Up before the sun, but is it early enough? Who's to say, as an unknown warning light appears on the dashboard, merritting departure from the freeway to a petrol stop. Home remedies failing, backtrack on
side streets to the local
Toyota, where the trouble is diagnosed as simply low tire pressure... the warning symbol, parentheses framing an exclamation point -- (!) -- reflecting the unnecessary surprise (relieved, but at the same time mystified and slightly put-out). So a rendezvous with Crystal today is seemingly not to be, calling her to that effect.
Since it's about time anyway, leave the car at the shop for routine maintenance, taking advantage of their shuttle service home, returning after an interval with Harriet to pick up a newly invigorated (but unfortunately not washed, as with the Novato people) vehicle.
From this point, another post office stop and a leisurely course via
Monte
Vista,
Foothill,
Pleasants
and
Cherry
Valley Roads
back to the
freeway,
where
fog
hangs over the Sulfur Springs Mountains once more at Cordelia Junction
and
along the 680
corridor,
to
Diablo
Valley College, first on a
supply
run,
then
for
a bit on Arnold Schoenberg's atonal (playing 2 and 6 of the Six Little Piano Pieces) and 12-tone music, followed by dictation, keyboard-solfege, and board harmony on Richard Rodgers's Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi, plus Anthony Ragus's engaging Composition 2, with its harmonic resonances of the Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven opener. Homeward, the rest of the day is given over to various music projects including page 21 of Aerial Requiem pdf (beginning the Confutatis) and composition of pages 16 and 32 for Psalm 77 and The Cop and the Anthem respectively. More ideas back and forth with Debby How, now considering doing the Suite ("Sol[ar]") selections for Flute, Piano, and Percussion.
