No subject (Part 5)

Alright, I’ll bite.
These are on my list
1)Finish last section of the Great Divide Trail
2) Memorize and play on the piano without mistakes “Claire de Lune”
3) a podium finish in a major XC ski event
4) Start the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife
5) Start playing old timers hockey again
6) Learn enough polkas on my accordion to drive everyone crazy
7) Go back to Europe and do the 17 day traverse around Mt Blanc and the hikers haut route from Chaumanix (sp)to Zermatt which was canceled due to covid( still have credits at a number of Refugio’s)
8) quit or cut back on alcohol consumption
9) memorize and play on the piano Chopins Pollonaise #53 , easy version

Post Edited (slapshot) : 10/10/2022 6:56:07 PM (GMT-7)

Mumbo,
Morris and Puckett, I hated it when the Royals played against those guys.
But I loved how awesome they were!!
As for accordion, in 6th grade the school contacted a music store on my behalf. They did this because there were no instruments left to play at school. Mm and music store set me up with 6 - 12 months of accordion lessons. I didn't learn a darn thing, hated every minute of it. Why not guitar or piano???
Still don't play any instrument, can't even read music.
But I know what sucks....... Accordion music.
I love the banjo though!!!!!

alephnull said: " ... But I know what sucks....... Accordion music."

Awwww .. it's not that bad, IF the right melody is being played!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=take+me+out+to+the+ball+gamnes+accordion+youtube&sp=-1&pq=take+me+out+to+the+ball+gamnes+accordion+youtube&sc=7-48&qs=n&sk=&cvid=01c0318bf21f4ebb99d72044af08f119&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=&ru=%2Fsearch%3fq%3Dtake%2bme%2bout%2bto%2bthe%2bball%2bgamnes%2baccordion%2byoutube%26form%3Dqblh%26sp%3D-1%26pq%3Dtake%2bme%2bout%2bto%2bthe%2bball%2bgamnes%2baccordion%2byoutube%26sc%3D7-48%26qs%3Dn%26sk%3D%26cvid%3D01c0318bf21f4ebb99d72044af08f119%26ghsh%3D0%26ghacc%3D0%26ghpl%3D&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=3bf3de868a691e3827573bf3de868a691e382757&form=wrvorc

Sorry 81,

I can't get the tune out of my head that the instructor had me "master"/

waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa

PTSD

Tudpock,

waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa

It's still there.
My parents loved Lawrence Welk, Sunday night was a cue for us kids to go outside unless you wanted to listen to the Lennon Sisters and accordion music.
I'm not dissing the sisters as they were very good singers. But that
waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa
kept ringing in my head.
Maybe the ringing in my ears is a remnant of waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa waaaaa waa waa.

NY Mets. 101 wins. In first place all but 8 days of the season. End up in a wild card fight with all games at home, and lose in three.
Which leads me to address VinceNT’s post. I went to one of those games, the last one of the series, and watched my boys lose and end the season. So cross “going to a Mets Playoff game” off my bucket list.

A lot of the bucket list items I had have dropped off, due to Covid. Yeah, I’m still being super cautious. So trips to Israel, Iceland, and a few others, are not likely to happen.
Some of the bottom bucket list items have therefore floated to the top.
One, I’m heading to Cleveland in two weeks to hit up the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Two, after that , I’ll head south to Canton Ohio, to the pro Football HOF. THANSK TO MY WIFE FOR PUTTING UP WITH THESE TWO TRIPS which she has no real interest in LOL.
I’d still like to see the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Mt Rushmore. So while I don’t have a formal bucket list, I’ve got some things I’d like to do. We’ll see.

Vince posed another interesting question…has facing your own mortality changed the way you approach the time you have left?… and to that I say for sure. Before being diagnosed and treated for PCa, and quickly after that, heart disease, (6 months after surgery), I had never thought about retirement. My plan was to keep my foot in the gas as long as I was able. We’ll, guess what. I started planning for the sale of my business and executed in that 4 years later. But even before that, I had cut back to 3 days a week.

So yes, my approach to life has changed. I’m pretty sure that’s the case for maybe not all, but the majority of folks here.
Suddenly this isn’t a thread about nothing

Back to the accordion, my Dad played the piano and accordion when he was young. My Mom said it was her or the accordion when they got married. My Mom passed away some 50 year after they were married. My Dad got another accordion.

Jack64 said...
Only one thing on my bucket list. To still be happily married to my wonderful wife well into my eighties and maybe nineties.

What a lovely sentiment! I wish you well, and hope that I am able to do the same. My wife and I both had cancer the same year, and we realize that eventually, one of us will be forced to live without the other. Sobering thought. Plus both of our sons two years ago. Fortunately, we are currently all in remission.

Mumbo said...
Back to the accordion, my Dad played the piano and accordion when he was young.

My Mom played the piano as long as she was able (crippling arthritis). As I child I remember waking up to piano music. It was beautiful to experience.

I noticed that seeing the Grand Canyon was on the list of places to experience by a few on the previous posts. I haven’t been to Yellowstone or mt. Rushmore but have had the good fortune of hiking and biking in the grand canyon mostly in the national park section.

My wife and I over the last maybe 8 years have hiked on the South Rim all of the access trails from the little Colorado river to Bouche rapids and all of the Tonto trail sometimes multiple times and also the North Rim.

Everyone is different in their choice of interests but one thing stand’s out about the Big Ditch is its immense size and rock composition. Truly one of the world’s greatest natural wonders.

Dave

The CHIEFS!!!
What an exciting ending!!!!!!!!!!
MAHOMES!!!!!! Enough said!

My Cats in both BBall and FBall are doing well.
In FBall, we play that school from LowRents this next weekend.
If we win this one we are guaranteed a spot in the Big 12 Championship game!
For the first time in a long time, LowRents is doing well and we should NOT overlook them. One game at a time men, one game at a time.
In BBall, it's early but we seem to be playing so much better than last year. Have I said lately how much I love College BBall!!

Just drove by Lawrence on my way back home to the north county, I thought I saw squash in the fields but they were just basketballs…

A friend of mine’s wife is a massive soccer fan. The other day she was telling me about how excited she is for the World Cup and how she has rituals that she goes through on game day, such wearing special sox. Out of curiosity I asked how she feels when “her team” is unsuccessful and she shared that she takes it pretty hard, experiences some depression, and even blames herself if, for example, she wasn’t wearing those special socks.

I admit to being generally clueless about sports, local or otherwise. I am on a committee that puts on our annual 5K Turkey Run. It’s an all volunteer event and we have donated over $300,000 to local food charities in the past 11 years that we have done it.

When we were deciding what color the shirt would be, I pushed for maroon because we haven’t used that color before. This created quite a problem because I guess one of our two rival universities uses that color and by selecting it would would alienate possible participants. Really???