All this time I’ve been using Finale, I’ve been going to the simple entry rest palette every time I needed to enter a rest. I finally (as opposed to Finale) found that all I have to do is hit the 0 (zero) on the numeric keypad to enter a single rest of the same duration …
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About that discharge printing class…
Arlene asked me to come over to the JCC this evening to help out with a class she was teaching for a group of special needs teenagers. The project was to make matzah covers by discharge printing on some black fabric we had bought at Walmart last weekend. We’ll sew those printed blocks onto black …
Weekend Recaps
So in between, let’s see, I never mentioned that two weekends ago we stopped at Cabela’s in Scarborough to get some fly tying supplies. For some reason I was early leaving work, we were at exit 42 earlier than usual, and it was getting close enough to fishing season (open water fishing, that is, not …
MRI Backstory
The reason for the MRI is that for about three years I’ve had some problems with my left hand. I thought it was carpal tunnel syndrome, which would make sense with all the keyboarding I do as a software engineer. It was really bad three years ago, and my primary care physician sent me for …
MRI
Well, I had an MRI of my neck done at the West Suburban MRI Center, or words to that effect, in Wellesley, yesterday. Mostly it was noisy and boring. The technician’s main concern before doing it, other than making sure there was no stray metal in my body (like pins from surgery, or artificial joints, …
Paper shirt for one dollar
Any other origami fans out there? Find a dollar bill and visit this site to make a beautiful (thanks in good part to the work of our friends at the bureau of printing and engraving) little shirt. I stumbled upon that site yesterday. Stumble Upon takes you to a random website recommended by some other …
Brass report
There’s that old joke, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” “Practice, practice, practice.” It really does seem that practicing helps. I’ve still been playing trumpet for five or ten minutes each morning, and I do keep getting a little better and better. The section of Carnival of Venice that sounded blat, blat, blat a …
And, catch up from this weekend
Besides going to the movies Saturday night (and going shopping in Bridgton in the late afternoon) we mostly just hung out at our place watching the birds come and go. There were lots of redpolls, still a couple of pine siskins, and excellent views of the red-bellied woodpeckers. Redpoll and chickadee at the same feeder: …
Catch up from two weekends back
The weekend of February 14 we were in New Jersey to pay a shiva call on Millie and Joel, and to go to the memorial service for my uncle Irving (actually my mother’s first cousin, not really an uncle.) Pictures: Arlene and her mother’s cousin Nathan: David & Rachel’s son Jacob, just over 2 years …
d. It was written
If you’ve seen Slumdog Millionaire, you know from the title that I have too. We went to the Magic Lantern in Bridgton last night to see it. There were lots of people in the audience! That’s not really a surprise at the Magic Lantern, especially considering that it was a 7 PM show. We were …