Thursday January 29, 2026 at a very nice local high school. A lovely Boston grand piano was waiting to be tuned for chorus rehearsal. The location is close to the ocean so all the strings have more or less some rust. As usual, I turned the tuning pins counter clock wise to flatten each string until an obvious pitch change can be heard before pulling them sharp. As usual, I was scared as a rubbit afraid of any strings breaking. There had been 3 string splices on this piano. Yes, this was my first restringing job 10 years ago. I always wonder why Jude the boss trusted this naive short little thing to string this piano freshly graduated out of school.

Text corrected by German language Instructor Luca. Her website is Comprehensible German.

Mitte Januar 2026 habe ich Peking in China besucht. Dort habe ich meine Eltern und meinen Opa gesehen. Opa ist jetzt 98 Jahre alt. Er ist immer glücklich und gesund. Als ich durch die alten Straßen ging, trauchten meine Kindheitserinnerungen wieder auf.

(Corrected by German Teacher Luca at Comprehensible German)
2025 war ein Jahr voller Lernerfahrungen und Wachstum.