work work work + Béla Fleck & Edgar Meyer

Today was my hardest day of work ever. I am under pressure to finish this conversion of databases. So today I finished the code, and to make sure it was right, I refactored it to death. But it doesn't work because some of the methods that I call were written by somebody else, and don't work on my connection.

After that, I went to see Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer play classical music with Cantab regulars Greg (banjo player), Aoife (singer) and Rushad (cellist). By complete coincidence, we sat next to Sam (guitar player), who had won his tickets on the radio. The performers were brilliant, and it was clear they were improvising / faking some of the pieces. They are that good (in fact, Edgar Meyer is by many accounts, the best bass player ever).

After the show, we hung out, and Greg spoke to Béla about his new 7-string (yes, 7) banjo (which probably goes together with his invented 4-finger style), and did some musical networking. This dude is getting a PhD in biology, and when he's done he wants to live off the banjo. Aren't my friends interesting?