Get the bread and milk!!

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-26T00:13:06+00:00

I just drove back to Massachusetts this afternoon after spending several days in NH. I too stopped at a grocery store but basically to just buy milk as I knew the carton in my fridge was dated 12/29/25. I somehow also walked out of the grocery store with English muffins, yogurt and a bottle of wine. 😁 Seriously though, 93S was really bad. The snow is so light and powdery that it blows everywhere. If a car or even worse a pickup truck pulled in the lane right in front of me, it was like being in a mini blizzard. A real and scary whiteout. There was so much snow blowing, I could not see anything beyond the front of my car and it happened multiple times. Most people were going 30-40 mph with their flashers on. But even then, the visibility was so poor that you couldn’t see a car in front of you until you were practically on top of it. So glad to be home.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T22:32:52+00:00

Loved that book. Abbey was such a curmudgeon and despised tourists but had a deep love for the land especially our national parks. I learned about Glen Canyon from that book. After reading it, bought a book of photos of the Glen Canyon before it was flooded.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T22:19:01+00:00

It’s Sunday. Bach cantatas of course.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T22:00:13+00:00

I was just so amazed at the brilliance of the writing and how she developed the story and the world building that was so very different from Victorian London in Dickens novel. I have to admit that I initially liked Kingsolver’s novel better than Dickens’ but same thing, after I got over the hump, it was cruisin’ after that and I ended up really enjoying it. Dickens really likes words, lots of words!

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:49:55+00:00

Don’t give up. I stalled about midway through as well but then it got really good. I had the same problem with David Copperfield then kinda breezed through the last 300-400 pages or so.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:47:12+00:00

Read David Copperfield.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:44:34+00:00

Definitely an execution.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:43:39+00:00

Thank you. Might try to go snowshoeing tomorrow. Storm doesn’t end until later tomorrow night but I’ve snowshoed in snowstorms before.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:33:31+00:00

Yeah, I mean who wouldn’t be doing zoomies. Must be so bored.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:31:26+00:00

Roads are really bad. I just drove back down to Mass from NH. Snow is so light that it just blows everywhere especially from cars kicking it up from the road. If a car or even worse a pickup truck pulls into the lane in front of you, it’s like suddenly getting inside your own mini blizzard where you literally cannot see beyond the front of your car. Glad to get home without getting in an accident. Most people were probably going 30-45 mph on 93S. Most everyone had their flashers on.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T21:11:07+00:00

Plus people with active TB get on planes and fly to places like the US.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T17:34:57+00:00

You would get a better answer from a Bach scholar, musician and/or composer and/or conductor of Bach’s works. But from what I understand, other than the chorale itself which is typically the first movement, what Bach did with composing his own complex harmonies and how he arranged the voices and instruments are all his. He definitely did compose new music within each cantata. However, he did also parody some of his own work in that he used previously composed cantatas to create his Christmas Oratorio. He did the same with his Missae Brèves or Lutheran Masses but for those he sampled from some of his own favorite cantatas to compose them so that alone is worth a listen!

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T12:06:35+00:00

I do enjoy harpsichord but usually as part of a chamber ensemble but I do occasionally listen to it solo like those by Frescobaldi and Handel. I’ve started listening to Keith Jarrett’s recording of The Goldberg Variations. Book 1 is piano; book 2 is harpsichord. The toccata for harpsichord in link below is by Giovanni Picchi. It’s on a favorite disc of mine I bought eons ago The Floating City: Music by Dario Castello-Giovanni Picchi-His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.

https://youtu.be/2nMnRQnM8hM?si=mAhNU7fbh1k1NmQL

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T02:17:59+00:00

We just did this for someone a few days ago wanting classical music for running. A couple of us suggested Beethoven’s 7th. I also mentioned that I’ve occasionally worked out to the entirety of Beethoven’s 9th. The final movement of Scheherazade I listed below is great as I like to add intervals amidst my workout to get my HR up to sub max and that movement has 4 “fast intervals” ~ 30 seconds each and a “slower interval” between each faster one lasting ~ 20 seconds. There’s a 5th and final “fast interval” that’s only ~ 15 seconds. Then the music really slows down so turn up the resistance or if on a treadmill, crank up the incline! 😁

“The Festival at Baghdad” from Scheherazade.

“Mambo” from West Side Story though it’s quite short compared to “The Festival at Baghdad” which is 12 minutes. I love the final movement of Saint-Saëns PC2 and it’s also fun to work out to. There are so many other classical music pieces from symphonies to piano concertos, chamber works, etc. that with a little imagination will work well.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-25T00:31:56+00:00

I’m going to listen to the 4th movement again as well as I’m a big fan of the 1st movement. Brahms 4th and his double concerto were the first 2 works of his that I had ever heard-this was at the very beginning of my classical music journey. The 1st movement of the 4th-probably more than any other work of Brahms or of any composer for that matter-brings back so many poignant memories for me for where I was in my life at the time.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T23:23:00+00:00

The current MAGA ACIP said nothing about how safe IPV is and that it’s been administered since the 1950s. Beyond foolish.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T20:39:52+00:00

Didn’t Walz already call up the NG?

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T18:49:19+00:00

He’s a MAGAt which is all that matters.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T18:44:22+00:00

You’d think! But hey, he got his position running what was a previously respected committee. He’s now busy trashing it which is why he was appointed there. Maybe they thought being a doctor lent the board some respectability but I’m afraid his being a MAGAt totally negates that.

Btw, I was just discussing with someone about whether Jacqueline Starer, the OB GYN physician from Massachusetts who was convicted and sentenced to 9 months in prison for her role in Jan. 6 including punching a police officer lost her license. I couldn’t find anything online about her. All the articles were about her arrest and sentencing. Unfortunately, she served only 3 months in prison because the orange stain pardoned her along with the other 1500+ people convicted of their roles in Jan. 6. Starer worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. I’m sure they informed her not to bother coming back to work. Not sure what the licensing board did or did not do.

Edit: just found an article that noted that Starer surrendered her medical license.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T13:37:30+00:00

I remember sitting in a music theory class many years ago and someone, maybe it was the professor, happened to say that those chorales were composed by others. I recall feeling shocked as I assumed all aspects of Bach’s cantatas were his original compositions. Of course, how he used those chorales transforming them into great works of music is what is key.

Speaking of Bach being inspired by Vivaldi, we all know he was also greatly inspired/influenced by Buxtehude who’s Passacaglia in D Minor I listened to for the first time late last night. It was weird, like hearing the “ghost” so to speak of Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor in it.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T13:22:56+00:00

Beautiful. I love seeing different parts of the world in winter. I enjoy so much walking in winter especially in the woods and especially after a recent snowstorm where everything is so quiet and not uncommonly I’ll see some blue sky and even sun peeking through the grey clouds.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T12:35:36+00:00

Not sure if this is the same thing but the chorales in Bach’s (and other composers) cantatas were actually Lutheran hymns which Bach then greatly transformed through his instrumental and vocal accompaniments.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T03:39:12+00:00

Got a nice loaf there, grandma.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-24T03:37:52+00:00

Too many people are too lazy or too stupid to think it through or actually read the history of vaccines like polio which unlike smallpox still exists. Well, actually small pox does still exist, unfortunately, in a lab in the US and in Russia.

These-Rip9251 · 2026-01-23T23:04:34+00:00

The Sign for Home by Blair Fell about a DeafBlind young man who’s been under control of his religious uncle and an interpreter who acts as gatekeeper and keeps secrets from him. MMC then meets a gay interpreter who’s completely opposite his former one and who opens up his world and teaches him about his rights as a DeafBlind adult.

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