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mino
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response 50 of 236:
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Apr 9 20:22 UTC 1996 |
When i play the electric guitar sometimes it makes me turn so sick
'n it's so nasty the barf for everywere,make's me crazy i don't
know reasons WHY? >:(
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chelsea
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response 51 of 236:
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Apr 9 22:59 UTC 1996 |
I'll be sure to choose a location without a source of
electricity. Thanks for the tip. ;-)
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scott
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response 52 of 236:
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Apr 10 00:58 UTC 1996 |
Oops, then I can't perform. ;)
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dang
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response 53 of 236:
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Apr 10 01:22 UTC 1996 |
That's okay, scott, I'll bring my acoustic. :)
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mpeacock
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response 54 of 236:
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Apr 10 02:21 UTC 1996 |
I can bring my acoustic too. But I do have a Yamaha MIDI keyboard attached
to my computer, I suppose I could use my laptop and a 12 v. power source. :)
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fitz
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response 55 of 236:
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Apr 10 13:31 UTC 1996 |
I'm still playing my trombone, but a trip to AA from Grand Rapids seems
to be the difficulty--my employer owns my soul on the weekend, when
all the rest of world gets the time off. [sigh]
This week, for example, is ending with a St. Cecilia performance and I will
be going to work directly afterward even though I asked for the time off.
(22-years of service doesn't swing much weight at Meijer if you work a depart-
ment other workers loathe to enter even.)
[Gilbert & Sullivan's *Trial by Jury* is the event, BTW. The flamboyant
hand of the transcriptionist is the challenge.]
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arabella
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response 56 of 236:
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Apr 10 16:51 UTC 1996 |
Gee, what department is that, that other workers loathe to
enter?
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remmers
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response 57 of 236:
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Apr 10 18:25 UTC 1996 |
(Probably the cafeteria. :-)
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n8nxf
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response 58 of 236:
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Apr 11 11:50 UTC 1996 |
(No. Womans shoe department ;)
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eskarina
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response 59 of 236:
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Apr 11 21:28 UTC 1996 |
Tell me the date and I'd be happy to play the french horn for all of you.
Where again? When again? Who's bringing the cookies and the laptop?
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fitz
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response 60 of 236:
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Apr 11 21:57 UTC 1996 |
Frozen food--I work with out gloves and the continual immersion
in frost can be painful. The back room freezer is kept at 0-F and
an adjoining room is -25-degrees for the ice cream. These units
are state-of-the-art freezers, each with four-foot diameter
fans to blast the cold air through every bit of clothing. (The noise
is tremendous, also.)
Monday, the stocker who set up the toppings complained about the
chill after only working a few minutes and never actually touching
a single frozen item. Two on the grocery crew have gone home sick
in the past after just working an hour or so. I should have
added that they both have years of experience and have never been
the type to walk off the job. My "shiver reflex" has been extinguished
and I haven't worn a winter coat the past four winters.
The job has some advantages, *i.e.,* managers stay away, too, and the
average weight of a frozen case is about 70% the weight of a grocery
case. At any rate, the management has made getting time off a special
problem for the people who work frozen. There are even nine additional
weeks/year that frozen workers can have NO time off but does not apply to
anyone else at Meijer.
I'm not the only trombone player on GREX, am I?
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tsty
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response 61 of 236:
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Apr 12 07:41 UTC 1996 |
this idea is great - - and i haven't been *able* to hear katie sing
for far too lon; something just gets in the darn way.
Adn i missed arrabella's presentation cause of "stuff," so this could
be a great occassion.
Maybe a French horn-dijeridu-cello trio thang could occur ......
i might pick a little guitar, do some harmony backups, play some
bones, whatever.
And aruba's presentation of the fundamental theorm of calculus with
raven's poetry interspersed ought to fascinate ppl.
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eskarina
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response 62 of 236:
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Apr 13 00:09 UTC 1996 |
I hope tsty can find a good trio
,
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carson
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response 63 of 236:
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Apr 14 02:12 UTC 1996 |
(power plays the bassoon. I can volunteer him.) =)
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dang
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response 64 of 236:
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Apr 14 02:41 UTC 1996 |
And he was pretty good when I last heard him. Of course, that was 5 years
aago... :)
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abchan
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response 65 of 236:
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Apr 14 16:33 UTC 1996 |
<abchan looks guiltily at the two instruments sitting in her room that are
covered in dust>
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davel
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response 66 of 236:
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Apr 14 18:45 UTC 1996 |
<dave follows abchan's lead in this ...>
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rcurl
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response 67 of 236:
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Apr 14 19:58 UTC 1996 |
(.....me too, in very small font...)
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abchan
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response 68 of 236:
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Apr 14 22:13 UTC 1996 |
One June (back in high school) our orchestra conductor told us not to lose
touch with our instruments that summer. A violinist replied that he would
make sure to wipe the dust off his instrument before school started again :)
and this was the person who sat next to the concertmaster...
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flem
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response 69 of 236:
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Apr 15 02:20 UTC 1996 |
Having been volunteered by dang way back when, I'd be happy to play trumpet
at people if they were at all willing to listen. And janette who is sitting
right behind me says she'll play too.
If anyone is interested in putting together a brass ensemble, I'd be
interested in that, too. I'd been meaning to look around for other
brass players for a while.
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davel
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response 70 of 236:
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Apr 15 11:29 UTC 1996 |
I've kind of lost track. If this is a
let's-get-people-together-&-see-what-Grexers-can-do kind of event, I might
play guitar &/or dulcimer. If we're expecting an audience to pay & be
entertained at the level appropriate for a paying audience, I'm *way* too far
out of practice on guitar & nowhere near far enough along on dulcimer.
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remmers
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response 71 of 236:
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Apr 15 12:46 UTC 1996 |
I understood it as an informal "let's get people together" event.
In #0, Mary describes it as a "low-key kinda thing between friends
and not advertised outside of Grex. And in the spirit of a recital
it would be free."
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chelsea
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response 72 of 236:
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Apr 15 23:41 UTC 1996 |
Wednesday I'll be making some calls to try to get a date
and location reserved. I'm thinking middle to end of May.
That will give folks some time to tune their instruments. ;-)
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davel
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response 73 of 236:
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Apr 16 01:29 UTC 1996 |
Dulcimers take a *lot* of tuning, Mary. Not like pianos, but more like pianos
than most anything except maybe big harps. Maybe May of *next* year?
(IWLTA that I'm demoing the hammered dulcimer for my son's kindergarten class
tomorrow. And the morning kindergarten too, at that. Not a demanding
audience, I hope. I was going to tune the thing tonight, but wound up working
late & then grexing.)
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flem
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response 74 of 236:
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Apr 16 03:43 UTC 1996 |
Trumpets do'nt take a lot of tuning. You usually end up tuning as you go.
This
is a necessary skill, seeing as unless you have a *very* expensive trumpet,
half the notes are out of tune already. :)
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