@AndyD said: I've had a non brand Makita drill battery literally explode. Yikes!! We had a Bluetooth speaker battery suddenly swell but it didn’t burst. It looked like a failed explosion.

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We had an attached, but unheated garage that woudn't ever freeze - perfect auxillary fridge over the winter!

@Bernard She was mostly on board. She sort of started out by saying that it's such a well-known piece and I might try to keep all five notes in the roll. But I said I didn't really want to strain just to get that, so she agreed to dropping a note. And she definitely agreed that the Db is the one to drop! I'm working on this piece up through page three on my score, which is measure 34 (of 72) so I'm about halfway through it. I asked her what I should do for the next week of practice, whether I should focus of the first three pages or should I move ahead and work on parts that are new that I haven't looked at yet. She said move ahead, so that was interesting to me. I only have two more measures and then the key changes (for 8 measures before changing back). So I guess I should work on those two measures, and at least start the key change section. I keep thinking I'm on the edge of giving up on this piece, and then something happens and it feels do-able... And then I realize that is total folly...

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Rain ... the 1932 film with Joan Crawford.

If you want to practice I’ll send you a zoom link and you can connect to it. (Late this afternoon when I’m home).

Iceland poppies seed themselves here, in yellow and orange, before you knowing they're popping up everywhere in the nicest way

@RealPlayer said: REgifting. So, that word does not bug me.... well, as long as it's used as a gerund If someone says "Remember that book that Mark gifted me? I regifted it to Sue" then all bets are off.

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You can't grieve someone you never loved in the first place.

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@kluurs said: 4.79 - not sure who I displeased. You never know when you close a door a little too hard. Rachel always does that as a matter of habit. I’ll bet her rating is relatively bad.

@Mik BTW don't get me wrong, I'm very happy for you that yours was funded. Any studies getting funded in this admin should be celebrated. But there is (was) a vetting process in place. Trump just ignored it, the way he ignores everything and just does what he wants. So I wouldn't call that winnowing.

Newport, RI Chateau-sur-Mer Link to video I've noticed many of these Gilded Age mansions in Newport had dark interiors. I like that. I think it's beautiful and elegant. Darkness is a rare commodity when sunlight is so relentless imho.

Speaking of art, I received some more of my late mother's photographs today. So this was the 4th USPS box of 4 with photographs my cousin found after my father passed. It was joyous! My mother passed in 2014 and so much went missing. But today there was something I wanted a lot. It's a black and white photograph of my mother and me by my first Dr who was a photographer. I had this photograph framed for my mother a long time ago. I would have been maybe 4 and she would have been about 23. Man I need to learn to post pictures.

I was beginning to wonder what a girl had to do to get arrested.