The New Coffee Room

I’m so sorry for your loss Mark.

Can a person buy a new NY Steinway in Italy?

Holy guacamole. Prices have really gone up for new pianos.

I bought a Sauter Delta (6’something) ~2006. The Sauter Omega is the size up. I really liked mine but I was no pianist, just a grade 8/9 RCM student. In 2016 I consigned it, shipped it & it sold in a month to a jazz performer?/producer? I lost $0 on the sale of that piano. Norbert of PW used to tell me the 7’ Omega Sauters were best pianos he sold. He really liked the sound of them, everything about them. I did too … he drove me to a few client houses in Vancouver with Omegas to try out and to listen to. My piano tech told me that my Delta was 1 of 2 of his favourite pianos (the other being a German Steinway). I remember Mr Sauter came to my home to and played mine once. It sounded beautiful hearing someone play my piano in my own home. I don’t know what Sauters cost now.

It can get complicated. A lawyer and her professional association will help her. If she does virtual counselling and virtual supervision, this adds another layer of mayhem, because those hours can occur physically outside the clinic for both the counsellor and the client. I think BSc & MSc practicum students don’t get paid themselves, but MSc provisional psychologists might. And if so, who pays them and at what rate? If she supervises provisional psychologists, those hours can pay well because those “students” can pay for her time directly. It becomes a matter of who owns or gets a piece of her time both inside and outside the clinic. My kid is going through something similar now.

Yeah, I’d get the imput from my professional association.
Question: Is she paid by the clinic, or does she have her own business ( like a professional corporation) and pays the clinic for her office space and billing support? Secondly, are the students her own or the clinic’s?

@Doctor-Phibes I used to commute between Halifax and Boston. I remember Boston being a place having super classy and kind of sketchy neighborhoods. I used to take the trains from the airport to a stop which bisected Roxbury (sketchy) and Jamaica Plain (older, kind of nice). I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but one of my last trips I was carting a heavy hockey type bag on my back packed with text books, clothes, computer parts (I was storing stuff, prepping to move to Alabama). That train stop had graffiti, gang markings for about 2 blocks uphill into Jamaica Plain (by that I mean all the phone booths were shot up useless & houses windows, doors were barred). Anyway, I was wearing an anorak with side pockets and was balancing this heavy duffle on my back getting off the stairs at the station. This sketchy looking guy wearing orange pants and a hoodie approaches and won’t let me pass. He says “Hey, what do you got? I need money to fix a flat tire.” Scared, I was too weighed down & buckled up just to drop my big bag and run. I had both hands together in my pocket. So I reach deep in there and with both hands pull out about $20 in Canadian Loonies and showed it to him. He says, “What IS that? GOLD?” And I say, “Well, yeah. Take it.” And he did and scurried off.

Mr Trumps picture looks like it was pulled from a book cover.

I think so. I remember RealPlayer too. I remember Bernard meeting me, taking me through a maze of narrow streets to a store with barrels of dried chicken parts and statues because he was buying cinnamon tee. RealPlayer didn’t have a cellphone so we had to rush to meet you 2 at a certain spot.
Ya know come to think of it, I did travel on subways in Boston in 1992. I wonder why I remember NYC subways as being so impressive? For years afterwards I begged my husband to go on a trip there.

I remain pretty untraveled. I was 46 the first time I went to a really big city and that was NYC. That cab ride into Manhattan was almost as exciting as the marathon I did. What a rush. Better than an amusement park ride! It was the first thing I talked about when I got home. I loved the subways. I’d never been below ground or in tunnels prior. I remain amazed how quick it took to go any distance, just minutes. I guess I should be thanking @jon-nyc @kluurs & Bernard too. If I didn’t know you folks online, I never would have braved that trip.

Sending this to someone.
I wonder if this holds true for retirement age non surgeons, those doing interventional heart procedures?

@89th Ive seen many men experience that same internal conflict as stay at home dads.

What’s really sad is the situation where religion or cultural mores dictate the woman, no matter her career or education, stay home. I know a RN who earned a good salary, who now sits in a 800 sq ft rental condo, with no vehicle, no (female) family, no friends, tending to an 18 month old (boy child) and a 5 yr old (girl child). Her husband works a $/hr job doing rural insurance appraisals. His degree was in Islamic Studies. She tells me they’ll never afford a house because she can never work.

@Mik said in The moment you knew you picked the wrong partner:

That 4th one is so underrated.

True.

There’s a common theme with many of the moments above. It’s hard for a young person to predict, but I’d be asking myself if my would be spouse has the capacity to cope emotionally, to empathize, pitch in to help. Things do go south in most every marriage .., like illness, deaths, depression.

Built ins may look small from the outside, but they are awkward, heavy, and always have sharp edges when you remove them. My last go at a swap out was 2016. Never again.

Hahaha .. a lead apron for @jon-nyc & his microwave .

Jon, I think what’s key for you given the tight space in that corner is the installer. He/she needs to get that thing out and a new one in without wrecking anything. If it were me, I wouldn’t be ordering online. I’d be going to whatever appliance center builders send clients to in your area, with that picture in hand, and seeking out who they recommend.

I think builders are into aesthetics, maxing out counter space, and avoiding over the stove microwaves when they can. You can only vent so much with the over the stove microwaves with the built in hood fans. Lot of people prefer a dedicated fan over their stoves. They suck better lol

I’d rather have a below counter drawer microwave than what builders here are doing .. a below counter swing out door microwave. Still, both suck when it comes to cleaning up messes.

@George-K .. I’m a huge fan of Panasonics. They last the longest. I like shelf units. I’ve had 2. That’s what I’m doing with this new build too. If I were in Jon’s situation, I’d just go with what he has though.

@Friday Me too. Red delicious too. Apple was special. I miss her.