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It was a really good experience, and so much was packed into the week we were gone that it's almost hard to know where to start.
We flew down to Miami from Toronto early Saturday February 16 and arrived around lunch time. We boarded the boat that afternoon. The most exciting part of this day for me was being in Miami. I'd never been to Florida before and that is a rare thing being from Ontario... just about everyone I've met here has been in Florida at least once. Plus it was exciting because of CSI Miami. And ... The First 48 (I like crime TV... hmm... a lot of crime TV is set in Miami).
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The next day we had another day at sea. The nights on the ship were great... after being served a luxurious meal with unlimited servings (gluten-free! the ship was great for gluten-free) we would go to see that night's show. Over the whole week we saw lots of good dancing, a hypnotist and a magic show. Oh, and a country singer, but that part wasn't a highlight.
The NEXT day we stopped in St. Thomas, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Aside from having a massive headache which made me horrendously nauseous and grumpy, I managed to deal with it and have one of the best days the whole week. I really loved St. Thomas, with its hills and sailboats and gorgeous view. Luke, Rebecca and I went on a kayaking/hiking/snorkeling adventure with an eco-tourism type group. It was interesting. The thing that sucked about this day was the horrible experience of having to stand in line FOREVER to go through U.S. customs on our way off the ship. It was really unorganized. Basically we had to line up with all the thousands of people on the ship, and I think about 4 people or so at a time had to go through a security check and customs with their passports and ship I.D. Not too many people were pleased with this, and apparently it isn't commonly done this way on most cruises. Overall, brilliant day though.
Next day: at sea.
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The next day we arrived back in Miami. The week FLEW by. Being on a ship was fun... I didn't get seasick like I thought I would, though staff on the ship said it was one of the rockiest cruises they had experienced in a long time. A lot of other people got sick.
Oh yeah, we also got to watch the lunar eclipse on one of the top decks of the ship, which is a pretty prime place to be to watch something like that, so that was a highlight.
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"It's got a good beat..."
22 comments:
- ejaydee said...
I have one friend like that, but there are so many things wrong with him,, I have to take things one at a time, (it's the same friend who's been involved in 100% of my hangovers), but I love him. I do have a few friends who think they don't like music, one for example, is a fan of soul and old reggae, but she feels it's not new enough or too limited. I guess if I was a good friend I could make mixtapes for them. Hmmm, what does that say about me?
- June 23, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- goneforeign said...
Tracy: Funny you should post this topic, I woke up a couple of hours ago thinking of exactly that. My first wife not only had no appreciation of any of my musical taste, she hated it! I I remember that amongst many other things during our divorce, [after 13 years] , thinking 'How can I stay married to a woman who HATES Joni Mitchell when I think she's fantastic.?'
The divorce was right about the same time that 'Dark Side' was released.
- June 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- treefrogdemon said...
gf, that's a bit like me: I've only had the one husband, but he didn't like any kind of modern music, nor did he approve of recorded music - it had to be live R3 stuff or he just didn't think it counted as music at all. That's why I don't know much about early 70s music - we didn't have a record player, though I did listen to the radio, and John did like John Peel. (So I'm looking forward to a proper listen to DSOTM!)
So what changed things? I hear you ask. Well, I was doing an OU degree and I persuaded John that I needed to go and stay with my parents during the half-term week just before my first lot of exams - John was a teacher so he looked after the kids. I revised really hard, and one evening for a bit of light relief I went to the pictures.
What was the film? Ken Russell's Tommy. I went home, demanded that we buy a record player forthwith, bought all the Who records I'd missed, and that was me restarted on music appreciation. It was a much harder job getting my Dylan and Bert Jansch records back from my sister though, as she claimed finders keepers.
- June 23, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- DarceysDad said...
Oh I've long since given up trying to "educate" or enthuse friends (who I wonder if I could describe as) amusical.
From here on in, my efforts on that front are being directed at two small girls of my acquaintance!!!
- June 23, 2009 at 3:53 PM
- ToffeeBoy said...
I have a friend [Really? Ed.] whose musical horizons are, shall we say, somewhat limited and over the years, I've attempted to educate him by making mixtapes and mix-CDs. He's usually appreciative but makes no effort to explore anything further for himself.
@ TracyK - I was interested in the way you phrased your question - the fact that you instantly thought of taking someone to a club as your method of introducing them to music. Having never been to a club in my life (seriously) this was an entirely alien concept to me. Am I alone in feeling like this?
- June 23, 2009 at 7:55 PM
- TracyK said...
Ejay, I see what you're saying, but what if the person you've slaved over a tape for just comments "oh, it was alright. I suppose." Or worse, SAYS NOTHING. Relationship almost-breaker?
GF: funny how these are things you learn to tolerate in a partnership but are the things that drive you insane just as you break up. It's all so obvious in retrospect.
TFD, I love your moment of revelation! A friend's ex (who was one of the worst kind: one we all really liked but turned out to be utter scum all along) never liked live music as it never "captured the essence of the recordings". We should have guessed. It's really strange that your husband approved of Peel in that case too, what a weird contradiction. My ex used to tape every Peel show and then re-listen, taping the best tracks onto a kind of running best of. Slightly insane and time consuming.
Good luck with the indoctrination DsD, it does seem to be working so far.
TB, it may have been a follow-on from that particular male friend. When I did my teacher training, I met X, and he was utterly straight, completely the clean-cut hero type, not my usual at all. We all used to go to a cheesy club upstairs in an Aber seafront hotel (Katrina and the Waves. Here Comes The Hotstepper. You know the score) and one night I led him down into the basement, where the indie/goth/metal/greebo/traveller kids hung out. He was terrified, managed one dance and then fled back upstairs. It made me realise that however much we were attracted to one another, we really weren't meant to be.
I have taken sympathetically inclined friends to clubs and got them even deeper into scenes they were dipping their toes into, but I wouldn't dream of it if I didn't think they'd slightly enjoy it. It's tapes and "Just listen to this" all the way. And if it doesn't work, I think slightly less of them, which is awful I know. But honest.
- June 23, 2009 at 8:42 PM
- Abahachi said...
Oh dear. That would be Mrs Abahachi, then. Limited amounts of opera and classical - mostly Mozart, and the grief I get for liking Wagner, let alone Schoenberg... - and the pop she remembers from her youth. Have largely given up taking her to jazz gigs, except for a few very carefully selected ones, as she tends to fall asleep, and I usually turn the music off whenever she comes into the room as a reflex action...
- June 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM
- TonNL said...
To see the musical 'taste' of a couple of good friends (the third team of RIOS '31 FC) check:
...yes, it's all there, Dire Straits, Eagles, Guns'n'Roses, but they are a great bunch of guys, just don't try to impress them with anything exotic....
- June 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM
- steenbeck said...
TracyK--interesting questions. I was thinking the other day that when I was younger (in school, I guess, or teens and early twenties) I made friends based mostly on similar musical tastes. (WHich tied in to similar political beliefs, fashion sense, etc). But as a supposedly mature person, music doesn't seem to come up as much when you're meeting people. It's more about who you work with, or having kids the same age, or--I don't even know any more. Wonder why that is?
And I remember coming back from dinner at some new friends' house a couple of times in the last few years...and the conversation on the walk home. "They seemed nice" "They don't listen to music. they don't seem interested in music at all" And that seemed to say it all, somehow, and the friendship never got much farther. Um, not to seem super bitchy. Don't have to like the music I like, but...I like when people are passionate about what they like, (or even curious about what they don't) whether I like it or not.
Anyway--the result of all this reflection was that I realized that one of the reasons I like RR/'Spill is that it's very strange and refreshing to be known for what kind of music I like and relatively little else about me.
Anyway--can't really put an articulate sentence together anymore, but I found these questions very interesting.
- June 24, 2009 at 1:56 AM
- steenbeck said...
Although--to complete my profile as a bitter curmudgeon--I just started working in a restaurant again and EVERYBODY is a singer songwriter. And I'm sort of over that, too.
- June 24, 2009 at 2:08 AM
- Japanther said...
Hmm...interesting question Tracy.
I worked with a bloke a couple of years ago, he was a normal, young, slightly upper class English bloke, and when I asked him what kind of music he was into, he said that he NEVER listens to music. NEVER! He didn't own any CD's at all. I was incredulous, "what do you mean?" I said. "music just doesn't move me" was his reply. I was stunned, physically stunned!
But he was a passionate sports fan and could talk endlessly about cricket, which doesn't move me in the slightest, so, it's horses for courses I suppose.
- June 24, 2009 at 2:30 AM
- steenbeck said...
At my only office job, about a decade and a half ago (I was fired in the end) the woman at the desk next to me never peed. Were' talking an 8 1/2 hour day, plus commute. weird, huh?
- June 24, 2009 at 3:04 AM
- Shoey said...
Most friends seem to be more into video games or movies instead. No one seems to read much either. Perhaps musical trainspotters are a dying breed?
(Could have done without that particular pic - but hope M&W3 finds it's way over here soon).
- June 24, 2009 at 5:16 AM
- nilpferd said...
We have a number of good friends for whom, as far as I know, music means nothing in particular- but our interests do intersect in some other area, such as art, film, literature, food, or- (believe it or not, Tracyk..) children... in fact, our closest and most frequently encountered friends are the parents of a boy Mara met at kindergarten; when Robert recently drove us to Prague I had to endure 4 hrs. of eighties hits on German commercial radio stations.. still forgave him for it, though, and I did manage to squeeze in some Grant Green on the return journey..
- June 24, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- debbym said...
Having read your comments, I now feel extremely lucky, because my closest friends I actually met through music, and it's music that brings us all together (we've managed to get a LOT of geographical space inbetween us) for far-too-seldom sessions or the even rarer gig.
I remember years and years ago reading an *agony auntie* letter in a magazine, where the writer was compaining of being ostracised for not liking music, whereas in his or her eyes people could get away with not liking, say, art or sport. That shocked me at the time and still leaves me feeling baffled today. I can understand someone not liking certain genres of music (I have great difficulty with the soprano voice and the cembalo!), but to turn all music down flat (oops!) suggests to me no love for Life. That may sound a bit harsh, but I consider music of some kind or another intrinsic to life (hope I've got the right word there) - how else do we explain how music and rhythm can enrich the lives of even the severely disabled, even people who can't *hear* in the sense an able-bodied person can?
Sorry, I think I may have got a bit carried away there...
So, Tracey, to answer your question: I really don't think I'd feel at all comfortable around someone who just wasn't interested in music, but I've yet to encounter that person. Or at least to encounter that person and find they'd want anything to do with the likes of me.
Toffee, do you think we should found a non-clubbers' club?!
- June 24, 2009 at 9:15 AM
- treefrogdemon said...
debbym: I will join your non-clubbers' club - I have only ever been to a club once, and that was a gay nightclub in Blackpool. (Not as a tourist - I was at an HIV trainers' conference and there were lots of gay men there, and I went with a group of them.) I enjoyed the outfits but the music was, of course much too loud.
- June 24, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- goneforeign said...
One thought occurs to me, music in one form or another has existed since the dawn of humanity on this planet, across all continents, in every different language and in all social structures. And it's all the same, give or take; man has independently discovered that blowing down bamboo pipes, banging on things and stretching animal hides/guts over gourds makes for interesting and creative ways of communicating ideas and emotions.
- June 24, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- tincanman said...
I think the worst are people who are in to music, who pride themselves on it, but only listen to a narrow range of things. You can only talk to them about their likes, cause they don't know anything else.
- June 24, 2009 at 5:01 PM
- ToffeeBoy said...
@ Deebym - now that's a club I want to be a member of!
- June 24, 2009 at 10:13 PM
- ToffeeBoy said...
That's Debbym of course. I am, as you all know by now, an active member of Mispirnters Anyonmous.
- June 24, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- AliMunday said...
I can't think of any friends who don't like music, though it might not be the same music that I like. We usually meet somewhere in the middle.
- June 27, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- TracyK said...
Thanks for your responses everyone, interesting. I can't understand how anyone could ever say "Music doesn't move me" and mean it.I'll never hear that from you guys, at least!
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Snaking path
Industrial Burbach in the foreground, Gersweiler, the other side of the Saar, in the background. The path mainly leads to the colourful lock.
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Luminosos colores. Me gusta la composición y como la curva dirige la mirada.ReplyDelete
un abrazo
Good place for walking or cycling.ReplyDelete
A simple composition, but effective!ReplyDelete
This likes the bike paths that are beginning to wind their way around out cities.ReplyDelete
Nice. I still don't remember the sun and blue sky, photos were from archives:)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comments.ReplyDelete
Ángel: Gracias, así lo traté de componer.
frankdejol, Joan Elizabeth: Yes, just around the corner is the Saar with an extremely popular cycle route along the old tow path (Saar cycling route)
photo ex machina: Thanks.
joo: I know the photos were from the archive, but at least they must have served to jog your memory.
Very, very beautiful blog and photos, have a nice day Radka.ReplyDelete
That is nice, I think you are having good time there and walking a lot!Looks a peaceful place to enjoy some cycling as well.Hmmm I need to confess that I have this feeling about cycling , I think I will buy one, everybody here in Europe enjoy it, I would like to try.But first I need to learn how to do curves with the bike! LOL It's true!ReplyDelete
No wonder everything is so green. Yesterday I watched all the rain coming from Saarbrücken to Mainz on the regenradar ... pfft.ReplyDelete
Radka: Děkuji.ReplyDelete
Cezar and Léia: I should point out that this is not really a cycle path. I think that it is mainly intended for motorised vehicles to get to the lock and the moorings just around the corner. However, the cycle path proper starts at this lock (2010-04-25). The tow paths along the Saar and the Mosel are very popular with family cyclists. They are totally flat, have no cars and pass through some really picturesque scenery.
If you are not up to the curves with the bike, another popular activity along the tarmacked sections of these tow paths is inline skating.
Martina: I am not that up-to-date with picture posting: this scene is from before the rain.


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What an awesome entry by MindTweaks today! When I read the title I had ideas and thoughts running around in my head. As soon as I read the title I minimized the browser and started typing. There was no time to waste. I had to get the thoughts out before I had forgotten what I wanted to say.
The amount of books on these shelves makes up my small but ever growing library. Self-help, picture books, school books (bought and paid for), five or six dictionaries (I've read one of them and they are not all the same), Christian books, and several Bibles. (deep breath) Nature books, biology books, medical books, home improvement, and many many more. You can only imagine what else there is here. Although, there are no nudity books!
Oh. My. Gosh. I never realized there aren't any nudie books. No wait..I lied… there is something on sensual erotic massage? If that counts as nudity… well yeah, there are nude pictures in it… No idea really because, ha ha, I never cracked (no pun intended) it open. Bought it and put it on the shelf with the other lonely books.
Moving onto MindTweaks' thought provoking questions.
What does your bookshelf say about you? About life? About anything? (Oh now, stop groaning. You had to KNOW this was coming.)
And along with what your bookshelf says, I'd like to know *how* it says.
Does it speak with a Scottish accent? Does it use $10 words or colloquialisms talk like a hick? Does it offer you a cup of tea or sniff disdainfully and point out the feather duster?
Leave a comment, write a post, take a picture, do a podcast. I don't care.
But please give your bookshelf a voice, for it's own amusement. (and mine).
For the record, before I start talking to my bookshelves, I never groaned about the questions. 🙂
- Mr. Black Bookshelf says, in a deep bass-y voice, "Jackie thinks she needs mental help. In reality, she is not as screwed up as people have her convinced. Some of the people in her life are not positive influences. They lead her to believe she is in dire need of help. Hence, the self-help books. She often refers back to books which help her realize nothing is wrong. She then feels sane and whole again."
- Mr. Blue Bookshelf speaks with a lyrical baritone voice. And he says, "These books have never been loaned out. They have all been very well taken care of. We are cared about and it shows. There are no torn or dog eared pages. All of us books look and feel great! There are a lot of wise pages amongst us."
- Ms. Fancy Wooden Bookshelf has a soft British accent. She tells the story as she sees fit. "It is society that brings about ideas that people lack something in life. It appears to me, more people need to believe in themselves. Society continues to force labels to fit people; when people are not fit for labels. There is not enough joy and laughter in our world today."
- In a redneck slangy twang the Youngest Bookshelf speaks of life in the library. "Ah enjoy sittin' here with my brothers and sisters. They teach me all sorts a stuff. Sum wurds are tuff but ah cain't unnerstand sum of em'. I cain't wait fer another book to join us. We be lurnin tons more then. Bein here is nice but der ain't no likker or beer. Muchablige for keepin me and mama hear. And Howdy! to all mah Uhmurkin friends."
There we have it folks. Time to turn the lights out and close the door. When the amount of bookshelves I have want to have their turn at talking I have to draw the line somewhere. One section of my library puts a section of our town Library to shame.
Thank you MindTweaks for the challenge and for sharing a smile. My books are happy and amused, are you?
My book shelf eagerly awaits in anticipation for MindTweaks to write and publish her very own book! Honest, MindTweaks, they told me so, in their own way. 😉


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I was going to start today's post with a rant about how busy I've been lately, how ridiculous my schedule has been, how general ugh-inducing my planner is. I then took a moment and realized we're all in that boat and I don't need to start bailing my bilge water into your stern.
Things are busy. I'm very thankful that I'm no longer in school and juggling a job, classes and a marriage. My classes and internship are officially over, and I've even gotten to enjoy a few blessed days off with my husband. For those of you who don't know, I'm a newly wed and a (very) recent college grad. My husband is finishing up his final year of school and we both have (multiple) part time jobs.
That being said, I've got to be honest. Not eating clean has been like shooting myself in the foot repeatedly and then demanding to know why I can't run my marathon. I work as a waitress, and if my energy's not there and up every night, I'm not going to be able to make any money. Nobody likes a slow waitress. The worse I eat, the worse my energy levels are in the evening. In the interest of self-preservation, I can't do that to myself or my husband.
Eating clean is a difficult commitment in American culture. I don't have a lot of free time. Why would I spend it in the kitchen when I could be doing something that I want to be doing? Something for me. Why would I spend my money and time on something that has to be invested in and prepared instead of the brightly colored box that has already prepared food in it for me? I am the consumer. I am jealous of my time. I am jealous of my effort.
I have been sorely lied to.
I have had to get it into my head these past few months that spending time in the kitchen, spending money on better quality food, IS spending time and money on myself, in ways much more productive than a pedicure or a few hours playing a video game. Investing in mine and my husband's health is much more important than other things I'd prefer to do. As products of a very consumerist culture, I've found that we have to redirect our preferences. We have to change our thinking.
Now, to address the busyness. I know what it's like to be on the run. I know what it's like to be tempted. I know that going into battle without a plan is a guarantee of failure for me. I will end up eating whatever is available if I don't have snacks that are healthy for me. This isn't a matter of cravings, it's a matter of convenience.
So I'd like to help you with that today. In keeping with our "I'm so busy and so broke" theme, I present to you an amazing snack that costs around $1.20 and half an hour total to make. It's convenient, craving conquering, and cost effective. It's-
Kale Chips
|Brains... Kale brains...
I'm starting this recipe off with a warning and a disclaimer. Kale is a cousin-buddy of cabbage. If you eat too much cabbage, terrible gaseous things will happen to you. Gassy waitresses don't make money, either. Kale chips need to be enjoyed in moderation. The first time I made them, my husband and myself (and the cat) enjoyed them a little too much. Kitten gas is an awful thing, and she had no shame. You don't need to eat more than a handful or two at a time. Any more than that and you're asking for an extended period of self-inflicted alone time.
But now, the good news! Kale is also related to broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts among other things. It shares a chemical with broccoli called sulforaphane which is more potent when chopped up (guess what we're going to do?) and has an amazing effect on blocking cancer cells. Kale also contains indol-3 carbinol which helps DNA repair and blocks cancer cell growth. In case you're not convinced, it's also helpful for reducing inflammation and lowering cholesterol. It's high in fiber and super high in Vitamin K. In one cup of kale you're going to end up with 5 grams of fiber and less than 50 calories.
It's no wonder that kale has been around a long time and is popular on almost every continent. It was popular in ancient Rome and Greece and was the most popular vegetable in Europe up until the Middle Ages when cabbage became the staple. During World War I rationing in the US, families were encouraged to grow kale in home gardens to make up for nutrients that were lacking. It's been around for a long time and is a friendly, approachable plant. Whatever you use it for (salads, soups, chips) make sure you remove the leaves from the more bitter stem. Discard the stems.
All of that background? To make up for how simple this recipe really is. Unless you're making them for a family, I recommend doing half of the kale head at a time. After a couple of days, the chips lose their satisfying crunchiness.
Kale Chips
1 head of kale
3-4 tablespoons total of olive oil or coconut oil
sprinkling of salt
spices of choice (garlic powder, paprika, etc)
Preheat oven to 350F.
Trim the leaves from the bitter stems and wash well. I usually try to cut the leaves into a manageable munching size, similar to a potato chip. This is preference. If you don't have the time, just leave them in bigger sections.
To toss the leaves, I usually put my trimmed sections into a tall plastic container, drizzle the olive oil over them, put the lid on and shake it like a polaroid picture.
I didn't take a picture of that process for obvious reasons.
Some people stir the leaves to coat them, some people use a plastic bag, I've found that the plastic container method tends to coat the leaves most evenly. After shaking for a minute, spread the leaves out on a baking sheet. Once the chips are spread out, I sprinkle them with salt and whatever other spices my heart desires, and then pop them into the oven.
After about five to six minutes, I like to take them out and flip them over just to insure crispiness all around. Salt a little more. Pop back into the oven for another eight minutes. I tell myself every time that I'll leave them in for about 10 minutes total, but it usually ends up being more like 15. Check their consistency. If they're still too chewy for you, put them in for another 2-3 minutes. Don't burn them, keep an eye out. Burned kale has nothing of goodness in it.
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I will mention that if you are interested in obtaining the *most* nutrition out of these guys, the best method of preparation will be to chop them, then cook them by light steaming. It's no wonder that we've been cultivating kale for over 2,000 years and I'm awfully glad that it's making a come-back.
So, remember- you expending effort on your diet is being good to yourself. I can no longer afford to ignore what I'm putting in my body- can you?


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My adventure to Dairy Queen
Let's be honest here: Ice cream is not one of my big vices. As previously discussed, chips are my biggest BIGGEST problem and perhaps right after that are french fries. Sweet things, even before I went on paleo, turn my stomach after a while. So when I say that I went to DQ today and enjoyed a cookie dough blizzard and that it really wasn't that big of a deal, I want you to understand that I'm being honest.
I went for a number of reasons:
1) I wanted ice cream
2) I wanted to test my hypothesis that I had developed a lactose intolerance
3) I wanted to see if it tasted as good as I remembered
4) I was bored
5) More generally, I wanted to see what would happen.
I have been pondering this idea, since my discovery of some things — mayonnaise — not tasting as good as I thought they would. I want to try several of the different things that I remember being really good, and things that I binged on, and now that my palette has "reset" itself, what they taste like and what they'll do to my body. My plan was to have a day of this stuff and to make myself sick, but the more I think about it, the more I think that that might not be a good idea. Anyway, so me going to get ice cream was partially an experiment in that regard. Darcy has said that there will be some things, no matter what I do, that will always taste good and not make me sick, and that I need to be prepared in that regard. So this trip was prompted by that as well.
So this is the offender in question. Note that it is a small size, which is actually a pretty big achievement for me. My eyes are very often bigger than my stomach when it comes to ordering… anything. But since I was pretty much expecting this to make me sick, I ordered a small, not without noting that on the sign it said "Get more for your money — ORDER A LARGE!"
I wanted to be aware of what I was feeling, both physically and mentally, as I ate the ice cream so I picked a booth in the back, put on my headphones, and ate with ponderance.
All in all, it was "okay." As Darcy predicted it tasted good and it didn't make me sick. It did start to make me queasy after a while, but that was more due to the sweetness than the actual dairy. But I think, before I had the ice cream, I had this vision of it being… better. More satisfying, in a way. This time it was just something that I ingested that tasted really sweet. Since I'm not big on sweets, it wasn't that great. *shrug*
I didn't finish it, which is also an achievement for me. I often feel this ridiculous pressure to finish things that I buy to eat. When it's something crappy I have from my school dining hall or something that I have cooked myself that I can put more for leftovers, finishing isn't that big of a deal. But when I buy something when I'm out, I always feel like I HAVE to finish it, cause even if I take it home, it won't taste the same.
A couple of things of note. As I was eating the ice cream, I did start craving something salty. Like pizza. Always pizza.
Anyway, there's the rest of it.
I don't really feel guilty about this because I learned from it. I wouldn't say ice cream is something that is off my menu forever and ever, but it may just be something that I will remember wasn't as good as I thought it was, and therefore not waste my money on it anymore.
I didn't really have any after-effects, largely because I didn't binge. I did go home and promptly fall asleep for 2 hours, but I think that has more to do with my period than the dairy. lawl.
P.S. Looking at the advertisements for hamburgers in DQ had no appeal to me at all, even though I used to LOVE DQ hamburgers.
Weigh-in #3 — Sad Day
So I guess it's fair to expect something like this, given the fact that I've barely eaten anything but junk food this week, and when I wasn't eating junk food, I, well, just wasn't eating. But here we go:
A couple of things (for me) to keep in mind —
I definitely chomped into some queso and chips last night right before bed, and I still have a lot of mucus in me that hasn't been evacuated. So those are some things that might be contributing.
…I can dream, right?
But in all seriousness, I'm not too terribly surprised. But I'm back on track and we'll get it lost again.
Garlic Fried Chicken and birthdays
I survived my first day back at school today with some pretty good success. I forgot to take my camera with me, so you'll just have to take my word for it. I had about a half an apple at work when I got hungry, and then around one I had lunch. I did my best to eat the weird green beans that they had, and attempted also to get some spinach salad down, but it wasn't quite the same. I also put a bit too much dressing on it. Ah, well. So I had a couple of slices of pork loin for lunch.
I had the opportunity to eat on campus for dinner, but I really wasn't feeling it. I needed to make sure that I had enough time to change for TKD, plus a good friend of mine came over to visit, so I improvised.
I fried up some chicken, without flour. The base of it is just spices. It's similar to the fried/baked chicken that Anthony and I did a while ago, but I needed something more quick so I just fried up a chicken breast and chomped on that with some grapes.
It was moderately tasty. There's still a weird bitter taste that comes in with all the spices. Perhaps I will take some of these spice mixes and try and make some marinade out of them too, one of these days.
I have to say that I'm pretty damn good at cooking chicken, if I do say so myself. I don't mind chicken being a little under cooked so long as it's juicy. When I cooked for my dad I always ended up cooking it too much and drying it out (which, of course, still wasn't done enough for him), but now I can have it nice and juicy and scrumptous cause I'm just cooking for me!
To those of you who were wondering, the party went really well. We had all gluten-free foods, because I have another friend on the paleo diet, and one more with Celiac's.
I still wasn't able to eat anything too heavy, so I had some chips and dip (bad on: potatoes and dairy), and I also had some hot wings (tasty and not bad at all).
There were gluten free brownies and two gluten-free cakes, one of which my friend decorated into a draaaagon!!!
And Anthony decorated the other into his rendition of a "badass."
Both cakes were appropriate for me, of course.
One of the things that I was worried about for the party was the start of a slippery slope. That I would taste good things and want to skip off the paleo diet, etc. but I have found that not to be the case. I splurged on Saturday cause it was my party, and then Sunday cause it was my birthday. I really didn't have too much trouble transitioning back, though, and soon enough all the bad stuff will be out of my house. And I haven't been craving or anything.
So, overall, a positive experience. 🙂
Unfortunately, being back at school means back to homework, so I have to go tend to that.


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A New Direction
Wow…it's been a busy few months.
I haven't been able to do much posting (obviously). I've kept up the Synthesizer Price List, but haven't posted any of the monthly summaries – that, I may do at some point in the future. What I *have* been doing is a fair amount of service work. I have one customer in particular who regularly brings me me interesting vintage toys to work with, and there have been numerous other random replacements, upgrades, and repair work for several other people along the way.
To that end, and because of the feedback from my satisfied customers, I've decided to actively start promoting the services I provide.
Up until now it's primarily been a labor of love for me. I've spent close to twenty-five years buying, selling, repairing, modifying, and restoring all sorts of musical equipment, and nothing gives me more joy than finding some beat-up old synth, getting it functioning, and uniting it with someone who really wants it.
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It's been a blast so far, and hopefully will continue to be.
Weekend Sale Find – 6/16/2012
Well, it's sure not a MiniMoog. It also wasn't a sale.
Casio CA-110. Another trash pick. Seriously, I don't understand why people throw these out – give it to Goodwill, or find a school to donate it to.
Filthy, as usual. The photo was taken before I cleaned and tested it; at that point I didn't know whether or not it worked. It is indeed completely functional.
Despite the full-sized keys, it's really just one of the myriad SA-series keyboards in a bigger package. It does sound a little better, by virtue of a larger speaker and slightly beefier amp. Sounds are okay – nothing to write home about. No MIDI, nothing but headphone and power jacks. If I'd seen it at a flea market, I would have passed it up. But "free" is always good.
It's a good beginner's keyboard, so I'll either add it to my "to be sold" pile or donate it.
Synth Price List – May 2012
Format is the same, for a change. Added a couple of new manufacturers and a bunch of new models. I have several manufacturers with just one or two models; I may add them primarily to use as filler to make the pages come out even.
As explained in a previous post, the Range column represents a range of prices based on the high and low to date, but also takes into account the volume of sales. If the range is really narrow, either the item is very popular or the prices are always pretty close. Wide ranges indicate either a big disparity between high and low or a small volume.
In either case, it's reasonable to assume that if you want to purchase something, seeing a price somewhere close to that range is a good thing.
Weekend Sale Finds – 6/3/2012
Didn't actually do any yard sales or thrift stores this weekend. I did, however, stop at the Columbus Flea Market on the way to take a friend back home. Since I have several projects going right now, I really wasn't looking to buy anything. But of course, any lost and lonely keyboards still tug at my heart – and my wallet.
Found two this time. A Casio CZ-230s synthesizer with stand, and a Casio MT-520. Both are a little beat up, but as usual the prices were way too good to pass up.
The CZ-230s is a bit of a rarity, and I'll do a full-scale review later. It's essentially a preset CZ-101 synthesizer, with built-in rhythms and limited editing capability. It's also got strap pegs, so if I ever feel like completely nerding out I can dig out my cape, put on a little Yes, and keytar my way around the living room. Okay, that won't be happening – but I could!
It's missing one slider cap and one button, but is otherwise all there. The stand is actually quite cool, too. I haven't run across one yet that can be adjusted to fit a mini keyboard.
The MT-520 is more common (in fact, I just realized I may have one already). This was a straight pity rescue. End of the day, tired seller, dusty little keyboard sitting in a pile of toys. I'll clean it up, test it, and add it to the sale list.
Both of these were initially spotted by my eagle-eyed friend. Now, I've certainly had my share of unexpected finds, but lately the only credit I can take is for knowing what's worth buying. It's good to know that when I go out with someone else there's very little chance of anything sneaking by.
At current prices, both together would sell for around $140, with another $15 for the stand. Since I paid a very small fraction of that, I'm certainly not going to complain about having to clean 'em up a little.
Weekend Sale Finds
Not earth-shaking (certainly not in the same league as finding a Korg X5D in the trash) but kinda cool nonetheless. Picked this up last weekend, at one of the first yard sales of the season. My hunting partner of the day spied this as soon as we walked up the driveway.
Perfect condition, works fine, box is in good shape, but it's missing one of the styrofoam endpieces (edit – both of them are there, they were just crammed into one end of the box). No manual or adapter, either, but for the whopping $2 it cost I'm not complaining (current average sale price is $46).
I have another one that I'd picked up last year, but it's not in as good shape. The older one will be sold, and this one is getting added to the permanent collection.
And this weekend, at a thrift store…
Completely complete right down to the warranty card. Box is a wee bit beat up, but c'mon – it's 32 years old! Everything else is minty fresh; the manual doesn't appear to have been opened. This one's also going into the permanent collection.
So, a good start to the season. It's nice to know that even as I'm selling some of the pieces I don't use or necessarily want, that there are still lovely things out there for really good prices, provided you know which rocks to look under. Which is made much easier if you normally shop with someone (as I do) who happens to be a great rock-turner.
Casio MT-110
The fact that this entry is being made immediately after a post about things that suck shouldn't necessarily indicate that this is a particularly wonderful device. It does, however, avoid many of those pitfalls and is in fact a very good example of what I'd consider a simple mini keyboard.
This is a mid-size, 4-octave PCM keyboard. It has all of the very basic features one would expect and little else. It is 8-note polyphonic, reduced to 4 when using the auto-accompaniment. Panel controls are all real buttons, sliders, and switches.
From left to right, there is main volume, accompaniment volume, and chord select switch. "Off" disables the melodic section of the rhythm track, and "fingered" responds to actual notes and chords you play.
The Casio Chord function is present on virtually all of their instruments, and is here as well. Playing a given key adds a major chord to the accompaniment. Pressing one key to the right of the first changes it to a minor chord, and pressing two and three additional keys change it to a minor 7th and major 7th respectively.
|Elec. Piano
|Elec. Guitar
|Jazz Organ
|Pipe Organ
|Human Voice
|Funky Clavi.
|Synth. Sound
Most of the voices are usable, as long as one doesn't expect them to sound too similar to their names. Flute is lovely and both organs are quite good, and Funky Clavi and Elec Guitar are also very usable. There are no modifiers, although some of the sounds do include vibrato. Again, the flute demonstrates this quite well.
I did notice an audible click when pressing the voice buttons. This may be intentional, or the contacts on this particular unit might be a little dirty.
|Rock 1
|Rock 2
|Slow Rock
|Bossa Nova
Now, the rhythms. It's important to note that here, the internal speaker does absolutely nothing for the sounds. When using an external amp it may as well be an entirely different keyboard.
There is an intro/fill button, which works as expected, and an end button that has to be hit at just the right moment to sound natural. I recorded about seven demo samples and was able to get it just once; the one I posted is NOT that one. It doesn't sound bad if you miss, just odd.
The unit is well-built and heavy. There is a standard 1/8″ headphone jack. The keyboard is also surprisingly solid and responsive. While pretty well packed with circuitry, there is certainly enough room around the edges to add switches and contacts if one is so inclined. The bottom of the main board staring at you practically begs to be messed with.
Pros: Some sounds are quite good. Intro and end buttons. Headphone jack. Rugged.
Cons: Fixed accompaniment pattern. No sound modifiers.
Casio MT-110 Demo Just a small snippet of the accompaniment and a small sample of Flute and Pipe Organ.
I was unable to locate a manual for this on-line. It's pretty safe to say, though, that you probably won't need one.
Top 10 List: Mini Keyboard Features that Stink
Well, at least features that *I* say stink.
So I like to collect them, but what exactly are these mini keyboards? Are they instruments? Toys? Musical scratch pads? Cacophonous time wasters? Does anyone really know for sure?
The very early models tended to be very basic. This was for both technological limitations, and also because in a brand new market it was uncertain as to which features would be important to consumers.
As time went on, manufacturers seemed to have been intent on cramming as many representations of whatever technology was available at the time into these little noisy boxes. Doing so as cheaply as possible, though, meant that shortcuts were often taken. On top of that, they needed to be visually appealing to your average non-musical consumer (Oooo….shiny!)
In the time I've spent over the last thirty-odd years working with keyboards, these are the top ten things that consistently annoy me about them. It is highly unusual to find any model that doesn't contain at least one of these annoyances. And I can think of a few models off the top of my head that contain all of them. Your mileage may vary, of course.
10) Non-standard AC adapters
Yamaha and Casio have opposite polarity adapters. Usually. However, even within these two major manufacturers there are still some oddball units, with either strange plugs or weird voltages. Other manufacturers, such as Kawai, tend to have their own standards. Trying to keep track of all the various ones for specific units is a real pain. For testing, it's usually far easier just to throw some batteries in, since most use either C or AA.
9) Poor internal speaker(s)
There's a difference between "inexpensive" and "cheap". A difference you can hear, in the form of rattles, buzzes, and a miniscule frequency range. On some keyboards, the speakers are sometimes chosen specifically to mask deficiencies in the sound generating method employed. Which does help to explain item 3 below.
8) No rhythm/accompaniment variations
Fill & end buttons would be nice. Tempo being adjustable over a wide range is good, too.
7) Too many / lousy rhythms
A couple of dozen well-constructed ones would be preferable to a hundred that stink. Get rid of fixed-pitch percussion that requires you to play in the same key. And ditch the waltzes. Ditch the front-panel drum pads, too, unless you can assign different voices to them.
The next few are specifically voice related.
6) Really bad sounds
And by "bad" it can mean sound quality, choice of voices, or both. There's no reason some of these should sound as horrid as they do. Square wave, sampling, PCM, additive synthesis, FM…it doesn't matter that you're using the latest technology if it still sounds like crap.
5) Too many sounds.
No one needs a 37-key mini keyboard with 240 anemic sounds. A few dozen quality voices that sound good should be adequate for most needs. This would also eliminate the need to devote huge swatches of control panel real estate to nothing more than a list of all the patch names. And unless the thing is specifically targeted towards kids, all of the "cute" or "funny" sounds are unnecessary.
It also might make sense to take all those cool sound effects and combine them into one patch, where each is assigned to one key. What is the point of being able to play the sound of a jet plane over the entire range of the keyboard?
4) No sound variations
Vibrato, chorus, or maybe sustain. A pedal jack is unnecessary (and frankly silly on a mini keyboard). A button is fine. As above, provide the user with a few good sounds and allow them to be easily modified.
3) No output jacks & other case flaws
Lack of a headphone jack is often cited as a simple cost-saving measure. This is somewhat difficult to believe. Most units have plenty of room; drill one hole and put in a switching jack.
The other major case issue is unnecessary cosmetic features such as grilles, vents, serrations, or anything else that serves no real purpose other than to collect dust. Recessed controls are particularly annoying, just as they are on full-sized keyboards, because they're extremely difficult to clean.
Along with those standardized AC adapters, it would have been nice if they could have decided on a standard-sized battery door, too.
2) Poor quality controls
Membrane switches lack tactile feedback. While tearing or puncturing isn't usually an issue, either graphics being worn off or the surface being scratched or scraped are common. Buttons tend to feel "squishy", and sliders (if present at all) are rarely smooth.
And the #1 thing I hate, the thing that almost always guarantees a quick trip to the "For Sale" section of my equipment cupboard…
1) Digital access controls
Instead of an actual slider or button, a particular parameter is controlled by either typing in a number or by hitting up/down buttons. This is normally coupled with a lack of indicators. By that, I mean nothing to indicate the current patch, or rhythm track, or tempo, or in the worst cases, nothing to indicate the unit is even turned on. The settings are also volatile, so that each time you turn the unit off and back on again, everything has reset to the defaults.
Volume is the worst offender. It usually defaults to a too-loud setting, so the first thing you have to do after turning the unit on is to turn it down. Second is patch selection. This typically requires at least two button presses and you can't tell what you've typed in until you actually play. Hitting these types of buttons usually results in some sort of audible click, which can be annoying. Increments are typically fixed, too, so that instead of a smooth range of volume or tempo you're stuck with a number of discrete intervals.
I understand that most – if not all – of these gripes are designed in as a way to save money. Very few are the result of technological limitations. It's easier to control the functions through software and dedicated logic chips than to use discrete components. It's a tradeoff, though, and I think consumers – and certainly musicians – end up with the short end of the stick. It always feels as if the marketing departments decide to cram as much as possible into as small a space as possible while keeping costs down, and then the engineers are forced to come up with ways to make them work. Which results, of course, in all of the items listed above.
So the question is, what are some features that DO make sense? Are there any mini keyboards that avoid most of these pitfalls while still remaining interesting? Hey, Relic, are there any your grumpy old ass actually LIKES?
Yep. Stayed tuned.
Synth Prices 1/20/12
Couple of days late on this one. Bi-weekly price update. N/S indicates there were no recorded sales during the time period. Percentage column shows the or decrease from the last period. The larger values here may not be reflective of actual trends, since there may have been only one sale in the period.
I've actually begun to track many more models, and can see average pricing over a longer period of time. If nothing else, it gives a good sense for whether or not something on Ebay or craigslist is fairly priced, or whether the seller is under the influence of pharmaceuticals.
Averages based on Ebay sales data from 1/2/2012 to 1/15/2012.
|Juno 60
|Jupiter 6
|Juno 106
|Alpha Juno 1
The SH-101 continues to astonish me. It'll be interesting to see if the release of the Moog Minitaur and the Arturia MiniBrute have any effect on mono synth prices.
|Poly 800
The Polysix only had one sale; whoever it was got a good deal. Although it's still too early to be sure, the Poly 800 appears to be stable – another head-scratcher.
The AN1X may not have been a good choice for this list. I like it, but the sales volume has been really low.
Need to rethink this list, too. The MicroMoog has more sales than the Prodigy.
The VL-1 appears to have corrected; the average price for the past few months has been around $44.
This seemed like a good idea at the time, but I've found the 2-week interval is too short for some of the lower-volume keyboards. Instead of this, I may change to doing it monthly but with an expanded list of models. Again, if you have any suggestions let me know.
Yamaha PSS-190
Well…what have we here? Looks like Yamaha's answer to Casio's SA-21. Looks like it – but doesn't sound like it.
This is another 2-operator FM keyboard. 100 voices (more on that later), 22 rhythms, 15 demo songs, 4 dedicated front-panel drum pads, plus all the associated selection buttons. As would be expected, the only physical switch is the three-way power/accompaniment slider.
Now, I'd expect that any given FM-based Yamaha keyboard would basically sound like any other. However, this isn't really the case. The voices are all facsimiles of natural instruments. Unlike the PSS-170, the brass, woodwinds, and mallets are quite good. Organs & pianos, not so good – very bell-like. It is FM, after all.
Although the panel lists 100 voices, they are divided into groups of 40 single, 10 ensemble (added chorus), 3o dual (layered) and 20 split. If I had to guess, I'd say there are about thirty actual distinct sounds, which are then combined in various ways. It is 8-note polyphonic, but obviously choosing the layered voices cuts that to 4-note. Of course, the layered voices are also the more interesting ones.
|00 Trumpet
|25 Jazz Guitar
|50 Brass Duo
|75 Carillon&Banjo
|01 Horn
|26 Rock Guitar
|51 Sax&Toy Piano
|76 Steel Drum&Harp
|02 Trombone
|27 Acoustic Bass
|52 Drop
|77 Marimba&Recorder
|03 Tuba
|28 Electric Bass
|53 Harp&Panflute
|78 Sax&Bass
|04 Soprano Sax
|29 Cello
|54 Sax Duo
|79 Banjo&Guitar
|05 Tenor Sax
|30 Banjo
|55 String Duo
|80 Bass/Sax
|06 Clarinet
|31 Mandolin
|56 Violin&Cello
|81 Bass/Piano
|07 Bass Clarinet
|32 Harp
|57 Glocken&Piano
|82 Guitar/E.Piano
|08 Oboe
|33 Violin
|58 Sax&Clarinet
|83 Piano/Trumpet
|09 Piccolo
|34 Carillon
|59 Trombone&Horn
|84 Harpsichord/Flute
|10 Flute
|35 Timpani
|60 Banjo&Flute
|85 Glocken/Marimba
|11 Panflute
|36 Steel Drum
|61 Guitar&Trumpet
|86 Bass/Clarinet
|12 Recorder
|37 Glockenspiel
|62 Organ&Piccolo
|87 Bass/Rock Guitar
|13 Ocarina
|38 Marimba
|63 Jazz Guitar&Organ
|88 Accordion/PanFlute
|14 Piano
|39 Vibraphone
|64 Funky Synth
|89 E.Piano/Sax
|15 Electric Piano
|40 Brass 1
|65 Crystal
|90 Piano/Violin
|16 Toy Piano
|41 Brass 2
|66 Recorder&Bass
|91 Toy Piano/Ocarina
|17 Reed Organ
|42 Chime
|67 Carillon&Ocarina
|92 Bass/Banjo
|18 Pipe Organ
|43 Honk-tonk Piano
|68 Rock Guitar & Bass
|93 Guitar/Sax
|19 Jazz Organ
|44 Woodwind 1
|69 Steel Drums&Organ
|94 Bass/Clavi
|20 Harpsichord
|45 Woodwind 2
|70 Harp&Accordion
|95 Accordion/Piccolo
|21 Funky Clavi
|46 12String Guitar
|71 Banjo&Horn
|96 Piano/Harp
|22 Accordion
|47 Marimba
|72 Mandolin&Oboe
|97 Organ/Jazz guitar
|23 Acoustic Guitar
|48 Strings 1
|73 Slap Bass
|98 Cello/Flute
|24 Hawaiian Guitar
|49 Strings 2
|74 Piano&PanFlute
|99 Bass/Piano/Percussion
There are a few voices that I quite like. Brass Duo (#50) is a very analog-ish sawtooth-y kind of generic synth sound. Rock guitar (#26), more like a Clavinet than any guitar, is buzzy and edgy. And if you're looking for a quick way to throw together a creepy melody, you can't beat Toy Piano/Ocarina (#91). Generally speaking there are a fair number of decent sounds. The Harmony button on the front panel makes the selected voice monophonic with three layers – kinda like Unison mode. There are no other modifiers – no sustain, or vibrato, or chorus.
|Pop Rock
|Boogie Woogie
|Techno Rock
|Jazz Waltz
|Rock 'n' Roll
|Hard Rock
|Bossa Nova
|March 1
|March 2
Rhythms are very basic, and selected via the keyboard keys. There's no intros or fills. The ad-lib button on the front panel plays a little melodic fill for as long as it's held down.
|Demo Songs
|Joy to the World
|Die Lorelei
|Brother John
|Camptown Races
|The Old Folks at Home
|When the Saints
Go Marching In
|House of the Rising Sun
|A Little Brown Jug
|Brahms' Lullaby
|Silent Night
|Jingle Bells
|Hey Jude
|Ave Maria
Demo songs are also selected via the keyboard keys. Hitting the demo button while one is playing will disable the melody part, allowing you to play along.
The built-in stereo speakers aren't bad, although there's very little bass response. Some of the more resonant tones are quite capable of generating some seriously impressive buzz and distortion if the volume is up. There is a headphone jack, which was surprising enough but the fact that it's a 1/4″ jack instead of the now-standard 1/8″ was also unexpected. There is some noise when running into an amp.
As on the SA-21, all of the controls are soft buttons (blech!). Accessing sounds is particularly annoying. Not only do you have to key in the 2-digit number, but you have to hit Enter after each one (which I keep forgetting to do). There is an audible "click" when a button is pressed, but it's not nearly as loud as it is on the Casio. And like the Casio, there are no indicators, so you have no idea which voice, rhythm, demo, or anything else is selected.
Pros: Good sounds, with the split and ensemble voices being very usable. Real headphone jack.
Cons: Soft buttons. No tone modifiers. No way to adjust relative volume of the rhythm track. Dedicated drum buttons are cute but of little use. No indicators.
Bottom line: Forget about the rhythms & just use the sounds.
Fun fact: Holding down the two right-most keys while powering up puts it into test mode. Hitting any front-panel button then generates a note. Why you'd want to do this, I have no idea.
PSS-190 Demo Recorded straight, no effects.
Casio CK-10
Casio doing what Casio does. In this case, grafting a wonderfully cheesy keyboard to a portable AM/FM radio. Or, if you prefer, grafting a radio to a PT-1 keyboard. This is the baby of the CK line, the other end being represented by the absurd and inexplicable CK-200 boombox.
First – the radio. It's a radio. Both AM and FM (woo-hoo!) It sounds good for the size. I have the thing sitting on my desk as I write this, cranking out classic rock at a decent volume level. Now, it makes perfect sense to ask whether owning a radio makes any sense in this era of iPods and streaming music. For me, it certainly does. If I'm out on the back deck painting, I don't like wearing earbuds and my WiFi doesn't reach the back of the house. So for a little background noise, it's perfect.
The keyboard section is functionally and audibly equivalent to a PT-1, which is itself a slightly crippled version of the original VL-1 (VL Tone). It is monophonic. There are four voices (Piano, Fantasy, Violin, and Flute). I find the piano somewhat useless, but the other three tones are interesting and worth fiddling with (so to speak). The ten rhythms, which are too silly to justify me making a table, are March, Waltz, 4 Beat, Swing, Rock 1, Rock 2, Bossa Nova, Samba, Rhumba, and Beguine. The sound will be instantly familiar to anyone with even a passing knowledge of early Eighties music. Trio, anyone?
The rhythms are selected from the keyboard keys. There is a small recorder, which has the surprising ability to edit recorded sequences. Not easily, of course, but still… You can also play back the sequence one note at a time. There is a headphone jack, and also a manual pitch adjust pot on the bottom. Also on the bottom is a flip-down stand which allows you position the unit upright, so to better hear the radio. A nice touch, that.
Despite the tiny keys and ridiculous rhythms, it's still a lot of fun to play with. I can't conceive of a circumstance where you'd actually want to play along with the radio, so it's best to think of it as one or the other.
Although I know the PT-1 can be modified to enable some of the features that have been disabled, I'm not sure if the CK-10 has the same circuit boards so that might not be an option. Besides, this little pupster is unique enough that I really wouldn't feel right messing with it.
Pros: The radio is fine. The sounds are cute.
Cons: It's be nice to be able to adjust the relative volume of the rhythm track against the main voice.
Bottom line: This one's a keeper. I may not be composing any film scores with it, but it's still nifty.
Casio CK-10 Demo Recorded straight with no effects.
Casio PT-10 Manual I was unable to find the manual for this exact model, but the PT-10 manual explains how to use the recording and editing options. If you need a manual to operate the radio, you have no business owning this to start with.


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Hi experts!
We have a requirement to control purchase orders at approved suppliers by Supplier/Manufacturing location/Material/Receiving Plant. System should not allow Purchase orders if above level approval is not met. How to track Manufacturing locations for each supplier and validate that at the time of PO creation to check if it is approved for material and plant or not. I am looking for solutions to achieve this systematically.
This is required to accommodate FSMA requirements.
Any pointers towards the solutions will be appreciated and rewarded.
Thank you!
This is STANDARD functionality your purchasing consultant should be aware of.
It is the use of Manufacturing Part Numbers. Once you use this process the QA people have to set up Q-info records (QI01/QI02/QI03)at the plant for the material/manufacturing site/supplier.
You also have to maintain additional entries in the AMPL table, (transaction MP01/MP02).
Q-info records can be given an expiration date and maximum order quantities as well as various statuses. These can then impact if a purchase order can be issued.
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1. Re: core i3 540 embeddedCpt.Dogfruit Jan 28, 2010 1:29 AM (in response to stepheng)
It is already integrated in teh system, like an atom i suppose, you know the little falls boards
2. Re: core i3 540 embeddedstepheng Jan 28, 2010 5:14 PM (in response to Cpt.Dogfruit)
Thanks for your reply Cpt.
Yet both can be pruchased as stand alone units. My feeling is that it must have something to do with the chip itself. Anyone else?
3. Re: core i3 540 embeddedYtterbium Feb 6, 2010 9:25 AM (in response to stepheng)
Looking through the product breif for i3 540, I'd say the embedded difference is that there is extended life cycle support, i.e. you'll be able to buy them for longer which would be important to someone building system with CPU in.
The other thing thry tout is ECC memory when combined with 3450 chipset.
The technical spec's for the CPU seem to link to the same document, so I'd say the processor isn't physically different, just how it's supported.
4. Re: core i3 540 embeddedstepheng Feb 6, 2010 10:07 AM (in response to Ytterbium)
My conclusion as well. Thanks for your help, appreciated.


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Back to School Breakfast Ideas for Teens (and Adults!)
Breakfast gets missed in the rush of school mornings for many sleepy teens.
Here are a few quick breakfast ideas for growing teens that may make your mornings more pleasant:
"I have no time"
- Fruit and Nuts
Toss a few handfuls of nuts or dry cereal (e.g. Shredded Wheat, Chex or Cheerios) in a cup or baggie, grab an apple and go!
- Sandwich and Fruit
2 slices bread, 1-2 tbsp. peanut butter (or 1 slice of cheese or meat), 1 banana
Make the sandwich the night before and it's ready to take on the run.
- Muffin and Yogurt
1-2 small muffins and a carton of yogurt
Make muffins on the weekend to grab during the week
Try Carrot 'N' Oat Muffins or Pumpkin Muffins
- Trail mix
In a paper cup or small bag, mix:
1/4 cup nuts & seeds,
1/2 cup dry cereal or pretzels,
2 Tbsp dried fruit
"I have 10-15 minutes"
- Avocado Toast
Slice or mash 1/2 avocado on 2 slices whole wheat toast
If time, top with 1-2 cooked eggs or 1/2 cup cottage cheese
Enjoy with a glass of milk or an apple to complete the meal
- Smoothie
Blend 1 cup frozen fruit(mango is a favorite at our house), 1 cup milk/yogurt/kefir
(add a splash of water or juice to thin if needed)
- Leftovers
Think outside the box; a taco or beef stew can make a great breakfast too!
Don't forget, UW Health has many great recipe ideas from Clinical Nutrition and The Learning Kitchen.