It’s been a remarkably good week so far, and I have every reason to believe it’s only going to get better.

I retrieved my darling Allez from the bike shop this afternoon. The tune-up did wonders, and he rides like a dream again. After a temperate weekend we’re having another cold snap (snow tomorrow!), so it’s still a week or so before bike season starts in earnest, but I’m ready.

Finally, after some rather long gestation, something snapped, and I’m ready to start composing notated music again. The process of hitting up musicians I know with the “can I write a piece for you?” has begun, and I can feel some old but trusty machinery in my brain creaking to life. While I’ve been informed that a true composer hears the music before he writes it, I’m not actually sure what I’m going to end up with, and I’m more eager than anyone else to hear the result.