What's on your mind now?

[Bob]

And then super serious life event level stuff again... Dang.  I thought 2017 would bounce back from the oddness of 2016 at the end, but it's seems more like it keeps going.

[Bob]

Trapped tension in muscles, but beyond that, the toughness it turns into.  And how to get of rid of that.

[Bob]

Repetition.  Something about just doing the rep more and slowly making improvements that way over time.  Intelligent practice/repetition.

And how to speed up that process.

[Bob]

Uh oh Goldentone....

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/18/520631324/what-a-cold-week-means-for-cranberries-blueberries-and-peaches

[georgey]

Trump: "We Will Have So Much Winning If I Get Elected That You May Get Bored With Winning"

Another win for Trump today.

[Bob]

Jarrod Radnich - Virtuosic Piano Solo - Pirates of the Caribbean

https://sheetmusic-free.com/sheetmusic/p/Jarrod-Radnich-Pirates-Of-The-Caribbean-Sheet-Music-Free-(Sheetmusic-free.com).pdf

I was amused when I found that before. 


Good example of a piece sounding like more than it is/virtuosity.  I kind of already had that sense (sitting on the piano?    )  but seeing the music was amusing.  Fits the hands too, although I'm wondering about the voicing, if it's all needed.

And man those other videos... It's something... And then it is also something too.


This thing almost looks like my piano routine.  I was wondering if it's also the kind of piece that could be hammered out (just play FF) on most any piano.  There's a decent chance people would already know the melody if the voicing is off.  It's not a complicated melody.  And then it's a nice steady beat.  Very accessible for listening. Play something for you?  Sure... Then play that.  Haha.   I was thinking if it was a little old lady asking.  In reality that might look like a teenage showoff thing.

[Bob]

Jet lag and adjusting to a new time zone... 

[Bob]

[Bob]

Why Your Art Teacher Hates your Anime Art
Drawing with Mattias

[Bob]

I'm pretty sure my brain still thinks I'm in my early twenties, somewhere around there.  I was thinking of an older age and thought, "That's old."  Then I realized I was that age.... Or not.  Then I realized again I'm older than the number I was thinking was old. 

[Bob]

Rotuines... Pushing things.. Fatigue....

[Bob]

Use it or lose it.... Scary when it's the mind though.

Mental work/challenges/things to stimulate the mind.  The idea that something easy  might be allowing the brain to slack off and atrophy, so something "impossible" might have more benefit, esp. if it's got a boost of stress.    Focus.  Intensity.

[yewtree]

My old piano tutor  ended up in Jail!

 

[Bob]

The issue/problem of recovery/repair.

Also related to the quality/accurateness/thoughtfulness of the push/stress on the system.

[Bob]

My old piano tutor  ended up in Jail!

 

For what? 

I'm going to guess child porn or something along those lines.

[yewtree]

For what?  

I'm going to guess child porn or something along those lines.

Well almost right.  I don't think it was child porn as such, but he had been  a kiddy fiddler  when he was giving private lessons.   And a pupil  from many years back about 30  also came forward to say he had been sexually assaulted by him when he was a choir boy.
Just when I  thought I couldn't, be shocked anymore at the  horrors life brings, then this happens!
So  hey ho, I am looking for a new piano instructor, which hasn't been  easy.  

[Bob]

On the lighter side of that kind of situation I remember some comedy where the character realized someone his past was like that, but then was insulted that nothing happened to them.  They weren't good enough apparently.

[yewtree]

I never felt threatened by him, I was just the wrong gender!   


 

[Bob]

Being around people who seem way more in shape than me.  Geez.

That and wondering if I've lost something with aging but am not aware of it.  Knowing that's probably true too.

[Bob]

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Mandela-effect

I'm listening to a CD, but I would swear it's not the same CD I was listening to before.  I'm still actually thinking it's a completely different CD, similar but different music.

[Bob]

Can't predict the future, positive or negative.  It's usually never quite what you planned/expected.

[Bob]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProRevenge/comments/6a4vfm/the_suck_button_not_my_story/

[Bob]

Considering everything that's happened with Trump...

And that the pollsters didn't find a huge quiet mass of Trump supporters before the election...

And adding in Russia....


I wonder if that huge quiet group of Trump supporters actually exists.

[lau]

jazz version of liszt sonata b minor

[Bob]

[mike_lang]

That's what my wife calls it when I go for a walk around the lake out back . . . "hamstering."

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm looking for apartments in Chicago and everyone's being hella mean for no reason.

Me:  Hi I'm interested in x property and I was wond-

Them:  It's in this area are you sure you want the area do you know where it is?

Me:  Yeah I know the gener-

Them:  well it might not be the area for you

Me:  I'm going to depa-

Them:  It's not close

Me:  I know that but it's close to the redline and I'll have a ca-

Them:  You should check out the area before you-

Me:  *hangs up*



SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!

[Bob]

Hm.  What comes after being tired enough to just go to sleep right after work?  Go to work, come home, go to bed, wake up the next day, go back to work.... The next step is to repeat that over several days.  10+hr sleep days.

[lau]

I'm looking for apartments in Chicago and everyone's being hella mean for no reason.

I live in edgewater and love it.. 2 blocks from lake Michigan beach and few blocks from red line and express bus. 850 for my studio.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I live in edgewater and love it.. 2 blocks from lake Michigan beach and few blocks from red line and express bus. 850 for my studio.

is there decent street parking there?  Cause ima need my car for work.

Actually I remeber looking for an apartment there and they advertised 740 a month but when I got there they said 930

[outin]

I'm looking for apartments in Chicago and everyone's being hella mean for no reason.

What?! They don't want a cute pianist in the house? People are grazy...

[lau]

is there decent street parking there?  Cause ima need my car for work.

I don't drive so I have no Idea about parking but my building has an indoor lot.
lets be roommates or whatever

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I don't drive so I have no Idea about parking but my building has an indoor lot.
lets be roommates or whatever

What company did you lease under?  I'm not looking for roommates though I've lived with roommates my entire college career and I want the freedom to take women home and not be interrupted...

if you know what I mean..

[lau]

ch ventures llc. I think.. oh and I understand the roommate situation, I hated having sex when I lived with my old roommate. He could hear everything. but whatever.

[lau]

so cheesy but so good

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Finally got my Scarbo tattoo!!!

I got it on my ribs and that sh*t hurt so bad

[starlady]

Did you give the guy a picture of a SCARBO? What picture?  We want to see!   

Or do you mean you have the SCORE on your ribs now... Wow, that must be painful.

-s.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Did you give the guy a picture of a SCARBO? What picture?  We want to see!   

Or do you mean you have the SCORE on your ribs now... Wow, that must be painful.

-s.

I got the first measure on my ribs and yeah that sh*t hurt like a pregnant dog


It's on my Instagram under house_atredis

Even if you don't have an Instagram just google it I'll pop up cause my profile is public

[Bob]

Things can always get worse.

I thought having expired food in the fridge was bad, the food being maybe up to two years out of date sometimes. 

Add in adding more fresh vegetables.... I end up with liquified goo running down the insides of my fridge and then a container that I just opened with some vegetable thing I made actually bubbling (like kimchee).  Yeeuck.

[Bob]

Found a couple piano blogs.

https://crosseyedpianist.com

https://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com

[Bob]

This is what happens when you (meaning me) live at a place for more than a year.  It gets cluttered.  Then "layered" for things.  Then things get more dirty since it's layered and it's too much effort to clean.  And then stacking occurs.  Need a place to set something right now?  Just balance it on top of something else..... 

Make that odds and ends of drinks to make navigating through the place a little more interesting....

[Bob]

More advanced scheduling than what I normal do, at least in terms of concept.

A nice way to possibly recover something good from those days when things are going off schedule/crappy.

A routine is good, but one limit is that it's the same coverage over the same areas... and daily (the negative part of habit).

Add in some 'rest is good' and the need to push capacity in one area.  Instead of a static routine covering all areas, pushing just one specific area hard is good periodically.  Otherwise there's never a chance to grow.

With several projects (each with its own routine) taking up time that ends up meaning...
Completely drop one project.  It's rest (sort of.  I'm still not totally buying this.).  But it frees up a lot of time for another project, to push that other project.  Later it could be reversed.  ex. Project A that gave up all its time for Project B gets even more time/a hard capacity push while Project B gets no time at all.


This is a wider version with different projects.  The smaller version is with in the blocked out time for that one project.  Instead of covering all areas in that one project, it just focusing on one area in the project and pushing that.  This easily ends up happening anyway when you focus on one aspect first and most and another aspect is short changed.


The tough part is actually dropping a project, knowing what to do with the extra time for a hard push, and being able to vary everything on a larger/calendar schedule.   A daily, habitual routine is cake.


End result?  Much more intelligent progress/use of time.  Instead of just working hard, it's getting a push/recovery/progress in potentially in all areas.


Still wondering about how to do this without writing things down though... Esp. to vary it in all areas like things.  I was already touching on it.  Keeping everything in mind is ideal.  Writing things down for this never seems to stick or last long. 

[Bob]

+rest, although that's just rest.

melting is better to force a relax
along with stretching.
also... lighter, nimbler movement through loosening up tension so you only put as much effort in as needed, as opposed to tightening up the other side in the pair of muscles... produces tension, end up working against yourself, ie tired/fatigue


plus, alternating pushes among multiple routines. 
- and varying the routine, vs. a static routine.
ie one routine gets pushed/takes time from others.  then heal the first/pushed routine when the others take its time and get a push.






what I came to post.... 15... or 20 years? later??  I got the instant coffee.  But I don't remember my formula anymore.  I tried some, used milk, added a ton of stevia.... It's close but not quite it.  Part of the effect is that it's so bitter, you have to plan in advance, and down the whole thing at once as fast as you can.  (Otherwise, you might vomit.)  After you swig it down, you get bit by the taste but  by then it's too late.  Then there's the caffeine hit and relief from not having to struggle to stay awake.

[Bob]

Aren't we supposed to be doing a lot of square dancing?  I remember that took up some valuable gym class time in grade school. 

[Bob]

Doldrums.  Even when I know what I want to do, it still takes time.  Even just changing something seems to have a bit of an increase in willpower or effort needed.  Makes some sense though. 

But doldrums in terms of being able push things and make progress.  I seem to be stalled out.  An overall consistent routine is limiting by itself.  Doing more focused pushing in specific directions while everything else waits, rests, gets eased back, or just gets less time seems like a solution.  And then balancing all that is very tricky.  I haven't gotten it down.  There's a danger of having it all flop too, crash and burn, and ending up in a lower spot compared to just sticking with the same old, same old routine.

[Bob]

80/20 or 99/1  something like that.

[Bob]

That you probably can't stray too far from a routine, or at least far enough away that things in the routine start to fade/shift.  The routine would keep things stable, so that's good, but then a periodic hard push in any direction (and probably varying the directions) will keep the routine from getting static (and stuck if everything atrophies around the routine.  There's just not enough time either way though -- Not enough time to push out every area, not enough time to do a routine (unless it's reduce, but that's the whole point of the posts) AND a push at the same time.


This stuff probably makes zero sense to someone who's not on the same wavelength.  I don't quite understand it all myself.  But it should be some kind of progress.


Keeping thing in mind instead of on paper is good, learning to do that.  Paper never gets read in the future anyway.  It's still just all in the mind. Even typing it out here is still writing it.  A plus to not forget right now, but eventually it would be forgotten, lost.  The only plus is if it's still remembered and the edge of the idea can be pushed or tested out...


I still haven't figured out how to schedule this.  Maybe by day of the week.  Maybe just randomly.  Maybe in a certain order.  Something though.... Then add keeping it in mind.  Stuff that has worked?  Day of the week.   And rest... Getting more rest and then hitting it hard the next day.

Which could be another strategy to save time -- Rest so there's an even more intense hit possible the next day.  This is opposed to the routine that's the same each day.  Which means.....  An intense hit is more injury prone.  And it's not the 'on demand' usefulness that a routine can provide.  But keeping the routine as a base (maybe even resting beforehand?) and then doing a periodic hard push/rest could allow for that harder to push.  Then the routine might capture that.   


....And I've lost my train of thought.... Keeping it in mind is good.  Even doing a routine with a simple alternation between loud vs. soft or static vs. legato has worked in the past. 


A hard push event could be over a series of days too, not just one day.  Even on one day it's difficult to give things a hard push sometimes.  Spread out of several days increases the wear factor which could wear things down to the point where an actual push is possible.

[yewtree]

Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears, the very subject whose decisions build the social order. From this mistaken conception of the person there arise both a distortion of law, which defines the sphere of the exercise of freedom, and an opposition to private property…”



Discuss.







 

[Bob]

Is that going to be on the test?  Are we being graded on that?  What percent is it of the overall grade?

[Bob]

Superman effect through rest or through intensity/focus.

And intensity/focus can overcome time limitations.