It's Friday, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/08/2019 at 16:00 • Filed to: None

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Time for a cold one. Got any big plans for the weekend?

The s ymphony is playing the music for a screening of   Singin ’ in the Rain on Saturday night. What a fantastic movie, and a challenging jazz score . If you haven’t seen it, go see it . Sund ay, our family is volunteering at the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . We’re working hard to get my HS student’s volunteer hours, and it’s a good thing to do with the whole family. Go volunteer somewhere!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:02

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Replace wipers on Fiesta. Sit in my chair

CB > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:05

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Continuing trends of cleaning my house and working nights. Such is life in -40.

vicali > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:06

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A cold one indeed;

S ki lessons will most likely be cancelled, probably hang out inside instead.

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:07

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Considering they each have a beer in front of them, no one in the picture looks happy - I get the impression they *really* didn’t want their picture taken.

2 year olds playing soccer (aka just running around like crazy) tomorrow morning, then cooking a turkey for dinner, and the Chicago Auto Show on Sunday - whoo hoo!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:07

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negatory on the plans

asides from i plan to make tacos tomorow

with supermarket taco shells and just a passing glance at the recipe

tomorow i will likely offend all mexicans

im sorry

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:08

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Tighten front wheel bearings, possibly do a battery replacement on another car...

I may make a bodywork tool I’ve been planning to do, or do some wiring in the shop for the lathe and mill.

3point8isgreat > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:11

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Is this trend of symphonies playing live scores with movies new? I hadn’t heard of it until recently , but now I’ve seen The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars: A New Hope that way. Regardless of when the trend started, it’s absolutely brilliant!

I’ve got some friends coming over for some good old Halo LAN tonight , and then seeing the musical South Pacific at the symphony on Saturday.

punkgoose17 > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:14

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Drinking coffee and sleeping.

People got sick, so DnD plans got cancelled.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:34

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Leaving a half hour to head over to the SMU natatorium. Daughter’s swim team is doing a trip to the SMU/Tulane meet. She and I have already been on deck in the new building, since we were timers at the conference championships last Spring.

Also, as I was typing this, Kia called and said Genie is ready to go. So, after I sleep in tomorrow morning, I’ll head over there and get my car back.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:35

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Wishing the rain would stahp

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 02/08/2019 at 16:42

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Sounds good!

ttyymmnn > 3point8isgreat 02/08/2019 at 16:46

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It’s been gaining steam for the last two years or so. Orchestras and venues have discovered that, with relatively little cost to themselves, they can practically pack the hall. We’ve done New Hope, La La Land, three of the Harry Potters, Wizard of Oz. Next year we’re doing Raiders of the Lost Ark and Close Encounters. We’ve also done the music of Zelda a couple of times, and a Pokemon show back when Pokemon Go was such a hit. I enjoy it, though the string players often bitch about it. They get a major workout, particularly with Williams. 

ttyymmnn > punkgoose17 02/08/2019 at 16:47

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Drinking coffee and sleeping sounds wonderful. I’m too busy for that. 

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 02/08/2019 at 16:48

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Not too much sleeping in for me this weekend. Got too much to do. As I get older, though, I can’t sleep as late as I used to, and I tend to lament the lost time, even it is spent lazing on the sofa.

ttyymmnn > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 02/08/2019 at 16:49

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We’re getting a blizzard here.

JustAnotherG6 > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:50

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I’ll be skiing in WI with scouts from my sons troop. There is around 35 or so of us leaving tonight. It’s going to be an absolute shit show but I’ll try to eek out some fun here and there.

ttyymmnn > JustAnotherG6 02/08/2019 at 16:55

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Good luck.

Future Heap Owner > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 16:56

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I’ve got two six packs of beer, supplies to make sticky rice dumplings and four loaves of bread (assuming power doesn’t go out), and boil-to-eat meals as backup, so I’m ready for the impending snowstorm. Gonna be cooking, baking, and  eating through the weekend, with a break or two to go do some donuts in the snow.

BeaterGT > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 17:10

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Going to the Philly auto show for the first time, usually do NY but changing things up this year. 

3point8isgreat > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 17:16

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I was pretty amused by how ridiculous some of the violin parts seemed for Star Wars.  They’re so much quieter that I hadn’t noticed their very high pitch tremolo in recordings.  And they definitely seemed to spend a lot of time high up on the fingerboard. (I casually play violin, and like to sit front row by them so I can watch more closely).

ttyymmnn > 3point8isgreat 02/08/2019 at 17:20

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Listen to the violins at the beginning of Harry Potter. It’s insane.

just-a-scratch > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 17:47

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Drinking tea, reading a book, and watching snow fall.

If I get very ambitious, I might study some vibration analysis training stuff. 

ttyymmnn > just-a-scratch 02/08/2019 at 17:51

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You don’t have kids, do you?

just-a-scratch > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 17:51

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I went to a show featuring the Looney Toons with live symphony orchestra. It was a lot of fancy and childish fun. The John Williams show was quite good too.

ttyymmnn > just-a-scratch 02/08/2019 at 17:55

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Looney Tunes sounds like fun. There is actually a lot of legit classical music in those cartoons. And lots of it is heavily inspired by opera, Richard Strauss, etc. And of course, Wagner.

3point8isgreat > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 17:55

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That sounds comically insane and diabolical. Definitely beyond my abilities!

just-a-scratch > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 17:56

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Correct. As far as kids go, I’m quite satisfied spoiling the niece and nephews

ttyymmnn > 3point8isgreat 02/08/2019 at 17:58

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I’m not a violinist (thank god), but I can say that the really good composers, Williams of course among them, can write extraordinarily complex music for a given instrument, but they know so well how to write for the instruments that it’s playable. With a lot of work, mind you. Some composers just write hard music that his hard. The great ones write hard music that is playable. 

ttyymmnn > just-a-scratch 02/08/2019 at 17:58

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Having kids has its moments. And then sometimes it doesn’t. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 18:00

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I'm doing IBM show graphics in the rain!! Sigh

just-a-scratch > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 18:01

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It’s pretty great that WB had a full orchestra on staff for years. When the musicians weren’t busy with other higher profile projects, the cartoon unit comandeered them to score animated films. A lot of classical works were already familiar to the orchestra and copyright free, so the got used a lot.

ttyymmnn > just-a-scratch 02/08/2019 at 18:06

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That would have been a fun gig.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 02/08/2019 at 19:16

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f86sabre > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 20:32

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Today is my son’s 12th birthday. We went the dinner and the Dud e Bros are here for a sleep over. He wanted monkey bread instead of cake so we did that. Tomorrow for the party we are having an arcade championship. A mix of old and new games and a full on bracket system. There were be tears of joy and of loss.

I also just heard something glass break down stairs and I am ignoring it. Wife has it under control. 

Matt Nichelson > ttyymmnn 02/08/2019 at 20:33

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Oh man, I would love to come see that. I’m not huge on musicals but I love that movie. I'm sure that will be awesome.

ttyymmnn > Matt Nichelson 02/08/2019 at 20:49

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It’s a great film, more than just a musical. And it has Cyd Charisse. Yowza!

ttyymmnn > f86sabre 02/08/2019 at 21:11

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Sounds like fun. Happy birthday, Sabre Jr.!

JustAnotherG6 > ttyymmnn 02/11/2019 at 10:29

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post-weekend update:

All in all not to bad of a weekend. Accommodations were adequate , kids were well behaved, adults rolled with the punches and on the last run of the day my kid broke his arm. After that, 4 hr. drive through a snow storm to dump gear, pick up mom and spend the next 6 hrs. at the ER only to get home at 2AM. Thankfully we had call ahead priority at the ER due to Hemophillia so we weren’t sitting in the waiting room for long.

ttyymmnn > JustAnotherG6 02/11/2019 at 10:36

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All in all not to bad of a weekend.

I’m trying to square that statement with the rest of the paragraph....

JustAnotherG6 > ttyymmnn 02/11/2019 at 10:46

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If you take out the last 10 or 11 hours...