I’ve been doing carpentry/remodeling since 2000, hoping/trying to get into software development from home for the last 5 years or so, and today started a new job doing just that! I’ll be writing primarily in C# for the SOLIDWORKS API doing CAD automation…
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The longer version feels less dragged out when you sing it and do the clapping and gestures (which you do with someone else, it wasn’t a solo, you were clapping your friend’s hands and not your own). Plus, it could go pretty fast.
I was inclined to think they were parallel evolution in action, but I’m not sure I still think that. They are indeed a tad too similar.
A mission for a nursery rhyme imvestigator, to be sure.
EDIT - Yep, you can find everything on youtube. To be fair:
1 - This is not exactly the same melody I remember.
2 - Yes, I think they’re going a tad too fast.
3 - No, I can hardly tell what they’re saying myself.
4 - No, I don’t know why only one of them is singing.
EDIT 2 - The melody I remember is, and this is going to be a bit awkward, but…
Upper-case letters are eighth-notes notes (quavers). Lower-case characters are sixteenth-notes (semi-quavers). The period denotes a dotted note. (P) (p) is a pause of the respective duration.
Starts with an up-beat tempo.
C | F C F C F (P) (P) F |
À u-ma eu nas-ci (clap clap), às
F F E F G (P) (P) C |
du-as ba-pti-zei (clap clap) , às
E. e E E E E E E |
três pe-di na-mo ro e às
E C D E F (P) (P) C | …and loop
qua-tro me ca-sei (clap clap). Às | ….and keep going.
EDIT 3 - Hey hey, apparently it’s of spanish-judaic origin! But the second repeating stanza has been transformed to keep the theme. Possibly, why not, based on Solomon Grundy? Who knows! This original version doesn’t have “christening” (well, it wouldn’t if it’s in a judaic setting, right? Or maybe I misunderstand, my knowledge of religion and relgiious practices is lacking, so I apologise if I’m getting it wrong), but both Grundy and the version I came to know do.
EDIT 4 - I seem to have found a rabbit-hole.
True, some rhymes just don’t work well in text or when read by a screen reade… Actually, that goes for most poetry/song lyrics, especially in cases where words have multiple pronunciations and it takes a specific pronunciation/enunciation/some other thing I don’t know the words to describe to get the rhyme and meter right. Plus, poetry is harder to translate than prose since direct translation often destroys rhyme, meter, symbolism, and other things often integral to a poem that are often absent in prose.
The little win for me today was that my daughters and I completed a library scavenger hunt. It was about finding the 11 pictures of flowers that were hidden throughout the library. It was not easy but not difficult and we completed it in an hour while finding time to read books as well. 
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This is the last week of my semester, which means there’s only grading left. Which I’ve been procrastinating on by working on IF things: fixing bugs in the Dialog compiler and testing my not-ready-for-TALJ-but-maybe-Parsercomp game. It’s nice to get into a flow state with programming.
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Hopefully you weren’t hit by the Canvas attack!
Afraid so, and university admin did not do a good job of handling it!
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About two weeks into my tea/sugar reduction with no sign my body is rebelling to the reduction in simple carbs. Also weighed in at 287 pounds today.
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My doctoral hooding was today!
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Is that where they throw a hood over your head and throw you in the back of a van? I’ve seen those on TV.
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We spent the long weekend in the Ardennes hills. Beautiful long walks and lots of rain. I started reading a new book (more on that in the reading thread once I’ve finished the 1000-page long monster). No internet connection though, so that means I jumped on the spot fruitlessly for a few days in the ongoing Marathon!
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Nearly halfway through all my exams. I’ve been enjoying being free, although it does make me appreciate routine somewhat. (I know, weird, right? Wouldn’t have expected it myself…)
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Finished reading through all the unique and rare properties on Number Gossip last night. Bit of a shamehow few numbers in the latter half actually have unique properties. 7140 stood out as much for being the smallest number with a unique property listed in the 7000s as the unique property listed(largest number that is both triangular and tetrahedral, though a quick attempt to confirm that was unsuccessful).
Also, feeling some reprieve from the heat today. We’ve already had a few days that got close to 90F and the summer solstice is still about a month away, but today’s high is only 69 and the forecast calls for thunderstorms(which I like as long as the power doesn’t go out… I’m actually jealous of the stereotypical weather of the British Isles.
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Jinxed by my own jinxtard, the audition has been cancelled and life goes on unchanged for the foreseeable future. After two coming Mozarts masses (Coronation and Requiem) and a semi-scenic concert version of the Barber of Seville, it’s back to being at home in front of a computer interpreting and waiting for the day that AI will make interpreters obsolete.
Neither positive nor neutral, but having brought it up I felt I should sort of close the book.
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After several days of the exhaust hose on my portable AC being disconnected from the window vent and having no duct tape to patch it up, I got a new roll of duct tape today… and I went the extra mile, turning the unit off, removing all the old duct tape, making sure the end of the hose is as snug in the vent before taping the hose to the vent on the inside, going outside to run 8 streips from the inside of the hose through the vent and onto the outside of the window panel, window, and wall and even running a strip of tape along the gap between the window panel and the bottom of the shash. So far its holding, though the last roll of duct tape I bought was constantly failing to hold the hose in place… which is kind of baffling given duct tape’s reputation and the fact I’m actually using it as intended and not as improvised for everything.
Also, bought a pair of bolt cutters that is both cheap enough for my budget and with jaws wide enough to handle some bolts I’ve wanted to cut for a long time… Sadly, getting to most of the bolts, cutting them, and putting everything back the way I want is likely to be a multi-hour job of the kind that leaves me in pain the next day… The bolts in question are part of an old sofa box spring, namely the like quarter inch thick wire that attached the box spring to the plywood frame of the broken sofa they came from and the box spring is the bottom of my make shift bed/office chair setup and piled with blankets, plushies, and a trifold camping mattress and some of the bolts go under the salvaged backrest I use as a barrier between where I’m laying/sitting and my open closet and built into the wall dresser/chest of drawers, and if I’m going to go to the effort of pulling all of that out, I might as well febreeze the blankets, plushies, and upholstery, tidy up anything that as fallen behind the back rest, and vacuum the carpet underneath… Hopefully I can get to that on Wednesday(my bedroom is too small to move stuff out of the way without taking it out of the room and there’s nowhere I can really put any of it in the trailer’s common areas that won’t get in my housemates’ way, and one of them works Tuesday-Saturday and the other Wednesday-Saturday, so can’t really do it on a SUnday, Monday, or Tuesday.
Also, been getting better about taking my multi-vitamin(a general hedge against a less than stellar diet) and B12 supplement(due to an actual B12 deficiency that was diagnosed years ago and knowing B12 is almost guaranteed to be lacking in my vegetarian because I can’t afford meat diet every day.
Also, my AC has been running constantly since I turned it back under after duct taping the exhuast hose earlier…Sadly, it’s proper function might be due to today being a bit cooler than the last week or so… This unit, in addition to being a portable AC, already a huge con, has a tendency that the hotter it is outside, the more likely it is to cycle between cool and fan modes… I think my local climate might be too humid for this unit, even with me having it constantly draining into a large bucket… Sadly, I can’t really afford to replace it and my Window is too small for a proper window unit(the Window opens about 12.5" and the smallest unit I’ve been able to find requires a 13" clearance, which sucks since a proper window unit would be more efficient, could just drop the moisture that condenses on its coils on the ground, wouldn’t need an exhaust hose, would shrink the area sunlight can use to invade my room considerably, would take up a lot less space inside, etc…
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The new battery I ordered for my phone arrived today. This is the third battery I’ve had for this phone and the second only lasted months, though to be fair, the second was a second hand battery swapped from a phone in the recycle bin at my carrier’s local store. Hopefully this one will last longer than the first two combined.
Also, the exhaust hose on my AC is holding up well being duct taped from both sides.
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I’m so close to the end of my exams. One more next Friday, and that’s it.
I also restarted a song of mine and the new version I’m very happy with (structure-wise, not the mixing yet)…
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Spent a couple hours yesterday tidying up some small things in my room and then spent a few hours todayclearing out the small and medium things to vacuum my room, cut those bits of that sofa char box spring that were getting in the way, allowing me to rotate the box spring 90 degrees so the long dimension of it crosses the width of the foam camping mattress, so the head section of the mattress is now supported all the way across and the bottom edge of the box spring doesn’t extend into the middle section… my lumbar is killing me and I might be sore tomorrow, butI hope this makes my sleeping arrangements a bit more comfortable and maybe reduce the mattress’s tendency to shift downward and to the right or at least make it easier to pull it back into position.
Also, this let me get through the first two episodes of the DUngeon Dude’s newest D&D campaign… I like listening to their games, but the over 2 hour runtime of most sessions makes actually committing to listening to even a one shot a bit difficult… I’ve had the Dungeon Dudes’ youtube channel bookmarked for years, but I’m only on episode three of the first season of their behemoth Drakkenheim series…
Well, rotating that sofa chair boxspring after snipping off the bits that were getting in the way seems to be having the desired results.