4/16 Somewhat embarrassing lesson with Chris. Even though I had postponed it for weeks, and had actually thought of several things we could discuss, we were finished after barely half an hour, and when I performed for him I was barely more than a deer in the headlights. – It is all about getting more fluent with the chords, but the possible exercises are once again so many that I find it hard to do anything systematic about them, rather than just dabble a little here and a little there.

Over the last couple of days I removed stains of adhesive from the sun visors of the Jeep after I had torn off the airbag warning stickers with the help of hot air. The adhesive is very stubborn and only nail polish remover had even the slightest effect on it. And even with that you need a lot of patience. Rub ten times over the same tiny spot, and ten times nothing happens, it looks just the same as it did before, but each of the ten times the layer of adhesive did indeed get a little thinner, and from the eleventh time onwards it does indeed fade very slowly – with the eleventh, the twelfth, and the thirteenth rub.

That’s how it is with practicing the piano.

Also: What is it I actually want to play on the piano.