Mary Anne is in India for 12 days, which is pretty strange. Strange to have your wife literally halfway around the world, immersed in a totally different culture and place from your own, while your daily life goes on like normal. Just odd. She's adjusting well so far, and has thus far avoided any negative results from the food and water. There's even Diet Coke there, so she's got everything she needs, right?

Saw Eliot Fisk do an hour's presentation at McCallum High School today, for the guitar program kids there. He's an engaging fellow, and almost bewilderingly knowledgeable about the pieces and composers. I had the opportunity to question him afterwards about the Bach Prelude I'm learning, and he confirmed my feelings about the piece...that I should stick to the notes that Bach actually wrote, and not to get too carried away with the extra notes that are possible on the guitar as opposed to the solo cello that the Prelude was originally composed for.

It's turned damned cold here today, on a sort of gray overcast blustery day. It will soon pass, this being Austin, but for a bit, it makes everyone just a little bit cranky.