Practice Journal: Bonus Elvis

 Posted on April 3, 2024

A great practice day, even got a chance to sneak in some Elvis, which is never a bad thing. Satie Gymopedie No. 1 Pretty close to note perfect here, just a few notes that didn’t sound out. Also, I’m still having some issues with keeping those opening chords with even dynamics. If I can get that done, I think I will finally be happy with this one. Trying to pick out my next piece that everyone else learned in lessons, but somehow I didn’t. [Read More]
music  performance  piano  classical  Chopin  Waltz in B Minor  Satie  Gymnopedie No. 1  Mozart  Piano Sonata in C Major  K545  Elvis  Elvis Presley 

Practice Journal: Getting Stuck

Practice Journal: Getting Stuck

 Posted on April 2, 2024

I got stuck; no other way to put it. This has happened a few times, but for the last couple of months, I have just felt that my progress has kind of ground to a halt. I’m flubbing different notes in the same piece each time I sit down. A few of weeks ago, I kind of threw up my hands and walked a way for awhile. At the same time, my daughter started to learn the violin and her teacher provided me some accompianing sheet music, so I basically stopped practicing my pieces for a few weeks and played around with that. [Read More]
music  performance  piano  classical  Chopin  Waltz in B Minor  Satie  Gymnopedie No. 1  Mozart  Piano Sonata in C Major  K545 

From Nathan's Nirvana to a New Lost in OK

From Nathan's Nirvana to a New Lost in OK

 Posted on February 22, 2024  (Last modified on February 23, 2024)

A personal website has just been a thing I’ve never been able to let go of. I’ve been horrible about updating them, but I’ve always kept a site around. As such, I realized recently that I’ve had a website continuously for almost 30 years. I got my first website around 1995 or 1996 when I headed off to college. Let’s just say, none of us knew what we were doing. [Read More]
website  technology  wordpress  Hugo  Mastodon  RadicalWacko.com  LostinOk.com 

Off My Feet, Back to Blogging?

Off My Feet, Back to Blogging?

 Posted on January 15, 2023

So Christmas this year was a bit more eventful that we had planned. It started as expected, with an excited five year old getting out of bed well before dawn and shrieking with joy when she discovered her milk, cookies, and carrots had all been consumed by Santa and his helpers. Coffee was made for the bleary eyed parents and the opening of presents was comensed and finished by 7:30 AM. [Read More]
Oklahoma  Christmas  Injury 

Feces Physics

 Posted on May 6, 2017

Scientific American has now asked and answered the questions you were either to afraid to ask or never wanted to know. How fast is the bowel movement of an elephant and how does that compare, to say, a dog? Which species produce “floaters” and which “sinkers”? A true gem from the article, “The Physicics of Poop”: Together, this meant that defecation duration is constant across many animal species – around 12 seconds (plus or minus 7 seconds) – even though the volume varies greatly. [Read More]
poop  scientific-american 

I Think I'm Over Twitter

 Posted on May 5, 2017

For the last several years, I, like almost all of my nerd brethren, have set aside their blogs and moved their rants, raves, quips and puns over to Twitter. When I first moved over to Twitter, I fell in love with the novelty of the 140 character limit. It felt like a Hemingway master class in brevity. It forced me to refine my thoughts and to make them punchy. However, unlike Hemingway, Twitter discourages nuance and subtlety. [Read More]
Blogging  Twitter 

Marfa, Texas

Marfa, Texas

 Posted on April 30, 2017

Marfa was nothing short than a complete surprise. When I was last out in this country, Marfa was still unknown as the art community it had already become. To us, it was a small county seat out in the high desert, just one of those places to pass through to get down to the glories of Big Bend National Park. In fact, in the half dozen times I went to Big Bend in my youth, we never even went through there. [Read More]
aluminumdreams  airstreams  aluminum-dreams  Texas  Marfa  Big Bend  Fort David  McDonald Observatory  Valentine  Chinati Foundation  Del Rio  Photography 

Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

 Posted on April 28, 2017  (Last modified on February 20, 2024)

Off to the big city in the Airstream. I’m more of the wilderness type and Grace is definitely more the city girl so we try to mix it up with our travel locations. However, Austin is definitely a location we can both agree on. McKinney Falls Campsite The curse of the urban RV visit is that locations to stay in tend to be both over priced and over crowded. Thankfully, Austin provides a welcome alternative in McKinney Falls State Park. [Read More]
aluminumdreams  airstreams  aluminum-dreams  Texas  Austin