The renovation proceeds. It is much longer to do than I anticipated. Need other people and called my former students. Checked if any of them need work; some do. That should have been part of the course all along. Teach musicians (or songwriters) about career realities. Are you ready to do all sorts of things that seem unrelated to the thing you are dreaming of doing as your career? Can you remove tiles from a bathroom? It might also inform your next songs, trust me. Even Gary, who is in charge, is a musician though our tastes do not often overlap. Driving to Home Depot tonight, I was out maneuvered and he had me cornered listening to his rendition of I’m An Adult Now. I can handle it as long as he can select the right glue for the broken vertical blind.