wednesday 1 – reading in an interview with Heather Nova about how she was inspired by the sound on the album “Gold in the Shadow” by William Fitzsimmons. Also how she lived on a boat between ages 10 and 15 years with hippie parents, and now lives in Bermuda away from civilization and near the ocean for peace and inspiration. New album is “The Way it Feels” and the order is important. She gets ideas for tunes whilst out walking and stores them on a phone, perhaps 300 or more at a time, but only a few stand out and can combine to form the melody for a song.

thursday 2 – swim training had focus on endurance, main program was:
2x 25m – left hand with paddle, then right hand with paddle
50m – legs only
400m endurance
repeat – managed to get thru 3, total volume for the evening then was nearing 2km with warm-up

saturday 4 – the BIG birthday
Eve has her friends over starting from about 2pm, meanwhile katie and i are busy cooking/baking, apple crumble, apple sponge (Eve’s pudding) and the chestnut stuffing, which goes down surprisingly well

we get out of the way in the evening going to the strassenfest at am harras, listening to “sentilo sono”, along past stemmerhof and on to the biergarten behind what used to be spektakel

monday 6 – listening to music as an audition with saby and comparing the CD analog output with that from the DAC

tuesday 7 – seeing a quote from work, deborah hosam:
today will never come again;
be a blessing, be a friend;
encourage someone, take time to care;
let your words heal and not wound.

think i got these already, search and check:
The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can’t hope for a fairer match!
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken!
Do something today that your future self will thank you for!
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself!
maybe not this though:
there is always, always something to be thankful for.

wednesday 8 – john chambers:
“we believe in the Internet’s ability to help improve the quality of life and human rights for all people around the world.”
further: “… true value is not in what we make, but in what we make possible.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, led by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948, articulates 30 human rights

In 2011 UN Human Rights Council adopted the Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights, that businesses respect the rights of everyone who may be impacted by their products and operations.
For the internet, refer:
https://www.truste.com/

thursday 9 – checking out some photos from the stadt triathlon:
http://www.speedpic.com/phpgallery/view.php?id=muc15-33958.jpg&event=muenchen15&gal=1150&pg=&count=117

swim training was quite interesting with focus on speed, in same lane as stephan and markus, more or less kept up, main program was:
4x 25m sprints
200m fast
4x 25m sprints
50m slow swim
repeat – managed to get thru 4, total volume for the evening then was over 2km with warm-up

friday 10 – interesting session at work with the telepresence from Berlin:
time is your enemy – sometimes it is better to get going with a hard decision than to wait and hope things turn out better, delaying the decision and subsequent pain

pick up a SZ on the ubahn from 08.07 about the Ausschwitz remembrances in Berlin, eg. from President Joachim Gauck, how too often things repeat themselves, Srebrinca, Rowanda, Iraq and Syria.
The composer, Olivier Messaien wrote a work in 1941 Quartett für das Ende der Zeit, after his experiences.

monday 13 – went to patti smith concert in the evening, review

Patti Smith – Horses

I have to say in advance, I don’t know what to expect since I really don’t know her music, although the album was always around the 6th form common room in my school days, so I’d hoped maybe it would bring back some memories.

Plays all the way through side A, an uncomfortable, blasphemous start, a rural US town and the death of a father, the effect on a boy and a metaphysical experience, building to the crescendo of “G-L-O-R-I-A.”
Shock – Patti spat on stage! Haven’t seen that in how long?
Some smooth songs follow

For side B, she takes a pee break towards the end of the first song, never happened before she assures us.
Songs as tributes to Jim Morisson and Jimi Hendrix either side of the Horses track, a vitriol about man’s incompassion to animals and neglect of the earth, I didn’t know she was so right on message about green issues, so early on.
The album is a good mix of 60s influences and smoothness with the later 70s concept album ideas.

Kicks off the second post-Horses half with a rendition of Psalm 23, perhaps she is playing both camps.

There was a nice jamming song where she and the older guitarist on acoustic guitars, the younger ones on electric guitars take us through long instrumental jamming, twists and turns.
At the intro she talked about how Walthraud Mirer ? the german opera singer inspires her through such long songs.

She carries through the message that rock and roll can change everything towards the end with the great song about Power and the People, encoring with My Generation (badly and forgetting the words) to give us a taste of Glastonbury where they had played this year and encouraging us with all her energy to stand up for ourselves against the capitalist system, power-fed governments and inhuman corporations.

A real rights activist, punk poet and individualist.

Overall, tight playing from the chameleon band – the bass player turns into lead or is he doing rhythm on the les paul, the lead moves off his strat onto bass; the keyboardist moves onto bass and its he who is the bassist, actually also quite a good singer, backing up then taking over from the older singer, who’d been supporting the Horses set, was he part of the original line-up?

and a quote on the statue near the Andescher Tent fits for the evening:
“Solange menschen denken, dass Tiere nicht fühlen, müssen Tiere fühlen, dass Menschen nicht denken.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

Kind of finishes the evening off, meat is murder, especially horse.

thursday 16 – cycled to go swimming for last training before sunday

sunday 19 – karlsfeld triathlon, result:
Altersklassenplatz: 22/

Schwimmen/Einzelzeit: 00:09:58,74 h
Wechsel 1/Einzelzeit: 00:02:21,50 h
Radfahren/Einzelzeit: 00:52:21,31 h
Wechsel 2/Einzelzeit: 00:02:50,96 h
Laufen/Einzelzeit: 00:30:32,16 h

Gesamtzeit: 01:38:04,22 h
Nettozeit: 01:38:04,22 h

maybe some ideas for improving the swimming, snorkel or EVF “loop”:
http://www.finisinc.com/
and for getting fit at cycling:

although this just needs focus within the club and the easter training camp.

thursday 23 – cycled again to swim training, last session before hols, followed by meal at italian

sunday 26 – saw t-short slogan when having breakfast at zöttl’s with katie:
“do something today, which makes a better tomorrow”

eve’s violin performance at frau jonas’ summer concert, as ever a real highlight, even if it seems to get later and later

someone played an irish traditional “the wind that shakes the barley”, but it wasn’t the version I recognised

monday 27 – Andrew Carnegie quote:
“the man who dies rich, dies disgraced”

friday 31 – last day at school for girls