Tuesday... Dies Irae. Dress rehearsal tonight for the Exultate concert on Friday. Today I find out if last week's Wednesday night session at Christopher's helped or not.

It's raining today, but that's ok... It was quite hot all last week, and although it cooled down on the weekend it stayed sunny. The rain is a nice break for the grass and the flowers. Plus it sets us up for a nice weekend next weekend (we hope). This past weekend was a blast!

Friday I went to St. Thomas' to hear John Tuttle play a programme of Duruflé, which was amazing... He did the whole recital -- 1 1/2 hours of complex organ music -- from memory. Simply incredible.

Saturday I was rudely awakened early in the morning (8:45, but it's a Saturday, dammit) by the upstairs neighbours who apparently decided that the crack of dawn (well, 8:45) is the appropriate time to fire up the ol' rotary band saw. This lasted for two hours, ruining a perfectly good opportunity to sleep in. At about 11am they finally tired of hammering and banging and (presumably) went to sleep, just after I gave up on the rest of mine and had trudged off to have a shower.

Saturday afternoon improved mightily. Dave and I biked down to St. Lawrence Market and picked up some HUGE steaks. Then we went home and played various games for the afternoon until the rest of the group--Molly and Michael, anyway, Patrick came later from work--showed up. Then the grill went on, the steaks went on the grill, mushrooms were sautéd, green peppers were roasted, bread was toasted... yum. Summertime rules!

Sunday was equally fine. We did Palestrina's Missa Brevis at church, one of the best pieces of music ever composed IMHO. Sunday afternoon I messed around on the computers for a while (for a change, eh?). I had some difficulty removing Microsoft Office from my old PC (damn thing wouldn't UNINSTALL without the installation CD's, duh!) but eventually cleared it off (more room for games, yay!) Then I installed the Firearms mod for Half-life, which is a complicated team warfare mod, lots of fun. Pete and Dave came round and we played some WWII Fighters and the rest of the weekend wound down in like fashion.

Stuff to do: finish packaging my tax organizer to go to Arthur Andersen so they can file my U.S. taxes for me, call the cabinet maker who was supposed to be working on my kitchen design, figure out my schedule for the next couple of weeks, and get more sleep and exercise... As always!
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