things I'm thinking of doing

1) Learn to write thoroughbass

The Baroque has been called the era of the thoroughbass. It served as the textual/harmonic foundation for most choral pieces, ensembles, arias, and instrumental sonatas of the period. Other equivalent terms are basso continuo, basse continue (French), and Generalbass (German).

I've discovered that there is a big literature of music theory on this subject, complete with exercises (and solution manuals). I'm sorely tempted to study it closely, at least to the point of being able to do the exercises.

In the sixteenth century the emphasis shifted (from theoretical treatises) to a more didactic approach with "how to write" counterpoint manuals...

Too cool! link

[Aside: I love books of problems that have solutions in the back. Long ago, still in grade school, I got a black-market copy of 8th grade algebra problems used in junior high school classes. The pleasure I took in working out the answers prior to reading the answers has stayed with me to this day. "Give me a boy to age 10, and I will give you the man," said some Roman or Greek personage. Perhaps it is "age 8", instead?]

2) Concoct startup with Greg and Aaron.

3) Book wrastlin'—or more properly, book boxing and transport to distant locations.

4) I finally found a book on quantum field theory that looks understandable, Pierre Ramond's Field Theory: A Modern Primer. At least I was able to get through chapter 1 feeling that I had (a) learned something without getting confused by why it was being suggested that I learn it, and (b) had a desire to learn more.

5) My long obsessional Textoutput project. If you can figure out what it is, please advise.