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Okay, so I'm feeling a bit silly! (and no, I haven't seen it yet) Sorry for the long delay in posting. I've been doing a lot of figuring lately - the sort of stuff I don't feel happy writing on a web page for the world to see — just working through a few year's worth of thoughts and feelings, and trying to make sense of it all.

On the running front, I'm up to 5.4 miles! Almost there. I think I'm going to be able to run the Peachtree at 8.5 or maybe even 8 minutes a mile, if all the other people don't get in the way too much. Last time I timed myself, I ran 4 miles at 8.5 minutes a mile, which I thought was fabulous.

I've decided to try to tune my piano myself. Luckily, it's an old beater of a piano, so I'm pretty sure I can't do too much damage. It turns out that tuning a piano is quite difficult — not the sort of thing you can learn to do in an afternoon. I think it's probably about as hard as learning to type if you've never typed before - it's going to take practicing that asdf jkl; over and over again. Except with a piano, it's learning to hear the "beats" that occur when two strings vibrate and they're not quite perfectly in tune. The beats get harder to hear as you go from unisons to octaves to fifths. Also, your hands have to learn how to use the tuning lever, and feel what's going on with the strings and pins. Should be fun.

Well, that's all for now - I need to bust out the old camera again. It's just that I don't find Atlanta quite as novel as London - although I suppose that's the whole point of walking around with a camera!