Abide With Me
News ·Saturday May 12, 2007 @ 22:07 EDT (link)
Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
HeavenÂs morning breaks, and earthÂs vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.
I'm still playing piano, semi-daily. The hymn To You Who Believe He Is Precious is pretty tough (three-note chords for the left hand, which are probably trivial for real piano players, but most of the book is only two notes each hand, and being self-taught, mainly with this book and memories of grade-school music, I haven't seen them much); it also has the bass line out of sync with the treble, again probably real piano players are used to playing with a metronome; I'm not. But I can play many simpler songs, such as Abide With Me fairly well and am improving.
Speaking of Abide With Me, a long-time favorite hymn: it was featured at the end of Doctor Who S03E03 (season 3 episode 3), which I downloaded and watched early on the morning of 24th, as the Doctor recalls his fallen sky. The episode also featured the hymn The Old Rugged Cross. At time of writing, we've finished episode 6 (BitTorrent rocks, thanks to someone in #mythtv-users who suggested it).
And to continue with the segues, someone from #mythtv-users made me aware that LinuxFest Northwest was taking place at Bellingham Technical College on the 28th and 29th. I volunteered to be a room monitor, which got me a red volunteer polo shirt with the LinuxFest logo for about an hour's work: I set up the projector for Tim Maher's Perl One-Liners presentation, counted heads, and kicked people out once the room was full (the organizers didn't want more people in the room than there were chairs, probably because of fire regulations).
I've started reading Moby-Dick, and am almost finished Ivanhoe and Death March.
