Today’s highlights:
- I prepared Three Songs for Maarten:
- Ave Maria by Franz Beibl
- Beati Quorum Via by Charles Villiers Stanford
- Ye Shall Have a Song by Randall Thompson
- I went to Food Lion for my father and to Harris-Teeter for my mother.
- My sister is sick and wanted me to buy her a thermometer. So I also went to Walgreen’s, a different Harris-Teeter, CVS, Walmart, another CVS and a different Walgreen’s. Yes, 8 stores in one day. (She did not have a fever.)
- I went for a walk in the early evening.
- Brahms: Lieder & Songs, Op 63 (#7-9)
- Brahms: 9 Songs, Op 69
- Brahms: 4 Songs, Op 70
- Brahms: 5 Songs, Op 71
- Brahms: 5 Songs, Op 72 (#1-2)
Today’s ice cream: Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy
Today’s beer: Haychaser Kolsch from Pitt Street Brewing in Greenville and Festival Express from Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem, NC.
Today’s pet peeve: Why are people panic-buying thermometers? Don’t people already have thermometers?
Word of the day: Gratuitous
Stuck in NC 