Bounded in a Nutshell

The English football league system. The shrunken font as one descends the levels of the pyramid is a nice touch.

Public transportation in my city that's still running after my night class ends.

The College Democrats on my campus are having an organizational meeting this week; they've got signs up around my building. They follow a "What/When/Where" sort of format that's not uncommon for student organizations, and the "Who" is listed as "Everyone Alive*"... with a footnote in tiny print.

I'd figured that the footnote would be some self-deprecating reference to Chicago machine politics of fifty years ago... because in my head, I expect to live in a world where people make those kinds of jokes in passing. Instead, the footnote read:

zombies will be killed. sorry zombies.

Which kind of made my day, I admit.

My laptop is nearing the end of its three-year extended warranty, which is more or less equivalent to the end of its three-year lifespan from what people have told me. The battery's reached the point where it'll last for thirty minutes unplugged, tops, which is just unacceptable. So I'm considering my options.

Option A is to just go and get a new laptop, essentially continuing my current computational lifestyle. This is in some ways the simpler option.

Option B is to get a desktop and a new battery. This would involve making the desktop my primary computer, and stripping down the laptop and making it pretty much a travelling-only machine. This has its attractions, in that desktops tend to be more powerful than laptops at an equivalent price point, and any new laptop I got would be larger than the one that I've got right now... and I rather like the size of my current machine for portability.

In either case, I'm not likely to move on it for another couple of weeks; having just gotten a major repair done on my car, I'd kind of like to wait for the next billing cycle to start before making another large purchase.

I've finally figured out a working version of Oscar Peterson's "Hymn to Freedom". It's not perfect, but then perfect isn't generally what I do on guitar.

Musical notation is cumbersome. Really must get my MIDI keyboard set up and working. This might require procuring a large number of C batteries.

Plagal cadence: effective in its place.