month away babysittin early funk premature end

so i woke up today with a phonecall from D (singer) telling me my sound module had been found, Y & C (Raison D'etre) had picked it up on sunday from the spitz, where i'd lost it exactly a month ago today, (sunday july 4th).

so i trekked out into the world on this very hot day, picked up the little fella. i don't know what it's been up to for this month but it don't work no more, and that is sad.

i mourn your passing, beautiful piano,
though flawed and broken, you were the soul of this place,...

so still thinking of new piano module, would be even if my nanopiano was functioning, a shade of chorus on the piano sounds that mean i just don't use it for pianos,

could perhaps hire in a kurzweil micro piano, for the gig on sunday and to check it out, but sadly no hire of a GEM realisticpiano,... the search goes on... (sorry for techno speak)

and then at 6 ish i went round and picked up grace, first truly on my own babysittin' - hard. rough with the smooth though, after a while she started oscillating between wailing and resting her head on my chest, gazing at me, eventually the wails grew shorter, the resting longer, and she fell into a seemingly slightly troubled sleep... all this to the sound of frank sinatra singing only the lonely, the whole album, which perhaps gave her some stability but sure was great for me. josiah came for her around 8, and then me & K got right onto writing this funk thing,...

although to be fair he'd set it up, sampled bass and drums, chords & initial structure. really got us going and hours later we were deeply involved in it. tomorrow we're performing it live (with T & samples) at 8am, to wake up C on her birthday, a long held fantasy of hers. lovely tune, and really lovely to be thinking musically / arrangemently.

so i finally get down and check where my chess is at, and to my chagrin i've just won a game because my opponent (cryptically named chmrg) has timed out. i should point out that i do like winning, but timeouts are a rubbish way to win, i didn't win anything. we were evenly matched a long way into the game, the temperature had been increasing and it was getting damned interesting.... so is there a way i can continue this game with chmrg? watch this space...

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