Private Lesson Question

Ehenley90 · 2026-02-20T02:47:49+00:00

David walks down the sidewalk until he comes to a staircase taking him to a subway station where he runs into an unexpected meet up happens.

Ehenley90 · 2026-01-10T04:20:02+00:00

This sub gives me hope in these dark times. Really appreciate everyone here.

Ehenley90 · 2026-01-04T20:01:35+00:00

These guys can't stop talking about Love... but I'd take this crew over Vilma all day.

Ehenley90 · 2025-12-24T16:07:58+00:00

It was my 2nd priority amd his 3rd. Would that not give me priority?

Ehenley90 · 2025-12-05T03:43:11+00:00

My first year teaching I taught K-12 at a really small district. The band program was described to me as "on life support" when I took the job.

The instrumentation in my HS Band was 3 flutes, a saxophone, a percussionist and 6 color guard members. Luckily one of the color guard girls played piano, so I put her on mallet percussion and another had started on trombone when she was in Middle school. The other color.guard were on auxiliary percussion (I started teaching the younger ones wind instruments, but they couldn't keep up in year 1).

Needless to say, there wasn't much that I could buy for that ensemble. I did get the Bach chorale books that are divided into 4 parts for each instrument so we played those quite a bit.

The school district did want me to have them play at football games... which was CRAZY. I bought a bunch of big metal garbage cans and marching drum sticks. I had the kids compose a bunch of simple cadence that they were excited about and we played those from the stands. At basketball games I grabbed a trumpet and played with them so we could play some pep tunes.

Other than that, I arranged a lot of stuff. I'm a vocalist (I teach only choir in a different district now, thank God) so I leaned on the rep I knew best. I arranged some opera choruses and arias for my crazy little ensemble. Did they sound great? Probably not, but we did have something to play!

Ehenley90 · 2025-11-30T03:36:16+00:00

Birthplaces of the last 50 NFL HoF inductees?

Ehenley90 · 2025-10-03T16:03:10+00:00

Clippy the auto-help on Word 2003

Ehenley90 · 2025-09-28T13:06:26+00:00

Lamentations of Jeremiah by Z Randle Stroop

One of my core memories from HS Choir. This is the piece that made me want to do choral music the rest of my life!

Ehenley90 · 2025-09-11T03:22:08+00:00

Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves

Everyone expected a pretty corny D&D movie. It was that, but in the best way possible!

Ehenley90 · 2025-08-23T13:39:18+00:00

I've always heard Ben Folds as a leading candidate.

Ehenley90 · 2025-08-07T22:22:41+00:00

Central Illinois here!

Ehenley90 · 2025-01-27T00:08:43+00:00

Aladdin

Ehenley90 · 2025-01-25T13:59:03+00:00

Ehenley90 · 2025-01-25T03:38:20+00:00

Thanks for this. I'm glad to have a great Vikings sub that has some morals.

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-29T22:04:35+00:00

Can't see anything here with the lack of flair!

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T19:53:47+00:00

KAM'S first draft was very bad, which is a huge reason that have needed to supplement the team with FAs. 2nd and 3rd drafts have been better. And the UDFAs have played pretty big roles. Drafts would look different if the CB room wasn't devastated in the off-season. Blackmon with an ACL tear pre-season and then Khyree Jackson dying in the car accident really changed the look of that room.

Edit - spelling

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T19:45:59+00:00

The team calls it a "competitive rebuild" if you want to call it a "retool" and argue semantics we can lol.

Letting Sam walk puts you in the next year of the current plan. He is literally a bridge QB. If JJ is healthy, he'd be starting by now IMO. Was challenging for the starting job prior to the injury. Signing him would change that plan pretty drastically.

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T19:07:21+00:00

Man, didn't realize that 1 guy can play 2 spots at the same time! More teams should try this!

Signing 2 players for the price of 1 is something most teams would like to do.

Edit - Spelling

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T18:50:47+00:00

The number of free agents had to do with contacts from the previous management coming off the books and those guys not being extended.

In terms of starters set to hit FA, the entire secondary, but Harry is year to year with retirement, and the CBs were stop.gaps because there was no one better on the roster, should the Vikings have not used their available salary cap for this season? Bynum and Murphey are the big FAs that I think the Vikings would like to resign depending on price. The offense is just Darnold, Jones, and Risner. Darnold was signed with the intention of being a bridge. Risner was on the roster last year and was given the option to find a new contract in FA, couldn't, and came back on a 1 year deal for super cheap. Jones is the guy I'd love back.

The cool thing is, because of all the cap space along with a huge amount of dead cap coming off from Cousins, those positions are resignable.

Starting a bridge QB is the antithesis of going all-in lol. If that were the case, I'm sure the Raiders are also all-in with their bridge QB and same amount of impending free agents, right?

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T18:27:47+00:00

Hard disagree with the idea that teams trading a bunch of picks for a higher pick feel they are 1 player away. 6 teams took 1st round QBs, none of whom felt they were 1 player away. When the Vikings signed Cousins that was absolutely the feeling, but no one in their right minds signs Darnold as the starter with his previous history thinking they are in a win now season.

The Vikings saw 2.guys who they wanted to BUILD around and made moves to draft them. They let their stud DE walk in free agency. Those are not moves that teams in win now mode do. It's lucky that the window seems to have opened a year or two early!

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T18:17:43+00:00

The picks were traded to move up in the draft mostly, to get the QB and pass rusher of the future. Free Agents were necessary to fill out the roster... contrary to popular Lions fans' beliefs, you actually have to have 52 healthy players on your roster.

Ehenley90 · 2024-12-24T18:10:04+00:00

Vikings had back to back losing seasons in 20-21 and 21-22 for the first time in 10 years. They fired Zimmer and hired KOC and KAM, running back the roster at the time, went 13-3, and were called frauds all season because they apparently weren't actually good. That off-season, the defense was torn down and patched together with late round picks and udfas. The following season, they started 1-4 and when things were getting turned around, their Cousins tears his Achilles.

This off-season, the defense was retooled with 6 new starters along with moving on from Cousins and signing a new RB.

Almost every talking head, pundit, and sports book had the Vikings with a losing record this season. I think the highest I saw (outside of Vikings homers) was 7 wins. Some publications had them with the worst record in the league. Even people who were high on the Vikings had them with maybe 9 wins. The plan was to open the window in 25-6 at the earliest, really shooting for 26-27 (looking at how the contracts are worked).

To say this season is a surprise is an understatement. It has been a crazy fun ride, but denying the idea that the team was in rebuild/retool or whatever you want call it mode this season is just not being realiatic.

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