Week End Open Thread

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1. Carla says:

   10/19/2007 at 2:17 pm

   I have found some piano teachers in my town. I am ambivalent. On the one hand there is this corporate piano lessons scheme in town. It is efficient and predictable, but it is corporate and I feel drippy evil just thinking about writing checks out to it. On the other hand there are some women who are working out of their home teaching piano in their parlours and they have no formal training but they are so nice and definitely more authentic seeming. But I do not want to give my little munchkins something less. I am all mixed up in my feelings about this.

   On a less ambivalent note, Go Chris Dodd!

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2. Bob S-K says:

   10/19/2007 at 5:19 pm

   Carla, coincidentally, we just started our kid on piano lessons last month. My wife loves to obsess about choices, so we looked into absolutely everything, including sweet little ladies in their homes, and local studios. Here’s what we ended up doing.

   We went to the web site for the National Music Teachers’ Association (http://www.mtna.org) and searched for teachers in our ZIP code who teach piano. We phoned several to get a “feel” for them, and ultimately selected a nice lady who teaches in her own home for $16 per half-hour lesson. Our 8-year-old had her first lesson last Monday. So far, so good. (We’re in North Carolina, and I understand that rate is abnormally low.)

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3. Bob S-K says:

   10/19/2007 at 5:20 pm

   Er, that should be, “last week.”

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4. Iroquois says:

   10/20/2007 at 5:51 pm

   Midterm grades done. YES.
   But working weekends sucks.

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5. TN Kid says:

   10/20/2007 at 7:24 pm

   The subject of remote viewing was brought up in a conversation today and I would like to learn more about it, that is, if it is real. Is it the same as intuition?

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6. Jim says:

   10/20/2007 at 7:30 pm

   Remote viewing? That’s what you’re doing right now.

   I’m drawing the answer to your question on a sheet of paper here in my kitchen in Ohio right now, TN Kid. Read away.

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7. TN Kid says:

   10/20/2007 at 7:39 pm

   Sorry, I can’t see anything yet. Please tell me more…

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8. Iroquois says:

   10/20/2007 at 10:53 pm

   hmmm, looks like it doesn’t work…

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9. Jim says:

   10/21/2007 at 6:45 am

   You’re right, Iroquois! The answer is null! You’re a psychic!

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10. Iroquois says:

    10/21/2007 at 10:31 am

    Oh, so it does work.

    It just doesn’t work for TN kid.

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11. TN Kid says:

    10/23/2007 at 11:26 pm

    iko iko one day…

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12. Iroquois says:

    10/23/2007 at 11:48 pm

    Wait a minute, TN kid didn’t see anything either.

    And Jim, you didn’t write anything.

    So it DID work for the Kid.

    TN Kid is clairvoyant.

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