Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-23-19 13:12 <=-

All but dinner was a church-related function... and we traditionally eat out on Sundays anyway.... easier on me than trying to fix a meal, especially on Sundays where I'm playing for one of the services... :)

Since you often at least attend both services, that
cuts down on the time available for cooking and stuff.

Exactly. And you could change that "often" to "almost always"... the exception is usually either sickness or being away... ;)

"It just won't happen." My priorities are different, of
course.

Of course... :)

I'm doing the echo but am thinking of making pasta
this Sunday [edited to say "today," but I've decided not to
do this] - Stater Brothers had one of the weird sales
where you could buy one pack of eggs for 3.99 or two packs
for 1.99 each. What's the sense in that? So we got two
packs of eggs. We were looking for bacon, but it wasn't on
sale. H'm, maybe there's some method in their madness. So
we didn't get bacon. Maybe there's some method in ours, too.

Guess they wanted to see if anyone was paying attention.... did they at
least have bacon available...?

Ah, but it doesn't look promising, and anyway if
you had something that would allow you to connect,
you'd have to install the software and drivers and
yadda yadda.

Yup, and that too,,, :)

There may come a time when the benefits outweigh the costs.
Okay, maybe that's doubtful.

Pretty much where I'm at... (G) The doubtful, that is... ;)

Amortizing the cost in time and effort, you might be
paying dollars an hour just for some convenience. And of
course, that might mean you had time to cook on Sundays.

Only needed when things aren't working properly at home, or I'm on some
trip, so not likely to affect anything on a Sunday... ;)

I do have other alternatives, anyway... we've used the church's internet (wiring my computer into the network) and Fu's (ditto)... and when I'm here at the Pond with no service, I can just work at answering messages into a reply packet to upload when I get home... easier than finding a library around.... :)

Each to his/her own, especially in the style department.

Indeed. :)

Reminds me of my sartorial splendor, of which has been said
Absence of style is a style.

I can see that... similar to my style, perhaps... :)

The ones that Wegmans makes are pretty nice... they used to be even better, but the recipe got tweaked to make them healthier, I suppose... it used to have candied fruit in it, now it's just raisins and citrus peel... the roll itself is still nice, and the frosting cross also...

What's so unhealthy about candied fruit, compared to
raisins and peel?

Generally has HFCS in it nowadays... at least the commercially available stuff....

Needn't, and anyway that much HFCS probably isn't that
dangerous - you probably get more unreported in the
ingredients lists anyway than you want to know.

Ah, but it's the perception, ya know... ;) The other part of healthier
was in the sort of flour they were using....

... I need to start procrastinating, sometime soon.

That's worse than needing to stop procrastinating?

Only because it isn't recognized as such...?

us, but we are certainly slower than we were then, and react a bit differently.... :)

And the vision thing makes things even more amusing.

Indeed. ;0

This week I did chamber music twice, e-mailing the others I'd
prefer to stick to pieces I more or less remembered, Haydn,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms, maybe easier Beethoven.

And how nice it would have been, had they thought that your preferences
made any difference to what they wanted to do... ;0

The first group threw Dvorak Op.106 at me; luckily I'd
played first on it before so didn't screw up too much. Then
we switched parts on Dvorak Op.34, but I'd never even seen
the second part of it and played like a pig. Then the
familiar but difficult Beethoven Op.95, but the cellist's
wife complained that we were behind schedule, so the second
(we switched back), Howard Goldstein, who had conducted the
university orchestras at Auburn and Johns Hopkins, took it upon
himself to rush the tempi, so we all ended up playing like pigs.

These are just get togethers to play through music, not performances,
right...? Even still, you'd think there would be a bit more cooperation/consideration....

The second group, the trio involving the former pianist of the
Detroit Symphony, hewed more to my preferences but pulled out
the Mozart trios in C and G (easy keys, not easy pieces, K.548
and 564), plus the Kakadu variations, plus the slow movement only (relief) of a trio by Ibert that I'd never seen or even heard.

Do you suppose they'll think twice about having you play with them
now...?

A taxing weekend, and I literally as well as figuratively
sweated the vision impairedness issue.

I can well imagine....

When my sister Lesesne was studying violin, her teacher put viola
strings on her violin, I think so for her to play viola parts for some ensemble...

That's the kind of thing that puts fear and loathing of
the viola into people.

I think she just found it somewhat amusing... SOW, just heard something
on Performance Today that I found amusing/interesting... some composer saying that to him the viola as the voice of wisdom, moderation and prudence... he wrote a nice viola concerto of which at least part was
played on the program... :)

As with wisdom, moderation and prudence, why is playing the
viola like peeing in your pants? It gives you a nice warm
sensation, for a while ... and it's okay just so nobody
else notices.

[sigh-smile]

Well, you know what I mean. And in point of fact, the
wild berries didn't last because pies and buckles and
such were being made. I might have willingly picked a
quart for a pie, but probably not for a buckle.

Cook's choice as to which was baked...? ;)

Not my choice, as I've never been the baking fiend.

Was this historical or recent, the baking of buckles and pies...?

Car keeps breaking down? Tack fins onto the back.

Wouldn't fool me.... (G)

Or, cheaper, put a new model number on it.

As I said, some of us aren't quite so easily fooled... :)

Someone's got to put a stop to the planned obsolescence
juggernaut. Oh.

Some of us try. :)

The Chinese still keep left, and they may be the ones
who end up returning the world to that way, as they
don't adapt - or haven't seen the need to.

Time will tell.... :)

If they can get it together with the Indians, they'll
be unstoppable.

That could be a big if... :)

We can thank our lucky stars that they tend to be
at each other's throats.

True.... :)

ttyl neb

... Claustrophobia: The fear of Santa Claus

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