I Am So Tired But There's So Much To Do Complaint Thread
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Did I miss something? Why are we seeing a NOAA Solar Proton Flux chart? Is radio communication being degraded? I noticed yesterday that my car radio reception from Buffalo was icky where it's normally OK. Or was I just imagining things?
I can imagine things.
Sometimes imagined things are much more fun than real things.
I avoid ugly imaginings. 
Ugly imaginings scare me,
but I get really scared when real things start looking like ugly imaginings.
All too much of that lately in the news.
This, however, I'm not imagining. Yea! I'm going to the symphony at the Chautauqua amphitheater again next Tuesday.
Had my choice between Tuesday or Thursday, but Tuesday won out. Two of my favorite pieces and two lesser known pieces, should make a full and enjoyable night. It's another Russian night. (The concerts seem to be very Russian this summer 
) Tuesday's Russians are Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Prokofiev.
1) Prokofiev: "War and Peace Symphonic Suite" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSNPSJ9QEhI I like some of Prokofiev's stuff but some of it is like nails on a blackboard or chewing aluminum foil (*shudder*) to me, so it will be interesting to see what I think of this piece that I'm relatively unfamiliar with. I may end up counting people heads or watching bugs in the lights instead of listening.
2) Tchaikovsky: "Romeo & Julliet Fantasy Suite" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIGyCuZ9V-w Incredible music. Grabs you and carries you, makes you cry. Starts to really build up at 9:25 until it explodes with the main theme at 13:30. Will be paying full attention and merging with this music.
3) Rimsky-Korsakov: "Russian Easter Festival Overture" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbDYtAHTQoE Not in the same class as his "Scheherazade" but still grand in moments. Very simple and repetative but the theme builds to a grand finish starting at 11:55 and explodes at 13:30. Lots of brass and strings.
4) Tchaikovsky: "Gopak" (Cossak dance) from opera Mazeppa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fex8Up5261A Never heard this before. Would probably be better if there were hot sweaty dancers with swords, sashes and silk pantaloons.
flux capacitance
tee heeee
Complaint - really tired, but can't sleep. :/
Thought I'd just get up and do something for a bit, but got no motivation for anything either. Normally at this point in the evening I'd just go to bed in that case but.....
...pretty.
...oooh particularly love the Russian Easter Festival Overature.
I have an old 10" 33 RPM Columbia recording of a performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted by Eugene Ormandy. Priceless.
I wonder when my ride for work is coming?
my new beanie baby "Freckles" doesn't have a birthday. when did they stop the birthdays
at work, tired, wanna sleep, but they'd prolly frown on that, sleeping at work,
'Sup?
lollll
snuggle bunny
Awwww~
Oops
symphony or orchestra, crickets and ribbets sure likes summer warms.
lime in da coconut + rum
...been hearing lots of crickets in the neighbourhood here, sadly seen no glowbutts.
By next week the crickets wil be replaced by the sound fo trains passing through the station at night.
Cool! And being 33 1/3 rpm it was probably half decent fidelity too, though probably not stereo.
At one time I had a copy of a set of 10" 78 rpm shellac records that held the Beethoven: "Emperor" Piano concerto. But they had been played too many times on a gramophone and the fidelity was toast if you tried to play it on a modern 78rpm player.
Nice set though. I can't remember how many records in the set but it came in a nice leather bound dark green cloth covered wood folder with paper sleeves for each record and weighed a couple of pounds. I even had the gramophone until I sold it, and all the 78 rpm records with it, about 2002. What a chore it was to play the entire concerto on a 78 rpm player. You never had time to enjoy the music you were always changing to the next record. About 3 to 3.5 minutes per side of a 10" platter, so let's say 6 or 7 minutes per record. The concerto was about 40 minutes so it needed about 6 records in the set. 
...ugh abdominal cramps today, most likely caused by the crisps I had with lunch. Had to knock off for a couple hours nap. Heat probably not helping either. Hate gatting old.
Got all the rest of the laundry including towels and bedding washed, dried, and packed though. Been doing takeout to be able to pack up kitchen stuff and keep from having to move a lot of food.
A few more days in of 90° temps after which things get back to more normal weather which is when we will be moving the heavier stuff.
...actually some of the old mono recordings were extremely high quality. I have the entire Mozart Piano Sonatas and works of Debussy performed by Walter Gieseking on the Angel label (early - mid 50s) and it sounds as if the piano is in the room.
Of course having a good Hi Fi helps as well. Mine is an old hand soldered transistor Kenwood from the 1960s (when they were still made here) before everything went cheap printed breadboard. Still have the owner's manual with the schematics on the back of which are maybe a dozen and a half places in the country certified to service it. One of them was the old Hi Fi Fo Fum "...at 26th and Wisconsinum" (26th and Wisconsin Ave in Milwaukee WI). Weighs a tonne (mostly due to the channel transformers one of which I need to replace on of after a stupid flat mate tried to hook it into his Hi Fi VCR and crossed something up). Very clean sound with a 0 - 50,000hz frequency response and high current circuitry which is perfect for classical and jazz. Yeah, records sounded really, really good played through it, you could actually hear the bow on the string of a violin or the rich upper harmonic transients of a harpsichord. The only thing better would have been a pair of 35W tube mono blocks with crossover, but those are real spendy.
Ugh, really, really hate wireless connections. Usially when the signal drops it simply requires resetting the node and the system wireless, however this time none of that worked and had to sit through about 15 min of a full shutdown and restart.
Forum spell check apparently not wanting to work again, had to copy to Word and then paste the corrected text back. I wonder if it has issues with wireless conections as I now always get a message popup along with the suggested corrections which I never saw before. I still do not understand why we just can't use our browser's spell check instead.
I've given up on listening for subtle harmonics and the triangle. They just don't exist for me anymore. I could hear the frequencies at one time but I can't anymore. And even if I can hear the high frequencies they're drowned out by my tinnitus that continually hovers just inside my now very diminished audio range. I've learned to tune it out when more interesting audio things are happening, but anything caught in it gets thrown away like the proverbial baby with the bath water.
Youth, (*grumble*), it's wasted on the young!
By time you've learned to appreciate music, you can't hear it all anymore. 
A warning to the young. Don't overload your ears. Seriously, volume kills your years. Turn down the volume of your headphones. Stay away from those uber volume concerts. If you have to go, leave your ears at home. Listen for the subtlety of music not the amplitude and meat quivering noise.
jiminy cricket cricketing lullabyes.
radio in bagel deli played justib beever song, my ears are bleeding. somethin about his girlf or boyf loving himself/herself
pondering un-decyferable songs.
'i died in your arms tnite, must a been something yoo said" song never says what yoo said.
love removal machine by the cult. vhat love removal machine mean? is not explained in the lyric.
Frank Zappa was pretty unambiguous in 'i want my kitties and beer'
complaint, they want me to do one of my lovely complex excel charts, but in googoo sheets.
how am i supposed to do that?
the only kewl thing i done in googoo sheets is hook a cell up to an online barcode generator.
I cleaned my tablet's screen but that made it hard to use.
Maybe needed a breath mint.
Who needs a breath mint? Is it my breath that stinks?
oh my I need to get to this thing I call my job. I start at 12:30 and that is fast approaching. Why is it when I want time to be slow it goes fast but when I want it to go fast it does not?
Time thrives on the attention you give to it.
...indeed.
I wonder about all those kids driving around with those overpowered subwoofers that make it sound like the car is about to vibrate apart at the seams like in the end of the Blues Brothers. Some of the amps they use put out way more wattage than the transmitter we had at the community radio station where I worked.
Vehicles today are pretty well soundproofed and it makes me wonder about the driver's hearing when a car pulls up at a stoplight (with all the windows up) and I can not only hear every note but every lyric while standing at the corner waiting.
Another reason I am not fond of going to first run cinemas anymore (besides the cost) is often the sound is just too loud and the subsonics are cranked up so high as to make you feel every explosion or crash. I remember when I went to see Star Wars back in '77, the first time Dolby sound was introduced. When that first note of the main theme occurred during the opening titles, I nearly jumped out of my seat. Today that is nothing compared to the sound systems major theatres have.
One of the reasons I also quit going to popular music shows was because bands went from just using their personal amps (like in the vid Misty posted of the Beach Boys a few pages back), to towers of large speakers (which are more appropriate for an outdoor or stadium concert) at indoor venues. 11? Crikey, sometimes it sounded like they had it turned up to 15!
My old Hi Fi put out something like 65 W continuous power on 8 ohms, but the signal was so clean and with its high current setup that was capable of handling sudden peaks (like an orchestral crescendo) without clipping, I didn't need the raw power most mass market systems have today. Some of the best tube monoblock systems one can get put out only 25 - 30 W continuous power.
Regarding loud music,... how about the band "Disaster Area" from the "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQjgMF_20dE Specifically @ 2:05 through 3:45 of that clip.
Still better than Vogon poetry.