The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
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tone4days
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Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
woke up ... got outta bed ... comb got stuck in my curly head ..
typical workday starts when i roll outta bed about 7:30 ... wash up, dress, some vitamins and small breakfast then i'm out the door by 0800 .. at the desk by 0830 ...
i have a morning 'stand up' meeting with some of my folks to go over any items from the day before and get a pulse on the day to come ... some days it is really short, so i can get a jump on email and voice mail ... that takes me up to my daily phone-in at 0900 where i talk with the other section leaders for the proposal i am working on (i am responsible for one of the 'books' that will make up the final proposal) ... that usually goes 15-30 minutes depending on any issues that crop up day-to-day ... i then spend most of the day writing / editing / etc parts of the book or attending to administrative items that pop up in my in-box ... i have folks reporting to me in 5 states - only about 4 of my 36 direct reports are in the same building as me - so i spend a bunch of time 'reaching out' so they feel connected to the mother ship ... phone calls and emails mostly ... i am also in the middle of a hiring blitz, so i am reviewing (TONS OF) resumes and arranging for / conducting phone interviews (the job is located in new mexico - so all this is remote mgmt for me) ... depending on where we are in our 4-week financial cycle, i have several reports that i am responsible to compile and present to mgmt, so that takes some time ... i am also mentoring a handful of young candidate program managers, so i get involved with teaching them the basics or fine points, depending on how well they are doing ... we have one guy who is positively brilliant, but high maintenance ... so i spend time giving him lessons in remaining calm and using soft influence ... his project is pretty important so i do a lot more hands-on planning, monitoring, adjusting, , etc ... but my day isnt terribly hectic .. i find time to post on here and TGP after all, eh? ...
i am outta the office around 5:30 or so ... home a bit before 6pm ... dinner with the family is usually around 6:00 or so ... we all talk about our days and ask questions and get into discussions about various things .. we laugh and joke alot ... after dinner the kids make their lunch for the next day while my wife and i clean up the dishes, etc ... we are usually clear of them after a bit, so we talk about the 'big persons' administrivia and organizing planning, etc ... we are usually out of the kitchen by 7:00 ... depending on the night, i am either off to band practice, dance lessons with my wife, cutting the lawn, or just vegging out with the boys .. i might play a little guitar, or web surf some more, or pay some bills, or just watch some tube with my wife ... lights out around 11 pm or so
lather rinse repeat
weekends are filled with household chores instead of work, but its a pretty similar drill
t4d
woke up ... got outta bed ... comb got stuck in my curly head ..
typical workday starts when i roll outta bed about 7:30 ... wash up, dress, some vitamins and small breakfast then i'm out the door by 0800 .. at the desk by 0830 ...
i have a morning 'stand up' meeting with some of my folks to go over any items from the day before and get a pulse on the day to come ... some days it is really short, so i can get a jump on email and voice mail ... that takes me up to my daily phone-in at 0900 where i talk with the other section leaders for the proposal i am working on (i am responsible for one of the 'books' that will make up the final proposal) ... that usually goes 15-30 minutes depending on any issues that crop up day-to-day ... i then spend most of the day writing / editing / etc parts of the book or attending to administrative items that pop up in my in-box ... i have folks reporting to me in 5 states - only about 4 of my 36 direct reports are in the same building as me - so i spend a bunch of time 'reaching out' so they feel connected to the mother ship ... phone calls and emails mostly ... i am also in the middle of a hiring blitz, so i am reviewing (TONS OF) resumes and arranging for / conducting phone interviews (the job is located in new mexico - so all this is remote mgmt for me) ... depending on where we are in our 4-week financial cycle, i have several reports that i am responsible to compile and present to mgmt, so that takes some time ... i am also mentoring a handful of young candidate program managers, so i get involved with teaching them the basics or fine points, depending on how well they are doing ... we have one guy who is positively brilliant, but high maintenance ... so i spend time giving him lessons in remaining calm and using soft influence ... his project is pretty important so i do a lot more hands-on planning, monitoring, adjusting, , etc ... but my day isnt terribly hectic .. i find time to post on here and TGP after all, eh?
... i am outta the office around 5:30 or so ... home a bit before 6pm ... dinner with the family is usually around 6:00 or so ... we all talk about our days and ask questions and get into discussions about various things .. we laugh and joke alot ... after dinner the kids make their lunch for the next day while my wife and i clean up the dishes, etc ... we are usually clear of them after a bit, so we talk about the 'big persons' administrivia and organizing planning, etc ... we are usually out of the kitchen by 7:00 ... depending on the night, i am either off to band practice, dance lessons with my wife, cutting the lawn, or just vegging out with the boys .. i might play a little guitar, or web surf some more, or pay some bills, or just watch some tube with my wife ... lights out around 11 pm or so
lather rinse repeat
weekends are filled with household chores instead of work, but its a pretty similar drill
t4d
Pink Unicorn Horsey
Megä Pöny Rÿdr
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
Do you see yourself as a father figure to a lot of the younger forum members?
Do you see yourself as a father figure to a lot of the younger forum members?
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
hmmm ... no, i don't think so .... certainly not in the conventional definition, i don't think ... if i think about that label too long, it gets kinda deep and kinda dark kinda quick cus of my own experience with my father ...
i endeavour to act on here towards people based on the quality of their input, not their age ... there are young guns on here who i would consider my teacher, so i couldnt be conventionally 'fatherly' to them ... when asked, i do try to provide solid advice based on my life experiences, so i guess that has a somewhat fatherly flavor to it ... i am barely a role model for myself, so i cant really rightly hold myself up as one for others - but i do try to follow the rules and be upstanding in that regard ... and i do try to be mostly positive and encouraging to guys when they share something they have created or are struggling to learn ... i am not one, by nature, to horde knowledge - i try to share it freely ...
i think one of my biggest failings in that capacity is not suffering fools gladly enough .. and i find laziness (especially intellectual laziness) to be the kissing cousin of foolishness ... so when someone comes on here spouting unconsidered and mindless opinions based in nothing much really, i have a shorter fuse ... but then again, that isnt age-specific .... is tough love fatherly?
all that said, there are a handful or more of the young guns around here that i really admire and respect ... i look forward to a future of seeing them post about the accomplishments that they are destined to so richly earn
i dunno, is any of that fatherly?
t4d
ps - another reason i recoil some from the 'father figure' label on here is the seriousness with which i treat real life actual fathering ... kinda the way it urks me when people consider a pet to be 'their child' ... anything even a little like fathering on here is so so so pail in comparison to the real life jobs that the younger members' fathers have, that to abuse the same word seems kinda off to me
hmmm ... no, i don't think so .... certainly not in the conventional definition, i don't think ... if i think about that label too long, it gets kinda deep and kinda dark kinda quick cus of my own experience with my father ...
i endeavour to act on here towards people based on the quality of their input, not their age ... there are young guns on here who i would consider my teacher, so i couldnt be conventionally 'fatherly' to them ... when asked, i do try to provide solid advice based on my life experiences, so i guess that has a somewhat fatherly flavor to it ... i am barely a role model for myself, so i cant really rightly hold myself up as one for others - but i do try to follow the rules and be upstanding in that regard ... and i do try to be mostly positive and encouraging to guys when they share something they have created or are struggling to learn ... i am not one, by nature, to horde knowledge - i try to share it freely ...
i think one of my biggest failings in that capacity is not suffering fools gladly enough .. and i find laziness (especially intellectual laziness) to be the kissing cousin of foolishness ... so when someone comes on here spouting unconsidered and mindless opinions based in nothing much really, i have a shorter fuse ... but then again, that isnt age-specific .... is tough love fatherly?
all that said, there are a handful or more of the young guns around here that i really admire and respect ... i look forward to a future of seeing them post about the accomplishments that they are destined to so richly earn
i dunno, is any of that fatherly?
t4d
ps - another reason i recoil some from the 'father figure' label on here is the seriousness with which i treat real life actual fathering ... kinda the way it urks me when people consider a pet to be 'their child' ... anything even a little like fathering on here is so so so pail in comparison to the real life jobs that the younger members' fathers have, that to abuse the same word seems kinda off to me
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tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
his name is 'bill'
so is mine
plus i grew up in the 'when school house rock was new' era, so it kinda dates me in a way i embrace ...
plus that episode talks about the legislative process in the US's representative democracy, something that i am interested in ...
plus i like the song he sang ... "i'm just a bill ... yes, i'm only a bill ...." ... the 'just' and 'only' fits in with my 'all lower caps' presentation ... undersell the sizzle, let the steak do the talkin' .. if my words have merit, maybe someday they'll be 'law'
"oh yes i hope and i pray that they will
but today i am still
just a bill"
t4d
his name is 'bill'
so is mine
plus i grew up in the 'when school house rock was new' era, so it kinda dates me in a way i embrace ...
plus that episode talks about the legislative process in the US's representative democracy, something that i am interested in ...
plus i like the song he sang ... "i'm just a bill ... yes, i'm only a bill ...." ... the 'just' and 'only' fits in with my 'all lower caps' presentation ... undersell the sizzle, let the steak do the talkin' .. if my words have merit, maybe someday they'll be 'law'
"oh yes i hope and i pray that they will
but today i am still
just a bill"
t4d
gripweed
Jolvisologist
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
Glad to see you're doing the well! You've always seemed like one of the nicest and most genuine people on SDUGF.
What have you been reading and listening to lately? Do you watch any T.V., and if you do what do you watch?
Glad to see you're doing the well! You've always seemed like one of the nicest and most genuine people on SDUGF.
What have you been reading and listening to lately? Do you watch any T.V., and if you do what do you watch?
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
thanks for the kind words, gripweed .. thats nice of you to say ...
reading 'the god delusion' by dawkins
listening to 'breezin' by george benson, 'layla' by derek and the dominos, 'fillmore concerts' by allman bros, and the first pearl jam album ... gonna try to hear satch's latest this weekend and looking forward to the new cd by mike stern with the yellowjackets later this month
tv - we get the HD music channel now, so i usually put that on first to see if anything good is on .. watched the John Adams miniseries on HBO recently, liked it alot ... i watch 'dancin with the stars' with my wife on mondays (gets us stoked for our dancin lesson on tuesday nights) ... and i follow the political campaigns on msnbc ... we try to catch 'the office' new episodes and some reruns too ... if i stay up a little late, i watch the daily show ... on the weekends, i try to catch NASCAR, but i havent had time to watch a whole race yet this season (but i know my hendricks boys are strugglin)
thanks for the kind words, gripweed .. thats nice of you to say ...
reading 'the god delusion' by dawkins
listening to 'breezin' by george benson, 'layla' by derek and the dominos, 'fillmore concerts' by allman bros, and the first pearl jam album ... gonna try to hear satch's latest this weekend and looking forward to the new cd by mike stern with the yellowjackets later this month
tv - we get the HD music channel now, so i usually put that on first to see if anything good is on .. watched the John Adams miniseries on HBO recently, liked it alot ... i watch 'dancin with the stars' with my wife on mondays (gets us stoked for our dancin lesson on tuesday nights) ... and i follow the political campaigns on msnbc ... we try to catch 'the office' new episodes and some reruns too ... if i stay up a little late, i watch the daily show ... on the weekends, i try to catch NASCAR, but i havent had time to watch a whole race yet this season (but i know my hendricks boys are strugglin)
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Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
do you like this video spinal tap stonehenge http://youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38
do you like this video spinal tap stonehenge http://youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
What type of radio station is your car receiver tuned to at the moment?
Steak or seafood?
Favorite beer?
What type of radio station is your car receiver tuned to at the moment?
Steak or seafood?
Favorite beer?
G
Guest
Guest
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
Describe, thoroughly, your love for Paula Marshal.
Also: Paula Marshal or Marshall amps?
Describe, thoroughly, your love for Paula Marshal.
Also: Paula Marshal or Marshall amps?
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
yeah - i told this story on one of theodie's threads about russian hats a while back ... it wasnt 'on the day, but pretty close ... i was there about 4 weeks after the coup that brought yeltsin to power .. back about 90 or 91, whenever it was ... i was a guvvie back then ... things werent as 'open' there as they are now - still a very cold war kinda deal ... we stayed in a hotel a short walk from the US embassy and we had to walk by the underpass that was famous from the CNN footage of the coup (where the armoured personnel carrier was drivin down into the tunnel on fire) ...
we had 'special' (i.e. monitored) rooms in our hotel (smile for the smoke detector) ... there were three of us traveling together .. instead of putting us in 3 rooms all in a row on the same floor, we had the same numbered room on each of three successive floors (413, 513, and 613) ... and they d!cked with us .. no hot water for the first 5 out of our 8 day stay and no towels, just a very thin linen about 18 " wide by about 2 1/2 ft long ... they'd walk around and loudly grab at our room doorknobs and shake and shout at about 2 or 3 am .... then our phone would ring at 3 or 4 am (just after we settled back to sleep from the first visit) ... the first night, we were awoken by ak-47 fire on the street below ...
went to a flea market to buy souvenirs and wanted to buy a balalaika ... this HUGE dude (looked like he came from central casting as 'russian mobster #2') said in a broken english 'you want balalaika? you come with me' ... so i followed him a coupla blocks to a music store that was open but had no merchandise in the display cases except for some dusty old tambourines and a knock off of a tubescreamer ... he said "you wait here - 20 minutes- i come back with balalaika" ... so i did .. he came back and opened the trunk to his car and he had a bunch of em (black market, nothing gets sold from the store) ... he held up two ... 'this one 1000 rubles (about $10 at the time), this one 2000 rubles ($20)' ... i gave him 2000 and took the balalaika ... he smiled big (i think i overpaid) ... then he wanted to teach me how to set it up, the instructions were in russian, the bridge was shipped flat, so it had to be set ... intonation was gonna be 'approximate' at best ... his english and my russian were insufficient to get the instructions across, but we used sign language to get it figured out .. was kinda cool
(more to come)
yeah - i told this story on one of theodie's threads about russian hats a while back ... it wasnt 'on the day, but pretty close ... i was there about 4 weeks after the coup that brought yeltsin to power .. back about 90 or 91, whenever it was ... i was a guvvie back then ... things werent as 'open' there as they are now - still a very cold war kinda deal ... we stayed in a hotel a short walk from the US embassy and we had to walk by the underpass that was famous from the CNN footage of the coup (where the armoured personnel carrier was drivin down into the tunnel on fire) ...
we had 'special' (i.e. monitored) rooms in our hotel (smile for the smoke detector) ... there were three of us traveling together .. instead of putting us in 3 rooms all in a row on the same floor, we had the same numbered room on each of three successive floors (413, 513, and 613) ... and they d!cked with us .. no hot water for the first 5 out of our 8 day stay and no towels, just a very thin linen about 18 " wide by about 2 1/2 ft long ... they'd walk around and loudly grab at our room doorknobs and shake and shout at about 2 or 3 am .... then our phone would ring at 3 or 4 am (just after we settled back to sleep from the first visit) ... the first night, we were awoken by ak-47 fire on the street below ...
went to a flea market to buy souvenirs and wanted to buy a balalaika ... this HUGE dude (looked like he came from central casting as 'russian mobster #2') said in a broken english 'you want balalaika? you come with me' ... so i followed him a coupla blocks to a music store that was open but had no merchandise in the display cases except for some dusty old tambourines and a knock off of a tubescreamer ... he said "you wait here - 20 minutes- i come back with balalaika" ... so i did .. he came back and opened the trunk to his car and he had a bunch of em (black market, nothing gets sold from the store) ... he held up two ... 'this one 1000 rubles (about $10 at the time), this one 2000 rubles ($20)' ... i gave him 2000 and took the balalaika ... he smiled big (i think i overpaid) ... then he wanted to teach me how to set it up, the instructions were in russian, the bridge was shipped flat, so it had to be set ... intonation was gonna be 'approximate' at best ... his english and my russian were insufficient to get the instructions across, but we used sign language to get it figured out .. was kinda cool
(more to come)
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
i had bought my furry hat at the flea market - was about $10 or so ... i had it on the entire time i was waitin for the guy to come back, but it got too hot .. i ended up giving it to a guy who looked like a homeless/drunk/whatever who was layin against a wall kinda out of it who seemed pretty unprepared for the elements .. he took it, nodded, and drifted back to 'sleep' / passed out/whatever
went inside st basil's church in red square ... its alot smaller than it looks on TV, and even smaller inside .. but really cool ... no pews, they stand for the entire service (longer than a catholic mass) ...
saw the changing of the guard at lenin's tomb - very impressive precision movements ...
got on a surface bus, but didnt have any small coins to pay the fair, so i gave the conductor my smallest paper money (i think it was the equivalent of about 10 cents) and swept my hand indicating everyone behind me in line and said 'for them too' - even though there were about 10 people behind me, i think i paid enough for 100 people ... they all smiled and waved and gave me a seat on the crowded bus ...
baskin robbins had opened a street front counter on a pedestrian only mall/street and pizza hut had opened a store there too ... we stood in line for a frikkin hour or more for ice cream, only to find out that if we were willing to pay in dollars, we couldve used the 'other' line with no one in it ... so we paid the equivalent of like 20 cents for a huge double scoop of ice cream - it wouldve been a few dollars if we paid in greenbacks ... when we went to pizza hut later that night, we went in the 'dollars' door and avoided the line that was for rubles only (our cab driver was happy to practice his english ... too bad all he said was 'pizza hut good ! ... he pronounced 'hut' as if he was trying to hack up a furball) .. but we paid about $30 for a 'supreme' pizza that was about the size of a medium pizza in the states and had about 2 slices of pepperoni, a coupla sliced mushrooms, and some onions .. in rubles, the pizza wouldve cost about $2 ..
the line at customs/immigration to go home was at least a half mile long .. so decided to take a shot at a slick move ... i was traveling on an official passport (not diplomatic) ... i noticed a sign for diplomats and air crew to use a lane that no one was in that only had one sleepy guard at the counter ... i told my team to follow me and do what i do ... walked up like i owned the place, flashed my passport like i was the friggin ambassador and the guard dozily nodded and waived us through ... too cool
for that little manouvre, i didnt pay for a drink in the pre flight lounge as we enjoyed our last taste of real vodka (served dang near frozen - almost syrupy - in frozen shot glasses)
slept almost the entire flight home - business class baby!
was a pretty cool experience, but i wouldnt want to go back
i had bought my furry hat at the flea market - was about $10 or so ... i had it on the entire time i was waitin for the guy to come back, but it got too hot .. i ended up giving it to a guy who looked like a homeless/drunk/whatever who was layin against a wall kinda out of it who seemed pretty unprepared for the elements .. he took it, nodded, and drifted back to 'sleep' / passed out/whatever
went inside st basil's church in red square ... its alot smaller than it looks on TV, and even smaller inside .. but really cool ... no pews, they stand for the entire service (longer than a catholic mass) ...
saw the changing of the guard at lenin's tomb - very impressive precision movements ...
got on a surface bus, but didnt have any small coins to pay the fair, so i gave the conductor my smallest paper money (i think it was the equivalent of about 10 cents) and swept my hand indicating everyone behind me in line and said 'for them too' - even though there were about 10 people behind me, i think i paid enough for 100 people ... they all smiled and waved and gave me a seat on the crowded bus ...
baskin robbins had opened a street front counter on a pedestrian only mall/street and pizza hut had opened a store there too ... we stood in line for a frikkin hour or more for ice cream, only to find out that if we were willing to pay in dollars, we couldve used the 'other' line with no one in it ... so we paid the equivalent of like 20 cents for a huge double scoop of ice cream - it wouldve been a few dollars if we paid in greenbacks ... when we went to pizza hut later that night, we went in the 'dollars' door and avoided the line that was for rubles only (our cab driver was happy to practice his english ... too bad all he said was 'pizza hut good ! ... he pronounced 'hut' as if he was trying to hack up a furball) .. but we paid about $30 for a 'supreme' pizza that was about the size of a medium pizza in the states and had about 2 slices of pepperoni, a coupla sliced mushrooms, and some onions .. in rubles, the pizza wouldve cost about $2 ..
the line at customs/immigration to go home was at least a half mile long .. so decided to take a shot at a slick move ... i was traveling on an official passport (not diplomatic) ... i noticed a sign for diplomats and air crew to use a lane that no one was in that only had one sleepy guard at the counter ... i told my team to follow me and do what i do ... walked up like i owned the place, flashed my passport like i was the friggin ambassador and the guard dozily nodded and waived us through ... too cool
for that little manouvre, i didnt pay for a drink in the pre flight lounge as we enjoyed our last taste of real vodka (served dang near frozen - almost syrupy - in frozen shot glasses)
slept almost the entire flight home - business class baby!
was a pretty cool experience, but i wouldnt want to go back
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tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
i love all things spinal tap ... when i got the special edition dvd, i started laughin moments after putting it in the player ... before they even go into the menu, let alone the film starting ... they start with the 'none more black' bit ...
sadly, i have been in design meetings where specifications were misunderstood about like that .. i had a partner for years who was also a spinal tap fan ... we use to just sigh and shake our heads and say "18 inch stonehenge" wheneverit happened
i love all things spinal tap ... when i got the special edition dvd, i started laughin moments after putting it in the player ... before they even go into the menu, let alone the film starting ... they start with the 'none more black' bit ...
sadly, i have been in design meetings where specifications were misunderstood about like that .. i had a partner for years who was also a spinal tap fan ... we use to just sigh and shake our heads and say "18 inch stonehenge" wheneverit happened
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tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
mama told me never wear someone else's hat ...
i must remain hatted ... cus i can't dance
i think we must forge our own hatful choices
mama told me never wear someone else's hat ...
i must remain hatted ... cus i can't dance
i think we must forge our own hatful choices
tone4days
Heel Whacker
Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
npr outta b'more
surf n turf ... steak alone if i gotta choose - hopefully it is filet mignon a la bearnaise wrapped in bacon and water chestnuts
i dont drink enough beer to have a real fav ... but i really like magic hat #9 ... honestly though, if i have 6 beers in a year, its alot .. i might not even have 6 alcoholic beverages in a year ... gin and tonic or margarita (rocks, no salt) when i do ...
npr outta b'more
surf n turf ... steak alone if i gotta choose - hopefully it is filet mignon a la bearnaise wrapped in bacon and water chestnuts
i dont drink enough beer to have a real fav ... but i really like magic hat #9 ... honestly though, if i have 6 beers in a year, its alot .. i might not even have 6 alcoholic beverages in a year ... gin and tonic or margarita (rocks, no salt) when i do ...
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Re: The Well - Part XXVII: Cue the double bass (arco) and the tuba ...
thats a great line yall are using!! :biglaugh: that movie is hilarious, rawk on
thats a great line yall are using!! :biglaugh: that movie is hilarious, rawk on- Status