After last night's title involving the Arab Translator, I've got nothing that can top that tonight.

[weaktwos]

I now understand what people say about listening to classical music on a good sound system. Finding a coupon in my email this morning for Border's Books, I went over and bought a disc of Ravel's work by conducter Paavo Jarvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. I had brought along my classical music collection to assist me in choosing arrangements. Sure enough, Borders had none of them.

Bastards. So I got the CD with the cutest guy on the cover. Anyway, this disc is sounding quite lovely. It includes Pavane for a Dead Princess, La Valse, Empress of the Pagodas (one of my favorites), and Bolero. I've been wanting a copy of Bolero. Sure it's popular, but it's sexy. What can you expect from a 5 foot tall composer named Maurice?

Oddly, he never married, and seemed to love children. I'll leave it to scarcrest to find out how much he "loved" children.

I also purchased Mozart's Requiem, but I have yet to listen to it.

Today I purchased a pedometer at work. I lost my old one. This one is fairly nifty and easy to use. I walked 6089 steps today since 1pm when I acquired the pedometer. I guess the goal is to get up to 10,000 per day. This will include my workouts. It will be interesting to see how many steps I take during the course of my work day.

I'm thinking of taking a network job that came up at work. The down side: it's overtime exempt. The upside: I could come and go as I please, as long as I take care of business. And, being exempt means that for any errands I run leaving campus, I don't have to claim annual leave for that. On the one hand, I would hate to lose that overtime. On the other hand, I would learn something new (data networking in more detail than I currently do), and more flexibility. Hmmmm.

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Just doing a quick look...

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia's entry mentions that he never married, but it adds that he "did have several long-running relationships" and that he was reported to frequent bordellos. It mentions nothing at all about children, so I don't know.

That doesn't set my Spidey-senses tingling. It sounds more like he was your basic tomcat.

[lavenderjones.livejournal.com]

Have you ever listened to The Fall Of The House Of Usher by The Allen Parsons Project? Fabulous! And you can't do better than Bach!

[clemidia.livejournal.com]

So I got the CD with the cutest guy on the cover.

Classic--al!

Are you sure you're not blond?