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It would not hurt to try. Using your phone to record your singing may not be the best idea, the microphone is so small that singing even with normal volume gets the recording easily distorted.

USB-connected microphones are pretty cheap and will perform much better, just hook one to a laptop and use any simple recording software.

And I recommend starting small with children’s songs. “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” with it’s straightforward ascending and descending melody is a great starter, or at least for me it was.

That is the reason I practiced the first two years in my room at lullaby volume.

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Practice. A lot.

In my teens I wasn’t able to carry a tune at all. Our music teacher marked me as “hopeless” after hearing a me singing a few lines.

This pissed me off royally. I had no desire or illusions of becoming a great singer, but I would not accept being “hopeless”. So I started practicing with simple children’s song melodies and recorded my singing with an old cassette recorder. It was indeed pretty awful at first, but I slowly got better. Then I got my driver’s license and could sing along the songs from the radio and my cassettes while driving alone, it was a big step up from singing quietly in my room.

I also started playing the guitar to get a better understanding of musical theory, which was helpful. After I had learned the basics of playing rhythm guitar firmly I learned to play the piano. I believe that singing the melodies while playing them on the piano was essential to my development, since I could instantly hear if I did not hit the correct note.

By my mid-twenties I could already carry tunes easily and even got a complements about my singing voice. Key changes and modulations were still pretty challenging, but I kept on practising whenever I found the time.

Now in my forties I can repeat a melody correctly after hearing it once or twice and I consider myself a decent singer. I don’t sing karaoke or any solo performances, but I do love singing backup or as part of a group.

If my music teacher hadn’t embarrassed me publicly all those years ago, I most likely would have never put any effort in getting better at singing or learning to play instruments. I started this lifelong project purely out of spite, but it became a major and very dear part of my life. I even owe my marriage to music, while we were still dating my wife confessed to me that she most likely wouldn’t have even noticed me if I hadn’t been playing the guitar at that one summer party. Thankfully I wasn’t too hammered at that time ;)

Jos 1900-luvun lopun RUK-kurssin pioneerikomppanian poikia on uskominen, niin miinakarttojen tarkkuusvaatimukset olivat kyllä ainakin tuolloin aika korkeat. Sen verran kovaa kiroten ne niistä aina puhuivat.

Omassa yksikössäni henkilömiinoitteiden laskeminen käsiteltiin yhden aamupäivän aikana, mutta kyllä meillekin painotettiin kuinka “nämä kaikki sitten kerätään joskus pois, joten merkitsette määrät ja sijainnit karttaan tarkasti”. Ja sitten taisteluharjoituksessa tällä opilla pyyhittiin persettä ja käskettiin iskemään “sakarat hiekkatielle niin saatanan nopeasti kuin vaan mahdollista ja rasti karttaan jälkeenpäin.”

Joten nähtäväksi jäisi, miten tositilanteessa toimittaisiin.

Anyone pushing their religion to others.

I’ve had parents come to me and demand that their child would be excluded from classes involving sex education or something else they think is “wrong”. Simple but strict “no” usually infuriates them.

I will teach every student according to the national curriculum and the matter will not be discussed further. Then the parents threaten to take this to the principal and see me reprimanded. Good luck with that, our principal is much stricter than me about going by the book.

Laittaisivat 4G:n edes jonkinmoiseen kuntoon ennen toimivien järjestelmien sammuttamista. Landella on 50-megainen Elisan 4G-liittymä etätöitä varten ja se on kesäkuukausina lähes käyttökelvoton kun mökkikansa striimaa HD:ta töllöihinsä. Aamukasin ja puolenyön välillä sisääntuleva huippunopeus on kilotavuluokkaa, yritä sitten vetää sillä Zoom-palavereita.

Ongelman on voinut tähän asti ohittaa vaihtamalla reittimen käyttämään 3G-verkkoa, jolloin nopeus hyppää samantien 4-5 megatavun kieppeille. Js sillä on pärjännyt mukavasti.

Mutta nyt sekin ilo loppuu ja pitää yrittää löytää operaattori jonka verkko pystyy tarjoamaan edes kohtuullisen murto-osan luvatuista nopeuksista.

Scandinavian, mid-40’s. The vast majority of cars in Europe have manual transmission, in my country you can’t even get a driver’s license if you can’t handle it. I prefer manual, whenever I drive automatic I feel like there’s something missing.

No, it’s very real. They even sell rank badges, which are apparently sold out at the moment:

https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/sarma-cottage-rank-insignia/74244

I like to repair and restore broken vintage audio gear.

“Wow, this 60’s Sansui amp and those 70’s AR speakers are practically free! I already have all the tools I need to repair them, it’ll be fun and cheap. When I get these restored, I won’t need anything else ever again!”

How little did I know.

He was written like a real person. At first he seemed like an asshole just for the sake of the story, but he was revealed to have very real motivation for his actions.

Jesus. That theory is the one my professors talked about in university, as an example of “how to never teach anyone anything”.

Yes. For years now. And I am horrified.

I am a teacher and I’ve had students who could not find the article about lions from the animal encyclopedia I handed to them. And when I helped them to find it, one started crying, one tried to read it (stopped after a minute or so) and one asked “Isn’t there some lion video we could watch instead?”. It was two pages with a lot of pictures. But it was too much for these 5th graders.

Reading proper books has become almost impossible to kids because their attention span is almost non-existent with written material.

We’ve tried to add more emphasis on basic reading skills in the early grades for some time now, but it seems to have very little effect.

I see two possibilities:

1. Wrath of Putin. 2 Prigozhin framed his own death trying to escape Putin’s wrath.

In Finland many high school seniors go to an overnight booze cruise some time before their final exams. It can get pretty wild.

1. Do not let Mom ever have brain surgery.
2. Make grandma see a different doctor. The current one is clueless.
3. Bust Dad for smoking in secret and force him to stop. You know how it can be done.
4. Idea of Mom and Dad getting a divorce is a scary one, but it probably would make their and your life a lot better.
5. Start jogging daily. You’ll never like it, but you need to do it to.
6. Ask her out when you’re 15. She likes you too.
7. Start taking guitar and piano lessons. Turns out you have musical talent, you just haven’t realized it yet.
8. No, I won’t tell you how to get rich. You’d fuck your life up royally with unlimited money.

When we met, we were both pretty broken from past experiences. She had had a line of bad relationships and I had my own issues. She was creative, smart and very beautiful, way out of my league.

With her I was happy for the first time in my adult life and I loved her just as she was. We enjoyed the same things and our friends talked of us as a “perfect couple”. And for a time everything truly was pretty perfect.

Then one day she called me and said: “I’m sorry. I can’t do this anymore.”

After the initial shock I managed to say: “I love you and want you to be happy. If this makes you happy, so be it.”

And that was it. I was emotionally devastated.

I never saw her again. Nine months later a common friend told me she had a baby coming in the next month. Apparently she had switched me for a better candidate and gotten herself pregnant almost instantly.

Realizing this broke me even more. I guess our time together had fixed her to a point where she was ready to start a family, just not with me. According to my friend she got three kids with the same guy and is very happy with her life.

It took me years to recover from this and I don’t think that I’ll ever really get “over it”.

I had a larger surgical procedure done when I was 7. They gave me the calming pre meds maybe half an hour before the operation to make sure that I wouldn’t freak out with the IV. I remember clearly how strange it felt when the pre meds started to kick in, the whole world slowed down and everything felt “good”.

Then they wheeled me into the OR and took my robe off. The operating table was cold and I commented on it, the anesthesia doctor just laughed and said “don’t worry, in a minute it won’t be”. Then she put the IV in and asked me to count down from twenty. “Nine” was the last word I managed to stutter before I went under.

Then I woke up in the recovery room, about 9 hours later. It felt like I had slept a really long, dreamless sleep. The operation had gone as planned, but the recovery period in the hospital was still pretty painful.

Wasn’t that Chewie’s dad?

My feelings exactly.

I saw TOS when I was 9-10 years old and it was mindblowingly good compared to almost anything else you could see on TV at the time in my backwater country.

Few years later I learned that this new series TNG will start airing and I was very excited. My disappointment was endless when I saw the pilot.

I strongly disliked the general production aesthetics and Enterprise-D looked just stupid compared to the iconic original/refit Enterprise of TOS era. The characters felt so empty compared to the old crew and the first season scripts weren’t so great, so I gave up on the series after seeing few episodes. This was in the early 90’s.

15 years later I saw a few episodes from the later seasons and to my surprise found that they were good. So I watched the entire series and enjoyed it. I still prefer TOS and love the new SNW, there’s something about the older era setting that just hits me in the feels.

Nostalgia is a powerful thing.