Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • physio

    Panic attack last weekend. I ended up riding the ambulance once more.

    Vertigo, weaknesses, vomiting, was my left arm hurting too. Am I dying? Once more...

    Too much K, too much tequilla? I am not too sure, what happened. I then realized I was sick. Throat hurting, muscle in pain, dizzy.

  • Checking in – September 2025

    I've been invited to join another trip to Japan again. My brother and his girlfriend wanted to visit Mt Fuji so I will have to go and plan around that. It's somewhat annoying to me that I was given this request basically immediately after paying for an examination that would have happened at about the same time, but it's otherwise alright I guess.

    As of me writing this (3 Oct) I am still yet to finalise the plan, but this might not be the case because my dad has to renew his passport and the passport office is dragging its feet and being particularly dim about the various irregularities of life. Should really get to it somehow.

  • Food Adulteration

    Pretty common practice, especially without regulations and inspections to keep the hominids more or less in line (where "the market" is, the world wonders), and even then…

  • codeing

    I'm not sure I lived through my stint in the United States, I might have been killed by the monsters of the Pacific North West.

  • de Visee

    I've been playing guitar for almost a couple decades now. I've always taken lessons, and always with the same teacher, though I'm not sure how much longer this is going to last. I mean, I'm mid 40s now, and he's near retirement, having had some very serious health probelms in the last couple of years. But here we are, almost two decades after I started in the fall of 2007. He's the only teacher I've ever had on guitar. Will ever have.

    Most of what I worked on earlier this year was my own compositions, and while I'm sure I'll get back to that, I'm starting the year off by working on de Visee's suite in D minor. de Visee was a composer and lutenist in service of Louis XV of France. He's a noted composer for the lute, perhaps overshadowed in the limited public imagination for the instrument by giants such as Dowland and Weiss. He wrote around a dozen suites for the instrument and is still played today, three hundred years after his death in 1725.

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