Definitely time for Christmas Day festivities (calling Bette, George, Ann, Crystal, and Christina to wish them respective Merries) --
with
Jim,
Marek,
and
John
arriving -- and
plenty of
gift opening.
A
jaunt
to
the
store and
U.S. 12, in view of the Blue Mountains
to
downtown
Dixie
and
back,
wraps
up
the
daylight
holiday
hours. Upon Tisha's recommendation (the groundwork kindly laid by Ann last month back east) start to explore Pandora internet radio and set up 36 radio stations (organized by year of birth, of course) as follows:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Arnold Schoenberg
Charles Ives
Gustav Holst
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Anton Webern
Edgar Varese
Alban Berg
Sergei Prokofiev
Arthur Honegger
Darius Milhaud
Francis Poulenc
Aaron Copland
Kurt Weill
Harry Partch
Aram Khachaturian
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Olivier Messiaen
Samuel Barber
Alan Hovhaness
Gian Carlo Menotti
Conlon Nancarrow
John Cage
Benjamin Britten
Leonard Bernstein
Pierre Boulez
George Crumb
Krzysztov Penderecki
La Monte Young
Terry Riley
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
Frederic Rzewski
Michael Nyman
Check the weather and the sense is that it would be auspicious to leave tomorrow by early afternoon -- conditions seemingly reasonably favorable in Southern Washington / Northern Oregon tomorrow, and as-good-as-it's-gonna-get-this-week-the-next-day further south (50% chance of precip -- highs in the high 30's over Siskiyou Summit, 30% and warmer into God's own California).
Also find enough time to do a video for
Magnificat: II. Ex exultavit and post same on YouTube and Facebook.
