Re: To Ian Thanks!

Hi Ken
Last night I was just getting ready for bed when I wrote that post, and
was half asleep. I wanted to add: I tried to paste in the "I Will" after
copying it from a word file that already had the chords over the lines and
realized that the chords, like the text would all be pasted in column A, so
I had to remove the chords after pasting them in and then re-insert them
manually. I can't even begin to tell you how impressed I am that you were
able to create this wonderful tool..
I also wanted to add that I have always been fascinated with Australia and
have even considered pursuing my profession -- itinerant O&M instructor, and
even looked into it a little when I first started in the field(that was at
age 52 when I got my degree and certification 5 years ago). But, when I
contacted officials in the field to discuss it via email, they informed me
that firstly, I would have to have at least one year teaching experience
before I could be considered and secondly, if I did get hired to a
position, the likelihood that I would need to travel by plane to many of my
clients, due to vast distances between them. This put a damper on that. Do
you live in an urban or rural area? Can you look out your window and see
things like Kangaroos, Koalas and Wallabies?
I was pondering the synchronicity of it all between us -- Guitar, excel and
garbage pickup on the same day, when I realized that in fact we don't have
garbage pick-up on the same day. Mine is on Wednesday -- that is today. It
is Thursday for you, right? Or did I figure my international time
incorrectly. If you could, please give me your address, so I can go to
Google Earth (have you checked that out -- a satellite image of any place in
the world! It is a free download from http://earth.google.com/) and check
out where you live. I am at 306 N. Highland Ave, East Syracuse, New York .
If you download the Google Earth program and punch in that address, your
screen will fly you across the planet, as if you were in a space ship and
you can then zoom in and see a satellite image of my house.
Ross
"Ross" <ssor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:SDv_e.15837$Xl2.651@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hey Ken,
> Checked it out with a song and it works perfectly. I think you are much
> more musically advanced than I am -- I play by ear, but have been playing
> for about 30 years and it took me about 15 years before poeple didn't
> immediately get up and leave the room when I played, but I do continue to
> improve. Anyway, I have sent the song I put in their up to my domain for
> you to check out. What is a CV?
> Anyway, it is at http://ssor.net/***/ I realized that you can build a
> whole songbook with it.
> Ross
>
> "Ken Johnson" <KenCJohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1127873658.814677.222530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Ross,
>> I'm glad to hear that, I'll add Garbage Reminding Service to my CV ;-)
>> Actually I don't have a CV, I've been teaching in state schools for
>> almost 29 years and am looking forward to retiring at the end of 2009,
>> then I can do all the Excel I like. Excel is so complex even if I live
>> to a hundred I'll still only know a tiny fraction of its workings.
>> What sort of guitar do you play?
>> The best guitars come from USA.I've got an old Epiphone acoustic that
>> I bought second hand in 1978. It's got a lovely mellow tone and is
>> really easy to play. I've also got a Gibson ES 175D but I haven't
>> played it for a long time. One of the plastic tuning knobs perished and
>> broke and I haven't yet been able to replace it.
>> I love the Beatles' music (who doesn't) and I try to play jazz. I can't
>> improvise unfortunately, but my chord playing is OK. I know it's not
>> guitar, but I'm a big fan of Bix Beiderbecke. I had a go at playing the
>> cornet when I started teaching, which was in a country town, Finley,
>> with a population of just 2000 and a 7 hour drive from Sydney, where I
>> grew up. I joined the Finley Brass Band and was taught how to play.
>> They were pretty desperate for players. They even supplied the cornet,
>> which was an American long cornet, just like the one Bix played. I was
>> gobsmacked. However, my playing never came within a bull's roar of
>> sounding like Bix, I rarely got to play solo cornet and my lip got
>> tired very quickly. Still, I did manage to play in the band for most of
>> the 9 years I taught in Finley. By the way, have you heard of a band
>> called Spider Bait? Their lead singer,Janet English was Girls' School
>> Captain at Finley High School when I was teaching there. Before Spider
>> Bait had even formed I was playing (rhythm guitar and the occasional
>> cornet for a laugh) in a 50/50 Bush/Rock band and we called ourselves
>> Blinky Bill, which was partly a reformation of an earlier band called
>> Mulwala Bill and the Far Canals (Finley is in the Riverina Irrigation
>> area and gets its water from the Mulwala Canal). After I left Blinky
>> Bill, because I was moving back to Sydney, Blinky Bill became Spider
>> Bill. I still don't know if the name Spider Bait was just a
>> coincidental similarity or whether it was a deliberate copy. Spider
>> Bait would have formed after Spider Bill.
>> My favourite jazz guitarist is John Scofield. He has played in
>> Australia a few times and I've seen him twice, quite a while ago now.
>> I'd better go now I have to deliver about 450 local newspapers today.
>> My daughter starting doing it about 4 years ago, quickly lost interest
>> and left it for me to do, which I don't mind, I need the exercise
>> (Doing Excel exercises the mind but not the body!) and I get paid for
>> it.
>>
>> Ken Johnson
>>
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