This gal lives for cold spring days.
Doesn’t have to change her coat.
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Commentary
Sunday, May 26, 2019
This is the spring that wasn’t.
I meet the gang @ 10.00am this morning for brunch at Tallulah’s in Seattle.
I’m having a pre-brunch coffee at 6.30am at the hotel café, at a table by the window with a great view of Elliott Bay.
Two pots of hot coffee are on my table, both American-style from Fonte roasters, one decaf, one regular, from which to compose the half-decaf which is steaming from my cup. An extra empty cup is nearby.
I drink only half a cup before the coffee not hot enough.
Waiter comes to refresh my cup; but before he does I pour my tepid coffee into the empty cup.
So the hot coffee pours into my still very warm cup, resulting in a reasonably hot second cup.
I’ll repeat this several times before I’m done with breakfast.
Today is Saturday.
I arrived in Seattle on Thursday to sunny skies and a warm 70*.
A perfect spring day.
Auspicious beginnings.
A red herring.
On Friday, the weather turned Seattle: cool to uncomfortable, and cloudy.
Today even worse, very cool and rainy, too.
Thunderstorms, anyone?
Tomorrow? I don’t want to look.
Coming from Boston, I am used to the reality of cold, windy, unpleasant springs.
I suppose I have no complaints.
But I’ll bet that this spring has been worse, much worse, even, than most others.
Were I a weatherman I’d be ashamed of myself for any association with such a spring.
If it may be called a spring.
Which I doubt.
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Announcement
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Running another check of our delivery system.
Have reason to doubt its efficacy.
Please bear with us.
love you
Boston is in a warm stretch.
What fun!
Let’s enjoy this weather, each day of it.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Our 415th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 415 posts we’re at the 8.30 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 4.01am.
On Sunday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 81* with a feels-like of 90* with showers.
Dinner Friday night at Harvest Moon was terrific. A series of Mexican small plates. Lunch at Monsoon, a Thai place, also great: a Tofu stir-fry.
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Question of the Day:
Sunday, May 26, 2019
What is a trumpet?
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Chuckle of the Day:
Sunday, May 26, 2019
A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house.
She slammed the door and shouted excitedly, "Honey, pack your bags.
I won the lottery!"
The husband said, "Oh my God!
What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?"
"I don’t care what you pack," she said, "Just get out."
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One Picture, Briefly
Sunday, May 26, 2019
The Great Wall of China
Jakub Hałun - Own work
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
Sunday, May 26, 2019
What is a trumpet?
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family.
Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century.
Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music.
They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips (called the player's embouchure), producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument.
Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.
Cropped version of Trumpet 1.jpg with transparent background.
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There are many distinct types of trumpet, with the most common being pitched in B♭ (a transposing instrument), having a tubing length of about 1.48 m (4 ft 10 in).
Early trumpets did not provide means to change the length of tubing, whereas modern instruments generally have three (or sometimes four) valves in order to change their pitch.
There are eight combinations of three valves, making seven different tubing lengths, with the third valve sometimes used as an alternate fingering equivalent to the 1–2 combination.
Most trumpets have valves of the piston type, while some have the rotary type.
The use of rotary-valved trumpets is more common in orchestral settings, although this practice varies by country.
Each valve, when engaged, increases the length of tubing, lowering the pitch of the instrument. A musician who plays the trumpet is called a trumpet player or trumpeter.
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Good Morning on this Sunday, the twenty-six day of May, 2019
Our commentary bemoans the lack of spring.
We posted the weather report and calendar, and tracked the number of our postings.
We posted an announcement that we’ll be testing the delivery system again.
We posted another One Picture, Briefly section and another chuckle.
Finally, the q and a taught us a bit about trumpets.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.