Day 416: Estate bookkeeping
May. 5th, 2021 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday I mostly stayed in my room, hoping not to aggravate the migraine from the bright sunlight in the kitchen. Mostly I worked on making sure my accounting of everything that's happened to my mom's estate matches the bank balances. I'd made three small errors and eventually found them all. They were things like, I recorded her tax refund as 1818,00 instead of 1818.00, which meant when I copied the column into Excel and summed it, it was off by 1818.00. It was puzzling and not obvious!
I watched the tail end of an interesting-looking presentation about music theory and popular music - I need to remember to watch the recording. His main finding, I gather, was that recent songs often don't have a "chorus" as earlier songs did. Instead, they have a "hook," and it needs to show up in the first 15 seconds or so, because listeners often aren't patient beyond that and may skip to a different song. The speaker looked very young to me, but he is a professor and does have a PhD (from seven years ago) and mentioned that he's 36.
I watched the tail end of an interesting-looking presentation about music theory and popular music - I need to remember to watch the recording. His main finding, I gather, was that recent songs often don't have a "chorus" as earlier songs did. Instead, they have a "hook," and it needs to show up in the first 15 seconds or so, because listeners often aren't patient beyond that and may skip to a different song. The speaker looked very young to me, but he is a professor and does have a PhD (from seven years ago) and mentioned that he's 36.