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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…
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Ebook catchup post
My latest ebook acquisitions from Kobo, featuring SF, fantasy, mystery, and magic realism.
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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
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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!)
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Fiddle practice log 10/1/2021
More work on Feller from Fortune, with a side helping of Blarney Pilgrim. And scales and arpeggios and double-stops.
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Fiddle practice log 9/28/2021
10-minute fiddle practice in which I play with arpeggios and also more of Feller from Fortune. The B part is slowly coming together.
