TAN #203: TANese New Year - Horsing Around (Page 34)

C.  Definitely C, but I may substitute Vivaldi's Spring.  I just love that piece.    I already did A, but I'm content pretending that I didn't.

Stravinsky's has a bit more raw eroticism, but I like them both.   RoS caused a riot in the theater at the premiere in Paris.  

Thanks to the YouTubes, listening now to check it out....  it's like the 60's Batman action theme music!

A little ADD today, are we?  Calm.  Breathe in deeply.  Focus. Focus ... Relaaaaax.

I actually understand all too well.

TW 

Rite of Spring was actually composed early in Stravinsky's career.  It is conventional in structure and harmony.  He got more avante garde and atonal as he got older.  The story of the ballet is that a young girl is selected for sacrifice and she dances herself to death.  Igor nailed it.

TW

The YouTube video I watched was of a ballet being performed, and it just looked like a bunch of stylized, dance-y humping.  I thought it fit this thread well

Yup.  It is perhaps second only to Bolero in the classical FMN repertoire.  TW

Hi TAN!

Thanks for the birthday wishes - I had a really great day complete with a gorgeous bouquet delivered to work and dinner at my favourite steak place, as well as being told that I'm getting a massage while we're in Vegas at the end of the month. 

YAY!   

I hope all is well with everyone, and SO nice to see Kate back in here!   

BRING ON THE GATORS!

Hey MEH,

I saw on your training blog that you went 2:22:27 in the Shamrock Half.  I think you should round it down to 2:22:22.  If you say it aloud, 2 2-2 2-2 it sounds like the Lone Ranger Theme.  Great race.

TW

Rocky theme song.

2 2-2 2 2 Bom Bom is like knocking at the door.

TW

I don't think you are allowed to round down your finish time, haha.  My official chip time is 2:22:28.  What song does that sound like?

Two twenty-two twenty eight eight eight.  I still get William Tell.   TW

I took the bike out for a spin last night.  SO nice.  I got it running pretty well (I need to dial in the idle a bit).  But you are more than welcome to take her for a spin.  I wish I had two and we could go to red rocks.  Tony could ride beeeeeeeeyotch......

As a side not (don't tell the wife).  I may go to the cycle super center and get a new helmet!  My other one is old and some of the trimming came off.  It's still safe, just not cosmetically appealing anymore.

I'm thinking to kind of go dork-ish and get one of those modular models where they whole face swings up and not just the visor.  In the desert, it's nice to get a little more ventilation at rest breaks than just flipping a visor.  They also have some with blue tooth built in on sale now!  Giggity!

My bike is still under the cover in the garage waiting for better days.  I haven't touched it since I got it ready for winter with treating the gas and changing all of the fluids, so all I had to do was get it fired up and be ready to ride since all of the maintenance has been done.  Really thinking I should be riding it, and then we had two days of nice weather followed by snow.  WTF!!!  Maybe after next week, I will get the bike out and get it ready for a lot of riding to work everyday, rain or shine.  I have the gear, I just need to make it happen.

Believe it or not.  I was able to ride mine in a polo shirt and jeans.  It's pretty warm here.  Granted, I was only tooling around at 30-35 through the neighborhood.  Anything faster would need a jacket.

Full disclosure.  I wish I was a bit more skilled on the bike.  It felt a bit weird to be on it after months and months.  Nervous to lean it over much or accelerate through corners.  Just sort of old-manned it/puttered through the corners and side streets.  It usually takes a couple rides to get back into the swing.

Similar to getting back on the bicycle or MTB.  Just getting the feel takes a couple rides.

I'm so pleased at the moment.  Cost us a bit, but landscapers and house cleaners came and casa Kido is looking good.  Spent some time putting things into storage last night to (I tend to leave golf clubs and bosu ball and other implements of destruction laying about in unused rooms)...

I still think I need to go through a purge.  We have lots of stuff that stored so out of site, out of mind, but we should dump it if it's not needed and put other things away.

For example, I think I have an entire box of RCA cables, Coax cable, phone line, and various other electronic mess in the garage.  I should dump it and store things we don't have room for at the moment.  Oh, and CLOTHES.  It's hard to get rid of some sentimental items, but if I haven't worn them in years and never will?  Or cloths I say that SOMEDAY may come back in fashion or fit again?  Stupid to hold on to.  My wife is even worse.  She has a dress made of paper money (fake money), it's cool for a costume and someone put some work into it, but seriously, why keep it?  It looks like something they would make on project runway...

One of my weaknesses is holding onto screws and bolts, extra parts from kits, and even weird special tools that I bought for a single project because I may need them in the future.  I have decided that I need to get rid of this stuff and let Home Depot store anything I might need for a future projects.   They have a huge storage area for me and it is just a couple of blocks from the house.  Storage cost is zero until you actually need the item and even then it is pretty reasonable.

I am trying to downsize 30 years of living in the in-town house into a smaller house at the lake. A lot of stuff just has to go.

TW 

Moving into a TINY house helped me get rid of stuff like cables, extension cords, etc... but I'd be lying if I said I got rid of all of it. I accumulate stuff, then hold on to it if I believe it has any sort of value. 

If I clean when I'm feeling not sentimental, it's a lot easier to just get rid of stuff. I'll be doing some of that before May again for sure.