Music!

Last night, I fired up my Digital Audio Workstation (fancy name for a computer hard drive home studio) for the first time down here in NJ. I had wanted to record a percussion piece that I would just improvise as I go along, but I ended up recording a piece that's basically a keyboard solo on top of some jangly chime like sounds.

Not bad, but I need to work on it some more. Perhaps I'll do something with it tonight...

My website still exists over on the Dartmouth site, but I'm a bit worried about trying to update it, as it may signal something to the server that it shouldn't be operational anymore, if my passwords are deleted... At some point I'll try it out, but not yet. I do want to find somewhere to post my music. We'll see how the future pans out...

This was my last three day weekend, and this week, I'm basically going into my month or so of heavy duty work. RA training begins this coming Friday, and ends on the 28th. Working every day in that time frame, and lots of work into September. It'll be busy, but fun, I'm sure...

On Friday, Sue and I visited some cemeteries in the area, looking for plots of old family relatives, part of my ongoing genealogy search. Here's a photo of a headstone...

This is the stone for Lizzie Cook, whose maiden name was "Lang." Lizzie was the sister to my G3-Grandmother, Jane Lang. Jane married John Lord. This was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Newark, NJ, a very well kept place.

We visited some other cemeteries that weren't as well kept up, and didn't have a lot of success, but it was a good day to be outside. And, I'm a lot closer now to visit some of these places, so I can make more casual trips to them.

NP: Ben Folds - Brick (13 June 2003)