From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "Jim D"  wrote in message news:2018110416171635913-Not@ThisAddresscom...   
      
   > I do updates all the time.  No big deal.  I'd already instaled the update   
   > that killed this macbook pro on my imac, worked fine there.  After this   
   > mess and much backing up, I finally did the same install on my other   
   > macbook pro .... worked there just fine.   
      
   > So, of the three macs I use regularly, it worked fine on two, killed the   
   > other.   
      
   That's weird. Why would two out of three work fine and it 'killed' the third   
   one...did it really damage the drive or only erase the data?   
      
   > This tought me, again, was just a reminder of, how temporary this world   
   > and all it entails is.   
      
   But if Fascists like crApple would be temporary instead, then the world   
   wouldn't be nearly as bad as it is.   
      
   > well, hey, we're still here for now .....   
      
   That's why I like the idea of a duo band - only two of us are keeping this   
   ng going, for now. I wonder how many merely  'tune in' or otherwise 'lurk'   
   )   
      
   > If it hadn't been the computer, it could have just as easily have been a   
   > sick, or for some other reason unable to make the gig sideman.  Bass   
   > player can't make the gig.  Singer has a sore throat.   
      
   This is beginning to sound like an old Saturday Night Live (when used to be   
   a great show) sketch with the late, great Gilda Radner as the hysterically   
   hilarious Roseanne Roseannadanna...and her famous explanation for   
   everything, "...it just goes to show you, it's always something, if it's not   
   one thing, it's another..." ;)   
   On the other hand, what's so funny about that? :(   
   Or to paraphrase Roseanne Roseannadanna, if it's not a crashed computer,   
   it's sick musician, or a singer with a sore throat, or any combination of   
   the above - BUMMER!   
      
   > I learn all sorts of things talking to the people who hires us.   
      
   Sure beats not learning about various details.   
      
   > You never know what might go wrond. It's a business exchange, passing as   
   > casual talk.   
      
   It's easy to detect the motives from the 'tone' of the conversation.   
      
   > This place hires lots of bands.  We're just one of many. As long as we do   
   > the job and stay out of any conflicts we'll be ok.   
      
   All it takes is to stand out, as in being outstanding, to win them over.   
      
   > Bands .... so much aggrivation for so little payback.  Still, I do them   
   > all the time.  Not tomorrow tho.  Tomm is a nice little duo gig.   I have   
   > a whole week before another band gig.   
      
   The payback is much better when the bands are Serious enough to have their   
   own Originals.   
      
   > Need to learn a song that works for a dance called a schottish.   
      
   The schottische is kind of country, like the country of Bohemia, where it's   
   said to have originated ;)   
      
   > I've heard the word, but had no idea what those really were. Seems it's a   
   > kind of polka sorta dance.   
      
   It's been described as being similar.   
      
      
   > oh, well, life's a challenge.  It's been a good past week. Hope your's was   
   > also.   
      
   JimD   
      
   A challenge? Always ;)   
      
   Our church's Music director, the other keyboard player, who's several years   
   younger than I am, chronologically, just had cataract surgery but still   
   managed to play, but he didn't have the notation for our Communion song,   
   "Thy Word", so I had to play it solo, but  all went well - answered prayer.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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