First, let me apologize that I do not have the newsletter sent earlier. Just when you think that the projects of man coming to rest, Rummy - is something else. I tried to keep this gap to a minimum, but that is not easy. Although I finished my book bears last June, after something new has begun to keep a large part of my life. Dad had taught me, a kind Sammelwütiger to be, and a result of this is that I have a lot of television shows in the previous twenty years or had so taken with our video recorder. Now that the entertainment studios are beginning to DVD box sets offer their TV shows, catch a Boxset per season, to me to buy this box set to replace the tapes in order to facilitate my video store and make more shelf space available. In the early part of 1999, I spent four months in sync to 500 hours of video - which I now see to be economically stupid. If I use these 500 hours for, say, $ 12 per hour would work, I would have realized $ 6,000. So is it a waste of money - $ 6,000 labor money and the cost of 300 video tapes. Also gone is the wear of the VCR, the were probably not intended for use as many. Buying the box set does this show that I'm saving money - other people have this synchronization work "for" I done the DVD format is more durable and less magnetically susceptible than the video tape format, and the video quality exceeds the result far, the I create with two VCRs and a Videosignalverbesserungskit.
Second, the degradation of a vast video library means that I do not have to subscribe to cable television in the future will. Usually I have today is not much time to watch first-run - as Star Trek: Enterprise debuted, I had discovered I had no time at all to see. If I for cable television à, say, $ 50 would pay per month, but would have the time to watch TV one hour a week, would not it feasible - I would $ 600 to waste a year to see a series I on DVD A could now only $ 75 per year. And I can hear the messages either on CFRA or read on my Palm Pilot.
But that has a cloven hoof. Now and then there's DVDs that digital defects, and so I must take the time to view these DVDs to back up that I do not bring back to the video store to get it for another Copy replaced. I will not buy this thing, wait five or more years, and only then discover that I have a clumsy copy. So I take about three hours a day to view these DVDs, two box sets per month, buying, and for the most part, I have not found any worries. I predict that I will be finished by December 2005 is intended to removing about 200 video tapes - some series that I recorded, such as The Six Million Dollar Man and Cleopatra 2525 be, perhaps a time on this side of the Atlantic not be available.
That's part of what I am doing since last July or thereabouts. In addition, we are about 457 slides that my father has taken over the period 1950-1979, and now you can find a DVD-player, JPEG images, have begun to be sold - and provided that Dad will not be there forever - I've felt long that we are to have a digitized, rewritten meeting these slides. I tried to finish off the meeting before Christmas to make copies of the completed-made CD-R created as Christmas presents, but my scanner has so far breaks down the middle of November had that I can scan more opaque images, but not suitable slides.
I have had no time to address the scanner problem. In November, the Liturgy Committee at St. Augustine given me a project to make the music of the 16.30-Clock Fair to new, but it has seemed that no one could tell me specifically how should we make them scratch. So I gathered all the material that sings the community since the release of CBW I 1972, together with the material that we have never sung, but now can sing (because we had learned some tunes in connection with certain other hymns) and creates a cross reference document that has to CBW-band and then to hymn number, the compounds of CBW-assigned topics available certain hymns. Then, in just two and a half weeks, I have a 195 000-word all creates Lectionary from the front, the text a hard copy Bible entering - the idea here was to create a reference document that would give me any idea what would have every Sunday as a general topic or a combination of subjects. I wanted a reference document to have any that would tell me which Hymns a certain Sunday would fit best. Then I have a website, www.canticanova.com found that gave me most of the information given, I have used, but my work is up to that time, not in vain. Canticles Nova is an American website, and currently we use CBW III, which was never released in America, perhaps for copyright reasons. Which means that I've had to to convert the thematic terminology Canticles Novas in the CBW-specific terminology, and of the documents I had been creating, I have been able to create the Sunday technical reference document that created I wanted to have. I spent four months to do all that. I have to make a couple of copyright related question, having to do with the material that appears in the CBW I and / or II but not in III, but I'm at the point where I must stop working on this project all the time.
Along with this project I have started another project that I had had in the back room, but had never started. Currently working I cast a series of Psalms for every Sunday in the three-year liturgical cycle, and the way in which I do, is probably unique. The Roman Catholic Church uses 75 Psalms (from the available 150) and three hymns on Sundays (I exclude the Paschal Triduum of these sums, because I never have to worry about music planning for it - other people do it for me). For each psalm or song of praise I compose a cast that includes all the verses of the Psalm in question, not just the verses that are used on special next Sunday. For example, Psalm 119 is broken, so that verses 27-35 on a Sunday, 110-125 and verses at one another may be used. I compose the cast for a Hymnart instead of a "singing the verses of" kind, and I write them, so that the resulting extract nor his musical sense as a whole, no matter what lines we use on a particular Sunday.
For all those who complain about the changes I've made for this occupation: I'm sorry, but I have no choice. Many times the Grail is the text that we use, not easy for the musical arrangement, and anyway, we use these same texts since at least forty years - for example, someone really knows without looking to the dictionary, what "chaff winnowed" means? So I feel that the text needs highlighted as editing to fit the music well, and so today's audiences can understand him quietly. I use The Living Bible and Good News Bible as alternative sources.
improved in the performing area it is in the last several months. One of my bands, Hotter than Ice, begins at Groovy's Roti Hut play semi regularly, and next month we will begin as a regular on the second Saturday of each month to occur. Since then we have a few gigs at the Good Companions Centre, a house party in South March, and a peaceful anti-racism demonstration played at the headquarters of the Defense Ministry at the Colonel By Street.
During one of our performances at Groovy's I gave a copy of my promo kits to the owner, Groovy Wilson, a trombone player with the Ottawa-based band Stone Soul Picnic. What he has heard from my CD, has it fallen so much that he the lead singer of the band, Vijay Agard, contact. Vijay has made me, a regular keyboard player at a gig in Hull on 14th February to represent. Which means that I am a reserve member of the band now: if a venue books us, who can not afford the whole band, then the bond of its horn section to share the night and let me play the horn parts. We should have a gig on 10 March at the Bar de l'Ouest play, but this gig is 19 to March and then to the 7th April has been postponed - and has since been moved again. Meanwhile, negotiations Stone Soul Picnic a gig in Tucson for 17's July, but as far as I know is the date not yet set in stone.
The Fabulous Edel now have their own website, www.thefabulousedsels.ca . We recently received a booking agent - and it may take as one more gigs - got. For specific information, see my calendar page that is finally updated. Like last year, I plan this year in Toronto for Toronto Trek to be. This time I will be there to 5.7 from 28.6. If you're in the Toronto region and have an event there, but you want me to play in this period, give me know so that I can plan my time thus.
Personally speaking: On 21 March, I browsed through the online version of the newspaper The Connecticut Post and found a notable obituary. My Ex-Girlfriend had a girlfriend, Nadia Czubatyj from Milford, Connecticut, on 19 March had died. Nadia and I had known her husband Lu - of course not as good as I had known my ex, but better than the other friends I had known my ex. I have not been able to attend the funeral, mostly because I wanted to have my ex to inflict more suffering than it has gone through obviously, and partly because I have the funeral to be related to late experience to give Greyhound the twenty-fourth hourly notice that we must give you when you reserve a seat on the bus to the city of New York can be - when I went to Connecticut, I always got on another bus to New York.
But I celebrated the event otherwise. If I am inclined to "cry in my beer" as I was on the morning of the funeral, I go to Starbucks and I create a large glass of iced coffee at. I have done the exact same time in which a funeral for Nadia has been held at the funeral home. Less than a week later I had for 19 March, an announced exhibition arranged in her memory. And I have the next Teddy Bear, that I add to my Assembly would designate for them.
Requiescat in pace, Nadia. You will be missed ...
Nadia Czubatyj - 1944-2004
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