Monday, April 25
Apr. 26th, 2022 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent temperatures, though a little gray and windy. We are supposed to be getting rain soon.
My sweetie got a bit of the floor in the addition laid before he had to drive back to his work apartment. It looks good so far.
My forehead is clearing up. I've had some kind of hormone related acne outbreak for a couple of weeks, and YUCK! They were those painful pimples that don't form a head right away.
I went in to town for pottery and groceries.
There were actually people there tonight! The one woman, D, is hilarious. I think I've laughed just about every time we have a conversation. She seems like a very fun person, always talking about travel, and things she makes, and art, and interesting ideas.
What a wonderful thing it is, to be the kind of funny person who does it at no one's expense. Laughter is a great gift.
I inquired about that one item I sent a long time ago to be glazed, and none of those in charge of glazing seem to know where it is. There was one person part of the glazing process not present, so that's the last person who might know where it is. I need to talk to her. I am even wondering if there was a case of mistaken identity, and it got taken home by someone. It isn't anywhere in the pottery studio, so it must either be in the kiln room, or taken home by someone.
I had a good session, and managed to make two potential lids for a large piece, that might work (I often make more than one lid, and see which one looks best. Also in case one fails). I also threw a potential mug.
I got groceries, just in time before the store closed. I didn't have to get a big haul this time since I really stocked up on things the last time or two. Mostly fresh things. I am grateful to be able to get groceries.
I learned that Ringo Starr had a pretty rough childhood. His father left when he was very young, and his single parent mother struggled to support them. He had an appendix surgery that got infected, causing peritonitis when he six. He was in a coma for days, and his recovery took twelve months.
Then, five years later, he contracted tuberculosis, and was in the hospital for TWO YEARS.
It was at this facility that he got interested in drumming: During his stay the medical staff made an effort to stimulate motor activity and relieve boredom by encouraging their patients to join the hospital band, leading to his first exposure to a percussion instrument: a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his bed.[21] Soon afterwards, he grew increasingly interested in drumming, receiving a copy of the Alyn Ainsworth song "Bedtime for Drums" as a convalescence gift from Crawford.[22] Starkey commented: "I was in the hospital band ... That's where I really started playing. I never wanted anything else from there on .
All of this illness interfered with his education, and after recovering from tuberculosis, he didn't go back to school. He literally had a string of odd jobs here and there, and finally got an apprenticeship to become a machinist. He kept playing in bands, using found material for makeshift drums. Literally things like tins and garbage can lids, until 1957, his step-father gifted him with a set of drums.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr
Decent temperatures, though a little gray and windy. We are supposed to be getting rain soon.
My sweetie got a bit of the floor in the addition laid before he had to drive back to his work apartment. It looks good so far.
My forehead is clearing up. I've had some kind of hormone related acne outbreak for a couple of weeks, and YUCK! They were those painful pimples that don't form a head right away.
I went in to town for pottery and groceries.
There were actually people there tonight! The one woman, D, is hilarious. I think I've laughed just about every time we have a conversation. She seems like a very fun person, always talking about travel, and things she makes, and art, and interesting ideas.
What a wonderful thing it is, to be the kind of funny person who does it at no one's expense. Laughter is a great gift.
I inquired about that one item I sent a long time ago to be glazed, and none of those in charge of glazing seem to know where it is. There was one person part of the glazing process not present, so that's the last person who might know where it is. I need to talk to her. I am even wondering if there was a case of mistaken identity, and it got taken home by someone. It isn't anywhere in the pottery studio, so it must either be in the kiln room, or taken home by someone.
I had a good session, and managed to make two potential lids for a large piece, that might work (I often make more than one lid, and see which one looks best. Also in case one fails). I also threw a potential mug.
I got groceries, just in time before the store closed. I didn't have to get a big haul this time since I really stocked up on things the last time or two. Mostly fresh things. I am grateful to be able to get groceries.
I learned that Ringo Starr had a pretty rough childhood. His father left when he was very young, and his single parent mother struggled to support them. He had an appendix surgery that got infected, causing peritonitis when he six. He was in a coma for days, and his recovery took twelve months.
Then, five years later, he contracted tuberculosis, and was in the hospital for TWO YEARS.
It was at this facility that he got interested in drumming: During his stay the medical staff made an effort to stimulate motor activity and relieve boredom by encouraging their patients to join the hospital band, leading to his first exposure to a percussion instrument: a makeshift mallet made from a cotton bobbin that he used to strike the cabinets next to his bed.[21] Soon afterwards, he grew increasingly interested in drumming, receiving a copy of the Alyn Ainsworth song "Bedtime for Drums" as a convalescence gift from Crawford.[22] Starkey commented: "I was in the hospital band ... That's where I really started playing. I never wanted anything else from there on .
All of this illness interfered with his education, and after recovering from tuberculosis, he didn't go back to school. He literally had a string of odd jobs here and there, and finally got an apprenticeship to become a machinist. He kept playing in bands, using found material for makeshift drums. Literally things like tins and garbage can lids, until 1957, his step-father gifted him with a set of drums.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr
