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Joplin – Note taking App
Just installed Joplin which is a note taking application that can be run on Windows 7 (using an older version 12.2.5) and Linux. You synchronize your content among workstation using Nextcloud. So you can paste in ChatGPT chats, pictures, Excel Sheet tables and you have a rich featured notebook.
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How Classical Music Changed My Life
My scrapbook has this nugget – the Los Angeles County classical music radio station KFAC’s advertisement. I haven’t been listening to KFAC since moving from Pasadena in the 1990s; have I reverted?
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The return of PRESTO
My 1969 TR-6, license plate “PRESTO”, has been sitting in the garage since September, 2021, after an unsuccesful attempted theft. The villains broke into the garage and had hot-wired the car, carefully extracting from the front console the key that activates the starter, but they could not get the car out of the garage because…
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August Harvest 2024
I planted crabapple Malus domestica ‘Dogo’ in 2019 and this is the 2024 harvest: The hops hanging from the candy dish Juli nurtured and arranged with the hydrangeas. They will be transformed into crabapple jelly which has a very delicate flavor, yet different from apple jelly.
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It Has Risen
My sourdough starter died due to a malfunction of the Brod & Taylor Sourdough Starter Home which overheated. I have a replacement now, but still working through the loss of my sourdough starter. One correspondent who also experienced such a loss expressed her condolences and shared her hope which I duly acknowledged. (Acknowledgment of condolences…
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Pups
Our two dogs, Winnie, the golden retriever, and Josie, the Bernese Mountain dog. Both are female, enjoy long walks, romping around, and pan fried leftover sourdough starter. Winnie is my music partner as she sings to the last movement of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony “Pastorale” which I play a Franz Liszt arrangement of on the piano.…
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Inaugural Post
This page is the inaugural posting documenting that this blog commenced March 21, 2024.