Working form home today I wanted to relieve tension a bit and sought out YT for something nice. I fell into a livestream (not really, more like a premiere) of Brann Dailor from Mastodon fame (metaldrummer extraordinaire) playing and talking about his trade for an hour. I really enjoyed that but also noticed how rigid he is in his movements. I am used to playing very fluent myself and many drummers I see have that fluent feel, but checking out several metaldrummers on Drumeo I thought many of them look like they can clamp up at any time. How curious, these are my teenage heroes whom I looked up to and measure myself against.

Anyway, just to put Drumeo in the spotlight then, a great channel for a great website featuring only drummers.
https://www.youtube.com/@DrumeoOfficial/videos

Most watched video over there? Also my favourite, by far is this one. The man is a Legend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRM2Gn9nU7Q

A POETS day at work. And I've got next Monday off.

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About ten minutes of head scratching.

I alternate between an Oris and my Dad's old Rolex Air King (from 1975).





I bought myself a GMT Master II for my 30th Birthday - it was either that or see Rush in Toronto who were playing the same night.  I never wear it and it sits in a box.  Although its appreciated in value significantly, I do think I should have gone to see Rush - albeit, I did make a trip to TO a decade later to see them there.

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Took me about 20 minutes!

Enjoyed that! Shame it only took 30 seconds!

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Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on April 25, 2024, 09:57:49 PM

Quote from: Thenop on April 25, 2024, 06:48:49 PMWhat he should not do is make the same mistake that all Dutch coaches make: bring over too much players he has been working with. Having said that I would not be surprised if Geertruida would follow him, and he would poach Kokcu from Benfica, both of which were team captains for him.

Totally understand this argument, Nop, but Wim Jensen arriving in Glasgow and then stealing Henrik Larsson for £650,000 resulted in such a happy period of football memory for me. Not just the achievements in terms of trophies, but the display of unbridled talent was something precious to many Glaswegians. He stayed seven years. Unimaginable in today's money driven game, but I'm so glad he reached the ultimate prize in the European game. I think Alex Ferguson heaped huge praise on him recently. The ultimate professional. A former colleague's son worked for a time at the famous Gleneagles Hotel. Henrik and his family came for lunch. They chatted briefly about football and his waiter declared his love for Rangers. Henrik left him a £50 tip. Classy guy and footballer of sublime talent. Wim Jensen RIP and thank you. And thank you Feijenoord, but not for 1970.

Wim Jansen was a great player and a great coach. Cruyff learned a lot from him believe it or not.
And of course I remember Larsson quite well, he was well talented and brought us some success too.

And of course we in Rotterdam are happy to oblige, especially with the 1970 Cup that has prominent place in the stadium 

That was not easy, at least not for me
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I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to retire.  The reasons why are a bit complex.  I run a family property investment and lettings business.  The process of splitting it up between the 3 owners will be stressful and expensive but it will happen at some point in the next decade.  Once that happens, I guess my workload will be reduced but I'll still be managing tenants and tenancies - I simply couldn't pass that on to a letting agency to manage..because they're all useless.

I am conscious that my dear wife is 4.5 years older than me and she deserves to be able to enjoy life a little more and not have a husband who can't holiday, for example in the summer because of tenancy changeovers and is constantly preoccupied with work issues.  That weighs heavily on my mind because, frankly, she deserves much better.