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    Great!
  • Designing a pedal assist for a grand? to pedal damper with left foot

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    I wonder if your doc could prescribe some sort of rigid boot for you to put on for piano playing.
  • Take the Bay Leaf challenge!

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  • I was blown away by this story

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    Social services suck. This reminds me of social workers. Social workers suck and are useless. This reminds me of non-profits. Non-profits suck. They are private businesses in all but name. They give themselves very large salaries and help people in need in a nominal way. Charities suck. Same set up. There was a St. Pete con artist who started a non-profit LLC to manage $100,000,000.00 in pooled trust assets for the disabled. He walked off with $100,000,000.00. He⁷ was sued but the money was gone. I can easily see social services abandoning a child. Fwiw, think about how much money non profits take in and consider the fact that society's problems they are meant to mitigate continue not only unabated but continue to worsen by the day. This story doesn't surprise me at all.
  • Kitchen knives

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    @Steve-Miller said: @Rontuner Did you notice any difference in how it cuts after you changed the bevel? Not that I could tell, but I'm no chef...
  • Yakult Lady

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    What a great concept!
  • Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?

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    I love higher order insects.
  • What do you think of this house? Sandusky edition.

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    @Steve-Miller said: But the garage would be so worth it!
  • Laughter is the best medicine

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  • If something feels off about the world today here's why.

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    Bless him. May he rest in peace. And all day I thought it was this damn time change. Huh.
  • Weather where you are thread

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    Spring won't start until March 20th. Even now it's what I would consider early summer weather. 83° or 84° can easily end up being 86° or 87° inside. Nothing noteworthy here until Thursday when it will be 75° with heavy rain and moderate wind.
  • News of an old friend

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    @Steve-Miller said: Have you visited that store, Al? Yes, I have. I was in Philadelphia on business once and finished in time to visit the store and meet Rich in person. A second visit was a piano party that he hosted there a number of years ago. Big Al
  • Hobbies

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    Even though the angles are set by the block, the angle is really determined by the steadyness of the hand. The other thing with rods is that they are good at maintaining an edge, but tend to introduce a wavy edge more than a flat over time. I didn't notice until I started using the rolling sharpener. One issue with the rolling ones I didn't think about was that many thinner knives won't stick up over the magnetic block without some fooling around. Not a dealbreaker, but something to work through. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJRF3S7T?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1 I went with a cheap one first to see if I liked it. The better ones offer the option to replace grits.
  • One of a kind Shigeru Kawai SK5

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    I'd take one of the grand pianos. I'll have my private secretary call them Monday. Upright & grand pianos https://share.google/nUhoCgM4ODZUqqQuQ 🤪
  • Streets of Minneapolis

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    Darn. I like his stuff less now that I know that.
  • Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?

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    Not exactly a bloom, but we emerged from winter this week and I found this little tree. Yikes! [image: IMG-5311.jpg] It’s a dwarf weeping Altas Cedar. It came through the winter of ‘24-‘25 just fine, but the cold snap this winter may have killed it. What? Don’t cedars grow in Alaska and stuff? Nursery guy says it’s probably fine - that it will drop the brown needles and grow new ones. Sure enough, the branches are still pliable so maybe there is hope.
  • What's the subtext to this ad?

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  • A master class on sleep

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    I'll read this! I couldn't sleep, at all, last night. It was insomnia, not a disturbance in the neighborhood. (My neighbors on their best behavior). So, I took two naps today. I had to do it. But how will I get to sleep tonight? And then tomorrow we have that stupid time change, meaning it will be in effect tomorrow morning.
  • Kristi Noem fired

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    Where's the drummer emoticon when you need it?
  • Apple and her Estonia

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    Apple and justme were the two people who welcomed me to the old Coffee Room so many years ago. It's been quite a trip since then. Big Al