Stijn!!

[Outback Porsche]

Burp!

Beer o'clock

[azzarule]

Evening all, going to go to work tomorrow, hate to see my in tray, and unread messages. Three weeks away, going to be a long day.

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Burp!

Beer o'clock

I had cider

[Outback Porsche]

I had a crap day...it needed more than one beer to fix.

[Outback Porsche]

Retiring the old HP Mini we use when off walkabout. Got a proper flash one to set up.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Freakin Morning.

Sleep was a good thing. As that Martha Stewart chick would say.

[Outback Porsche]

Morning

I'm struggling to stay awake, sleeping sounds like a good plan.

[RKDinOKC]

Yeah that SSD stuff is the way to go.

[RKDinOKC]

Going to eye doc today. Left eye that had the eyeball juice replaced is still hemorrhaging faster than it can clear. I get these black spots that streak then dissipate into thousands of tiny dots. It's like looking through a gray haze. Hope he can do something about it.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Hump day morning folks.

Richard, good luck with the eye doctor appointment.

[RKDinOKC]

My time machine backup of my laptop is up to 1.4 TB. It does hourly backups for 24 hours, Daily backups for a month, and Weekly backups until it runs out of drive space. It only backs up the files that change and does it in the background so you never notice. The reason they call it time machine is I can open the backup and can cruise thru and image of my drive with folders and all to find whatever version of a file based on the date I need. Pretty nifty. My laptop has 300GB on the drive.

Backup up the backup and it took 19 hours to backup the 1.4 TB backup file.

Since farkling my laptops partitions trying to get boot camp up and running may try reformatting my laptop this weekend and see just how long it takes to restore from a network drive time machine backup. An initial backup can take up to 20 hours. I also have a bootable backup on and external drive, but want to see how long it takes from the time machine backup over my network.

And it's also about time to update my server. That means buying a new one and moving everything to the new server.

[Oh Haha]

Hey hey.

Daughter was up at 230 am advising that she couldn't sleep. I suggested that standing at our bedside wasn't going to help. After a couple of rounds of her waking us I finally gave her a Melatonin.

One of her friends is staying with us during the day through Friday due to her babysitter flaking out on her parents.

Taking the boy to his new school tonight to find his classrooms and get him set up with an alto saxophone although he really wants to learn banjo so he can be a hillbilly. Somedays I wonder about his future. Ok, most days.


Yes, I hope the eye doc visit goes well Richard.

[Outback Porsche]

Good luck with your eyeball Richard.

My son took up the alto sax when he was in primary school. He was pretty good at it too...until his knobhead teacher told him he that playing basketball would ruin his fingers and he should give it away. He loves sports and has always had a natural talent at any he'd try, so he gave up the sax. From that point on, we couldn't convince him that the teacher was full of 5hit.

I hope one day he has another crack at it. The bugger had talent.

Night all

[Jim Richards]

Good luck with the eyeball doc, Richard. Morning, y'all.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. not much to report on here except I want to go back to bed for another 40 winks.

[RKDinOKC]

Hey...I played Saxophone.

Started with an Alto. By the end of HS had 2 altos of my own and the schools Tenor and Baritone. And could make my alto sound just like a soprano sax.

Started in 7th grade. At the end of the 1st 9 weeks my schedule was re-arranged and I was put in the 9th grade band and got 1st chair.

Our HS started in 9th grade and put in the regular band instead of the 9th grand and also the Jazz or Stage band. Summer before 10th grade I used the money I earned to buy a Selmer Alto Sax. It was $700. Used my old Sax as my marching sax so as not to risk damaging the Selmer. The other day I checked and my Selmer sax is the preferred model the players really like and is now worth $6000.

The solo piece I played in 10th grade was what most sax players played for Senior Recital in College. 11th and 12th grade was 1st chair All State and Tri-State. Senior year I was Drum Major.

All thru HS instead of study hall I was the teacher's aide for the orchestra. I was the one that pulled and copied all the sheet music. Also directed the orchestra a lot my junior year.

Senior year a picked up a clarinet and was asked to play with the junior symphony and got 2nd chair clarinet. The director specifically picked a couple of pieces for the Junior symphony to play that had sax solos for me.

Got scholarships to go to any College or University I wanted with my Sax. Oklahoma University music director told me that if I wanted would be in line to be drum mayor of the OU marching band. But had to major in music. Both OSU and CSU gave me a full ride if I just played in their symphonic and jazz bands.

My senior year was the only year I wasn't 1st chair sax in HS. When marching season was over and we switched to symphonic band the new director put me last chair. He also tired to give me a B in band. I got the grade changed because I was 1st chair in Jazz band, Drum Major, 1st chair All State, 1st chair Tri-State, and got all 1s at all the solo contests we went to. He didn't like me at all.

The summer before my senior year our band director changed to a better job (Counsellor) in a different school system. The school system was planning to move their next best band director to our school. Before school ended my Junior year I had been introduced to him and played some sax stuff for him but wasn't told why. He did make the comment that he sure wished I was in his music program to play is his jazz band.

The band parents association got wind of the replacement and came unglued. The replacement band director was coming from a predominately black school and he himself was BLACK. Before even meeting him they petitioned the school board and got them to hire someone else. The guy they did hire (notice I didn't say director) was the organ player for the local minor league baseball team.

Just after the new school year started my senior year I was invited to the old band director's house. When I got there it was both the old band director and the black director that was supposed to replace them. That's when I found out what was really going on. The director was working to get me as a featured Soloist with the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra. And having the right people in the audience to set me up for a fantastic music carrier as a sax player. They had been waiting to tell me about it until everything was set up. Told me that had called me over to apologize.

They told me about approaching the organ player and he told them he didn't want to waste his time on me. They said they really tried but couldn't get it going unless the director of my HS band was on board because of the publicity and that would be a big part of getting a music carrier started so young.

The organ guy basically treated me like crap. Even though I was drum major he did his best to not have me do anything to help. When we first start marching we broke up into squads to teach marching. He gave me all the misfit trouble makers trying to make me look bad. My squad ended up being the best and that pissed him off. As an aide for the orchestra he didn't want me to help to anything and he sorely needed it. The only thing he ever did was let me have 1st chair in the HS jazz band, don't know why. Think maybe he was jealous.

A few years later I ran into my old band director. He showed me a CD of the sax player Kenny G and pointed out the producers. Kenny G did not come onto the scene until after I had graduated. He told me that those producers were some of the people that were going to come listen to me and what they were looking for was a sax player they could feature and he was confident that it would have been me instead of Kenny G if it hadn't been for that jerk organ player.

Sure would have been a completely different life for me.

That's what I think of when someone mentions as saxophone, especially an Alto.

[Oh Haha]

Must have been the sweet beard you were sportin' Richard!


j/k That's actually pretty darn cool that you were so successful with music. We got my son's schedule today and he has his 2 electives as art and music so he is happy about that. I think, Can't tell sometimes with him. He hates gym with a passion. That I do know!

I had wifey drive the tah-ruck to work today as the van needed fuel and I didn't want her to have to stop at 6:30 to get it. I took the opportunity to wash and detail it a bit. I also checked the transmission fluid and it is full, red, and not stinky. WOOHOO!

I also forgot that I left her birthday present in the truck last night. I told her she may as well open it now that she saw the bag. doh

[RKDinOKC]

Hated gym as well and the wrestling coach kept wanting me to get into wrestling because he couldn't pin me when the gym class did wrestling. I thank God I only had to take gym in 9th grade.

Didn't take any Art classes because my mom's cousin was the senior art professor at OU and an accomplish modern art painter. He told me when I was young to not take any classes, instead just get some paints and have fun and see what I could do with them. That way I would develop my own style and that's what makes you a marketable artist.

Instead of taking stuff like drafting, auto shop, metal working or wood working I did electronics.

Some friends and I took Geometry in summer school because we found out you had time to do all theorems and proofs in class and wouldn't have any homework. That got us in Calculus while still in HS. We were a bunch of nerds for sure. Remember in that summer school group was when we all got our programmable calculators cause there was the big war over TI with standard notation vs HP with reverse polar notation and which was faster and easier to program. It was also where I bumped into the little girl next door I used to play doctor with that had moved away and had just moved back.

[Porsche-poor]

I took all the drafting classes. My senior year they had to make up a class just for me to take.

[RKDinOKC]

After college working where I work now I was moved from the machine shop to the drafting/graphic arts/engineering department. They asked me to take some drafting classes to make sure I knew what I was doing and I ended up helping the others in class with their drawings instead of the teacher, especially the 3D illustration and graphic arts classes. It was pretty easy stuff. Basically the only hard part was learning to letter really neatly.

I refused to take their CADD classes because it was so out of date. You were basically writing fortran code to produce drawings. It was the same with computer programming when in college, they were teaching people to use punch cards. Arg.