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I floated on the youtube algorithm, allowing it to guide me through as many absolute beginners ukulele tutorials as it could find.

After two days, this is the first one that began with tuning.



I'm also thrilled to see a device that will turn and tune the pegs for me, but alas, expencive.

I like her style and I think that this might be the person to guide me through the first few weeks.  At first the "look up" was a bit annoying, until I realized, every time she said that, my attention had wavered.  A few do that "look up" thing, especially women teachers.  It makes me think of elementary school.  But if it works...

I don't know.   Still undecided.   $50cad is a lot of money for me to invest in something I'm unsure about.   It looks like I would need to save up a lot more than that to have a good start.  

And what if my chickens don't like it?

Some days one just has to draw a chicken

Judson Carroll wrote:BTW, be sure to pull up some Ukulele Ike, Cliff Edwards on youtube.  He was the voice of Jimny Crickett and a fantastic musician.  His life was tragic, but his talent was immense.  He mixed chord melody with excellent single note soling that really put him on par with the greatest jazz guitarists of the era.  He also played a mean kazoo!

Thanks for the suggestion.  Neat stuff.

For people who know how to play musical instruments, when do they play it?  Or is it always just practice?

With tv, radio, and busy lives, it feels like there is very little occasion to just play music for music's sake. Or am I wrong?

If I did learn, I would play for my chickens.  They put up with my terrible singing every night, so maybe they would like this better?

But what do normal people do?

I found them.

 

I should mention, if you don't follow the guidelines, once you get home from hospital, you get to spend a lot of time listening to a dietitian "help" you evaluate your diet.  Then explaining to them that you don't eat soy because you will die.  Then listening to them complain about how they can't give you a balanced diet....

It's a bit different here.  The patient (mostly) has a choice of what to eat.  They encourage strongly the total food for the day (not just one meal) meet the dietary standards, but they also know that humans are human.  IV nutrition can balance out extreme cases.  But also, it's handy to see what and how they would eat at home so they can adjust recommendations to accommodate the behaviour.  

Malnutrition is a big problem in hospital and care homes.  (Off the record, I've been told it's the primary cause of or contributing factor in death in these situations).

So there are a lot of studies on minimum dietary intake for survival for low to no activity (get up, hobble to toilet, hobble to dining room, hobble to tv....) so the government can set guidelines for criminal negligence.

I can't find one right now, but about 10 years ago, I got some from the dietitian from the local hospital.  They were interesting, but I didn't remember the numbers.

This might be the place to start.  Most health authorities publicly publish nutritional standards for different kinds of stay in care or hospital.

Note, old people have different needs than younger people of the same activity level so take into account if the study is older or younger population.

Setting up a still life.  Still too complicated but wll look amazing when the candle is lit