Dad jokes rule.

 My daughter has been away (Nelson) for work and said, regarding getting to work this morning, "I won't be rushin'."

I asked her if she would be Ukranian.

Robert laughs.

Our electricity is supposedly being turned off this morning and will be (could be) off until 5pm. Thank goodness that the three instruments I practise are all acoustic (trumpet, violin, double bass). Imagine if I was still practising bass guitar! 

Shelley and I intend to spend time in Wellington. They have coffee there, and heating. 

Robert's mate, whose name is similar to Tent Horn, tells us that il papa has fucked up again.

Evidently, he said something to the effect that there is only one god and that other religions sort of believe in the same entity. The guy whose name sounds like Tent was not impressed. Use the LINK on this blog (Tent Horn) to get to Rob's blog and check it out. Sounds like the Catholics might be squabbling among themselves.

I did two hours of practice yesterday - one hour on double bass and one on violin (which included half an hour on Project Violin 100). I also did about ten minutes on the trumpet. My goal is to do two hours (almost) every day. On both the string instruments I include practice on what I consider to be 12 vital things (especially for playing jazz). These 12 vital things include playing over m7b5 chords, a Coltrane diminished run, ways of using the rising form of the melodic minor scale over dominant 7th. chords and playing certain scales in all keys. 

I also do about ten minutes on the trumpet every day.

That's it from me for this morning.

Ciao tutti.