Looks like I'm getting back to a schedule more like I kept when I was coaching. A 4am wake up wasn't planned but I don't mind it. I don't really differentiate weekends from weekdays anymore.
Good morning all.
Confession.
Time to completion using Claude.ai to solve my Django Admin tagging issue: Longer than I hoped.
Time to completion without Claude's help: ∞
Well it took most of the morning, but I was able to implement a better way of adding and editing tags for posts in the Django admin. Used the Select2 library loaded from a cdn. Will try doing it with the Django-Select2 package next.
The use of the word 'like' in every phrase uttered by these two student radio DJs has the effect of numbing my ears.
I imagine being buried in a snowfall of the word until nothing in the aural landscape is discernible. My fingers remain warm.
Good morning Micro.blog and Mastodon! It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day here in Lawrence, KS. Hump day! All easier from here on out!
This morning's breakfast. You can have some too!
A New York Morning in Kansas. 69° here in Lawrence this morning. I love going out on my little back porch and being reminded of boyhood mornings in Chautauqua, NY.
Our family would vacation at Chautauqua Lake. I would be out early looking for nightcrawlers to go fishing with. A very happy memory triggered by this morning's cool air.
Bill Evans (1929-1980)
It's been forty-four years since Bill Evans passed. Would it be naive to think in all that time there has been no one to surpass him in the art of jazz piano improvisation? We have seen Keith Jarrett's improvisational virtuosity and McCoy Tyner's muscular strides through a set of chord changes. We've seen more structurally cerebral players manipulate and experiment with the limits of aural legitimacy, testing out what our ears and brains are willing process as music. Countless great players deserving of our attention.
But for sheer lyricism? As I listen to Evans this morning, I have the sensation that his exploration of melody will leave me deeply satisfied. As if he were saying, "This is a beautiful melody. Let me show you the possibilities it contains while still letting it remain itself. That will be my gift."
Happy Birthday to the great Art Pepper. (1925-1982)
Here he is on his signature tune Straight Life.
From my state. Somebody's gotta do it.
How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism.