Jesus Christ!

Which one of these two best represents the guy named in the title of this post?

Pretty Jesus

 Angry Jesus

Here's a more important question.

When we all die, who will be right? The Christians or the Atheists or people who worship a different god?

Will there be a Jesus (pretty or angry)? Will there be a Shiva or Brahma? Will there be no gods at all? Will there be a godlike figure that no one on Earth knew about?

One thing is for sure, we can't all be right.

Everyone thinks that THEY and THEIR BELIEFS are correct. 

There wouldn't be too many Catholics, for example, who think that they might have it all wrong.

THERE IS NO CONCRETE PROOF FOR ANY POSITION.

Lots of people will disagree with that last statement. They'll quote the Bible or the Quran or maybe even try to prove their thoughts with science. 

If nothing else, unless people who believe that there is absolutely nothing after death are correct, there are going to be a lot of disappointed people. "That's for damn sure." (to quote Jack Reacher).

Maybe Music is the ONE TRUE GOD?

Well, it does seem to cater for just about everyone,

There is music from just about every culture and heaps of different forms inside our western culture.

There is Classical, Jazz, Rock, Folk, Heavy Metal, Funk, Country, Pop, and the list goes on and on and on.

I think I'll go with Music.

Maybe you're reading this and feeling smug because you have proof of your opinion.

Please let us know about it in a comment. Make sure it is 'proof' though. Please don't just quote the Bible or something similar.

That's it.

Ciao.

Mid Labour Weekend.

 Today is the middle of Labour Weekend.

Sort of like the middle finger.

If you're a fulltime worker, it's the holiday tomorrow (on Monday) that makes it all worthwhile. Neither our other blogger (Peter) nor I usually work on a Monday, so it makes little difference to us, except that I have been invited to morning tea at my grandsons' place. Yes! It will be great to see them both.

My practice for this year now stands at 329 hours. I'll certainly get to 330 today.

I have no gigs on the horizon. Okay, I did turn a silly gig down, but I have nothing on the horizon, not even a jam. I have not had a double bass gig for over a year. Hence, I guess, the fact that my double bass practice is falling behind. There is a folk festival not too far down the road in the Nui but it is very expensive to get in and there is no promise of a chance to play. Anyway, folk musicians aren't very exciting to play with.

However, I am doing worthwhile practice on the guitar and violin. Practice is its own reward - it makes you play better.

Well, I'll leave it there for this morning. I think my next step will be towards the bathroom.

Enjoy your mid Labour Weekend day.

Ciao.

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.