Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-27-19 08:19 <=-

I'm doing the echo but am thinking of making pasta
this Sunday [edited to say "today," but I've decided not to
do this] - Stater Brothers had one of the weird sales
where you could buy one pack of eggs for 3.99 or two packs
for 1.99 each. What's the sense in that? So we got two
packs of eggs. We were looking for bacon, but it wasn't on
sale. H'm, maybe there's some method in their madness. So
we didn't get bacon. Maybe there's some method in ours, too.

Guess they wanted to see if anyone was paying attention.... did they at least have bacon available...?

At full price.

Some things one could pay full price for... just not stock up at that
price... :)

Amortizing the cost in time and effort, you might be
paying dollars an hour just for some convenience. And of
course, that might mean you had time to cook on Sundays.

Only needed when things aren't working properly at home, or I'm on some trip, so not likely to affect anything on a Sunday... ;)

Excuses, excuses!

No, just realities... ;)

Reminds me of my sartorial splendor, of which has been said
Absence of style is a style.

I can see that... similar to my style, perhaps... :)

I do have certain rules, as you seem to. I can't remember
what they are, though.

Mine are pretty simple... comfort and cotton... ;)

Generally has HFCS in it nowadays... at least the commercially available stuff....

Needn't, and anyway that much HFCS probably isn't that
dangerous - you probably get more unreported in the
ingredients lists anyway than you want to know.

Ah, but it's the perception, ya know... ;) The other part of healthier
was in the sort of flour they were using....

I'm guessing ugh.

No, not really... they switched from bromated flours to non-bromated...
some products it was from white flour to white whole wheat, so as to get
more whole grains in, but not in the hot cross buns....

This week I did chamber music twice, e-mailing the others I'd
prefer to stick to pieces I more or less remembered, Haydn,
Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms, maybe easier Beethoven.

And how nice it would have been, had they thought that your preferences
made any difference to what they wanted to do... ;0

As one of those guys said, I don't get any respect.

Sigh...

familiar but difficult Beethoven Op.95, but the cellist's
wife complained that we were behind schedule, so the second
(we switched back), Howard Goldstein, who had conducted the
university orchestras at Auburn and Johns Hopkins, took it upon himself to rush the tempi, so we all ended up playing like pigs.

These are just get togethers to play through music, not performances, right...? Even still, you'd think there would be a bit more cooperation/consideration....

No, just hacking through stuff.

As I said, still they could be more considerate.... Guess they just
figure you are good enough to not have to give you any consideration... although that begins to feel like a left-handed compliment... ;0

The second group, the trio involving the former pianist of the
Detroit Symphony, hewed more to my preferences but pulled out
the Mozart trios in C and G (easy keys, not easy pieces, K.548
and 564), plus the Kakadu variations, plus the slow movement only (relief) of a trio by Ibert that I'd never seen or even heard.

Do you suppose they'll think twice about having you play with them
now...?

Fontaine said to call any time. I guess the lack of
unmusicality made up for the lack of competency.

Apparently... and, you did say it was to hack through stuff, so maybe
their standards are just lower than yours....? ;)

Someone's got to put a stop to the planned obsolescence
juggernaut. Oh.

Some of us try. :)

What are we two against so many?

Guess we need to enlist more in the effort... but that takes more
work....

ttyl neb

... Acronym....Your initial nym.

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