The feelings I get from pushing myself to keep on keeping on is mildly interesting to me. I got three main projects going other than eating, sleeping, and taking the prescription medicine per the doctor's orders. I may have missed a turn eith the pills yesterday. By the time I figured it out, it was time for the next dose, so I just shined it on.
Doing the AppleScript tutorial is important to me. It's also pressing. I got time limitations on how long I can get to the for-profit tutorial without paying $23 a month. The $23 a month, however, if I read the hype correctly, allows the payee to use any of the tutorials they publish and offer the online version for.
After I stumbled on the 45-day for free offer and signed up, my youngest brother told me he participates on-line with a tutorial site. I don't know if it's the same one or not. Presently, I'm only interested in learning AppleScript, but it can be the portal to the more sophisticated coding languages. I think if I learn what I can of AppleScript and some of the residuals that go along with it, I'm be happy with this effort.
I stopped after finishing Chapter 4 last night. I was driving myself to get through to at least Page 200 of over 800 pages, but I got to the end of Chapter three sooner than I expected, and shut down for the night. I think I have at least forty more days on the trial offer, and I hope to finish at least the first twelve chapters ere then.
Simultaneous to studying AppleScript I'm progressing with teaching myself to play the piano. I practiced the 48 Chord deal I copied off the internet. I copied the two-note chords one-by-one by starting and stopping the youtube video that had all the notes written as sheet music, but what I printed up by hand wasn't all that legible. I can read it if I keep looking for the right symbols, but then I couldn't remember from one playing to the next if I had chosen the right piano keys with the correct finger.
That was probably just an excuse to reframe the whole copying process to present to me the content in a way that worked best for me. After exploring several layouts I decided for using block letters separated by a forward slash laid out in a serial fashion so that I can look up and with a glance check to see if I'm pressing the right piano keys.
It's important to me to play something in all twelve keys to go along with playing all the major and minor scales. Eventually, I'll add the pentatonic scales to the major and minor scales. The new instruction book I bought at Books A'Million the other day has already been useful, and will probably prove to be a wise purchase. For the first thing, it's got a single page layout of the Circle of Fifths with only a brief paragraph at the top of the page to explain how it works in both directions. Like a natal astrology chart. Twelve signs. Twelve houses. Twelve piano keys. Twelve Disciples. It's all a wonderful game. I understand the logic of base-10, but like God, base-12 will never go away.
I'm actually too excited to start associated the Circle of Fifths to the Zodiac presently. My visualization of the zodiac and all the signs and houses and my fairly sophisticated understanding of the aspects and other astrological devices and symbols is locked in pretty tight. I haven't made many natal charts over the last decade or so, but the images are like Prego Spaghetti Sauce, "It's all in there!"
The proof of the pudding with my musical efforts on the piano is to play not from written music, but from the way I interpret what I perceived non-sensorially before it has be transfigured from existent abstract ideations into physical dimension objects. My goals for playing the piano are no different from what they are in writing this blog and the e-mails I exchange with complete strangers. I wanna capture drifting thoughts with sound rather than graven images. Which means, of course, that I still won't know how to read sheet music. It's not the music teachers I'm attempting to get a good grade from.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
