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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2006-07-02 02:28 pm

Tumbled Overboard

After church today, I spent half an hour trying to teach myself in vain how to improvise a jazz harmony to "Heart and Soul" on the piano.

(This is not actually quite as obsessive as it sounds, because just a few days ago I had actually pulled out "How To Play From a Fake Book" and started working throught the piano chord tutorials for the first time, and it uses "Heart and Soul" as an example. I think I may actually stick with it for a while - I've wanted to get back into music-playing for awhile, and the longer I've been at home with Mom, the more I miss the sound of Dad constantly messing around with harmonies on the piano. And the only way I'll be able to hear something like it again is to learn to do it just as badly as he did...)

This afternoon, I'm going through and sorting out all the files that I've pulled together from two laptops, two desktops, and two memory chips, to make backups in preparation for putting different OSs on several of the systems. Including all the mp3s. And the temptation to make a Clark/Lois fanmix while I'm at it is jost ... so tempting.

And speaking of that, to transfer them from one computer to a nother, I put up 850 megs of *extremely* assorted mp3s to YSI. I figure I might as well share, since the file's uploaded anyway - everything from "We Change the World" to the extended techno remix of the original Dr. Who theme. The zip file is here, if you want it.

...if someone friends me out of the blue who has "butchering Harry Potter fans" as an interest, should I be worried?
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, and uh, our plans for Tuesday: We thought we were visiting you.
That was the extent of our plans for Tuesday.
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
K. Are we doing Mom's birthday, or next weekend with all the other parties?
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Dunno. You feel like baking a cake tomorrow?

We're having a barbecue thing here this Sunday that's supposed to be sort of Grace's Birthday and sort of Mom's and sort of, um, somebody else's, and sort of just a barbecue - did anybody tell you that yet? So there will be some birthday stuff then, I presume.
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking about maybe making brownies? But you'd have to bring candles. And Sunday works, too. I don't have much present-ish for her ...
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I can do candles.

And I don't have much in the way of presents, either. It's her own fault. (... I don't have much for either of the other birthdays that weekend, either.)
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Will go make brownies!

Yeah, um, me neither. Maybe we should look for stuff tomorrow. d-: At least I already did the wedding present thing!
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[identity profile] melannen.livejournal.com 2006-07-04 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right! Wedding present! Um.
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[identity profile] stellar-dust.livejournal.com 2006-07-03 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
How late can I sleepWhat time do you think you'll be here?