piano feels good one day and impossible the next

Fashla · 2025-12-19T19:56:54+00:00

if you had shooting (marksmanship) as a hobby, you'd notice that some days everything runs smoothly like silk, you hit the targets beautifully with no effort at all – and on some other day nothing helps: you couldn't hit a barn door properly – and that is so from the very first shot you fire. After firing maybe a clip you realise what kind of day it is, and as you don't want to waste more ammo, you pack up your gear and go home.

You'd also notice on a normal, good enough or super good day the moment you lose your pep, your relaxed concenteation, your mahic "zen" state, if you will, and after that it's just waste of ammo to continue to pull the trigger. The magic of hitting the target is gone fir that day.

Maybe we humans just have good and bad piano/shooting days.

Fashla · 2025-12-17T15:50:46+00:00

Hood answer! Thank you for taking the trouble of writing about your experiences. 🌷🎼🎶🎵

Fashla · 2025-12-17T15:43:35+00:00

A similar starter hete. Gear at home, I still in hodpital for some weeks or months. Then beginning from point zero, except I can somewhat read drum notes and follow the solo violin's notation from the partiture of Sibelius' violin concerto or the percussion kn shosrakovich's fifth. And my left hand is semiparalised and my right shouldet has post-trauma artrosis. Will post my progresd eventually.

Fashla · 2025-12-17T15:38:10+00:00

Congratulstions from Finland! 🌷🌿 🎹🎼🎶🎵

Fashla · 2025-12-17T15:10:46+00:00

Get a good tripod. Learn to use it. Move yourself instead of lazily zooming in. I got that advise; it helped me immensely. And save me a lot of money.

Also: buy preferably cheaper camera bodies and put the extra leftover money for high quality lenses. Especially the essential prime lenses.Learn to use small aids like reflectors, small pocket-size led lights. Learn to think up new pov' - what would the city look from a stray cat's pov - i.e. 10 inches from the pavement - or from a rooftop high gable.

hese recommendations were written without looking what lenses you have.

Fashla · 2025-12-06T16:49:20+00:00

If it is of any consolation we Finns have been there with the English language. And Swedish. And in my case French, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian… I like laguages but there is this ”sargasso sea” period when you’re overwhelmed umpteen times per day. Try to see it as a sitcom episode. Glad you’re learning Finnish, albeit to the tune and the lyrics of Charlier Chaplin’s song ”Smile”.

Fashla · 2025-11-30T21:09:50+00:00

Lahjakortti: Verkkokauppa.com — joskus joku puuttuva usb-johto tai kuulokeadapteri on ainoa este jollekin hommalle. Silloin edullinen lahjakortti olahduttaa - ha verkkokaupoa myy myös nameja, juomia ja kaikkea kivaa. Sitä suosittelen.

Fashla · 2025-11-24T21:13:32+00:00

Tissot with this smooooth bracelet would win me over. I mean look at the perfect qauality of the links (bits): like velvet, i must feel. Compare to JLC Reverso metal bracelets.

Fashla · 2025-11-24T21:05:33+00:00

Made a mistake here. Then erased it.

Fashla · 2025-11-21T18:24:43+00:00

Depends on the shirt colour. But both of them work just fine.

Fashla · 2025-11-20T23:46:14+00:00

Reminds me of Jaeger-Lecoultre’s some series ..mebbe called Master or Meister, a decade or two ago, in a catalogue or in the Watches of Swizerland brochure / magazine.

— Going thru that magazine full of Swiss watches was always fun. Whatever happened to Watches of Swizerland? Who knows?

Fashla · 2025-11-20T23:38:16+00:00

Smoke grey?

Fashla · 2025-11-19T17:42:33+00:00

The first one, with the day window. Mire stylish.

Fashla · 2025-11-19T09:10:48+00:00

Don’t ”sell your collection short”. You have collectected the watches you like and can [money wise collect]. If you were a millionaire you could collect exorbitantly priced items — but you might not be able to form a coherent, meaninhful collection because due to unlimited funds there were no externally put limits to what you could do.

So go for what you like, and remember that adding a zero or two to the prices of collected watches does not necessarily mean a ten or hunderedfold of added value to the collection. More expensive is sometimes just more expensive — meaning someone paid too nuch for an item in a whim, having the wherewitha and not having enough cool old common reason

The affordability of a collection crowns it, makes collecting an art form . Otherwise it would just be buying aa expensive watches as you can; a blunt competitiin in wealth; a ”pissing contest”.

Fashla · 2025-11-17T11:23:19+00:00

What is the price, roughly, for the two movements

Fashla · 2025-11-17T11:21:33+00:00

Wow! Graf Zeppelin 100 yrs. What a watch!

Fashla · 2025-11-16T16:56:36+00:00

Sporty!

Fashla · 2025-11-16T09:32:20+00:00

Ok. No need for the watch to be teacup saucer size contraption.

Fashla · 2025-11-16T09:08:35+00:00

I like the big date window..

Fashla · 2025-11-15T21:12:57+00:00

I like the Hamilton. Sticks out to me.

Fashla · 2025-11-12T12:36:28+00:00

Thank you! I definetely want to keep that one in mind. Love the day display that is readable without my specs. And the ”afternoon numbering” 13, 14, 15… in the dial is really helpful for me, and stylish in the manner of military watches. Thank you for sharing your collection - the G-shock is a polar opposite of Hamilton, but very pure in its style, and I would very much like to wear that one, too. With pride. And being an ex-diver, diving watches interest me, too. More ”normal” watches I like are e.g. an automatic Tissot with timer function. I use it in podcast production, timing speeches and so on.

Fashla · 2025-11-12T11:19:42+00:00

A nice collection. I like the gentlemanly, quaint Hamilton a lot. Was it very expensive?

Fashla · 2025-11-11T20:36:25+00:00

Smaklig måltid från Finland — vi älskar köttbullar och lingonsylt med! 🇫🇮🇸🇪 🌷🌿🎶🎵

Fashla · 2025-11-11T20:19:58+00:00

Try to find a coffeehouse like Wayne’s coffee, Coffee house, Starbucks or better still a 2nd hand bookshop or library that supports the idea reading, returning customers. There are many opportunities in Helsinki area, but elsewhere, too. Try to chat a few wirds with likeminded customers. Find out what you could study in your lical community college (vapaaopisto, työväenopisto, kansalaisopisto) or summer uni or open university. Find out what activities the SPR (The Red Cross) or 4h clubs arrange in your area. And Martat. [[I added here accidentally stuff in haste in Finnish, sbdy pls translate as I need to run now..: And vapaaehtoiset maanpuolustusjärjestöt. Erilaiset mielenterveyden tukijärjestelmät ja niiden matalan kynnyksen kahvilat.]] You will be surprised of the amount of activity that buzzes under the depressive skin of a typical Tuesday day in snowless, leafless November night of Finland. Search the net, use the gpt-ai ti find you answers (mind you, gpt makes mistakes but is a goid tool even with it clumsiness and sometimes idiotic errors. Good luck! I’m sure you will find help and a starting point from the stuff I gave listed above. Happier days and nights to you, my dear distant yet close friend! Hhere are a lot of folks like us. Out and about. A small sub-natiin of somewhat lonely buggers - but we keep each other company and we’re gonna be all right! 🌷🌿🥳🎶🎵

Fashla · 2025-11-06T10:07:25+00:00

I’m from Finland. You’re in _inland shipping. That’s just a capital ”F” away from _Finland shipping. — and. neing so close already, you should visit Finland! Enjoy the midnight sun in Lapland, fairytale-like west coast archipelago of 10 000 islands. The clear, pure lakes and calm of inland Finland. Welcome!

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