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I loved peeling the chocolate like substance off those cake rolls.

That is not something that is on my bucket list. (But it was interesting watching the people towing trailers try to find their way out through the mud last year )

@Jolly said in Speaking of Faceypage...:

@Mik said in Speaking of Faceypage...:

It’s a lot easier to post on social media than to update a web page.

True, but I wish not to feed the algorithm...Surely there's somebody smart enough to update a webpage...

I manage both our gallery website and our gallery facebook page. It is much faster to post an event on facebook than it is to update one on the website. MUCH faster.

Thanks! I will check out the Bach and Scarlatti. I had not seen that sight reading factory website - it looks pretty cool!

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Looking for suggestions for a good “practice sight reading” book for a non-beginner adult pianist (my son). He had a lot of lessons, his music theory is excellent and he improvises and composes music, but would like to get better at sight reading. I know it is just practice (my skills improved exponentially when I helped both kids with their lessons over the years), so I’m looking for a book with interesting music that doesn’t do any music theory breakdowns. They need to start pretty easy - something like Schumann’s Album for the Young, but with a few more simple/short/fun to play pieces in the beginning. Any suggestions?

Oh wow. I sure hope they can get her pain free. I can totally relate.

@blondie just saw this. I think doing carts might have been the second time I almost cried at Costco! (The first was my first day in the bakery, lol). My daughter also worked at Costco for a year or two. She liked cart duty, she much preferred it to dealing with difficult customers boxing in checkout!

@jon-nyc

This one is nice, the N/A Black Butte Porter.
https://damntastybeer.com/products/black-butte-non-alcoholic

And blue moon makes an NA that is light and citrusy.

@Klaus said in Alcohol Hypocrisy:

People who are dependent on alcohol rarely show signs of being drunk. They also often don't drink to become drunk but to change the way they feel. To get rid of anxiety. Boredom. Depression. Sadness. The drunkards who sleep under the bridge are only a tiny fraction of those with alcohol problems.

I have only really paid attention to this in the last two years or so, but I think almost everyone knows a couple of people who drink "too much". The same doesn't hold for other drugs, I think.

Exactly. We rarely drink alcohol any more, (I’m currently on no alcohol since January due to meds for a herniated disc) but even before that, for me it was less than one drink a week.( I do drink an N/A beer with dinner several times a week, they make some really nice tasting ones now.) I know a lot of people who manage productive lives, but they have a glass of wine or beer (or two) pretty much every night with dinner. You don’t have to be a falling down drunk to be dependent on that little bit of relaxation it gives you. I didn’t really start to notice it -how many people self medicate with alcohol, and how accepted (and expected) it is in society until the last several years when I really started limiting my consumption. (And I never was a big drinker) I have and have had family members who I consider functional alcoholics. Nobody would ever call them alcoholics, but they absolutely depend on those dinnertime drinks.

HOAs, lol. A few blocks away from us someone keeps pigs, chickens and a rooster. They aren’t supposed to have any of those things, but this is Butte, Montana and the people here pretty much do whatever the heck they want…

@jon-nyc

@Renauda thats pretty cool! I have been by Virginia city, but not in it. It’s a big tourist attraction in the summer.

@Renauda We are in Butte. Been here since 2018. That whole valley from Twin Bridges to Virginia City is really beautiful. So many cool old buildings in this part of the world that are still standing because it’s so dry here. Butte has a huge Irish population. Copper mining history (and they are still surface mining here) - an incredible amount of $$$ still comes out of the ground every day. Also, the largest superfund site in the US…

No. I’m in Montana.

She hated the dog. She took the untrained/excitable dog hunting - threw it into a overstimulating situation with a bunch of other dogs and birds - in a shock collar - and it “wrecked” the hunt. She stopped at the neighbors the same day, somehow the dog got out of the truck (hard to “escape” a truck without help from an human) and it killed some chickens. She was likely mad and embarrassed and so then she goes home the very same day and shoots the dog. And also shoots the farm goat? She’s got some pretty big issues. And she has no fucking business owning animals. Not all animals are suitable for the jobs we think they are bred to do. Especially if you do a shit job of training/preparing them. That doesn’t mean you get to shoot them when they act like the animals they are. It’s not a dog’s fault when it kills livestock. That is all on the owner. It’s absolutely the responsibility of a dog owner make sure that the dog doesn’t get into a situation where it can kill livestock. If your dog can’t behave off leash, then keep it on a damned leash. I totally get that sometimes the most humane way to deal with a “dangerous” (domesticated) animal is euthanasia (sadly most of those have been messed up by humans due to poor training, neglect or abuse, and they react aggressively out of fear, and are just trying to survive the only way they know how) but I just don’t see how that is the case here. This was a young dog that likely could have lived a good life with a different owner. She really sucks. I hope she never lives this down.

She put that dog into situations that she knew it wasn’t going to be able to handle and then she killed it when it lived up to her expectations. Stupid Bitch.

I got an email notification that someone had answered a question I posted on a YouTube video (that Improv posted) 15 years ago. Apple and her Estonia. It got me thinking about how long many of us have been “hanging out” with each other, and all things we’ve lived through (and argued about ) together online. It started for me with the original piano world forum in 1998 or 1999 when I asked a question about a used Mason & Hamlin. Funny how you can feel like you know people you have never met in person.

Video here: (it’s gotten over 5K views!)

Thanks! I have another Azerbaijan stamp.