"How's that Paganini practice going Richard (of RBB)?"

 Hey, firstly, thanks for asking fellas!

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I'm now up to day 38 of my four month challenge. Technically that means that I have 84 of my 122 days left but, it's unlikely that I'll stop before the task is completed. This week progress has been a little slow but, as Bob used to say, "Softly, softly catchy monkey."

I've been keeping the practice hours up and I am aware that I also have to squeeze in some double bass and guitar practice. Yesterday I did four hours of practice - violin 2 hours, double bass 1 hour and guitar 1 hour.

The positive thing is that mostly I'm doing good practice. The technical practice is certainly helping my playing in general. I'm presently putting a lot of energy into Variation 4.

Again, thanks for the interest people are taking in my project.

NOT.

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I'm now going to hand you over to Catholic Apologist Evil Doctor Richard.

"Thank you Richard (of RBB). Firstly, I'd like to apologize for the fact that New Zealand's cardinal is taking no responsibility for the evil actions of the clergy in his country. 

Actually, the planet seems to be in a lot of bad hands at the moment and there seems to be no shortage of self serving morons. Excuse my French.

Christians, especially  those Catholics, have some 'interesting' beliefs. Let's get simple here - many Christians believe that, after death, there will be a judgement and an awful lot of people will be condemned to eternal suffering. They'll tell you it's written here and there and all you have to do to avoid the certainty of this is to join up and worship their god, though it seems there might be three of those gods or, at least, one god divided into three personalities. 

It seems to me that this is an evil notion for some other person to carry with certainty in his head. It is very presumptuous indeed. This person (I'm really talking about a lot of people here) seems to think that he, in effect, has the right to tell someone else that he is doomed to eternal punishment because of what he thinks is true. This stuff gets dished out to children, as a warning too, "If you don't stop that, you're going to Hell!"

I mean, how sick is that?

Well, that's my thought for today. I'll hand you back to Richard (of RBB)."

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Thanks Evil Doctor Richard. 

Well, it's Sabato and the sun is out. This means that I might go for a walk before starting my practice for the day. I'll visit the bathroom first though. Enjoy your Sabato.

Ciao tutti.