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what was new in 2001

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new in december 2001
12/31/2001

ymoyl december graph

the graph has been updated.

12/26/2001

ymoyl monthly tabulation for november

woohoo! after years of getting around to it, i did my first monthly tabulation of my expenses and how they fit into my thinking.

12/11/2001

bach french suite arrangement?

i'm playing around with the idea.

12/09/2001

rohatsu

wrote a poem.

12/04/2001

ymoyl, november edition

the bank statement came in the mail today. i balanced it, then did my income/expenses/investment calculations. yuck. :)

new in november 2001
11/19/2001

your money or your life

i've put up a graph i'm using to help me think more carefully about my finances.

11/14/2001

backyard photos

fall! i took a couple of photos of the backyard.

11/13/2001

o magnum mysterium lyrics

yay! lilypond has new features that make entering lyrics amazingly easy. i added some more to the victoria score.

new in october 2001
10/29/2001

back from palm springs

i'm back from my trip. put up photos.

10/08/2001

how i've been feeling lately

Desert Places
by Robert Frost

Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.

The woods around it have it -- it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.

And lonely as it is that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less --
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars -- on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

new in august 2001
08/28/2001

o magnum mysterium -- finished the notes

you can listen to it all now. on to the text...

08/24/2001

more on o magnum mysterium

someone sent an email saying he wants to use the victoria score, so i worked on it some more today. finished the notes up to the first break.

08/23/2001

carcassi #5 notes done

as the title says...

08/22/2001

much more legible weight graph

well, this is silly. i never noticed that gnuplot can output a png directly, so i don't have to do the postscript-to-png kludge i've been doing. the graph on my weight page is now soooo much clearer.

08/14/2001

more on carcassi #5

added some more notes.

08/11/2001

more on carcassi #5

added a couple more lines to the score.

08/08/2001

guitar waltz score fragment

i'm unpacking stuff at the new house, and came across a piece of paper with something i jotted down long ago. nothing special, but i may as well put it into the computer. maybe someday i'll do something with it.

new in july 2001
07/31/2001

gah!

well, i'm living in the new place and liking it. i liked working on the yard for two days, until this happened:

"several people have been asking what happened to me, so i typed up this form letter (sorry for the rubber stamp nature of it):

my new house has been sitting empty since december, so the yard needs a lot of work done. the friday before last had beautiful weather, so i took advantage of it to get out and make some progress. the next morning, i put in a couple more hours until someone called and invited me down to artscape.

i'm highly allergic to poison ivy, so i'm paranoid about it and watch out for it all the time. i spotted a poison ivy plant in the front yard, and gave it a wide berth, so friday went ok. there's a fence out back that i want to tear down. one side of it is covered with vines, so on saturday morning, i started pulling them off it. there must have been a surprise hiding in there that i didn't see, because i woke up at 3:00 sunday morning, itching.

for the first couple of days, it was all on the place where a man doesn't ever, ever want to get poison ivy. i'll leave that to your imagination.

as the days went on, the rash started popping up all over the place -- legs, arms, chest, face... all over. the worst part was that blisters formed between the fingers of both hands. for the first few days, i tried typing, but had to accept that moving my fingers was causing the blisters to pop open, and making it take even longer to heal, so i switched to catching up on reading and doing things that just involved pointing and clicking.

i'm still remarkably miserable and wake up itching 3-4 times a night, so don't expect a whole lot out of me, but i wanted to let it be known that i'm able to communicate again. :)"

i'm all better now, with just a few scars, and i've been busily trying to catch up on work.

07/10/2001

mmmmmmmm...

spent most of yesterday at my new place. so blissfully quiet. :) the phone service won't be turned on until thursday, though, so i have to head back into carradioland to get bandwidth. :(

07/06/2001

carcassi study 4 notes done

finished the notes. just need to do dynamics, etc. now.

07/05/2001

back!

i'm back. but gah! i'm exhausted. off to bed. talk to you later.

new in june 2001
06/25/2001

sesshin

i have to be at doug's place at 7:15 tomorrow morning to leave for dbz, so i'm going to sign off for now and do the few chores i have left. i'll be back on july 5th; see you then.

p.s.: bought the house today! :)

06/24/2001

settlement in the morning...

leaving for sesshin the next day. checking things off the todo list today.

06/23/2001

photos from last august

i just put up photos in the downtown baltimore section from a walk i took last august (yeah, yeah...).

06/22/2001

more on carcassi study 3

almost done with the notes.

06/21/2001

more on carcassi study 3

finished the notes for the 1st half.

06/20/2001

carcassi study 3

started entering the 3rd study. mmmmm... lilypond has some nice features for making it easier to enter things now. :)

06/19/2001

carcassi study 2 notes done

finished the notes. just need to do dynamics, etc. now.

06/18/2001

more on carcassi study 2

a long time ago, i planned to:

  1. learn the 25 carcassi studies, op. 60.
  2. make lilypond files of them all, so there would be a free copy of them available on the internet.

so, i was doing the work slowly, using the second job to help with the first -- i would only enter the notes into the computer from memory, to test my memorization, then double-check them against the original. practicing the guitar is no longer part of my life, so i should just moove on with the second part of the plan. i worked on study #2 a bit today.

06/16/2001

more palmos apps

i added launcher iii and whatzup, a couple of palmos apps i've started using. i've actually started putting appointments in my visor. frightening. i wish yahoo!'s palm sync system weren't useless. :(

06/14/2001

house house house house house house house

contracts, home inspection, mortgage interview, homeowners insurance, job gap letter, termite inspection, bank statements...

a week and a half until settlement!

06/08/2001

still around

yeah, i'm still here. i had my wisdom teeth extracted tuesday (with only local anesthetic, so i got to lay there and listen to *crack* *crack* *crack* *snap* *crack* as they were yanked out of my head), and spent much of the week in a drug-induced stupor. how do people get addicted to vicodin? it just made me go to sleep. i guess if you really like sleeping...

anyway, i did at least put up the photos from the umbc lug resurrection meeting.

06/01/2001

burning storefront

the zendo where i practice just got its own place. i've put up photos chester and i took a few weeks ago when we went to look at the place.

new in may 2001
05/25/2001

another day, another house

yep. more photos of the latest house. i also stuck up some of the one i saw on 05/18.

05/24/2001

my favorite palmos applications

a friend just bought a visor, and this prompted me to put copies of my favorite palmos applications here.

05/22/2001

another house

since westland boulevard fell through, i'm still looking. just put up photos of the latest possibility.

05/20/2001

tired of checks

i'm tired of dealing with checks. it takes me forever to get around to driving them to the bank, so i've made a link to my paypal account so people can send payments to me over the web. if you owe me money for some reason, please use this.

05/16/2001

mozart k545

yay! someone added it to mutopia, so i've deleted my unfinished version from my site.

05/09/2001

house hunting

i put up some photos from my recent unsuccessful bit of house hunting (see my rambling from a couple of weeks ago).

05/08/2001

gah

i got up at 4:00am yesterday and drove to roblimo's house on the first leg of a trip to boston for another osdn site directors meeting. was there all day, then flew back and got home at 11:00pm. i don't know how/why people do this sort of thing on a regular basis. i've been standing at the laptop all day trying to catch up and feeling a bit unplugged.

05/01/2001

pdf versions of the scores

some time ago, i looked into generating pdf versions of my scores, and wasn't happy with the results; the pdf version wasn't nearly as sharp as the postscript version, at least on the screen. i tried again, today, and it looks much better! more importantly still, i printed a pdf of a score, and it looked great, so i'm now including pdf files in the scores section. if you have a pdf viewer set up as a plugin, you'll be happy to find that you can view the scores right in your browser.

new in april 2001
04/29/2001

a little peace and quiet

i've been thinking about finding another place to live. i sat down with the laptop today and wrote a little bit about it. well, wrote quite a lot, actually.

04/27/2001

fire!

we had a three alarm fire on my street this morning. i took photos.

04/16/2001

simplex redux

i took more photos of the simplex kitties, and just got around to putting them up.

04/13/2001

pool number 2

i took some more photos at druid hill park. it seems that old pool has more history than i knew.

04/02/2001

hamfest finished

yay! all the junk's gone. final photos are up.

new in march 2001
03/31/2001

hamfest!

i'm spending the weekend at the hamfest selling hardware to raise money for gits. photos of our table are up.

03/29/2001

pac

i went over to the progressive action center to talk with the people there about whether they could use some computers from gits. took photos.

03/23/2001

zendo hunt

our zen community is looking for a home. i was glancing through a list of places for rent and came across a 5 bedroom, 2 bath house renting for $300. there's no way i could resist finding out what that was all about, so i went and found it and brought back photos.

03/21/2001

rain, rain, stay stay stay

hooray! i stayed in and got quite a lot done today. closer and closer to being caught up with work. still have 142 messages waiting in /var/spool/mail/jeff, but at least that's 1/2 of what i had a few days ago.

03/20/2001

eastern shore photos

i put up the photos i took a couple of weeks ago on maryland's eastern shore.

03/16/2001

crab canon

i added a crab canon by bach to my scores section.

03/15/2001

photos of the 4th of july cookout

steve had his photos of the cookout developed, and i've put them up here.

03/12/2001

weight

yikes! i haven't even been tracking my weight, let alone adding anything here. well, those of you who watch it religiously will be happy to see a new entry on the chart.

new in february 2001
02/13/2001

cross country

i wrote a poem on the plane. been a long time since i did that. :)

02/12/2001

bah!

yes, i'm still around, but too busy to do anything here. leaving to visit a friend in san jose tomorrow; maybe i'll get something done while i'm there. :)

02/04/2001

lwce photos

i put up my photos from linuxworld expo.

02/03/2001

stop it! stop it now!

i have over 800 freshmeat support messages to read about the site upgrade. stop emailing us! ;)

new in january 2001
01/29/2001

off to new york

blah! the days have just been a blur. i'm off to new york in a little while. if you're at linuxworld, stop by the osdn booth and say hi. and watch freshmeat tomorrow. :)

01/26/2001

where have you been??

how time is flying these days! i'm sorry i've not done anything here for two weeks. we've been doing a lot of work at the agape house, and i've been over there a lot. next week is linuxworld and another osdn site directors meeting, so i've been getting ready for that. the biggest news is that freshmeat ][ will be coming out soon! been doing beta testing in the few spare moments...

well, anyway; i'll get back to this site when i can. :)

01/13/2001

inner harbor photos

i just put up some photos i took of the inner harbor in august (yeah, i know, i know...).

01/05/2001

dan's photos

a roll of film that dan exposed has been laying around for years. i had it developed, and put up the photos.

01/05/2001

invention 6 done

finished it.

01/02/2001

more on invention 6

halfway through the second half now.

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2002-08-07 09:33:11

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