I would like to apologize for my last blog entry which I wrote at the end of a particularly demanding week. I typically check any jaded thoughts regarding the organizations that pay my bills. ;-)
Another melt is upon us in the mountains. EV and I had a walk down to the mailbox the other day and she insisted on putting her rubber boots to the ultimate test: She walked the entire 1/8th of a mile in the streamlet along the road that appears during the many late winter thaws that we experience here. I insisted on photographing the rocks and water.
Mrs. D kindly noted a while back that my photographs look rather lifeless when viewed on a PC but much more saturated, contrasty, and realistic on the Mac. Looking at both, I have to agree (all the posts are made from the Mac.) So, I have a working hypothesis: The poor people in Redmond, Washington scarcely endure the issues associated with 300 days per year of overcast skies and those pains are reflected in their products. The happy people in Cupertino, California, on the other hand, enjoy somewhere around 300 days a year of sunshine. Think about it. I bet if I ran a multiple regression model with Cupertinoans and Redmondians that the hypothesis would bear out.
Oh, and I have to write about my valentines day gift from Mrs. D--Tommy Igoe's Groove Essentials DVD! Tommy Igoe is this great drummer from NYC that leads a big band and composes the percussion scores for broadway shows. He's very versatile and put together this instructional DVD with something like 50 grooves on it. I've been working on a 16th note rock groove with some nice syncopation. How do I get my music into this blog thingy?
Actually, you don't want to hear it yet--just ask Mrs. D, or CJ3, or Lucy, or EV, Mr P, or Sijbrich, or China Kat. Mimi thinks my drumming is rad, though.