#2308: Wednesday, July 24: Playing the right note

Post 2308

- 8 years and 205 days since I started this blog -

  

Daily Comment

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. - Miles Davis

True in music, true in life, I think.

The next thing you do takes into account the thing you just did - it's the movement in time.

You can only change what you do in the present. It's what you do that, ultimately, determines the value, the correctness, of what you did.

If, in the present, you do the kind thing, I believe you can right wrongs.

I feel grateful that I've been putting this into practice as best I can.

I am so far from perfect about it. Even feeling the way I feel, that it is the best way, I fail as often as I succeed. Or maybe more often.

Tonight I accompanied, on bass guitar, a guitarist who was tuned a half-step down, on some songs I knew that he played in other keys. I'm pretty good at instant transposing, but it was hard.

When we finished the first one, he said (into the mic): "Give it up for Reverend Ken. Not only am I tuned down a half-step, but I play the song in a weird key, and he didn't miss a note."

I shook my head, and told him, "No, there were wrong notes, but I fixed them all. Like Miles said to."

Food and Diet 

Today's Weight:                    198.6 lbs.

Previous Weight (7/23/19):         200.6 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     - 2.0 lbs.

Diet Comment

After seven straight days at the same weight, and a less-than-on-plan day of food, the pending loss has finally caught up with me. I'm nicely below the trend line and happy about it. 

Food Log

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
8:00pm, at the Listening Room:

Southwest Pannini (smoked turkey, chipotle mayo, bacon and jalapeno cayenne cheddar on Pasta's stretch bread).

Dinner
12:45am: Manchego cheese and walnuts, a hamburger with fried onions and peppers, brussel sprouts, and a Quest bar.

Liquid Intake

   Espressos: 1;   Coffee: 10 oz.;  Water: 76+ oz.; a Jameson's Irish whiskey, neat.

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