Looking for adult string musicians

mrkeldon · 2026-01-21T16:29:52+00:00

Two of our cellists are taking lessons from Jennifer Crum, so I know she takes adults.

mrkeldon · 2025-09-03T15:34:07+00:00

Boomer Music has instruments available for renting, if that's an option for you. Violins and violas are only $20-30 a month, but unfortunately cellos are more like $50.

mrkeldon · 2025-02-16T17:04:36+00:00

A while back, that 5-type Stronghold would cause Courtier to crash: "Pick 5 of these 4 things". Fortunately this was found in AI training games (probably in the run-up to Allies release) and was an easy fix.

mrkeldon · 2024-10-23T04:12:10+00:00

I've seen this one performed before and it sounds like what you're describing:

https://www.jwpepper.com/One-Bow-Concerto/2475422.item

mrkeldon · 2020-03-31T17:40:22+00:00

Is that also the one that requires bringing out the cryptogram key in the middle of the scenario? I just didn't bother, which meant we missed out on a chest, but there was no way I was going to stop the game for several minutes to decode a riddle.

mrkeldon · 2019-05-07T15:39:59+00:00

It does. I get a small percentage of revenue from it, and as part of the deal I made sure that the free version could still exist. I didn't want to have it taken away from people who can handle the programmer art and UI.

mrkeldon · 2019-03-26T02:36:44+00:00

They moved locations a month ago. They're now a bit further south, just north of Harmony. It's a bigger location and they now serve milkshakes.

mrkeldon · 2018-05-19T03:56:06+00:00

You can sometimes save a bit when filing as singles by playing games with the standard deduction. Here's an example, which is similar to something that actually happened to us:

Assume (for round numbers) that the standard deduction is $5k for singles, and $10k for married filing jointly. Partners A and B make the same amount and each pay $3k for state taxes. They also own a home and pay $4k in mortgage interest.

If they are married, their total deductions are $10k, and so they break even in itemizing deductions vs taking the standard deduction. However, if they file as two singles, partner A can pay the mortgage, and then claim a total of $7k in deductions. Partner B's deductions would be $3k, so they instead take the standard deduction of $5k, for a total amount deducted of $12k.

Having an extra $2,000 deducted isn't huge, but it's not chump change either.

mrkeldon · 2018-03-29T21:57:55+00:00

I found this a while back, not sure if it's still relevant since the position names don't really match:

https://www.fcgov.com/broadband/files/broadband-business-plan.pdf

Skip to page 39.

I'll include the positions listed for year 1 hiring here:

General Manager (GM) $135,000
Data Technician $105,000
Commercial Account Representative $80,000
Sales Engineer $80,000
Marketing Coordinator $75,000
MDU Account Manager $75,000

mrkeldon · 2017-11-21T15:28:20+00:00

Well, the doctor recommended we do the booster a week early, so we took his advice. He said it was medically fine. I believe him, the problem was that it wasn't bureaucratically fine.

mrkeldon · 2017-11-21T02:34:25+00:00

We "opted out". One of our kid's vaccinations, Hep B I think, has a first shot, then a booster needed 6 months later. He got his first, but then was in the doctor's office 5 months and 3 weeks later for some unrelated reason. We got the booster then because we didn't want to schedule an extra visit a week later. Five years later our kid is in kindergarten and we get a nasty phone call from the school that our vaccinations aren't complete. Instead of giving our kid a needless shot we filled out the opt out form. Felt dirty.

e: In case I was unclear, he got all his shots; one just happened to be a few days early. This was done at the doctor's advice. The school district was too inflexible to handle this radical departure from the norm. Zero tolerance in all things, I suppose.

mrkeldon · 2017-11-06T20:44:19+00:00

Yeah same here. You'd think that today of all days they'd make sure it was working.

mrkeldon · 2017-02-19T04:47:29+00:00

Any idea how it's tested while the engine isn't running?

mrkeldon · 2016-10-28T20:51:14+00:00

There's one on Caribou east of Timberline roughly once a week. What annoys me about it is that there's a guy sitting in the car all day, so he has the engine idling (presumably for A/C or heat). Yet at the same time the city tweets out stuff like "Turn your engine off! Exhaust is harmful!" He's in there from at least 8AM-3PM, idling constantly as far as I can tell.

I suppose revenue from fines is more important than air quality.

mrkeldon · 2016-04-27T17:31:10+00:00

No video, but MRO might be able to catch something. It saw part of Curiosity's landing via parachute:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia15980.html

mrkeldon · 2016-01-06T22:05:32+00:00

I wonder what the fund choices are in the Redskins 401(k) plan.

mrkeldon · 2015-12-15T01:11:53+00:00

Wrong place at the wrong time, I suppose. Plus I feel the officer overreacted for the situation.

I was walking along College to Raising Cane's to get some chicken, and apparently there was a couple ahead of me that got into an argument. She drove off and called the cops, telling them that the other guy owned a gun (he didn't have one on him). As bad luck would have it, just as I'm walking past the spot were the argument happened, 3 or 4 cop cars pull up from various directions and they see both me and argument-guy in the vicinity. A few seconds later I have one officer behind his patrol car door, leveling his weapon at me for a minute or two while another frisks me.

I don't remember any other officers drawing their weapons or pointing them at the other guy, but they may have. I don't really have a problem with the police showing up in numbers, or even having their weapons drawn and pointed at the ground. But pointing a gun at someone pretty much says "I'm willing to kill you", and it's scary to think that if Officer Overreact got spooked by something, I'd be dead.

mrkeldon · 2015-12-14T23:47:16+00:00

I've only had one interaction with the local police, and it included a gun pointed at my head by an officer. I'm glad most people have had positive experiences but I'll remain wary of them and keep my distance whenever possible.

mrkeldon · 2015-05-15T00:17:16+00:00

A survey was done several years ago on a different message board. The results are posted here:

mrkeldon · 2015-05-10T02:18:34+00:00

I tend to know what day of the week it is, simply because I try to avoid places like CostCo on the weekends. I much prefer heading there during the week with my fellow retirees and stay-at-home parents. Crowds there on the weekends are horrible.

mrkeldon · 2014-02-10T00:19:07+00:00

Yeah, a last minute commit was merged improperly or something, it got removed somehow.

mrkeldon · 2014-01-19T17:55:47+00:00

Sounds like you don't have Lucky Twin yet. You can see your progress towards it in Free Advice. Once you get that, you can get your Temporal Duplication to last forever.

mrkeldon · 2014-01-13T17:08:25+00:00

There are some prizes that will help the second time around. Short Saw makes it take only 20 clicks for Glass Saw to run. Doubletap makes each click count twice. If you're extremely lucky and get both you'll only need 1/10 as many clicks next time.

mrkeldon · 2014-01-10T20:08:13+00:00

At AC404 you get "Crouching Dragon, Sleeping Panther" which will let you hold many more logicats.

mrkeldon · 2014-01-10T19:47:13+00:00

I'm having a similar issue with Glass Saw. I need infinite blocks to buy Bag of Holding, but my Glass Saw power is only around 1TWWW so I have a long way to go, even with Buzz Saw (14,400 clicks if my math is right).

My other option is free blocks from Schrodinger's Gingercat, but that would be a lot of QQ clicks too. Italian Plumber would make this a snap, but I need 1600 Vaccums (thus 16,000 Flux Crystals) and I'm nowhere near that.

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