October 17 - In Paradisum


Colder and colder overnight,


but still summering up in the daytime


(206th such day this year,


high


81),


Quiz 9 for the Diablo Valley College Theoreticians


(musical examples drawn from the works of Scott Joplin, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky),


lunch and the lab with Carol,


grading papers,


eventually


a


mad,


mad,


 dash


to


 Marin


 for


standard


maintenance, 


and


 the


bracingly


long


passage


 back,


via


101


north



to


Sonoma


County


and


Petalamua,


116


(including


various


permutations)


and


12


east


in


the


moonlight


of


lower


Napa


Valley's


ridges,


eucalyptus


rows,


bridges,


and


canyons,


to compose page three of Communist Manifesto,


over yet-again-quite-engaging videos.