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Missionary

Missionary

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Heard part of "Nearer my God to Thee"played by the Maranatha college symphony at our home church yesterday. 53 instruments nicely reminded me I do have time to stop a few minutes and be reminded of the purpose of life.
This time tomorrow wife & I will be 33,000 feet up headed back to Arequipa, Peru.
 
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RicinYakima said:
Love that!!!! I spent 10 years as the relief drug lab raider working out of the Bellevue office, every time someone took a vacation. In the 1980's Seattle had the most courteous drivers in the country. By 2000, with all the Californians moving up to work for Google and Microsoft, everything in King County was the "Highway of Hell". If I left the office for a raid at 1600 heading to Everett, 25 miles north on I405, it was three hours.

Finally the "bosses" decided we would only do raids from 0300 to 0600. At times it was 6 hours from the time they were stripped, deconned and cuffed to get them to jail, as traffic after 0700 was bad also. You have Puget sound that is 100 miles north to south, then Lake Washington that is 25 miles north to and only two bridges. Both everyone wants to east to west. Insane. I was glad not to have so much face time to the windshield. They were also getting sued by the perp's and losing for inhuman treatment.
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Can't imagine that drive with unwilling passengers.

I lived right off the first exit in Gig Harbor, WA, for a year, around 2004. Heading across Puget Sound into Tacoma, it was a single two lane bridge, you could see the other end from my apartment but it took an hour and a half minimum to drive there if you left after 5AM. Longer some days, especially if somebody ran their tank dry in line ahead of you while you were on your way to an interview. Just saying.

Couldn't deal with the commute, gave up thoughts of looking for a job on that side of the bridge pretty quick. Driving away from Tacoma was much more enjoyable.
 
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I can't even keep my drumming fingers in time for very long. And, remembering where 88 things are?
 
Tom

Tom

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smokeywolf said:
Both our boys play 2 or 3 musical instruments. Starting when they were about 9 and 10 years old they got into playing classical piano. For a couple of years, we heard Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Paganini (Liszt transcription of La Campanella), Liszt and a couple of others every day.
The Franz Liszt transcription of Paganini's La Campanella is one they never could finish.
Try this for some fancy fingering:

Oh, and yes College Boy can play Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement on piano.
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She could play a duet by herself and still have fingers left over.
 
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popper

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Ravi Shankar played the Sitar, a stringed instrument with resonant strings below the plucked strings. Gave it that weird sound. Got the Beetles into they're weird music.
 
RicinYakima

RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Working with the drug lab raid team, you were very seldom more than a couple of miles from a Subway. Unlike other fast food joints, they do not cater to children, so fewer issues with young mom's.
 
JonB

JonB

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Hey, have any of you machinists setup the Christmas tree yet?

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