I had another long, brutal drive home today in wintry conditions to a hometown still buried by the blizzard and another storm is predicted! Not an ideal Christmas, but I got to spend part of it with A--and that's enough.

CDs listened to today:

• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Piano Trios, disk 2
  
• Louis Armstrong: Volume I: The Hot Fives
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
• Luciano Berio: Continuo
• Marshall Crenshaw: Life's Too Short
• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7
• Frederic Chopin: Polonaises, 1
• Garbage: Bleed Like Me
• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming
• Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 3
• Korn: Issues