Weekend Routines

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May 11, 2024, 10:28:27 AM
I would enjoy reading about your weekend routines.  Some of you are probably retired, but I'm still a rat on the wheel and very much look forward to Saturday morning.  Here is what mine typically looks like:

Up around 6:00 AM and go downstairs to the kitchen to start the coffee.  Get out my laptop and fire it up.  Check email and cruise my favorite sites for a good while (I'm doing this right now) to catch up on my favorite topics (no news, mostly music-related).  After I've gotten all that out of my system, I move into my den and do my online guitar lessons, usually on my electric guitar.  I play my Larrivee throughout the week but weekends are usually when I drag out the electric.  I'll try and learn something new and practice it all week on my Larrivee, along with all the other stuff I just feel like playing. 

After a few hours on the guitar of learning something new or honing that I tried to learn last weekend, I'll go outside and water my plants, blow off the drive, etc.  The evening will find the wife and I doing something: probably watching some TV together (this counts as spending time together for her  :? ).  If I've not stayed up too late, I'll usually finish off the night with the Larrivee by the bedside. 

Sundays are different.  There can be church, family gatherings, and other plans that will make that day different.  But Saturdays are Golden. 
May 11, 2024, 11:29:39 AM #1
Being retired, my weekend routine happens seven days a week. It starts early with about a half hour of range of motion exercises. This is followed by coffee and an hour on the guitar. I usually work on technical exercises in the morning concentrating on the picking hand in particular. For this session, I use music by Sor, Carcassi, Villa Lobos, and Brouwer. Then I have breakfast and take our dog for a walk. Depending on the day, as President of our HOA, I usually attend to some needed functions. I exercise for about half hour a day on our exercise bike due to health issues. We have our main meal at noon. Our social calendar seems to be about 50% Dr. appointments LOL. In the afternoon, I practice one to two hours mainly on things I've decided to play from memory. These are primarily classical pieces, jazz standards, and some Celtic pieces arranged by some of my favorite guitarists. During these sessions, I usually use music to make sure I'm not changing or adding notes to the arrangements. And then there is happy hour at 5 LOL. I usually use my SD-40RW for my technical practice and my D-40RW and D-40 for my afternoon sessions as I need that 19th fret. I use each of my instruments every day.
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May 11, 2024, 12:35:53 PM #2
Whats a weekend?I run my shop 7 days a week.
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May 11, 2024, 01:00:24 PM #3
Quote from: unclrob on May 11, 2024, 12:35:53 PMWhats a weekend?I run my shop 7 days a week.
Sorry to hear that, Rob.  A man needs at least one day a week off.  Even the Almighty took a day off!
 :laughin:
May 11, 2024, 06:56:51 PM #4
Since I work for myself, I work every day, unless I actually go out of town. I blend my "weekend" stuff into the week and do yardwork in the late afternoon, cleaning around the home in the evening. I really like it this way as I can do whatever strikes me in the moment. If my neck is bothering me and I can't sit at the computer, I can just switch it up for a couple hours.
May 14, 2024, 09:56:41 PM #5
Quote from: Silence Dogood on May 11, 2024, 01:00:24 PMSorry to hear that, Rob.  A man needs at least one day a week off.  Even the Almighty took a day off!
 :laughin:

 Ya but he had a staff to help. :wave
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 OB LA DE OB LA DA,LIFE GOES ON---BRA,It is what it is,You just gotta deal it,
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May 15, 2024, 12:04:15 AM #6
Quote from: unclrob on May 14, 2024, 09:56:41 PMYa but he had a staff to help. :wave
:humour:
May 18, 2024, 09:05:38 AM #7
Saturday AM again.  One cup of coffee in so far.  I've been enjoying catching up on the forum, perusing emails, and am about to put in one of my GK Chesteron TV show DVDs.  I have all the seasons on disc and enjoy a few episodes each weekend.  This was a wonderful show that ran on EWTN (the Catholic channel) some years ago that I've gotten a lot of mileage and enjoyment out of. 
May 18, 2024, 11:33:49 AM #8
Trying to polish up enough tunes to begin playing out again next week after a 4 month hiatus due to hand surgery. The hand has healed but remembering how all these tunes go- that's the challenge.
And a fresh set of strings on the two guitars I'll be carrying Wednesday.
May 18, 2024, 12:40:12 PM #9
Quote from: Silence Dogood on May 18, 2024, 09:05:38 AMSaturday AM again.  One cup of coffee in so far.  I've been enjoying catching up on the forum, perusing emails, and am about to put in one of my GK Chesteron TV show DVDs.  I have all the seasons on disc and enjoy a few episodes each weekend.  This was a wonderful show that ran on EWTN (the Catholic channel) some years ago that I've gotten a lot of mileage and enjoyment out of. 


I was up early with coffee and 4 chapters of Romans.  Chesterton is great, you probably know this great quote:
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
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May 19, 2024, 07:48:13 AM #10
Quote from: 247hoopsfan on May 18, 2024, 12:40:12 PMI was up early with coffee and 4 chapters of Romans.  Chesterton is great, you probably know this great quote:
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Yes, Chesterton is great, and very quotable for sure!  He and CS Lewis probably get quoted more than anyone else, at least in the places I tend to lurk. 
May 19, 2024, 04:16:16 PM #11
Quote from: 247hoopsfan on May 18, 2024, 12:40:12 PMI was up early with coffee and 4 chapters of Romans. 
That sounds nice. I need to start a routine like that. I look at my koi pond for a moment while the coffee brews but then I'm right at work and don't get much actual time think or reflect. I know I'd be more productive if I got my head on first. Working at home, it's usually a matter of 15 minutes from the time I wake up to working.
May 19, 2024, 11:22:13 PM #12
Sat in the AM and I'm still awake mostly watching cartoons.
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OM03PA
Favorite saying
 OB LA DE OB LA DA,LIFE GOES ON---BRA,It is what it is,You just gotta deal it,
One By One The Penguins Steal My Sanity, Keith and Barefoot Rob on youtube
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September 21, 2024, 08:35:16 AM #13
Quote from: B0WIE on May 19, 2024, 04:16:16 PMThat sounds nice. I need to start a routine like that. I look at my koi pond for a moment while the coffee brews but then I'm right at work and don't get much actual time think or reflect. I know I'd be more productive if I got my head on first. Working at home, it's usually a matter of 15 minutes from the time I wake up to working.

https://youtu.be/PKiAXVxOm6o?feature=shared

^^^
This is something you (and anyone else interested) might enjoy.  I've been listening to this over and over again all year in the mornings.  It's the Book of John read by Sir David Suchet (the guy that plays Poirot). It's really beautiful and peaceful and has greatly enhanced my mornings this year.  I don't usually look at the screen much but just listen as I go about my morning.  But when I do glance over, it's also very beautiful since this was filmed in the old Westminster Abbey. 
September 21, 2024, 04:28:45 PM #14
Quote from: Silence Dogood on September 21, 2024, 08:35:16 AMhttps://youtu.be/PKiAXVxOm6o?feature=shared

^^^
This is something you (and anyone else interested) might enjoy.  I've been listening to this over and over again all year in the mornings.  It's the Book of John read by Sir David Suchet (the guy that plays Poirot). It's really beautiful and peaceful and has greatly enhanced my mornings this year.  I don't usually look at the screen much but just listen as I go about my morning.  But when I do glance over, it's also very beautiful since this was filmed in the old Westminster Abbey. 
Thanks for that!
September 21, 2024, 10:24:08 PM #15
Not to be off, but, I thought *religion* was not allowed.
September 21, 2024, 10:26:20 PM #16
Quote from: Rockysdad on September 21, 2024, 10:24:08 PMNot to be off, but, I thought *religion* was not allowed.

I was correct, rules state NO religion.
September 22, 2024, 05:50:52 AM #17
Quote from: Rockysdad on September 21, 2024, 10:26:20 PMI was correct, rules state NO religion.
My 2 cents here, but it didn't feel like they were violating the "no religion" rule. By that I mean they weren't digging in and discussing the religion itself, but rather their own personal time reflecting on the subject, and in a very broad sense. No Bibles were thumped, no one was preaching, and the comments, at least to me, were pretty innocent and sharable. A lot of us even play, and are inspired by, worship music discussed on this forum.     
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September 22, 2024, 10:15:09 AM #18
No offense intended (and certainly nothing theological discussed), but rather just passing along something that's been personally helpful to someone who might be interest. 

     This forum seems to pretty much police itself on these matters.  Great group of folks.
September 22, 2024, 11:30:24 AM #19
Quote from: Riverbend on September 22, 2024, 05:50:52 AMMy 2 cents here, but it didn't feel like they were violating the "no religion" rule. By that I mean they weren't digging in and discussing the religion itself, but rather their own personal time reflecting on the subject, and in a very broad sense. No Bibles were thumped, no one was preaching, and the comments, at least to me, were pretty innocent and sharable. A lot of us even play, and are inspired by, worship music discussed on this forum.     
Referencing something with religious context IS referencing religion, no matter how *slight* it may or may not be, if you folk want that fine, but don't say it's innocent when it's referencing it.
Guess it may be time to stop dropping by. Enjoy yourselves.
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