Up 7:30. Watched a couple of videos in bed (recipe video for a lemon pasta I might make tonight). Worked on show for an hour, 9-10. Read a JA poem cos I hat the time, then kinda spiraled for a couple hours, worked on book noon 3-pm. Not cutting that much from this section, and I need another short graf on “retransitional” lyrics at the end of bridges (e.g. “You Send Me” — “marry you and take you home”), but I am improving and clarifying some things. Took a break for an hour. Finished the show, submitted log and online playlist by about 5:30, so that’s off my mind until around New Year. (Or at least I don’t have to rush to choose the music.)

Bree found the song she wants to do for the Pangea benefit video, “Gee, But I Like Music With My Meals” (Nat D. Ayer/Seymour Brown, 1911). Playable, but I need to take it down a key. Hope I can manage this without entering the whole thing into Sibelius.

Reviewed/updated to-do list. Made some bucatini w/ a lemon + garlic “sauce” from an online recipe I’d been meaning to try. Good, meant to add parsley, could have let liquid cook down a little more - not sure the lemon adds that much to garlic and oil, at least for me. Put on a stream of a holiday program from the Louis Armstrong House Museum, w/ displays of memorabilia (Christmas cards from Nellie Lutcher), a couple of performances (Ethan Iverson, briefly playing Louis’ living room piano), and a tape of Louis reading “The Night Before Christmas” near the end of his life — w/ coughing, etc. that were edited out for the commercial release.

Watched a piano lesson, then practiced - chromatic scales at 108, the furnished “blues etude” in C and D (easy, but it will help me get the scale in rarely-used keys). Played until Bree had to call Ron. (I’m glad I didn’t let the “urgency” of the Pangea song keep me from doing this.) Short walk outside. Crossword. Lights out 11. Felt like enough got done today - still hard to fit in reading.