Well, yesterday evening ended a bit later than anticipated! I had my second violin lesson after a three week hiatus. Not sure I’d remembered much since my last lesson. Saying that, last lesson demonstrated the violin hadn’t been used in years, so the large inter-lesson gap gave me enough time to have it rebridged, restrung (with Dominant strings), get a new chin rest and a new shoulder rest. After all that, the violin is now playable and I spent an hour playing all four strings, with both up bow and down bow in various permutations. Slowly getting the hang of it, although by the end of the lesson, my left shoulder and arm were aching somewhat! However, I have some exercises to practice over the week now.
After that, I got home, cooked up a couple of quarterpounders and bacon with a couple of buns and put Breakfast at Tiffany’s on the DVD player. A classic film which is well worth watching. Audrey Hepburn’s presence on screen would be reason enough to see it, but the story and characterisation are superb. Not a film for children, but deals with issues adults come across, in an interesting and realistic way – it takes some of the characters a few attempts to learn from their mistakes, if they learnt at all.
I finished the evening tinkering around with Cascading Style Sheets on the HWEC web site. I’ve finally got round to implementing a colourful menu bar without resorting to producing graphics.
Maybe this evening will be a little more relaxing…