Subj : Stormy To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Aug 12 2019 17:23:00 Hi Nancy! -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 28-Jun-2019 08:38 <=- NB> Replying at 10:10 morning of the 4th... ;) Happy Independence NB> Day! The first year I was in Vienna visting it was over the U.S. Independence Day period and my cousin's daughter did give me a set of U.S. flag paper plates. BM>>> It started off at 54ø this morning and the forecast high is in the BM>>> mid-80's. Unfortunately the humidity is up there: think it was close BM>>> to 90% (and that's the official readings, not here at the house). BM>>> Normally would open the windows and let some fresh air in but not BM>>> with that humidity! NB>>> No, indeed... you don't want to let in all that humidity... that's NB>>> harder to dispel than the heat.... Fortunately, we were dry, so the NB>>> heat was simply pleasant... :) BM>> We're on the verge of turning the furnace back on! Not really: plenty BM>> warm inside the house but was 52ø this morning; high only to be 70ø. NB>> When I was up to the Pond, even though the lows were lower 50s NB>> and the highs only in the low 70s I didn't bother putting on the NB>> heat even at night... not all that different from what we'd been NB>> having back home, and there were plenty of covers on the bed... :) NB>> We're finally using the fans at the house now... :) BM> The house has been 'closed up' pretty much all week. Started off BM> cool but humid in the mornings and "starting to get warm in here" in BM> the evenings. Think Tuesday Mother Nature decided to let summer BM> finally come and a 'gradual' increase into the upper 80's and now end BM> of the week and weekend close to 100ø NB> We got a bit of a warming spell,,, but only into the 80s... NB> today, it's supposed to be into the 90s though, both back home NB> and here in the North Country.... At least I have the Pond to go NB> swimming in to cool off here... :) While I was gone it did get into the low 100's; a few days later Vienna did have a hot spell in the 90's. Unusually hot for them; usualyl just into the 80's. BM>> Actually doing a little bit of 'transposing' with the music currently BM>> on my Pandora station. Bit of slow country-western - do a little BM>> mental alteration and 'overdub' to a quartet sound. NB>> That's an interesting concept.... BM> I think if I had a suitable background so I could communicate my ideas BM> I would have had some fun with altering music. NB> You might find playing around with a synthesizer fun... NB> electronically changing sounds and all... :) If I had music-playing ability I might find it interesting. Have heard some 'radically different' interpretations of popular and some more classical/traditional pieces and sort of marvel at how they came up with the altered version. NB>>> The composer himself referred to this piece of his as 15 minutes NB>>> without a bit of music in it... quite an apt description of it.... NB>>> Some people enjoy it and think it's great, but I find it very NB>>> grating... ;) I forget why he wrote it... maybe just as an NB>>> exercise in orchestration... BM>> I think that "15 minutes without music" comment is funny! Would seem BM>> odd a piece he essentially despises he'd publish. Could see if it was BM>> a developmental lesson: I started with this , BM>> fiddled and altered and remade it into this and then BM>> tweaked it to . NB>> You might have to actually listen to it once to see what I'm talking NB>> about... ;) There's a snaredrum tapping out a repeating spanish dance NB>> rhythm all through the piece, and then above that various instruments NB>> taking turns on two alternating snippets of almost tune... the whole NB>> getting louder and louder until the climax at the end... just one long NB>> annoying crescendo.... the best part of it to me is the last 10-20 NB>> seconds at the end where it lurches to an end... Ravel's Bolero.... BM> Good description! I can somewhat come up with bits and pieces of BM> deliberately annoying mental sound bytes. Yes, based on what you said BM> I can also half come up with a movie scene of two people getting on BM> each other's nerves with one repetively drumming on the table. NB> You aren't far off.... It was used, btw, in a movie where is was NB> suppposed to be sexy/sensuous... haven't seen the movie, though, NB> so I don't know how effective it was.... And of course what was thought to be sexy 'back then' is now thought to be rather mundane now. OTOH I prefer leaving things to the imagination as opposed to the overly graphic presentations. BM>>> So far eveything looking healthy around the yard. Still need to trim BM>>> the dead section out of the shrub in the front and the shrub in the BM>>> back corner. Backyard weeding is pretty much caught up -- probably BM>>> work on the front "for real" later today. NB>>> Finally... one can get into the proper patterns for gardening and NB>>> yardwork.... :) BM>> I don't know: now too cold! (That 52ø this morning.) NB>> Just put a sweater on.... ;) You'll warm up soon enough doing NB>> the work... ;) BM> And now almost too hot to do anything. Wait to cut the yard, etc., BM> until the dew dries - by that time too hot! NB> Spoken like a veteran procrastinator... But with valid NB> justification all the same.... ;) Hmmm: 'justifiable procrastination'! :) I see no reason to do potenial harm to myself if I can avoid it. And sometimes waiting/delaying has resulted in a better outcome. Someimes, not always. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... A backwards poet writes inverse. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .