@kluurs said: After answering I looked at what Bavouzet actually does - and he does it the same (4 bass notes in left hand) - see his video at around 16:34 thanks! Both Bavouzet and Debussy would probably hate that I introduce a ritard there - but then I'm not playing for a jury. Me neither! Oh wait, conceivably, I could end up playing this for a jury... (It would be my choice though)

@Mik said: I've been trying to convince Janet to install a small laundry unit in our walk in closet. It's right on the wall that has the waste and water lines. Easy peasy and we don't need nearly the closet space we used to when working. Thought about doing the same thing in a closet in a spare bedroom that is set up as an office that we basically don't use anymore. There are those dryers that vent moisture into the drain rather than to the outside. Two story house here plus basement. Our laundry setup is currently in the basement. Installing a washer and dryer on the second floor would save trips up/down the stairs but doesn't eliminate them altogether. Of course I wouldn't have to carry the clean laundry up two flights, though now I bring small armloads up to the first floor and hang them in the front hall closet until I head up to 2. And I wouldn't be likely to hang out on the second floor while things washed and dried. Part of me thinks that hiring someone to come in and do laundry for us once a week if I can't do it myself might be the way to go rather than investing in a second setup upstairs. Dunno. Portable dryers: https://www.thespruce.com/best-portable-dryers-5224945

My Ting came from State Farm too. It also has a $1,000 remediation allowance if it finds an issue.

AMF.

@Bernard OMG, I hadn't even thought of that. Guess the administration isn't long on geography. First the Strait of Hormuz and now this.... His head would explode if they threatened to raise fees for using the canal...(insert devil emoji here)

The world is a massively multiplayer role playing game. Many years ago, I, as an adult visiting Tokyo, saw a building with many pianos — a piano shop. I went inside, saw no employee, so I walked around, looked around, then sat down and played the biggest concert grand. When I looked up, half a dozen store employees, all men, surrounded me at a polite distance. Reading the room, I thought they treated my presence as a “security situation.” Turned out I wondered into one of their special rooms presumably reserved for artist recording (I could not be sure due to language barrier), and I was politely invited/escorted to another room — also with many marvelous grand pianos — a showroom where visitors are allowed to play the pianos. Would have been a cuter story in my memory had I been a six year old, though my parents/legal guardians may have had a big scare for having lost a kid in Tokyo. The New Yorker dude’s story might have ended up in a police report instead of the New Yorker had he looked like a delinquent teenager, the sort the princess-like woman would clutch her purse in his presence and call the cops.

Batten down the hatches!!

Thanks, so much SK, Adagio, Joe and Andy!! : ) @andyd Do I have lists? I don't have a long list of things I really want. I want a good full size mattress set! I have a long list of household things to have inspected by contractors and fixed. My clothes washer was 2 yrs old. It died. I'm getting a replacement different make from Lowe's. I want a Speed Queen all mechanical model at 2x the price but it's not in my budget. So the new scam is the electronic circuit board controls fail after a year or two and nobody can fix them. My bathroom has a minor leak. The source point is the bathroom vent cap on the roof. Also, the previous owner took the duct away from the actual fan to the roof. You can turn it on when you take a shower and it blows water up into nowhere. Similar is the floor structure. A few of the times are loose and a few broken from normal use not damage. Everything is white tile with a barely noticable slightly raised diamond pattern; I don't know who would make such a choice but it's tile in the sub-tropics- so it's all good. Well, these structures need something called a vapor barrier under the floor. This plastic vapor barrier and the AC unit's duct system have to be maintained or eventually new instalations and repairs @ x sq ft would be approx. 7k. I've got to get estimates in September. I'm sleeping on a $200 Wal-Mart all in one mattress. I put a folded towel over it and prevent the metal springs from causing pain, discomfort, and nerve damage. I want a GOT certified wool mattress. I'm an Anglophile and a history fan. Sleeping on an organic wool mattress is an interesting idea to me. It seems archaic in a good way. But $$. I wish you and your wife many years of restfulness and happiness with your new mattress! BTW, I was able to find the perfect size rug for the living room. It covers as much floor space as it can without blocking any air vents. Wal-Mart, 100% wool, hand-tufted in India, garden pattern, not organic dyes of course. $399. Not a great price but met requirements. Then I got a great little canister vacuum for less than $70 that's a Miele base model copy and slightly miniaturized. Bag. Filter. Clever!

@DougG said: Great, now Jon’s last post expects me to come up with a rhyme for “lits”. I’m pretty sure there isn’t one. Could this be the end of the word association thread?

Sadly, my Thai basil. Now the leaves aren't much good.

Lits

Link to video Omg!

Yes and seems so random as always.

@jon-nyc said: [image: 1786805318857-screenshot-2026-08-15-at-09.07.28.png] Yes, and Madonna took the first "selfie" in "Desperately Seeking Susan." I mean this as a cultural phenomenon, strictly speaking. People have been pointing cameras at themselves and others for a long time. Lol!

Well, they were a communist country for the better part of a century. I will make a note to unpack my smallest violin to play for the oligarchs whose assets are seized. I know the subtext is- "Putin bad!" 10 years of Trump the Ubiquitous and- "Putin bad!" have made a long 10 years. I know this is a legitimate news story but Russia didn't practice "capitalism," either before the break up of the USSR, or after.

Interesting. QEII had them. Assume she could have had any breed. That's a recommendation. Not a dog person. Wouldn't know where to begin.