April 30 – ring topology

concerns network wise
ring topology spanning
the calamari

Based on an actual email I got while working out the problems adding a new machine to the corporate network.

Of the many concentrations in the Information Technology field, Network Architecture is truly the dark side.

So a programmer is on his way home from work and his wife asked to stop at a grocery store.

“Get a loaf a bread”, she said, “and if they have eggs, get a dozen.”

Programmer gets home, gets inside and says to his wife, “They had eggs”, and sets down 12 loaves of bread. (or is it 13?)

April 29 – horrific, undiscovered

We all enter this
horrific, undiscovered
space. Monday morning!

Every other day, every other day
Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
But whenever Monday comes, but whenever Monday comes
A-you can find me cryin´ all of the time

Songwriters: John Edmund Andrew Phillips Monday Monday lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

April 28 – Say all you should say

Say all you should say
Say it loud and say it clear
Let the whole world hear

Adapted from the song I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free written by Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas. Taylor’s original version (as “I Wish I Knew”) was recorded on November 12, 1963, and released on his Right Here, Right Now! album (Capitol ST-2039) the following year. (Wikipedia)

Possibly the best known recorded version is by Nina Simone which I enjoy but I did find a wonderful instrumental arranged by Don Shirley (with one of the best bass rip/intros ever), the concert pianist portrayed in the movie The Green Book.

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
I wish I could break all the chains holding me
I wish I could say all the things that I should say
Say ’em loud, say ’em clear
For the whole round world to hear

I wish I could share all the love that’s in my heart
Remove all the bars that keep us apart
I wish you could know what it means to be me
Then you’d see and agree
That every man should be free

I wish I could give all I’m longing to give
I wish I could live like I’m longing to live
I wish that I could do all the things that I can do
Though I’m way overdue I’d be starting anew

Well I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I found I could fly
Oh I’d soar to the sun and look down at the sea
And I’d sing cos I’d know that
And I’d sing cos I’d know that
And I’d sing cos I’d know that
I’d know how it feels to be free
I’d know how it feels to be free
I’d know how it feels to be free

April 27 – go forward smiling

go forward smiling
grandchildren’s art on the fridge
kickstart your wakeup

Azaria overheard Grammy saying she needed a semi-formal dress for a June Wedding in Memphis and designed this dress for her. I was then added for balance. A small self portrait completed the work.

I remember walking through the National Gallery in Washington, DC and spotting
Renoir’s Girl with a Watering Can through a doorway and I tripped.

Seeing this work of art on the Fridge each morning has the same type of impact. Forced by means beyond my ken to stop and look and smile and feel better of the day that I am starting.

I recommend it as therapy or as a mood changing prescription for all.

PS – the Easter photos of Jaxon and Essence and family don’t hurt either.

April 26 – Mozart not been

Had Mozart not been …
Lesser world, I think, but how?
Just glad he was here!

I will tell you that had I been able to write or compose the opening notes of Mozart’s Piano sonata 11, just the opening notes, the first 8 bars or whatever that play and then repeat (Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 – I. Andante grazioso,)I feel I could die a happy man.

That that accomplishment would be enough for me.

To top it all off, I will tell you that it wouldn’t matter if anyone knew I had written it or not as long as it was part of the human collective experience.

I like to imagine this when I feel the frustration of life and work and and overall lack of fulfillment.

Not sure what I want or wanted to accomplish with my life.

I know I am not going to compose any music.

If Mozart had not been born and not left us the library of his composition, would the world notice?

If we never had Mozart, how would we notice he was not there?

Still I will persist and accept and say that the world would have been a lesser place without Mozart.

I am not going to argue the point.

I am not going to try and compose any music.

I am just going to listen to Mozart and the Sonata #11 anytime I want to and enjoy it.