on the train home
I’ve spent the relentlessly rainy morning getting ID cards, usernames and passwords for various libraries in Edinburgh. Going to a new music library for the first time can leave me a bit dizzy from all the possibilities on the shelves. But at least today I didn’t try to visit special collections at the university as well, or for that matter the rare books department of the NLS.  I very nearly did, but I noticed just in time that although I did have a laptop, pen and notebook with me, I didn’t actually have a pencil or any music MS paper, so I wouldn’t have been able to leave with very much useful information.  But I’d only set myself the task of registering today so that’s just fine.

later
A reorganisation of computer resources is underway to make the most of my new laptop. All the music software is running a treat, which is more than can be said for my more ergonomic but now overburdened desktop PC. The hour spent a few months ago recording Alison making strange thumping and creaking noises with her cello is about to pay off, as the noises are now finally beginning to find themselves spread across a sampler.

Meanwhile, I have some light reading from Nicholas Gurewitch and Mark Newgarden. OK, it's not light reading, but it does have pictures in it.