January 31, 2020 at 4:15 pm
jonathan.crawford wrote:Jack's just kinda boring, that's all. It's not "bad", like undrinkable or anything, but it's not interesting either.
Some of the special Jacks are much better. I don't think they're up there with a good Scotch but there's definitely more to them.
I will raise a large JD and coke to the late, great Lemmy every now and then.
lemmy? with Nicholas parsons dyeing at 98 and 1/4 of the remaining monty python team out of action...…..well my Ballantyne with no ice and no coke is raised and glugged in (as parsons says) just a minute
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January 31, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Neil Burton wrote:jonathan.crawford wrote:Jack's just kinda boring, that's all. It's not "bad", like undrinkable or anything, but it's not interesting either.
Some of the special Jacks are much better. I don't think they're up there with a good Scotch but there's definitely more to them.
I will raise a large JD and coke to the late, great Lemmy every now and then.
lemmy? with Nicholas parsons dyeing at 98 and 1/4 of the remaining monty python team out of action...…..well my Ballantyne with no ice and no coke is raised and glugged in (as parsons says) just a minute
Yes, I know I'm picky, but Nicholas Parsons was 96 when he died. And dyeing is quite different from dying!! Lemmy is the only reason I ever touch JD.
January 31, 2020 at 7:22 pm
jonathan.crawford wrote:Jack's just kinda boring, that's all. It's not "bad", like undrinkable or anything, but it's not interesting either.
Some of the special Jacks are much better. I don't think they're up there with a good Scotch but there's definitely more to them.
I will raise a large JD and coke to the late, great Lemmy every now and then.
Indeed!!! I still can't believe they got overlooked on the HoF this year!!! Meanwhile people like Whitney Houston get inducted??? I toured the HoF last summer at it was amazing. But I did find myself chuckling at various artists who had no business being there. I guess Whitney Houston will be added to that list for me. But Lemmy....he was the epitome of the rock and roll bad to the bone MF!!! He is sorely missed!!
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January 31, 2020 at 7:26 pm
Grant Fritchey wrote:Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.
Tonight, I'll be in a theatre orchestra pit for the 5th time this week. No need for prayers - I need coffee. Lots of coffee.
What do you play? I have been a musician most of my life. Picked up my trumpet about 2 1/2 years ago after more than 25 years. Been playing regularly ever since. Had a gig last night with a traditional English style brass band. I have another gig tonight with my rock band. I have also played bass continuously for more pushing 40 years now. We should have a SSC hootenanny someday.
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January 31, 2020 at 8:23 pm
Neil Burton wrote:I will raise a large JD and coke to the late, great Lemmy every now and then.
Indeed!!! I still can't believe they got overlooked on the HoF this year!!! Meanwhile people like Whitney Houston get inducted??? I toured the HoF last summer at it was amazing. But I did find myself chuckling at various artists who had no business being there. I guess Whitney Houston will be added to that list for me. But Lemmy....he was the epitome of the rock and roll bad to the bone MF!!! He is sorely missed!!
That's because the Foundation that controls the nomination and voting process for this is based in New York and run by marketing type people that care more about being inclusive and diverse than about the actual original idea of the HoF.
February 3, 2020 at 9:31 am
Neil Burton wrote:jonathan.crawford wrote:Jack's just kinda boring, that's all. It's not "bad", like undrinkable or anything, but it's not interesting either.
Some of the special Jacks are much better. I don't think they're up there with a good Scotch but there's definitely more to them.
I will raise a large JD and coke to the late, great Lemmy every now and then.
Indeed!!! I still can't believe they got overlooked on the HoF this year!!! Meanwhile people like Whitney Houston get inducted??? I toured the HoF last summer at it was amazing. But I did find myself chuckling at various artists who had no business being there. I guess Whitney Houston will be added to that list for me. But Lemmy....he was the epitome of the rock and roll bad to the bone MF!!! He is sorely missed!!
I'm gonna be honest here, I read the letters HoF and thought that I had missed the death of david Hasselhoff. DO NOT SCARE ME AGAIN
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February 5, 2020 at 1:11 am
OK, something I've never done before. Would anyone object if I posted a GoFundMe link here? It's not for me in any way, shape, or form, but it is for a family member.
Some background: One of my nieces' is confined to a wheelchair. She's had a powerchair that can lift her to a standing position, but, well, like all mechanical things, it's finally given up the ghost. The problem is, such chairs are apparently seen as "luxuries," so while insurance will cover 80% of the cost, that still leaves 20%, not to mention, as the niece put it "that fight could take up to a year." Without a chair, she's basically immobile unless someone can carry her. So, she's trying to raise the funds to buy one outright. How much is a new chair? Well, lets put it this way, if she had the money to get one right now and wasn't confined to a wheelchair, she could get a base Porsche 718 Cayman S and have a fair chunk of change left over. Yeah, they're that expensive (starting around $75000)
So. If no one has an issue with this, I'd like to post the link here, just to try to help (and I'm not telling her I'm doing this, either.)
February 5, 2020 at 8:50 am
OK, something I've never done before. Would anyone object if I posted a GoFundMe link here? It's not for me in any way, shape, or form, but it is for a family member.
Some background: One of my nieces' is confined to a wheelchair. She's had a powerchair that can lift her to a standing position, but, well, like all mechanical things, it's finally given up the ghost. The problem is, such chairs are apparently seen as "luxuries," so while insurance will cover 80% of the cost, that still leaves 20%, not to mention, as the niece put it "that fight could take up to a year." Without a chair, she's basically immobile unless someone can carry her. So, she's trying to raise the funds to buy one outright. How much is a new chair? Well, lets put it this way, if she had the money to get one right now and wasn't confined to a wheelchair, she could get a base Porsche 718 Cayman S and have a fair chunk of change left over. Yeah, they're that expensive (starting around $75000)
So. If no one has an issue with this, I'd like to post the link here, just to try to help (and I'm not telling her I'm doing this, either.)
Just a thought Jason, if you were to set this up as your signature, then it's not technically a post. And it's not at all unusual for people to put personal snippets into their sig.
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February 5, 2020 at 10:24 am
If you were posting it to the water cooler, I think it's fine. Posting it to the forums could very easily be interpreted as spam (not by me, but by others or even by our sad little spam engine). Post it here, absolutely, and add it to your signature. However, just in case, please don't make a separate post for it to the forums.
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February 5, 2020 at 12:54 pm
Thanks Grant and ChrisM for the sig idea.
No, I wouldn't post something like this in the "regular" forums, it's not a SQL problem! 😉
For reference, here's the link as well: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-breezy-a-new-wheelchair?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet
February 5, 2020 at 1:18 pm
DOH!!!! double facepalm moment
multiple copies of management studio open (I have v17 because it still has debug mode and v18 because I have sql2019)
executed a query thinking it was on live, actually it was on my laptop (I got the wrong window) ...could not understand why I was getting foreign key violations but the other developers weren't
I can't live with the shame 🙁
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February 5, 2020 at 1:23 pm
Thomas Rushton wrote:Grant Fritchey wrote:Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.
Tonight, I'll be in a theatre orchestra pit for the 5th time this week. No need for prayers - I need coffee. Lots of coffee.
So, which production? And what are you playing? I loved pit orchestra. Favorite was collaborating with the dance department on a Duke Ellington show, that was really interesting.
Last week it was a show at Leeds University - their Student Union has an Opera Society, and they keep asking me to go help, which is a bit of a shock. They had me playing cello (which I don't normally do) in a staged production of Handel's secular oratorio "Semele".
This week, I've been roped in to play double bass for Leeds Youth Opera's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni (with zombies - Zombie Ovanni?). First night is tonight. If you're in Leeds this week, and fancy a bit of culture, we're on for four nights - https://www.carriageworkstheatre.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/mozarts-don-giovanni/5062
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February 5, 2020 at 1:28 pm
Thomas Rushton wrote:Grant Fritchey wrote:Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.
Tonight, I'll be in a theatre orchestra pit for the 5th time this week. No need for prayers - I need coffee. Lots of coffee.
What do you play? I have been a musician most of my life. Picked up my trumpet about 2 1/2 years ago after more than 25 years. Been playing regularly ever since. Had a gig last night with a traditional English style brass band. I have another gig tonight with my rock band. I have also played bass continuously for more pushing 40 years now. We should have a SSC hootenanny someday.
Semi-professionally, I'm mainly a double bassist, but also play cello when asked. I also picked up the oboe last year after about 30 years of it not having been used, and am playing that rather badly with a community orchestra. All classical, though - if it's not written down, I can't play it. 🙁 I guess it's the way I was trained...
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February 5, 2020 at 2:16 pm
Thanks Grant and ChrisM for the sig idea.
No, I wouldn't post something like this in the "regular" forums, it's not a SQL problem! 😉
For reference, here's the link as well: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-breezy-a-new-wheelchair?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link-tip&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet
Thanks for sharing Jason, now let's get this one over the line!
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February 5, 2020 at 3:15 pm
Sean Lange wrote:Thomas Rushton wrote:Grant Fritchey wrote:Tonight, I'll be having haggis. Pray for me.
Tonight, I'll be in a theatre orchestra pit for the 5th time this week. No need for prayers - I need coffee. Lots of coffee.
What do you play? I have been a musician most of my life. Picked up my trumpet about 2 1/2 years ago after more than 25 years. Been playing regularly ever since. Had a gig last night with a traditional English style brass band. I have another gig tonight with my rock band. I have also played bass continuously for more pushing 40 years now. We should have a SSC hootenanny someday.
Semi-professionally, I'm mainly a double bassist, but also play cello when asked. I also picked up the oboe last year after about 30 years of it not having been used, and am playing that rather badly with a community orchestra. All classical, though - if it's not written down, I can't play it. 🙁 I guess it's the way I was trained...
haha I can play with or without charts. But for my rock band I actually chart everything for all the horn parts. We have such a revolving group of horns. Guitar, bass, drums, vocals and myself (trumpet) are the only constants. Having stuff charted makes it super easy to bring in an extra player or two for a show. We have a show this friday and since we have a second trumpet (a serious ringer) I will play about the show on the tenor horn. Yes I play the tenor horn in a rock band. Definitely not something you see everyday, and certainly not in the US as the tenor horn is not very common over here.
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