Done Since 2019-09-15

My self-talk this week has been uncharacteristically non-negative, and occasionally sort of ?cheerful? From Monday's notes, when I first noticed it:

My self-talk this evening on my shopping trip was strangely non-negative; almost cheerful at times. Instead of ruminating I started out with something like "wow, a lot has happened in the last 7 years..." -- ended up revising it to 8.

So there's that. No idea what triggered it or how long it will last; the last couple of days have been kind of drifty.

I've also been moderately productive -- I finished configuring my new laptop, Sable, paid some bills, gotten a bid from Surety Pest Control for debugging the house, and made substantial progress slogging through the piles of unsorted and partly-sorted mail on the surfaces (low shelves, tray table, and cat tree) next to my desk.

Colleen's labs came back looking very good; on the other hand she's still having problems and not walking enough.

( Notes & links, as usual )

Songs for Sunday: Luna

Okay; it's a day late, but the tag still works and it's not as though I haven't done this before. And it's not as though this is my first purely instrumental s4s, though it doesn't look like I've been tagging them as such.

Today's song is Bob Dylan's "All along the watchtower" -- performed on gayageum by Luna Lee.

The gayageum (가야금) is a traditional Korean instrument in the same family as the Japanese koto and Chinese guzheng (there are others -- watch out for rabbit holes). What Luna does with it, however, is anything but traditional -- she does rock covers, taking full advantage of the gayageum's note-bending and glissandos.

She also multitracks, and sometimes shows the backing tracks in sidebars -- there are good examples in AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" and her version of "Hallelujah".

There's a lot more on her YouTube channel, and her artist page on Domo Music Group.

... and a tip of the hat to @siderea for the link that got me started.