From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018061511124057176-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > It went fine.  No real surprises.  Just go, play songs they want, come   
   > home, wait for the check to come someday. Which it always does.   
      
   Sounds cold.   
      
   > I did buy an air compressor earlier this week. Don't have any attachments   
   > or toold for it other than a sand blaster. Plan is to grab a few here and   
   > there as I imagine I'll use them for something.  When I was growing up,   
   > dad had all that stuff in the garage. It's still there, actually, but   
   > that's my brothers garage now, so I wanted tools of my own :-)  I could   
   > walk over there and use them anytime, but still   
   .............   
      
   Only time I'd have problem with sharing tools, or anything else for that   
   matter, is if whomever I'm sharing with doesn't take care of them or put   
   them where they belong with they're done using them ;)   
      
   > Next week is full,  three duos and an band gig.  When it rains, it pours.   
      
   Pours Music? Or something less fun?   
      
   > Multipy by Zero.    There is a thing in mathematics, that if you multiply   
   > something by zero, you get zero for an answer. No matter how big or small   
   > the first number is, multiply it by zero and you get nothing.  Applied to   
   > business, or any process, this becomes, no matter how much work you put   
   > into some particular aspects of a project, if one part ( something   
   > critical ) is a zero, as in it doesn't work ... the whole process will   
   > fail.  You can work all you want, put all the effort you can into   
   > something, but if there is some other part that's out of you're control   
   > and it's a zero ( it doesn't work ) all the work you do will be wasted.   
      
   Sounds like my lyrics in "Departure":   
      
   what have you really got to show for everything you've done   
   year after year on and on just trippin' 'round the sun   
      
   > I see this with our stage balance. No matter what I do with the tracks or   
   > the stage levels or monitors, as long as we have a drummer who can and   
   > will just play overtop of everything, all my work is wasted.   
      
   Did anyone talk to him about *cooperating*?   
      
   > Only issue, the only question now, is how this ends.   Do we let him go,   
   > or does he sink the band ?   I'm conflicted.  Do I even want the band to   
   > continue ?   Will band girl stay if the drummer goes ? She says yes, but   
   > I've seen this situation before and maybe she will, maybe she won't.   She   
   > has different issues over the drums than I do, but neither of us are   
   > happy.   
      
   No happy, no Love Vibe.   
      
   > My solo work will continue either way.  As will our duos.   So, really   
   > what's to lose ?   A band I don't enjoy working with ?   Let go of the   
   > darn thing.   
      
   If it's a waste, they it ought to be disposed of, as waste!   
      
   > A cousin of mine died two days ago. He was doing just what I was that day,   
   > working in the garden.  In his case, it ended badly, massive heart attack,   
   > game over. Same age as me, 64.   There might be a lesson there about being   
   > out in the hot sun sweating and stuff. . . . . .   
      
      
   jimd   
      
      
   You're only two trips ahead of me...or to put it another way, when I   
   Unwillingly entered, i.e. Forced into this Miserable existence, you were   
   already a whopping 2 years old ;)   
      
   As for being out in the hot sun sweating doing some Boring gardening, that   
   alone is punishment enough...it shouldn't end with being executed for it too   
   )   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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