It's what - 1:28? I've poured a glass of cheap wine and am playing

[crim son]

the kinds of music you can play with a buzz, on my piano. The buzz isn't here, but I'm anticipating it.

Anybody else up?

On edit: it's now 2:02. Could somebody please sing me a lullaby? I need to go to sleep but am wide awake.

[crim son]

1. Oh, why must everybody be in bed at 1:37?

That's just cruel.

[BarenakedLady]

3. It is

And all the hot and naughty men are asleep. I mean COME ON!

Momma needs some lovin'

[crim son]

To hell with the loving.

I want money! :evilgrin:

[BarenakedLady]

18. I want lovin' DAMN IT

:(

[crim son]

21. Do you have any pets?

I got Benny, my kitten. That's it! :shrug:

[BarenakedLady]

26. My cats that live down here in the dungeon

for some reason aren't sleeping with me like I thought they would. My dogs are not allowed down here, because they will eat the cat food. I do have my chimp though.



Pretty pathetic really.

[crim son]

28. It would be less pathetic if that chimp

didn't look like George Bush.

KIDDING!

Okay, I guess I must, reluctantly, go to bed. I've got to be up in a couple of hours. Woe is me! Goodnight! :loveya:

[BarenakedLady]

30. Night sweetie

Thanks for everything :loveya:

[crim son]

31. Same to you.

:hug:

[idgiehkt]

5. I just got out of the tub.

I'm up, for a few minutes, anyhow :hi:

[crim son]

8. You and your late-night baths!

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

2. Nope

Play me a tune m'lady...

[crim son]

12. What would you like to hear?

Alas, I suck at everything but classical. Unless you want a romantic ballad. That I can play slowly enough that my improvisation sounds okay. :hug:

[BarenakedLady]

20. I love classical music

So play me your best. :)

[crim son]

22. Okay.

Then it will be some Beethoven, because he covers all the bases in one piece.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear crim son!

I'm up, baby!

No wine for me, though......

I'm streaming classical music and it is wonderful!

It's only 10:40PM here....early yet!

Glad to see you tonight, sweetie...........

How'd your piano thing go?

:hug:

[crim son]

14. Not well.

This is what happened. The piece is about twenty, twenty-five pages long. I did about eight flawlessly and then my mind said "There is no possible way this good fortune can continue." And my hands began to shake. This is fairly normal for me and the reason why I'm taking lessons.

I wish it were only 10:49 in the east. I'm going to regret this tomorrow.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Aw........my dear crim son......

I'm so sorry.........

Hang in there, baby........

It will get better, with the lessons....I know it will!

:hug: :loveya:

[crim son]

24. Oh, I know.

When I first started seeing her I couldn't play four measures without blushing and sweating. All my life I've had a phobia about playing in front of people and I've come a long way! :hi:

[leftofthedial]

6. well, it's only 11:41 here

but I'll be up for a few hours yet.

I'm moving some furniture around, moving books, reorganizing my studio and trying to excavate my office . . .

[crim son]

15. That sounds like work.

Maybe you oughta stop. :P

[leftofthedial]

34. I can't write

My band project died an ugly death

My studio looks like a packrat's storage shed

My recording project is on hold until the engineer finishes up another job

I have no gigs until the weekend

so what'll I do if I stop?

[crim son]

7. Phew!

I'd hate to think I was the only one of ninety-three thousand odd who was still online.

[sammythecat]

9. No piano, but cheap wine WITH a buzz

and some tunes.

Cheap wine, like $5 a bottle cheap.

I'm sure others are about.

[crim son]

10. Delightful to hear.

And mk wine is v. cheap as well. I found something with ninety points that cost eleven bucks for, what is it, a litre and a half? It'll do. :toast:

[hickman]

11. I'm up.

I'm always up. Retirement guilt sucks.

[crim son]

16. You have to learn to love the freedom, I imagine.

What do you do while you're up?

[hickman]

23. Watch TV, read, and try to make a plan for becoming employed.

Without a job I feel useless. Healthy adults are not supposed to be unemployed. I have no skills though, and I hate working with the public. I need to go back to school and learn how to do research. Maybe.

[crim son]

25. Ah, I understand.

I'm a healthy and unemployed person myself, currently feeling useless. Few/no skills. But look, we can both type. That's got to count for something.

[hickman]

32. How do we turn this into a job?

I may have mislead you. I worked 30 years for Ford. I have a $2200.00 income a month(after taxes) which I earned by busting my as# on the line for 30 years. The problem is that I feel useless. I was raised to work. I need to work for a few more years, then work as a volunteer for a few more years. Working in a shop was a protected environment. You deal with jerk supervisors, clueless engineers, cranky,sometimes psychotic co-workers, noise, dirt, long hours, speed-up pressures, but never the public. I wouldn't last 10 minutes on a cash register with someone yelling at me because they don't like the price of something.

[The Traveler]

13. Yeah ... I'm up

Listening to some tunes, sipping a not too bad chianti, smoking cheap cigarettes and scanning DU and thirdgen.org for topics of interest.

[crim son]

17. And you landed here.

You need to scan harder!

[The Traveler]

33. I'm trying, dammit

But I think I am ahead of you in the wine buzz race.

Hopefully, that did not affect the quality of advice I just rendered on thirdgen.org, or that poor dude is likely to blow up the engine in his 92 Camaro RS ... :think:

Anyway ... let's have some more wine ...

:toast:

[Gormy Cuss]

27. Here, you're going to need this.

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[crim son]

29. LOL!!

I might indeed. Thanks, friend!