Happy belated birthday to Carter. 53. And to Kent.25.

I'm sitting in the beach house. Mrs. G is gone shopping and it is quiet except for the ocean waves (wait that would be the dishwasher). As great as this house is, the dishwasher is 3rd class. We've got to get one of the quiet kind and right away. We bought one last year and sold it with the old house. What dopes! But the beach house with all it's windows is a terrific place to "while away the hour." There is a little green skink watching me from outside.

My room had a number installed yesterday. All this time with no number, 10 years, and now suddenly the chorus room is room 94. Hardly a number I would have picked for myself. I'm trying to think how to relate that to chorus somehow. I wonder why is doesn't just have a sign that says chorus room. Let's see, Mozart died in 1791. (Oooo that makes 2006 the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth and the 215th anniversary of his death). Purcell died in 1695. Brahms died in 1897. Copland died in 1990. Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, but he was strictly an amateur musician. Gershwin was born in 1898. Almost a match. Schubert was born in 1797. Bach's father, Johann Christoph died in 1695. Very close. More thought is going to be required. '94?

FYI Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman.