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« Reply #180 on: March 04, 2020, 11:47:03 PM »
...More 'sneakiness'   ::)

...As an Advisor to a youth Conference, I did everything I could to keep things calm, and to get ALL of the kids using their minds.  During a 'Recreation' period, we had board games...including Chess.   ;D  I had been VERY SERIOUS at Chess when I was young...I had checked out books from the Library, and studied the Famous Games, and played everyone who knew how to move a pawn.   ;D  I even got my Physics Teacher to raise my grade on a test to an 'A' from a 'B'...He was the Advisor to the Chess Club...I wasn't in it...I was busy playing my cello.   ;)  He said that there was a Competition with another school, and wanted me to compete.  I didn't actually make a demand...but he had seen me beat many of His club members...and he said that he would 're'grade' my test.   ::)  I won my game, and that helped my GPA...and our School won the competition!   ;D

...I hadn't played Chess in years, but some ideas stay in your mind.   :)

…I was sitting on my butt, in the Lounge of the Conference...it was like 11:45 pm...and I wanted to get to bed.  There was one of our youth Counselors who was full of energy, and he was very arrogant.  He was carrying a chessboard, and confronting everyone to play him.  He had beaten everyone earlier.   ;)  I was ready to head to my room, and he stopped by me, and said..."You want to play a game?"  I decided that it would be best to just play a game, let him win, and get to bed.  BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!  Another kid came by, and said to him..."You want to play a game of Chess?"  The 'arrogant one' said..."Yes...I will get to you after I beat her."    :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

...My temper rose up...and after 25 minutes...I stood up...and walked away...and went to bed...and told him..."You have NO idea of how to use your pawns, or how to take control of the center!"  He was staring at what was left of his pieces...and his King was in checkmate!!!!!   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

...He was a bit more humble during the rest of the Conference.   ;D

...The game 'almost' went like THIS ONE!!!!!   ;D :o ;D ::) ;D :P

...https://youtu.be/M624T3PTggU
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« Reply #181 on: March 07, 2020, 12:14:32 PM »
...Just to show what 'passed for thought' in my early years.... ::)

...I learned to play this at Conservatory, although I didn't play it as fast...or as well.   ::)  But, it told a story to me.   :)  I imagined that I was trying to RUN UP A STEEP HILL...but it was slippery...and I would fall and slide back to the bottom.   :P  I would keep trying, and fall back.  At times, I would stand, and STAMP MY FEET IN FRUSTRATION...and then run back up the hill...and fall back down.  A few times, I would ponder why I needed to run over the hill...and try again!  And fall back down.   :P  I would get to the slow passage, near the end...and think that I was just going to give up...and play it like that...but another part of myself was saying..."Just DO it!".  I would actually feel energy in my r/t body as I finished...running up the hill...and running down the other side!   ;D

...This video really shows 'muscle memory'...there is NO WAY that the pianist can think of which finger to place on each key.   :)  A few times, I would look at 'lefty', to make sure that her little finger landed on the proper note.  I also had to watch over 'righty'...she would get excited...and jump to the wrong place on the keyboard... :P  In the practice rooms, when she did that...I would raise her up before my face...AND SCOLD HER!!!   ::)  She would just stare back at me.   :-\ 

...https://youtu.be/BV7RkEL6oRc
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« Reply #182 on: March 07, 2020, 12:54:23 PM »
A percussionist would have looked at this, sat down in the back and had a Coke and some pizza while the rest of you did your thing.   ::)
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« Reply #183 on: March 07, 2020, 02:18:48 PM »
...And at your recital...I would have sat...slumped in the back row...eating a large bag of fritos and drinking a LARGE  orangeaid...and thinking...

…"I gotta attend the rest of the recitals...I am WAY BEHIND the required attendance...the Dean KEEPS TRACK!!  And, by the way, just HOW HARD IS IT TO POUND ON A DRUM...OR EVEN TWO OR THREE???"

…*Huggers*   *Kissing your cheek*   :D

…*Just kidding, Brother*   ;)
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« Reply #184 on: March 07, 2020, 04:50:23 PM »
Its not hard to be a drummer.








BUT... try being a percussionist. 

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« Reply #185 on: March 07, 2020, 07:50:36 PM »
...Well said...Brother... :)

...For all of you nonmusicians, a 'Percussionist' is different from a guy who just pounds drums.   :)  In a Symphony, I once had a good friend who was a Percussionist.  He asked me to drive him to the rehearsals, and then to the Concerts.  We would have to arrive early, so that he and the others would set up the 'Kitchen'...(Rags can explain what that is).   :D  I helped out, at times, carrying in stands, and such, and stood back as they worked out the best way to arrange all of the items.  I was amazed to learn that a player would have 3 or 4 different instruments to play in some works.  I had once been in the 'Percussion Section' in a Community Orchestra, and I was relegated to just banging on the Bass Drum.  I had wanted to play the Triangle...but...after watching me trying to play it...the Conductor said..."NO!!!"  (The Triangle can be heard over THE FULL ORCHESTRA!!!  You strike it and it sounds over the WHOLE ORCHESTRA!!!).  Also, percussion instruments are different from the cello.  When playing the cello, my bow was always on, or near the string.  With a drum...you have to pull your hand down before the beat!  That is why I wasn't trusted with the Triangle.   ::)
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« Reply #186 on: March 07, 2020, 11:06:27 PM »
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« Reply #187 on: March 09, 2020, 03:38:33 PM »
...I may have told this one, before.   ::)  I need to take the time to go through my thread, and make a written list of the subject of my posts.  But, this was a fun experience.   :)

...A Panther Huntress can tell the difference between OIL AND WATER!!!!    >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

...At the vertically integrated Road Construction company that I was the CFO of...I had to learn a LOT!!!  I will add...the President was ALL too happy to drive me to all of our Companies.  I looked VERY GOOD in my late 20's and early 30's...but I always asked for a separate room when we had an overnight travel.  I will admit...that a few times...I thought that I would  spend the night with him.  He was a good looking man... :)  but we were both married.  I liked his Wife, she would show up at the office and bring me and my staff a cake or other nice stuff.   ;D  I also figured that our business relationship would change for the worse if I did so.  When I was sitting across from him, discussing our finances...I wanted him to listen to me...rather than thinking of how I had looked...naked...in a difficult sexual position that we had done.  8)




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« Reply #188 on: March 09, 2020, 04:06:01 PM »
...So, we had a company that stored oil.   :)  It had 7 of those HUGE tanks, like you see in a refinery.  The President was smart, when oil prices were down, he would fill them.  The oil was 'semirefined'...it was still dark black, but just a little thicker than water. I couldn't figure out the books of the company...they didn't make any sense!!!  I told the President that I needed to visit the facility, and try to figure it out.  He nodded, and I drove away. 

...I dressed down the day after I arrived, and met the manager.  He INSISTED on buying me a VERY NICE breakfast.  I smiled, and was polite, and he got a bit tense after I had looked over the books in the office, and told him..."I need to check the Inventory".  I walked out into the yard, and climbed up the sides of the tanks, and pushed in a measuring rod...and saw how full it was.  I told the manager..."They are as full as you say they are...but...bring me a crescent wrench."  He had the foreman do so.   ::)

…For all of you office workers...those HUGE tanks have columns of bolts going up the side.  Most are there to hold the tank together, but there is another row in order to check the level of the liquid...you take one off...and the liquid runs out.  I reached out, at shoulder level, and unscrewed the bolt...and out...ran...WATER!!!   :o  I reached higher...and there was MORE WATER!!!  As we all know, oil FLOATS on water!  :P

...I handed the wrench back to the Foreman, and told the manager..."I am heading back to the Office."

…That Manager 'resigned' the next month... :'( 
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« Reply #189 on: March 09, 2020, 05:04:39 PM »
Naked... sexual positions... lubricant....

What? What was that sis? I seem to have missed the rest."

 ::) ;D ;D
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« Reply #190 on: March 09, 2020, 06:55:50 PM »
...When Tristan CLAIMED Isolt!!!   :o

...Izee' had had all of her children go elsewhere for the night, and had slept underneath the Med Wagon when her Son, Tristan,  had carried Isolt into Izee's wagon after He had claimed Isolt.  She knew that Tristan needed to be alone with Isolt for a while...they...well...had things 'to do'.   8) 

...The sounds from the wagon were kind of like this...and Izee' just smiled and nodded.  But, after Isolt emerged from the wagon, and held onto the front rails...and SANG of what had just happened...Izee' crawled out from under the Med Wagon, and shouted at Isolt…

...HE JUS BE WARMING UP...I BE A HEALER AN KNOW OF SUCH...GO GIVE HIM ANOTHER!!!!!

...https://youtu.be/SQO7QIgNvA0
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« Reply #191 on: March 09, 2020, 11:01:53 PM »
...I may have posted on this work before...but it really is a LOVELY work for guitar.   :)  I was really excited when our Orchestra performed this...I was Principal Cello.  I knew the work, and the Soloist played it very well.   :)  I did get very tearful at times...when I play the cello...I am a 'Soulplayer'...I really feel what the work is about.   :)  This work is very melancholy at times, but it explores many aspects of human experience.  I felt, at times, despair...and other times triumphant...after getting over a challenge.   :)  I met the Soloist, and really thanked Him for coming to perform with us, and that I had been really moved.   :)  He saw that I was sincere, and kissed my cheek, and said that the cello section had done well.   ;D

...I was very thoughtful on the drive back...I had the 1st Violist as a passenger...and she was trying to criticize his performance.  I kept explaining to her..."Albinez"...and finally she said..."Did you notice that he had long nails on his right hand...and had red NAIL POLISH???   :o   I pulled over...we were on the Freeway...and showed her my hands...(I turned on the overhead light)   >:(  I held up my left hand...it had short nails...and light pink nail polish.  I showed her my right hand...the nails were much longer...and also painted the same color.   >:(  (I would either cut the nails of my right hand down if I had a 'serious' date...or apply 'press ons' to both hands... ::))

…I quietly said..."Like us, his nails are short on his left hand...he has to place the tips of his fingers down on the fingerboard, so of course they are short.  His right hand has to strum and pluck the strings...and he needs long nails to do that.   >:(  And...he paints them for the SAME REASON THAT WE DO!!!   IT MAKES THEM STONGER!!!  He breaks a nail during a concert...he can't just throw a fit like Karen does when SHE BREAKS A NAIL!!!"




...I got back on the road...and as is usual with women...we didn't talk to each other for two weeks.    :P
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« Reply #192 on: March 09, 2020, 11:02:56 PM »
...Here is the work... :)

...https://youtu.be/KzEFQW9CXGc
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« Reply #193 on: March 10, 2020, 11:23:14 PM »
...https://youtu.be/MRG1UixHvos

...Izee' thinks of this song.  Rags and others were at Scagnar.  Her Son, Keagan, had actually transported his Brother, Tristan, and an Or of Tristan's Warriors, to accompany Ragnar, as an Honor Guard.  Business was being discussed at Scagnar.  Izee' just stayed behind...as a Two Time Oathbreaker...Scagnar had no use for her.
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« Reply #194 on: March 10, 2020, 11:56:49 PM »
...Why Izee' ALWAYS had Keagan negotiate Trade Deals when the Family traveled...he was good with numbers... ::)  Better than her... ::)

...https://youtu.be/xkbQDEXJy2k
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