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I'm using a Chat-GPT Plus subscription for app development, database analysis and data management. I also use it for customer support issues, etc. It's excellent for producing apps that talk to APIs that I really don't want to code by hand. A shitload faster than any coder I have ever known. Including myself.

I will gladly give you some extra weight.

Sorry you are going through this. Hope it continues to get better.

@LuFins-Dad said:

@mark said:

Ugh. Hire a freakin accountant.

And pay somebody $1800 to just do data entry into a $200 software program?

$1800??? Wow. My accountant is a bargain at $400.

Ugh. Hire a freakin accountant.

I hope this shit stops soon.

We're #1! We're #1! We're #1!

A kinder, gentler option would be a zero-point energy ray gun (See The Incredibles movie) that allows you to lift the offending vehicle up in the air and put them back where they belong.

What I still don’t get is how or why he has so many that just keep allowing him to do this shit he has no authority to do?

My lifelong goal will be to never see one, or handle one. I use cash as little as possible anyway. I keep five and ten dollar bills around for tipping on occasion. That's about it.

He is a fucking bastard. Worst president ever.

Awesome! I love it when we actually spend time irl with our friends from the forums.

lmfao

I am also conflicted about the death penalty. Far too many innocent people have been murdered by the state but I am also OK with this, and other cases that deal with such truly guilty monsters.

@klaus That was a bit tricky to get under the fingers. He does similar stuff except with triplets in measure 12 with legatissimo and decrescendo right after an 11 over 6 in measure 11 with crescendo. He saves what I feel is the most difficult one until measure 73 with a 29 over 12 also with legatissimo. I will probably shift to a different composer at some time but right now Chopin is my focus. The Op72. No1 has really captured my attention.

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 1 has been memorized for 3 weeks or more. Still polishing it but I can play it all the way through with very few mistakes.

Next up is Op.72 No.1

@mik The job is going well. 90%+ WFH. IT Support and a little development work here and there. Working for someone else is not my ideal position but it pays the bills and provides excellent health insurance.

We have been using Zeni for many years now. I went with the Optometrist offering this time because it's the first time I have had vision insurance since the 1980s.

We have very dangerous idiots running our country.

@kluurs said in What are you listening to now?:

Mark - agree - a very fine performance.

Did you notice the crushed corners of the book? It was delivered that way. I sent photos of it to DECCA and they are replacing it no questions asked. They didn't even ask for me to return this one. I will wait to see if they include a pre-paid return address label before I gift this one to my audiophile buddy.

Yes! Upper Midwest ftw!

I mean just look at all that fresh water! We are also relatively immune from natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, even, for the most part, tornadoes even though one occasionally gets through. Awesome climate in the spring and fall. Summer is usually awesome with a week or two of high temps. Winter, well, it is a quiet time, spent mostly indoors, doing things like practicing and getting better at your musical instruments, and snuggling up next to a fire with your sweetheart. What could be better than that!

Yunchan Lim The Goldberg Variations Live at Carnegie Hall. I ordered this not realizing that it would come in what is essentially a hardcover 46 page book full of wonderful photos, quotes, and multilingual write-ups about this young pianist.

It's a double LP that is expertly mastered with a very good, silent, dark background free of surface noise. Meticulously produced. A little static on rare occasions, but that is easily rectified and is mostly due to the dry nature of this season.

I must say that he does an excellent performance of the Goldberg Variations.

I have heard just about every recording ever made of the Goldberg Variations and this one definitely stands out as one of the best I have heard.