• Bringing more of the book pages online

    Bringing more of the book pages online

    It’s a damn good thing I started working on bringing up live versions of my book pages on this new site, because I realized after checking angelahighland.info that some of the preview and buy buttons are not working there. I don’t know how long that’s been the case. But it’s made it clear that I…

  • Second test post

    Second test post

    Putting up a second test post just to see how the blog page looks with more than one post on it. And also just to give a general update on the progress of this site, just because I’ve started posting example links to social media, and people might happen to wander by. If you are…

  • Putting up a new site

    Putting up a new site

    Ah, that fresh new website smell, wot? I’ve been recently very disgruntled about the word going around on social media about WordPress.com lately, in two major areas: one, the CEO of Automattic getting into a tiff with a trans user of Tumblr, and two, the word about Automattic selling data from WordPress.com users and Tumblr…

  • Ebook catchup post

    Ebook catchup post

    My latest ebook acquisitions from Kobo, featuring SF, fantasy, mystery, and magic realism.

  • Fiddle practice log 11/3/2021

    Fiddle practice log 11/3/2021

    Fiddle practice log for 11/3/2021, in which I do some investigation of the proper ways to play the A part of Feller from Fortune to make it sound cool and channel my inner Bob Hallett. <3

  • Fiddle practice log 10/26/2021

    Fiddle practice log 10/26/2021

    Today’s fiddle practice: reviewing André Brunet’s lovely La fée des dents, and exploring how I can make it sound lovely when _I_ play it! (Spoiler alert: still not as good as André. Yet!)

  • Fiddle practice log 10/11/2021

    Fiddle practice log 10/11/2021

    Fiddle practice log for 10/11/2021 features me playing with one of my favorite Andre Brunet tunes, Ciel d’automne, to see if I could figure out where I want to put slurs in the A part!

  • Another long overdue ebook roundup log

    Another long overdue ebook roundup log

    Ebook catchup! Featuring picking up Greg Keyes’ duology of Elder Scrolls novels from 2009 and 2011, since I like the world of Tamriel enough that I want to check out those books.

  • Fiddle practice log 10/5/2021

    Fiddle practice log 10/5/2021

    Today’s fiddle practice report, featuring me figuring out where I can drop some double stops in Blarney Pilgrim. _On purpose_, even!

  • Fiddle practice log 10/4/2021

    Fiddle practice log 10/4/2021

    Today’s fiddle practice, involving more Blarney Pilgrim and Feller from Fortune. And in which I remind myself that it’s _okay_ to suck for ten minutes, particularly if I’m tired, as long as I get in those ten minutes.