1. I start my weekdays off listening to Colleen Wheelahan's classical music program on SiriusXM on the Symphony Hall channel. I have the channel on all through the night at a low volume. Wheelahan comes on the air at 3 a.m. PST, and I usually wake up enough to turn the volume up a bit around five or so and by seven or eight o'clock, her show has my full attention.
Today, my peaceful morning of symphonies, concerti, sonatas, choral music, fantasias, and more got interrupted.
My SiriusXM app crapped out.
I marshalled all my patience and went to work. Was this a problem larger than my app on my phone? What steps might I take to get the app functioning again? I checked things out at downfinder.com. No nationwide outage. I watched a video about this particular app going down and what to do. I followed the instructions the video laid out. Still on the blink.
My last attempt involved uninstalling the app and installing it again.
It didn't work at first, but eventually -- and I don't remember what I did that might have helped it -- the app kicked in.
It was worth the time and effort and I maintained my patient cool.
Sidenote: I had a weird mental blooper happen before the app crapped out.
I was working the Wordle puzzle and made a guess that left me with _AGER. The letters AGER were all yellow/gold, meaning the letters were correct, but not in the right place.
Somehow, in a moment of confusion which I experienced as perfect clarity, I treated the letters as being green. Correct letters. Correct places. So, I thought, all I needed to do was come up the right consonant to go in the first slot -- WAGER, CAGER, GAGER -- I couldn't figure out why not one of them solved the puzzle -- and then I figured it out -- I was treating yellow/gold letters as green ones.
I didn't solve the puzzle, needless to say.
I laughed. Shook my head. Confessed my embarrassment to Carol and Christy.
And I moved on, unruffled, even when my SiriusXM app wouldn't work.
2. Later in the day, using my fully functional Louisville Public Media app, I listened to much of the afternoon show Colleen Wheelahan hosts on KUOL and then listened to today's installment of "Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin".
It's symphony week on McGlaughlin's program this week and this evening's episode focused on the gorgeous work of Felix Mendelssohn.
I'm thinking that I might have a three dimensional deep dive in progress, adding Mendelssohn to Beethoven and Brahms.
3. I added to the deep pleasure all this music gave me by fixing a green curry for dinner.
After a long and not deliberate hiatus, I returned tonight to an old favorite: EGGPLANT!
If any of you happen to be longtime readers of this blog, you might remember that I cooked frequently with eggplant when we lived in Greenbelt, MD.
But, here in Kellogg, I didn't continue that delightful Maryland preoccupation.
Tonight, though, I stir fried eggplant, yams, tofu, and Thai wheat noodles in the wok, made a green curry sauce, and poured the sauce over what I cooked in the wok.
I ate this curry in a bowl like a soup or a stew and I'm determined to check the produce section reguarly for eggplant and get it back into my rotation of meals.
I am very happy I have some of this curry left over and I'll be wanting even more of it in the future.
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