Search results

Well, thank you to everyone for the encouragement and especially for the reminder that learning something--anything--new at my age can only be a good thing. I was just reading an article about Alzheimer's (my grandfather had it) and it stressed keeping the old noodle active can make a big...

Ah, yes, that could be an issue. I have to put my hearing aids in before practicing and taking my lessons.

Not a hero. Just someone who is easily bored and always looking for something new to do. :cool::rofl:

You could always take it up again!

There is an amazing video of Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett, who also died of Alzheimers, in which Bennett looks and sounds like himself, performing with joy and clarity. Once the show was over, he didn't even remember it happening (I think this aired on "60 Minutes"). Brought tears to my eyes.

Oh yes, I've been schooled intensely on how to do barre chords. The problem is, my fingers don't HAVE a hard side. Actually I am slowly getting it. I got F7 consistently yesterday, which has to be one of the hardest ones because it's right next to the nut.

Ha ha! No. I haven't looked that young in about 50 years.

Oh yeah, couldn't do it without the teacher. Teaching myself is how I worked my way into boredom corner. But I don't think different tunings would help with the barre chords issue. They're so versatile I'm sure they're necessary no matter what, especially in songs that have key changes. I am...

A few months ago, I started taking guitar lessons. I'm 73 years old. Why, you ask? Well, when I was a kid, I took piano lessons for 10+ years and then I picked up guitar and became sort of a campfire guitarist. I got bored and dropped both. But I love music. I always envied people who...

Well, three. There are the kind who beat up the property AND don't pay.

The Grateful Dead, hands down. Musically extremely accomplished and diverse. Wrote music for Robert Hunter's spacy poems that made them make sense, could play anything from hallucinogenic rock to country to blue grass. In fact, about the only genre of music they didn't perform (although I'm...

I don't remember the highest groundspeed I've achieved in my C182, but certainly my most fun tailwind story is when I dropped my husband off in Oregon to pick up the Corvette I bought him and I beat him home by a much larger margin than anticipated because I had a groundspeed of 154 kts. Of...

There's a reason for that. If you have a crosswind, you have to crab into the wind, making it a partial headwind. So, depending on your airspeed and the speed of the wind, my guess is at least 240° of the compass rose requires you to have a headwind. So you have to get lucky for your wind to...

I like country music, but I like lots of kinds of music, so country doesn't dominate my listening. But I always like the humor in some of his songs. "Red Solo Cup" and "I Love This Bar" are hilarious. The Prime Country Sirius XM station was playing non-top Toby Keith for a couple of days, and...

I've been using Turbotax for many years. It's kind of expensive, but familiarity is a plus. My taxes are semi-complicated because I have to pay taxes in two states, one of which, unfortunately, is California, which requires me to jump through all kinds of hoops and fill out stacks (if printed)...

They can be recycled, but as of now are not very much because the process is extremely complicated, expensive, and dangerous. I tried to post a link to an article from MIT that comments on this, but I can't get the hyperlink to work. Here's the URL...

I don't think that the fact that most of my missions are incompatible with EVs makes me a zealot. It makes me a realist. On the whole, I've found that EV owners are far more zealous, you know, about saving the world and all.

Last Friday, my husband and I experienced a 95° temperature drop. It was 72° (rather cool, actually) in Hawaii when we left and -23° at home when we got there. It was brutal. Otherwise, I haven't minded it, but it's finally warmed up. I was actually kind of glad for the cold weather because...

I would never get an EV. Most of my missions are completely incompatible with and EV.

The last few years, all the network and cable stations time-delayed the ball drop. I used to watch it and then go to bed as my usual time--at 2100 in the Pacific Time Zone. It was disappointing not being able to watch it drop. Well, this year, CNN decided to run it live. Not only did I get...