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@Steve-Miller hooe you made it through without any trouble.

You too @Mik I can’t remember where Mik lives.

We had the a tornado warning and went down to the basement for a while last night, but no touch downs anywhere near here apparently.

@wtg said in Mr Booker goes to Washington:

“My challenge was, was that my strategy was to stop eating, I think I stopped eating on Friday, and then to stop drinking the night before I started on Monday, and that had its benefits and it had its really downsides.”

Oh my!! I had no idea! How did he stay standing up that whole time,wow!!!

OMG I use ellipses all the time! Not in texting but in posts on these online forums.

“Older people tend to use three dots to indicate ‘on and on,’” she says. “Like, ‘You can guess the rest.’”

Not this older person. I always use ellipses to mean something more like "there's more to say here, but I'm not sure what" or "I don't know how to finish this thought so I'll stop here."

Now, based on this article, and some probably overdue reflection, I need to conclude that probably no one interprets my ellipses the way I intend!!!

Yes indeed.

@Quirt-Evans said in Be careful what you say:

And it’d be even worse to lie and say you don’t have an account, and then get caught.

That was what I was thinking.

@Bernard said in Happy World Piano Day!:

But I can manage quite well right now without a cello teacher because I know what has to be done, but the climb is slow and steady.

That's great!

Also, my main focus is on piano right now.

Also great!

I heard this piece "Les larmes de Jacqueline" by Offenbach last month and went looking for the music.

Just listened, what a gorgeous piece!!! Wow! I can see why you would want to play it!

The best I could find was a transcription for harmonica and harp written in G clef, but I downloaded it and am in the process of writing it out in F clef and C clef (where necessary) because that's what I'm most comfortable reading for cello. A good exercise in vibrato.

"transcription for harmonica" is not something I expected to exist!

He's been talking about this for a while now.... remember this from last summer:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they-wont-have-vote-after-this-election-2024-07-27/

Thank you @RealPlayer !!
Do share what you’re working on!

@Bernard thank you!!

Today I worked on a couple Chopin Waltzes.

nice! You know, I’ve not really played any Chopin…. Although years ago, when I still lived in Japan and hadn’t been playing piano for very long, I did try to work on Op 28 No 15, the Raindrop Prelude, but I quickly realized I was in over my head.

Anyway, my teacher wants me to play the Em prelude (Op 28 No 4), and I can see from the score that it should be well within my level of playability now, so that’s in line for me to play next, I’ll probably start it after the April recital is over.

What cello music are you working on these days?

@wtg thank you!!!
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In honor of World Piano Day, here's my latest piano recording. This is still very much in progress, I'm working on getting it ready for a recital next month. New Day by Philip Wesley, piano by me.

@wtg said in What do you do when you don't have any migrants to take low-paying jobs?:

will permit unlimited working hours without breaks for 14- and 15-year-olds who are schooled at home or online, and allow employers to require 16- and 17-year-olds to work for more than six days in a row.

this what happens when there's a toddler-in-chief...

@Lisa thanks for the update! Yeah, it sounds like something def has to be soon then. Good luck with the estimate etc!

thanks for that @Rontuner ... it's truly distressing and a bit overwhelming...

@wtg thanks, I'll take a look.

Sigh.

@Steve-Miller looks like a lovely display! Except for the piano-shaped-object...

@Bernard Are you talking about this case?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/german-national-green-card-holder-immigration-detention-fabian-schmidt-rcna196714

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/germany-investigates-after-national-with-green-card-arrested-at-us-border

I hadn't heard about his case before, but reading it makes me feel sick to my stomach.

@pique said in Be careful what you say:

seems like it is that or go to Japan and stay there

The problem is that it is not clear that this is what would happen.

We could go to Japan, come back in two weeks and have zero issues getting back into the country. And that is as it should be, both of us have done nothing wrong, and he has legal permanent residence.

The real problem is that there's no assurance that things actually play out as they should.