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rejectomorphAfter a couple of hours of hassling with Safeway's web site I managed to order a bunch of stuff that cost more than I expected and probably won't be sufficient once the substitutions are made and other things are just abandoned for being unavailable. No, it didn't get picked up Friday. By the time I was done all the pickup slots have been taken, so it will be picked up this afternoon. I'm hoping to be sufficiently rested by the time I have to put all the crap away. One would think that having the shopping tasks spread out over two days would leave me somehow better off, but onw would be wrong. I was as exhausted Friday as I would have been had the pickup been done that day as well as the ordering, and I expect the same will be true today. It's not the labor that tires me. It's the entire, stressful process itself. Shopping. What an asspain!
Here's what I've been listening to to calm down. I love Albeniz (1860-1909) and I love solo piano. The late 19th century, when this piece was written, was not a great time in most of the world, but it was at least a hopeful one in the European world, which was enjoying not only the late fruits of empire but the rising expectations of the industrial age. Many of the artifacts of that time have a timeless calm that probably speaks more to the world the artists envisioned for the future, or imagined from a mythical past, than the one in which they actually lived. That the Tango in D has survived and still carries that calm is a tribute to what the artists of the fin de siècle period really accomplished.
Here's what I've been listening to to calm down. I love Albeniz (1860-1909) and I love solo piano. The late 19th century, when this piece was written, was not a great time in most of the world, but it was at least a hopeful one in the European world, which was enjoying not only the late fruits of empire but the rising expectations of the industrial age. Many of the artifacts of that time have a timeless calm that probably speaks more to the world the artists envisioned for the future, or imagined from a mythical past, than the one in which they actually lived. That the Tango in D has survived and still carries that calm is a tribute to what the artists of the fin de siècle period really accomplished.
