MARK ALBURGER, 2022: April 1

Well, Harriet and I perhaps should have known better on such a day...

3 months ago, we filled out Social Security application online, successfully.
Soon after, received email to call a certain number, which which we did, and left message.
Never receiving a return phone call, we've called probably on average once each week.
Have written several return emails, the robot response has been "call this number."
We go down to the Suisun City S.S. office (February 14 -- Valentines Day!),
     only to find it closed (we were just shy of catching the open door as we depart).
We call the appointment number posted, and receive a busy signal.

Now, almost 2 months later, same cyclical nightmare deal,
     only this time graced by a stoic security guard at the door.
"Make an appointment, use this phone number.."
     Which we call in his presence and receive another busy signal.

Online reviews are understandably quite poor.
The next appointmentl, one supposes, should be with congressperson, newsmedia, President...

The hours start hopeful enough, successfully making an appointment vis a vis Medicare at

Community Medical Center,

then

lateral

the tax folks for an assignation there as well,

then

onward to

additional

errands

and

down

look-see at the further Pony Express route through Fairfield.

This is where the fortune turns -- the parking situation seems inauspicious,

so we proceed back to the freeway a not-very-fast-but-

scenic-way,

then round about hardly-terribl- efficiently to

Suisun --

which, while it directly abuts the larger city to its north, is pretty much effectively cut off from same due to expressway and railroad.

Time to give it up,

back

north to petrol and further prospects,

winding

Lyon

homeward,

the

38th day of spring,

high up 3 to 79

locally, and in Fairfield.

Amazingly, April Fool's Day has also been considered the date of the first Maundy Thursday, here depicted in The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955) by

Salvador Dali (1904-1988, whose Christ of St. John of the Cross dates from 4 years previous), and rather more definitely the birthdays of

Ferruccio Busoni (18663-1924),

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943),

William Bergsma (1921-1994, who taught at

The University of Washington for many years),

Grace Lee Whitney, 1930-2015, who clearly had a

life beyond

Star Trek, 1966), and

Rachel Maddow (b. 1973).

Additionally a good interval for partially updating the Works site vis a vis

Babe Ruth, Op. 66 (the last work placed on IMSLP before the Hospital Incident, last Ides of September),

getting close to finishing the parts for

Three George Crumb Tropes, Op. 392 (2022), from The Decameron: Fifth Day, Op. 247 (2015)
   Novel VII. Pietro Teodoro, being enamoured of Violante, daughter of Messer Amerigo,
             his lord, gets her with child, and is sentenced to the gallows (Black Angels [1970]: I-V, VII, X)

by extracting the Viola part, and delving into the further madness of

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
      March 31 - April 1
          3am Well, I'm Blown Away / Bowled Over / Dashed...
          4am One Word. Two. One.... Here's Your Dissertatiion. It's a Book! It's Very Nice. Thank You!
          8am Sassy, a Bit Rowdy, but Quite Bright Elementary School Music Theory Students,
               I Do Dictation a la First Two Measures of Tanz from Orff Camino Real But - 4/4 Four
               Quarter Cs, 3/8 3 8th Notes C D B, No Desks, They Sit On Floor,
               Only Whiteboard Is Very Small One Atop a Narrow But Tall Cabinet with
               Writing Area Propped on Top, I Leap Up It Every Time, and
               There Is Always a Black Marking Pen Available, We All Have to Draw 5-Line Staves,
               We Count Beats on Fingers and Sing...
          9am Central / South American Rules on Zoom, Dealing with Geometry... Interdict Interstices....

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