Being a collection of thematically-unrelated thoughts gathered together in a single blog post.

Item: I am having Brian over tonight to record some rough demo tracks, as a first step in attempting to produce an album for him. This should be interesting.

Item: I had a lousy dream the other night—my long-time friend and one-time bandmate Wilder Schmaltz had died. It was the sort of dream where this was simply a fact, so assumed and unquestioned—the man was simply dead, not dying, not just-died: dead—that it took a while, in the dream, before my mind really processed it. And about the time I started to despair the death of my friend, I woke up.

Item: I spent some time sketching on the Palm I have leased, as it were, from Dan; but to my frustration, I discovered this morning that the person who programmed the drawing app I have been using did not ever get around to programming an export application for it. What good are a bunch of drawings on a PDA if one cannot remove them? I have two obvious options: use a Palm Emulator to run the program on my PC and take screenshots—this is easy, but tedious. Or I could write a program that reads the database of the drawing program and creates image files on the PC automatically—difficult, but elegant.

Or, of course, I might just use a different goddam drawing program.

Item: I think the approach of spring is messing with my sleep patterns.