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Meanwhile, in San Rafael , it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Firm holiday party is in Monterey. Think I might bring the bike down with me. Don’t let a free hotel room go to waste, right? I’m not quite sure I have the legs for this vertical, but I’ll practice on Zwift this week.

It's the start of the Holiday Concert Season at the College of Marin

Saw Mary Fahl last night, I think the 6th time I've seen her (7th if you count October Project in 1995). Wonderful concert, some of her hits, October Project hits, and covers. The whole second set was her adaptation of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, pretty stunning. I think this may have been my favorite show of hers. Got to chat with her and her husband after the show, and also met 3 folks with whom I'll keep in contact ongoing; just some amazingly nice people.

Barber: Adagio for Strings & Violin Concerto - Schuman: In Praise of Shahn & To Thee Old Cause by Leonard Bernstein · New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1971) https://open.qobuz.com/album/oq1lj3jsx8huc Example:

Been in the Seattle - Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) - many times - always enjoyed the building as much as the collections. Here is an exceedingly boring shot.

The war and treaty at the bijou in knoxville

On No Kings day, Claire and I made an exception for Kingfish, aka Christone Ingraham. He's an amazing blues guitarist and a great singer to boot. I was very happy to hear some great blues and if the video works for you, it was a blast when he walked out into the audience while playing and ended up two feet from me. IMG_7503.mov

Ubuntu 25.10 was just released (October 9), too - probably worth upgrading the test system eventually (in my experience, new releases are very buggy for the first 4-6 months) - alternatively, Ubuntu 25.04 or the older 24.04 LTS will be more stable: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu-25-10-new-features And of course, Flatpak doesn't work out of the gate: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/flatpak-broken-ubuntu-25-10-apparmor-bug For what it's worth, I am tech-scared too.

I just upgraded my mom's mini-PC to Win 11 today, with Win 10 ending support this week. You can pay $30 for one more year of security updates, which was my original plan. But then you NEED to create an MS account, and use it to login to your machine. That was a no-go for my tech-scared mom. Upgrade went fine, though. Machine is a bit slower, but it'll hold for a while. I had a little fun with Ubuntu. I got a Celeron-based Chromebox for $25 from a used Electronics store in Maine a few weeks ago. I was able to download & install a new BIOS for it, upped memory and SDD drive ($50 total), and loaded Ubuntu on it. Still a tiny bit slow, so TBD if I'll keep it like that. It was just fun to play with the innards and BIOS of a computer again.....

RIP Martin Parr, photographer of British life https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/07/landmark-british-photographer-martin-parr-dies-aged-73 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2025/dec/07/martin-parr-photographer-career-in-pictures

Frank Gehry will be missed. RIP. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/05/527785250/frank-gehry-dead https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/frank-gehry-dead-guggenheim-bilbao-1234765549/ Two bonuses... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/06/04/your-name-here and

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Man in the High Castle, The Last Emperor, Bond film Licence to Kill, much from the Mortal Kombat franchise, bunch of action movies(!), &c.)