Up early
and barely
out the
door in
time to
rendezvous
with
Crystal, despite our reasonably later hour of 8am.
Another lovely time in the open space with
Stanley
in tow
(or
us),
followed by Martin errands,
and over the Bay to Emeryville,
basically
stalling
for
time
with
another
stroll
along
the
waterfront, before the Berkeley / Oakland border
to
interview
Alden
Jenks
for Grove and 21st-Century Music. A congenial and enlightening encounter,
followed by a reverse course to
Novato Toyota for standard maintenance,
a dalliance at Chevy's for paper evaluation,
then
a
slow
meandering
wander
through
Sonoma
and
Napa,
and the most-hurried-yet dash to the
library for videos plucked off the shelf two minutes before the last-call-for-checkout of the day -- including
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008),
Out of the Past (1947),
The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham 1925/2006),
The Paper Chase (1973),
The Paris Express (The Man who Watched Trains Go By, 1938 / 1952), and
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924, David Lean, 1984 -- including a lovely anachronistic usage of Vincent Youmans's Tea for Two, 1925). Returning to share the cinematic wealth with Harriet, the evening also includes finishing Psalm 53, linking the next four Variations and Theme movements (three-quarters through), transferring Trumpet Concerto (Op. 40) from PC to Mac, and bringing the Camino Real: Block 7 video to 4:00.
47+ new pictures... sorta OK at 476 MB (46.5%) of 1024 -- so will have to go easy through Monday...
