"God said to Noah, 'There's gonna be a floody, floody...'"

...but not around where we live -- our end of Richmond got away pretty unscathed. On the other hand, 20 percent of the Richmond area has been without power for the past eight hours or so, there's a lot of street flooding, a couple neighborhoods had to be evacuated, and football games had to be postponed (gasp!). It's not a lot of fun, certainly, but at least it's no Isabel.

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Music? Without handbells? Pish posh.

Occasionally, because I am that wild and crazy of a guy, I will write music that does not use handbells. So a couple weeks ago, I finished a choral octavo for the hymn "Sleep! Holy Babe," which I've always liked the words to while finding the music ho-hum. (Which is why, y'know, I came up with my own music.) So here is a decent midi realization of "Sleep! Holy Babe," with strings covering the vocal lines and harp covering the harp/piano part.