OK, it's been busy, but I really could have found time to post some "done yesterday"s before I accumulated nearly a week's worth! Sorry about that.

During the course of the week I managed to acquire a new microphone (the Rode NT1A I saw last Saturday at Guitar Showcase, ordered from Musician's Friend), some StringSwing guitar holders (one that clamps onto a music stand, and one that screws onto a rack), and a couple of full-spectrum floor lamps. I also managed to misdirect a couple of packages, and to intercept one of them in time to get it where it was going. And to prove myself a careless hacker for assuming that I'd proofread them ages ago when I first made the cut-and-paste error.

I figured out that my depression seems to be heavily light-dependent -- I'm down on cloudy days and dark mornings. Hence the full-spectrum lamps.

I had a lot of trouble with nasal congestion, but appear to have gotten a reasonable amount of sleep. Not that I particularly like going to bed that early. I am very grumpy at my body.

I did some singing, and experimented with click tracks, but no recording. I feel that I got very little actually done, either at work or at home. I think I probably did, it just wasn't what I'd written down as needing doing. Again, it is to grump at.

I accumulated a huge number of links -- go look under the cut.

... and with that the Bear trundles off to bed.