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" wrote in message
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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/Sheet/ I realized that you can build a
whole songbook with it.
Ross

"Ken Johnson" wrote in message
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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