I've been having a really lazy day today. I got up at 6, went back to bed 'til 9, went back to bed again at 10 and woke up for the final time at 11.

I worked on cleanup up a scan of a newspaper article published about my grandfather's birthday. He turned 97 in May. 6 of his brothers and sisters were at the party - the youngest was 83. Only one of my g'gpa's 8 children has passed on.

I'm still ripping music--I'm over 6 days of music according to iTunes. Right now I'm scanning in a 13 disc compilation of a recording of the entire Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Wagner. According to the liner notes it's a full performance of the entire opera done live recorded an act at a time in 1953. I've had the disks for about 20 years and still haven't listened to it all.

I ordered my first commission this past week from an artist I'm watching. He showed me a first draft yesterday and I can't wait to see the finished work.

Bill