With gas prices on the rise again,
off again,
mostly on the sunny side of the fog (beginning and end of trip, at least),
a decided change of clime in the air (despite the notion that this is just the typical marine layer kicking in at the Coast again),
to ascend Parnassus with the
Theoreticians vis a vis Quiz 7,
with musical examples drawn from J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Franz Gruber, and Frederic Chopin.
Lunch with
Carol locally,
then homeward in the late afternoon,
initially bucolically
on
680,
encountering the heaviest traffic in quite some time (two cars and a big rig blocking all lanes for awhile, and then merely some -- with seemingly all of the local population trying to take most of the limited work-arounds,
eventually finding some,
however,
that are not too bad,
and making
the
circuitious
path
homeward. Much musical catch-up in the evening, including --
Ninth-page pdf for Lot in Life: I. Lottery
Begin detail edit of The Decameron - Second Day: X (1-6)
Compose DTD: I (11)
-- partly during dinner with Harriet, as we re-visit the
2007 version of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
