January 8 - Running


A brilliant Metropolitan Opera production of Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose,


ending the 7th day of spring (highest temp of the new year thus far -- 61 -- with the most rain...  2.35... and second-greatest of season after December 15's 2.76), finishing composition of 24 Tone Preludes, Op. 260: VI. Snowstorm (5 pages total) and general catch-up over episodes of


Columbo (1971)...