juli 4 eve

practiced early, bout 5:45, for 2 hours. trio sonata - c minor - coming along nicely, dupré b major p & f. and widor toccata from no. 5 - don't know why in the hell i'm learning this - i rather hate it, but will be nice to have around i suppose.

work - no one showed today besides me & andy. he came in at 9:30, with product in his hair. he looked pretty cool - and only in the way a handsome iranian-american can. spent all afternoon tracing a bug with maybe 80 debug statements some of l's damnable code - finally solving the problem with one method call, and that was string manipulation....sometimes his code could be so garbled...

israel arrived last night. so all is good. he slept thru lunch. we ate dinner at a new little pizza bistro, it tried hard to be trendy, but the clientele more or less ruined it -- amarillo republican all the way - i was afraid laura bush was surely arriving soon.

then b&n where we ran into hunter. he mentioned something about linda a. having a heart attack and mary driving her home to israel. but when i saw him, he only commented on my spring recital, which evidently he really enjoyed.

new yorker cover this week - 'dependence day'


and for fireworks -