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• Paulieworld

  August 2022 edited August 2022

  @McD said:

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  @LinearLineman said:

  @Paulieworld said:
  Making music is the least of your challenges. I've had a few hospital experiences in my life, but nothing like what you are going through. All we can do is keep you both in our thoughts, and hope for the best outcome. There will be time for music.

  On a lighter note, I see that StaffPad is on sale. I told her about the Apple Pencil. She said... $130 for a frigging pencil? Have you lost your effing mind? (she didn't actually say 'effing'). I told her I might be able to continue using a piano roll editor and import into StaffPad. That pencil is dead in the water. What do you think? If I told her 'McD thinks it's a good idea', she might relent.

  Paul, tell her McL, who has won a Dramatists’ Guild Award, published over 60 albums and just got interviewed by a major online jazz site says she’s holding back an original creator who deserves the tools he needs to create and share his art with an audience who loves his stuff.

  Paul… and tell her @LinearLineman has been married many, many times and spends all his money on music hardware. Take his advice at your peril. I also know you probably get significant gifts as appropriate. Musicians never make enough money to afford their toys if they don’t have the most amazing day jobs. I opted for a much better day job and that has made all the difference for my purchases late in life. All that stuff about compound interest is true when you’re spouse is the CFO and controls where the “company” invests. It wasn’t in my musical “career”. Of course, I was ever willing to do the work required either. I had a “I pretend to work” type of job and I was really good at it.

  I joke a bit about my wife's thrifty nature, but she is actually very supportive. She says she just doesn't understand my 'music'. She loves country music and needs words to sing along with. Maybe I'll try that 'one of these days'.
• LinearLineman

  August 2022

  @Paulieworld, notice I said McL. She’ll never find me.
• Edward_Alexander

  August 2022

  @McD - Nice! (It’s actually really nice to hear music from a human, rather than a piano Motif generator or the like.)

  @Paulieworld good luck with that pencil plan lol
• magnusovi

  September 2022

  The violin is incredible man, I felt like I was gliding in the wind in a prairie. Not quite as high like a bird, but more like a a butterfly! Great work!!
• McD

  September 2022

  @magnusovi said:
  The violin is incredible man, I felt like I was gliding in the wind in a prairie. Not quite as high like a bird, but more like a a butterfly! Great work!!

  Thanks… the name always comes last. So the music slowly created a visual canvas and I force that vision into your processor using mind control techniques I used to frighten away women in my youth before this women decided I would do. That saved me years of humiliation.

  “You are getting sleepy… hit Like and the Bell.”