Tonight I had dinner with some dear friends, who know both me and my soon-to-be-ex-wife well.
Author: erin
Erin Vang, PMP, BMus, MMus, is Owner and Principal Pragmatist of the consultancy Global Pragmatica LLC®, offering custom JMP scripting, localization program management, and facilitative leadership services. She is also an orchestral horn player who freelanced in the San Francisco Bay Area and played assorted brass for the celebrated dance bands Midnight Smørgåsbord and contraPtion. She now conducts all her nefarious activities from Vanghalla, in Helena, Montana, where she's principal hornist of the Helena Symphony. More about Erin…
daily kaddish: because it’s what we do
Today’s Kaddish is another whose only theme, really, is that this is what we do during our year.
daily kaddish: horn, text, and chant
I absent-mindedly starting chanting the text along with the melody while setting levels for Mira to record the spoken text.
daily kaddish: 44 more to go
Mira pointed out before we recorded the Kaddish tonight that we have forty-four more of these to go before completing our lunar year of them on 27 November 2011. We started on 7 November 2011.
daily kaddish: for Dennis Ritchie
Tonight’s Kaddish is for Dennis Ritchie, the father of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system, among other accomplishments, who died yesterday at the age of 70.
daily kaddish: at 1am
Once again a statistical software conference pushes my Kaddish duties into the wee hours.
daily kaddish: at 2am
Sometimes keeping up the daily ritual is a royal pain.
daily kaddish: ein ein sof
Mira opens this Kaddish with a reading from a book the Beit Malkhut study group is working on. I’ll let her explain. —Erin
daily kaddish: the Steve Jobs we didn’t know
I wanted to play another Kaddish for Steve Jobs after reading my friend Lori’s remembrance of him from her days working at Apple.
daily kaddish: the other wrist support
Yesterday I tried playing Kaddish supine while using the black thermoplastic brace that my hand therapist made me. Tonight, I tried again with the thicker, stiffer white brace she also made.