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update

I've got a couple minutes at a hotspot to update both of you who might read this. I'm about half done with Army training at Ft Jackson near Columbia, SC. Next weekend I expect to start the trip to Kuw...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:52:00 GMT

Site views explosion

So today my number of site views went from about 350 to about 650 in a couple hours. Did I suddenly become interesting?
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:42:00 GMT

New Addition!

I've added pictures of our new arrival, Nathaniel Thomas ("Nate").  He was born 5:07 pm on July 22.  He was 7 lbs, 9oz, 20 3/4" long.  Mom, baby, and Big Sister Claire are all fine.&nbs...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:29:00 GMT

Winter abolished

I don't know if the groundhog saw his shadow or not, but it's time to 86 the Vivaldi.  Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 is among my favorite pieces, and this recording I found of the first movement is ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 22:18:00 GMT

What do we get out of this?

I've been on MySpace for over two months now, and it hasn't gotten old yet. When you have a MySpace account--especially when you first create your profile--you are confronted with the task of selectin...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:53:00 GMT

Winter

"Deleted by Artist" strikes again. So now we're on to Winter from The Four Seasons. Not particularly adventuresome, but at least seasonal. Antonio Vivaldi was a priest and violin teacher at a school f...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:28:00 GMT

The new piece and the old blog

Since my excerpt from St. Mattew's Passion was "deleted by the artist," I had to come up with something else.  So now we've moved on to the Allegro molto from Beethoven's String Quartet in C Majo...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:18:00 GMT

TOOKIE

NPR recently used an excerpt from Bach's St. Matthew's Passion as bumper music following a segment on the Tookie Williams case.  The subject was redemption as a rationale for clemency in death pe...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:38:00 GMT