What's on my mind? How accurate the phrase "In one ear, out the other" is sometimes. 
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Or just when the person actually isn’t listening to you because they’re too distracted. Or they don’t want to listen to you/don’t care what you have to say, but are too afraid to admit it.What's on my mind? How accurate the phrase "In one ear, out the other" is sometimes.
The passing of Quincy Jones.
I heard about this... I was very close to getting to meet him on a tour in CA once, actually. And it's true—there will never be another like him. He did literally everything. Of course he produced "Thriller," but he also wrote some of the best jazz arrangements I've ever heard.
I saw him at the Montreux Jazz festival once many years back. They had an open mike session and he was seated up in balcony seat. Claude Nobs ("Funky Claude" in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water") who ran the festival until his tragic passing a couple of years back introduced him. Some great jams that night.
Events in the US are on my mind this evening. Hoping for a peaceful transition.
Yes, being in the middle of it is quite a bit scarier than Halloween.
The toaster (a nice, four-slice, wide-slot machine) refused to work. Push the lever down, it wouldn't stay down.
Turned it upside down, shook vigorously, no change.
Next option was to buy a special tool to undo the strange screws on the bottom to see if there was something clogging the mechanism.
Kit which contained the special end was $49 with no guarantee it would solve the problem. New toaster was $87.
New toaster arrived the next day. Tried it out with the last of the raisin toast, on the raisin toast settings.
New toaster works much better than the old one. Four slices of perfectly toasted carbon into the bin.
Trying again today, with much lower settings...
Turned it upside down, shook vigorously, no change.
Next option was to buy a special tool to undo the strange screws on the bottom to see if there was something clogging the mechanism.
Kit which contained the special end was $49 with no guarantee it would solve the problem. New toaster was $87.
New toaster arrived the next day. Tried it out with the last of the raisin toast, on the raisin toast settings.
New toaster works much better than the old one. Four slices of perfectly toasted carbon into the bin.
Trying again today, with much lower settings...
Went to a conducting/music education workshop taught by the wind ensemble director tonight. Super glad I went! Looks like they'll have more of them.
Sent a text (on iMessage) to one person, but as I was sending an (entirely different) text to another person, I just happened to use one common word, which triggered the text predictions to say what I'd said in my previous text to the other guy. Vaguely unsettling...
Oh hey! Completely forgot to tell yall that I got a refund on my missing textbook! Called the company and explained my situation, and they issued a refund.
German firms tested 4-day workweek — here's the outcome – DW – 11/05/2024
A few dozen German companies have allowed their staff to work four days a week without cutting their wages accordingly. The trial showed promising gains, but are they sustainable across the economy?
www.dw.com
Yes, as @Apple fanboy has already observed, proof-reading before pressing "send" is always to be recommended.
As is concentrating on - focussing on - paying attention to, - the task in hand.
The convenience of many modern methods of communication doesn't mean that one can forego the basic business of concentration, focus, and thinking, while availing of them, or using them.
Been some tests here as well. However I’m not sure we are more productive than we used to be. I’m the time before mobile phones people probably used to work more hours than they do now.German firms tested 4-day workweek — here's the outcome – DW – 11/05/2024
A few dozen German companies have allowed their staff to work four days a week without cutting their wages accordingly. The trial showed promising gains, but are they sustainable across the economy?
Honestly, I’m really surprised given what the post office told me. But yes, this is very good news!
I won’t talk politics of course, I voted today 7:15am in person the USA elections. Will steer clear of news till late tonight.
Going to be a late night for many I here I’d imagine.
I won’t talk politics of course, I voted today 7:15am in person the USA elections. Will steer clear of news till late tonight.
Well done.
I won’t talk politics of course, I voted today 7:15am in person the USA elections. Will steer clear of news till late tonight.
As someone who has observed almost 30 elections across three continents as an international election observer (some of them at a senior level) over a little more than the past quarter of a century, I take elections and exercising the franchise - and the right to exercise the franchise - very, very seriously.
Indeed.
Actually, the cheesemonger has just phoned me (he had earlier done so over the week-end) and asked me to join him this evening watching the election returns; as he pointed out, I'm nocturnal anyway.