some things make a post

[kaberett]

• I am slowly and tentatively in another patch of practising the horn at all. It's much harder on days when I'm going into lab (surprise!) but I did get five minutes in today. Slowly working my way back up; currently on the first two canonical Warm-Up Exercises & finding that my face thinks that much concerted playing is Quite Enough, Thanks, but tone and accuracy are improving and I'm rediscovering things I'm supposed to be doing with lips and tongue and teeth and breathing.
  
• I spent a bunch of this afternoon (around some slightly tedious labwork) finalising edits to the manuscript. Tomorrow I'm back in lab again for more things that need babysitting for 20 minutes at a time and then leaving for a short age, so maybe I will make some progress on submitting it. (Or at least finding out how many of the figures I want to wrangle A Lot More in the process of submission.)
  
• I had my most what's-the-difference-between-a-USB-cable-and-IKEA-furniture experience with the latter yet this evening. It's particularly galling that we had to turn it over three times because it's not even the first time we've reconstructed this piece of furniture and, well, one sort of hopes one might learn, eh.
  
• I made a tomato-based pasta sauce on Saturday. It was Kind Of Dubious. This evening I discovered that that the reason for this was that, instead of the half-bag of sweet basil I'd meant to put in, I'd carefully chiffonaded half a bag of Thai basil. Which, well, explains a lot, and also means I have a whole bag of sweet basil to use up. (It is okay there are lots of things I can make. <3)
  
• Tomorrow morning's experiment with breakfast bread is: I have been in lab A Fair Bit (actually, I should probably write this up), so this batch of dough has been fermenting away to itself in the fridge for about 48 hours at this point. Is there any gluten left? Will it rise? Is breakfast going to be a disaster? Tune back in etc.

Comments

[kaberett]

(it's okay in despite of the tag I am in fact At Home and On My Sofa, which I should peel myself back off in the interests of actually getting the bread going)

[jesse_the_k]

Presto Pesto!

[oracne]

Hooray for brass!

[vass]

That is frustratingly relatable re the Ikea furniture/USB cable commonality.

And excellent re the horn practice and the nearly-done manuscript.

Luck with bread!

[sylvaine]

Music practice! How exciting! I hope to one day have the spoons again to practice flute - the other month I dug it out and was horrified to realise I didn't remember half the fingering!

Ooh, good luck with the bread experiment! Let us know the results!

[kaberett]

Bread turned out well! Good flavour good shape reasonable rise. Considering attempting to let it become tall on the side then put it to bed in the fridge.

I have an orchestra that rehearses during term time and EVERY TERM I'm all "I would enjoy this more if I were in better technical shape" & so... I'm Trying

[halojedha]

Horn practice hurrah! It's galling how quickly the face gets sore after time off, isn't it? Luckily bread is highly therapeutic.

[jedusor]

I have recently fallen madly in love with a bassoonist, and after a good decade and a half of not really being around musical instruments (and never really having been around the orchestral kind) watching them practice has been kind of reminding me of your old LJ posts about playing music. (they are also big on accumulating interesting-looking rocks, and they're nonbinary, so it's possible I have a Type lol)

[kaberett]

... :D I am DELIGHTED for you.