Up for a while at 5 or 6 - put on an audiobook of Dōgen. Up for real at 10, worked noon to 2 or 3, mainly on current section, not quite there, but got a little tired of it and also looked at the next long section on Adorno - cut a couple hundred words w/ no harm. Actually might have trailed off around 4. Watched another piano lesson and practiced — played “Stella By Starlight” which I’ve somehow never dealt with. Nice changes, I can see why players like it — its in Eb but starts on Emb5, which is probably really working as a Gm6; still, it’s unusual to have a note not in the tonic key in the first chord of a tune. Then did my scales - coordination improving at slightly faster tempo, and blues-scale exercises in E (works well) and F# (much harder to remember or use at this point). Went over week’s grocery order’s w/ Bree. Then spent maybe 45 min-hr. working on the benefit song. Made a chord chard a step down and more or less learned to play from it. Couple of interesting touches in the song — chorus starts on the dominant, there’s are “Maple Leaf” diminished passages, and both sections are 20 bars.

Took a break, had a bite (we haven’t really been cooking the last few days, just catch as catch can), watched 20 min. of a Bob Hope/Virginia Mayo movie w/ Bree, then rehearsed the song together for 1/2 and hr. — basically learning the melody and rhythms. Tricky, but made some progress. Sunday Crossword, took about 45 min. Lights out midnight, tried to listen to a leftist philosophy podcast but absolutely hated it, switched to a Dorothy L. Sayers audiobook.