Pretty sure Mozart died on this day (Dec 5th), well not this specific one.

Today was a good Friday.No idea if this any quality but will listen tomorrow

https://wilyepeyote.bandcamp.com/album/moonbow-passing

Yeah, nowt special but as some guy paid money for it, seems wrong to delete from bc as usual. 

Monday we talked to funeral guy then went to house and started going through stuff, cancelling things and informing people. Hope to get death cert this week and kick rest of it off. Funeral next Tuesday if all goes to plan. 

Talked to priest today, going to do the death certificate Thursday morning at which point we tell banks, solicitors etc. Life still not really ticking along properly but we're all coping. Lisa and Jan upset still showing how close they were. 

PRS is a little down compared to last few years but considerably higher than I'd have expected at this stage. 

Wednesday and some studio time. Spirit mixer dead, which is a real downer. Did some looping P3 patterns playing Perfourmer. Sounded good. 

Sending everything into RC-505 is something I should've done ages ago. Dead Spirit may help reduce clutter. Doing good shit today (Friday_

https://wilyepeyote.bandcamp.com/album/barking-at-squirrels-and-other-pursuits

Now then. It's Monday, funeral tomorrow. Still feels a bit surreal but I'm sure tomorrow will bring it home. PRS payment today, will use most for tax bill I think. Bought the latest Warrington Runcorn album and just listening. I like how he keeps it simple but classy and never overcooks, which is a skill I wish I had but never will ;) He only goes wrong with clunky voice samples in the track "The People Matter", which is a cool track otherwise. 

I must go listen to whatever Tim and I recorded on Saturday. Will definitely be overcooked, undercooked and burnt to a frantic crisp in that, hehe. 

My plans for today are to trim my beard, wash my hair and see if my suit pants still fit. Probably a bit late to panic if they don't. Continued working on Beer and got back to the riddle chapter that I want to totally rewrite. Pat says she's off south Wednesday so may get a day to indulge myself. Thursday is solicitor day, moved from Friday, which is good.

Funeral went as well as it could. Priest spoke well and we got some nice tales from Winnie later. Cousin Gary came and his mum Helen and we got more tales of mum that made us smile/wince. They ordered way too many sandwiches though so we all took some home. Good to see John and Jan's friends and I think mum would've been happy with her sendoff. Coffin very heavy between four of us on the way in so glad some funeral guys gave subtle help carrying to grave or Jack and I may have struggled. 

Tomorrow Pat goes south so I have a day free which I plan to use indulgently. 

Another month, mother still dying.... then does, finally

Yeah we're into December now and life is still in this weird limbo state. Doesn't feel like I've done much of any value in October or November other than edit "From Beer to Eternity" which is in far better shape than it was before. I'm in the final third and have skimmed to the end to remind myself how it goes. There are some opportunities remaining to sort a few things out before I contemplate "Liminal Entity" and what that may or may not need. The hard one still outstanding is "After Life" but I have a much clearer idea of how that should go now, having explained a few of my ideas to myself about how it all works. 

I'm still thinking of getting the MPC Live III, purely for the idea of a complete environment for working on songs with a definite structure and flow rather than all the looping things I've done for so long. None are in stock at the moment though but I'm watching. Of course I'll throw myself into it and either totally regret it or feel a good chunk of the studio has become less useful. All this cos I really could not be bothered with the Live/Laptop setup I already have but which I haven't knuckled down and learned. Hmmm.

It's Tuesday and we got the news that mum is in a new stage of her EOL process. The syringe driver is back after just one day and she's in bed not wanting to get out just to float off with the increased meds. Of course by the afternoon she's awake and wanting everything again and now. I'm doing a shift tomorrow so I expect her doing cartwheels around the garden. The doc keeps expressing surprise she's still alive. They sorted 7 night cover though which is a relief. I was gonna go walking this week with Tony but now think I probably won't. Maybe she'll pop off overnight, it's no longer possible to guess. Oh, I pre-ordered the MPC Live III. Decided wtf, no point hanging around as we might all be dead tomorrow (but mum still alive, of course). Today I drank a bottle of beer and worked on a Keystep/Wavestate project and associated Octatrack grooves. My eventual plan is to capture all the prime bits in the MPC and arrange them there since I clearly will never bother to do it in Ableton. Let's see if this plan works out any better than the last...

She died Wednesday evening, peacefully and in her sleep. We didn't get there in time but stayed until nurse then funeral directors came. Pat and I got home maybe 02:30 and didn't sleep much but we're through it now apart from the admin. Funeral should be before Christmas then there will be lots of house clearance to do.

We saw this moonbow on the way to Lisa's after mum died

Blog entries from this point may become more normal.