February 7 - Lines of Influence
Finally finish the January 2014 issue of 21st-Century Music, posting same at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and sending to printer. Also compose page 6 of Abducted by Aliens: III. 1561 Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon, and begin editing
Psalm 120 "Ad Dominum cum Tribularer) -- a brass quintet acceleration, articulation, and orchestration of Hans Leo Hassler's setting (Greek Psalm 119).
Errands out
(including a new computer case -- fourth total, and third of this exact type, over the last seven years, since 2007) in the early rainy evening (.72 inches, keep it coming, we are obliged to say [total this month: 1.81, which is more than all of the previous months of this rainfall year since July combined... 1.62, for a total of 3.43 thus far] -- most rain in one day since December 25 of 2012, which had 1.11 -- that month received more than twice as much rain [8.26] than all of last year: 4.08),
finishing a re-reading of Edward Abbey's Cactus Country (1973) and continuing to catch-up with emails.