Hardi and I decluttered the DVR of several hours' gospel music (to pick out offertory selections as a couple), and have several more to go. (Hope to knock them out tonight.) The result will be hourlong car CD's to learn tunes while we're on long drives-- meatball-style because this is music to learn by ear and then discard once we arrive at our own version of each selected song. In many cases (for the ones we decide to work up), we then buy an MP3 download (where we can find one; some of it is older stuff not in MP3 form so we learn it and record our own version to help us recall the tunes/arrangements).

It's a lot less work than the older process it always took to select band music and teach all members the songs. I'm so busy now that we expect the band to coast for several years on the songbooks we already created.

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A revision we had thought necessary for several of those songbooks is now possible to do with computer-printed labels to paste in the changes; it's easier to edit and update our own arrangement copies of the words where they vary from the songbooks-- a lot fewer copies to deal with!

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A doc's appt ydy resulted in reduction in BP meds and simplification of dosing/pill sorters I can now implement with the setup of the next set of pill-sorters. The effective BP-adjuster has finally been identified (guess who figured it out), and we're getting MUCH better readings. Also, since the last time I looked the pharmacy now has BP cuffs with more automatic features, so I can finally resume monitoring at home if we buy the right gizmo.

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A planned surgery was discussed and logistics to make it possible are in the planning stages now. This will coordinate with my studies so I can combine rehab time with reading time-- some bed rest will be involved. The BP news coincides-- during bed rest my exercise program will not be able to work on the BP, but the med now controlling it has side effects that are minimal and, when on lowered activities, nonexistent. That means exercise can suspend during the surgery/rehab period, and after I heal I can do LAND exercise with HARDI.

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During Christmas time I lost 3 pounds (probably more, I left my heavy shoes on), while the rest of the world gained. I did this relatively simply and quite painlessly.

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~Susan