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Week from Monday 18th March 2024 - My Myeloma treatment continues. Symptoms come and go, UP and DOWN, but everything seems to be under control. Why, I even went for a toddle about town yesterday on the way home from the hospital! (A bit sore afterwards, but hopefully it'll help rebuild some of the muscles that I don't have anymore.) My only complaint is with all the administrative 'HOMEWORK' that I have to do every day: counting out and minding stocks of meds; recording blood pressure data for several different interested parties; keeping track of appointments and organising transport; writing it all down in 'the book'... This is definitely MY JOB now! Further to my previous comment that "this might be the year that I finally 'get' choral music"... I gave GIUSEPPE VERDI's highly acclaimed "REQUIEM" a go last night, and it wasn't at all what I expected it to sound like! I can't say for sure whether it was a 'GOOD...

Week from Monday 11th March 2024 - Gosh! I've missed MUSIC all the time I was staying at the HOTEL DEL QA. Not so much as a piped daytime selection could be found to tickle my ears, so I was left with the EARWORMS in my own head for company for a month (mostly a couple of bars of Zappa and something else I couldn't place...). I now hope to make up for it! The latest addition to the CAN live releases is of course STUPENDOUS, and a fitting tribute to the recently departed DAMO SUZUKI. But I was slightly disappointed to find that it is a show that I ALREADY HAVE in its entirety, having appeared on a ('semi-official' and equal in quality) CD in the late nineties. The one with the rather obvious picture of a hand holding a tin can on the front. So after all the anticipation I DIDN'T purchase the 'new' download, but nevertheless I've been playing my old copy to death... I compiled and burned the one-hundred-and-sixty-second volume of my ongoing "HOT TI...