The Mandelbear's Musings

Pretty good, on the whole. The reply I got from an email to cflute cast a faint but definite glow over the whole day. I did some shopping (cinderblocks and a garden cart), and took an hour-long bike ride on most of my old commute route along Los Gatos Creek. Or in other words, the 5-mile walking loop plus what's normally a car trip to the trail-head. Go me!

On the other hand, it was maybe a bit longer than I was really up for even with a rest at the far end, and it was a good thing the trip home was almost all downhill.

I made guacamole for dinner, with some leftover chili later. I made a grilled-cheese sandwitch for Colleen. Two, actually -- I ruined the first because I was busy sweeping up invisible but painful pieces of glass instead of watching the stove. The glass came from Saturday night's chili, or rather the bottle of wine that didn't go into the chili because the neck cracked when I went to take out the cork. First time that's happened to me. I didn't notice, but apparently a couple of tiny bits of glass ended up on the floor. One is apparently still in my foot. Ow. (I did not handle it well, and overloaded badly, though only for a few minutes.)

Sang for Colleen, continuing alphabetically through the songbook and skipping the real clunkers, Demon Lover (which is a duet), and one or two that I'm incredibly out of practice on. It occurs to me that I should be recording this. And maybe streaming it. Any suggestions for a capture->record->transcode->icecast toolchain?

Some links up there under the cut.