Good morning, it's Labour Weekend!

 

There must be a National Weekend some time too? I hope there's not an ACT Weekend or a NZ First Weekend.

It's a cloudy old day in the Nui and it is supposed to rain soon. At least my lawns are done. The property is looking pretty good. 

My practice is going pretty well too. It's not quite 8am and I have already done half an hour on the guitar. I hope that Peter is practising his guitar.

Peter

He's evidently going away in January and staying in a place where a guitar is provided. He seems keen to be able to play some background music for his lady. I guess he'll be learning a few chords first. Then he'll probably run over a few pentatonic scales. 

I'll read Rob's new blog (Robert's Cello Bag) later to see how his practice is going. I hope he is working on his scales and looking for patterns that will help him to get around the instrument. I hope he is not wasting all his practice time on Hayden concertos.

The new computer is going pretty well now but I still can't do screen prints. Ah well, it's something I can work on.

We're driving up past Upper Hutt around lunchtime to visit some friends of Shelley's at a camping ground. It doesn't look like it'll be a great day to visit a camping ground, but that's life.

I think I'll go and do another half hour of guitar practice. As Peter knows now the guitar is a good instrument to practise when you haven't been up long. You can sit on the couch and make yourself comfortable. That wouldn't really be possible if you were practising the trombone or the double bass.

See you later.

Ciao.

It looks like he's back!

Rob is back and he's got rid of all the silly stuff using The Curmudgeon's blog. TC will forgive him when he sees this. 

Unfortunately I'm still getting used to my computer and can't take screen shots, so I've had to write out (by copying) what I saw on his new blog,

Here goes..

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ROBERT'S CELLO BAG

Putting C G D and A back onto the cello

Hi all. By the grase of Jesus and Mary I'm back.

Firstly, sorry to The Curmudgeon. I shouldn't have messed with hiz blog. I went to confession and revealed everything to Father Banana. I also prayed to Mary. Anyway, let's get on wiht it.

On this blog ill obviously be explaining the Bible to those athests who dont understand what they are missing out on. Im also going too be talking about the cello and the violin. Ill play a bit of the Hiyden cello concertos and explain how to finger scales on the cello. You can just read, sit back and enjoy,

Ill be puting a link up to my new blog soon.

Its good too be back,

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Good to see Robert back on board.

The state of the blogs.

 

For some reason Peter (aka The Curmudgeon) has become obsessed with olive trees and how they manage to bear their fruit. He popped around the other day and got curious about why two olive trees on our property aren't producing olives. Okay, I use olive oil, but olives are not a big thing in my life. I have no desire to eat olives. Still, he has gone on and on about our bloody trees. He even wrote a post about it. He copied a huge thing from Google - it went on and on. Let it go, Peter. As my mum would have said, "You're becoming a bit of a bore."

Rob has shown a face again. I don't think that Peter is replying to his comments because Rob deleted his own blog and then totally copied Peter's. That has changed now and he has a blog called "Not the Curmudgeon" that features a picture that I think is supposed to represent The Curmudgeon and himself. There are no posts at present. I do not know what Rob is playing at. What is he trying to prove?

My practice keeps moving along. 326 hours for the year at this present time, with more to come today. I have been a bit slack on double bass practice. I'll try to rectify that a bit today. 

Well, that's it from me today.

Cerca di mantenere quei blog pertinenti e interessanti, se puoi.

Ciao tutti.

So, how's our little blogging community going?

 Well, it's all a bit confusing, to be honest.

One blogger, Rob, had deleted his blog and then replicated The Curmudgeon's blog. Obviously, The Curmudgeon was not pleased and refused to answer the comments that Rob later left on his blog. Now it appears that Rob has reappeared with a blog called Not the Curmudgeon. WTF! 

It has all been a bit silly around here. Though Rob is a Catholic and they're used to pushing their own point before all others. Zeus! I'm pleased that I escaped from all that shit!

What have I been up to? Well, after two very busy workdays that finished at 8pm, I've mowed about a third of my lawns, chatted to TC and given a friend a two hour guitar lesson. I have got in an hour of music practice and might get in a bit more before bedtime. Tomorrow it is back into the lawns. 

There you go.

I'm off to be productive now.

Ciao tutti.

Gospel Time.

 

Graham 12:11 Jesus was taking a walk on the beach. He was thinking about relationships between his chosen people. He smiled as he thought about the word 'chosen' because he had done the choosing and none of the people had really had any choice. He thought about people who would grow up in places like India. They would be born into a completely different set of rules. 

He thought about one of his competitors who actually had ten arms and ten hands. "She would stand out anywhere!" Jesus thought. Jesus felt a little jealous. This wasn't a good emotion for him to be fiddling around with. The word 'fiddling' made him think of a little known guy who ran a blog with a regular readership of one. He had had a Catholic reader but he had buggered off for whatever reason. Now he just had one reader who liked to go to movies dressed as a cowboy and who had a passion for hats.

Jesus had sent him an 'Eve' to sort out the hat thing but it wasn't really working out - he was still wearing them. "Ah well," Jesus thought, "You can't win 'em all,"

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There you go. Anyone who was missing Robert and his religious contributions to our blogging community will be feeling more at home now.

Okay, time to take my pills and do some practice. I'll put some cream on my itchy arm too. There will be a need for a toilet visit some time soon too.

Ciao tutti.

Two old men were chatting.

 Jim met up with Phil.

Jim told Phil about his sore foot that had been diagnosed as gout. Then Phil spoke. "My father had gout. I remember him going to the doctor around 1973. We were living in Napier at the time. I think I might have had something similar too, a few years back."

Richard's Bass Bag* has been around for nineteen years. I read an AI appraisal of the site on my phone this morning - it just popped up, I wasn't looking for it. It stated that this blogging site was built around the bass guitar. That killed any faith I might have had (but didn't) in AI.

Something that this blog should be famous for is the invention of the phrase 'parallel universe' to cover the situation where someone is telling someone else something that is important to them and the other person immediately replies with a tremendously similar story that proves they weren't really paying much attention, or sympathy, but were thinking of a similar situation that they knew about.

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This site is named after double basses (I have two) but I probably spend more time talking about my violin. Well, the violin has taken over the role of my main gigging instrument. Well, it is easier for an old guy to carry around. I've also done much more practice on my violin lately. I also practise the guitar, perhaps a bit too much at times, and consider it my 'hobby' instrument. I'll try and put in a good amount of violin practice today, with maybe a bit of double bass. Ah, it's so easy to sit on the couch and practise the guitar!

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So, I see that The Curmudgeon is getting ready to celebrate his 20 years of posting.

I'm sure there will be lots of references to old posts of his. We'll probably also get reminders of all his seldom seen blogs by 'different people' like The Violin Playing Curmudgeon and The Catholic Bishop Curmudgeon. 

Obviously we won't be hearing from Robert because his blog has gone. All shut up. I think he's busy trying to make friends on Facebook. Sheesh! (to quote TC)

Well, violin practice calls. Obviously I'll start off with long bows, scales and listening to my intonation and tuning. Then I've got some repertoire tunes to work on. 

Ciao tutti.

* the original bass bagging site

315

 

315

That's how many hours of practice I've done so far this year.

Today was a pretty quiet practice day, I only did one hour.

Tomorrow I am not working, so maybe I should push that violin and double bass practice along a bit?

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Hey, I got a friendship request from ex-blogger Rob on Facebook yesterday. That's not going to happen. 

I'm still having a bit of trouble with some things on my (our) new computer. I can't download pictures and videos at the moment. 

Good to see that Peter made it up north to see his sister on her birthday. What a good brother!

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Yes, I'm giving you little snippets of information on this evening's post. 

I'm a bit tired and information is short.

I've decided to retire from teaching at the end of this year. That's 50 years of teaching done. I have worked at a lot of schools. I guess I'll have more time to donate to my music practice. Provided, of course, that my hands hold out. I'm feeling my age quite a bit lately. I guess that's why I'm finally retiring. 

Well, I guess I'll wrap it up there. Hey, next year this blog will have been going for twenty years. That's quite a long time.

Enjoy your evening.

Ciao tutti.