MARK ALBURGER, 2022: May 18

With Yessie,

her

Fairfield office, setting up a supplemental Medicare policy from Western Heath Advantage -- to which I've been allied the last few years, and now costing no additional funds, yet covering shorfalls in doctor / hospital visits + adding dental, prescription, and visual supplements. Yes! And thanks!

Before this,

moving

the

southwesterly

direction

via

I-80,

and

Texas

towards

her

downtown spot.

Thereafter,

'bout

face

freeway,

to embark on the

66th Vacaville Streets expedition,

parking on Nut Tree and

walking it northwest from Arcadia

past

the

Primary

Care

Center (that hero Dr. Kevin Xunan in residence) to

Burton...

on the

77th day of

summer --

high careening up 9 to

101!

Indeed!

New apex for the year and

first to touch the

century mark.

The hours also signify the birthdays of

Omar Khayyam (1048-1131),

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970),

Walter Gropius (1883-1969, along with all his architectural marvels, hopefully reasonably memorialied in

Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232 [2014]),

Meredith Willson (1902-1984),

Joe Turner (1911-1985),

Mark Mothersbaugh (b. 1950), and

Chow Yun-Fat (b. 1955, seen here with co-stars in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [2000], featuring music of Tan Dun, 1957).

the

home front,

establish a new page

on the Works site for

Endgame, Op. 113

(2004, after Samuel Becket, 1906-1989),

edit pages 5-6 of

Viola Concerto ("Felicitations"), Op. 119 (2004)
I. Allegro moderato

and 3rd / final sheet re

Unnatural Acts, Op. 359 (2021)
   IV. The Vision

and do the dreamwork for

Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
     May 17-18
          2am Orchestrated Psalms in a Variety of PDF Forms on Computer...
          3am An Incredibly Dissonantt, Howling Sergei Prokofiev Piece, Heard on Loudspeakers During
              Museum Show, Everyone Millling About in Lines Before Displays...
              Breathing, Scraping, Sculpting...
          5am Re Children's Choir: Another Part of the Congregation Heard THEM!... Bliss...
              Most of the Above Text Is in a Congested Nostril.... Before All This, Giant Airplane,
              Bernie Sanders / Dad, Sneaking On, Seats Are at Right Angles to Each Other, Ultimately,
              All Open Air, Because We're in California... We Have a Great Rendezvous... Kinda....
              The Clandestine Entrance Into Airline Was Necessary, Accomplished Via Diversion and
              Unseen Running...
          8am It Is Time to Run Over an Artificial Spy Pine Cone in Drive-Through Lane of Bank
          9am Architect Female Friend (from Marin Academy w/ 3 Children, including Twins),
              Husband in Back Seat, I Riding Shot Gun, Turn Left from University Avenue on to Morton,
              She Has Great Difficulty Doing So, Car Coming From Left Drives in Left Lane to Avoid Front
              of Car Too Far Out, Successful Turn, Now South on Swarthmore Avenue, Large,
              Nasty Midwest-Style Blue-Purple Thunder Storm, Windshield Is Totally Drenched,
             We Can't See, I Order Her to Slow Down, Apologize for Being Bossy, Visual Re-Established on
              Upper Passenger Side of Window... Hail / Sleet Glistens on All the Bare Deciduous Trees
              (It Was Summer Before Storm)...

All this sometimes in clarion counterpoint to