Sorry I’ve been quiet. I’ve been swamped at work, and I just started *three* courses at Coursera. (Yes, I’m insane. I don’t expect to finish all three). I am taking Introduction to Improvisation, Introduction to Guitar (I don’t really need it, but I am self-taught, and you never know what tidbits I’ll find that I never learned way back when), and Introduction to Interactive Programming with Python.
This last one was on a lark. When I was a kid I was a hell of a programmer. I was writing my own video games at age 12. However, I stopped doing it, and my programming knowledge dates back to 1987- the stone age. (I wrote games for VAX computers and for a TI 99/4A. Yes, I’m that old.) I have never programmed in a Windows environment. What stimulated me was hearing a colleague’s data-driven music composition written using Python to program a synthesizer. It is amazing work, and I was hooked. I want in.
Last week I had a piece of music I was very happy with that I planned to post here. It was a collaboration with a Coursera songwriting classmate. I filled out her bare-bones arrangement of her song with bass and lead guitar, and did significant production and post-production work. I was very pleased with what we did, but she *hated* it (I think perhaps I hear something in her song that she can’t- it’s too personal), so out of respect to her and her intellectual property rights, I’m afraid that piece won’t see the light of day.
By the way: since when does WordPress create default titles?
Radical Totality 
Any of those three (three? seriously??) sound as if they’d be hard to drop. I hope you ace them all, and I’m always glad to see you pop up in my reader.
I could easily drop guitar because, well, I can already play it! And Python I could take another time- I do want to learn data-driven composition but it’s not priority. In the fall I I have a class in programming for musicians.