Nancy ran a tight ship.

@Jolly said in Things We Can No Longer Afford: @LuFins-Dad said in Things We Can No Longer Afford: Do away with spend it or lose it budgeting. Find ways to reward programs that come in under budget. What type of carrot would you dangle? New Title in lieu of a raise.

I predict that I will not watch it but will feign interest on Monday at work during the lunchtime walk while silently screaming inside.

I don't think a strong man could make it halfway through the list without falling down...

Also...I've never played on the new turf with the ground-up tire rubber in it. I do understand it can be tough on the eyes. I have played on the old turf, years ago. Like getting tackled on linoleum...

@Renauda Yes. Unlike those of us who have been raised in that environment, it is not the innate desire or ability we seem to think it is. Post-Soviet Russia is a classic example.

@LuFins-Dad good plan. Similar to ours.

@kluurs said in Claire de Lune, vor bananan und klavier: My family was not classical music focused, but everyone loved Claire de Lune. It was one of the few pieces that Victor Borge seemed willing to perform without joking around. I play it once in a while to keep it from getting too far gone from my hands. Here’s the thing about Debussy… I hear jazz when I listen to him. Let me piss off a bunch of people right now… While African American blues is certainly a very large part of the development of jazz, it was equally influenced and shaped by French Impressionist composers. Now they were in turn influenced by the African American musicians (Listen to Golliwog’s Cakewalk and tell me with a straight face that ain’t a ragtime piece), the French also influenced the developing American Jazz musicians. Jazz is generally recognized to have been developed by African Americans ~ 1917-1920, you had very similar styles developing in France. Ravel both heavily influenced and was influenced by the burgeoning musical style… Then there’s Satie… Tell me that’s not Jazz… Gymnopedie 1 was composed in the 1880s , decad s before the supposed creation of Jazz…

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Who'd a thunk it?

….but the bullshit is stronger in you.

It's going to be very interesting as the Boomers and Legacy media die out.

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