User talk:Floquenbeam

I'm going to log out and take a break for a few months. I have little time available for WP right now, and I'm finding that the time I do have is increasingly frustrating and does not spark joy; I'm logging in out of habit, rather than because I want to. I won't write a screed about why, at least not now. Some of this is probably my fault; real-world stress bleeding into on-wiki stress. But it's also due to the way this project seems to be evolving, and the realization that I can't really try to do anything about it when I have so little time to contribute. I'll leave WP email on, but email notifications are going to be turned off. See you on the other side. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:39, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The story is today about the first published composition by Arnold Schönberg which I was blessed to hear. Listen, and perhaps read what Alma Mahler (to-be-Mahler at the time, to be precise, who was present at the first performance) said, and yes that was too much for the Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:34, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is about a Bach cantata premiered 300 years ago OTD. - Did you notice that the July was taken the day when you counted the places I saw that one day? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021. It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Libuše Domanínská, the subject of yesterday's story, would have turned 100 today, but I missed that ;) - Overnight, Tamara Milashkina became GA and Lando Bartolini went to the Main page. I made my story about his almost unbelievable career, from Luigi in Il tabarro in Philadelphia in 1968 (with a nod to Liberty) up to Calaf in Turandot in Beijing in 1999 ;) - 4 July is also the birthday of Brian Boulton who was a pioneer of a concise infobox in 2013. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gerda. Just returned from a mini-vacation. Your choice of picture for July is appropriate; I was just noticing on the drive up and back from vacation that there are day lilies everywhere. Seems like much more than last year. Getting away was nice, but as always, coming back from a vacation sucks! Floquenbeam (talk) 14:43, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I uploaded a few more, and recent day lilies, but no comes end-of-term outing of my choir. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Only on WP. I saw this, and my first gut reaction was "Gerda's choir got WP:OUTED??" Glad to realize you meant "outing" in the normal human way, not the Wikipedian way. Floquenbeam (talk) 15:38, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a word that is not ambiguous? It was a nice hike for those who like such things, showing new aspects (for me and most) of the area around our town, followed by sausages and salad buffed in the yard of our church, outside, all in pleasant weather which is rather rare this year. Pics to come, - for now I can offer the delicious yellow mushrooms which grow in unknown abundance - probably because of that weather. - Pictured on the Main page: Brian's Mozart family grand tour, my story today, and Mozart related to all three items of music on my talk: our 2023 concert, an opera in a theatre where a Mozart premiere took place, and those remembered, Martti Wallén, a bass, and Liana Isakadze, a violinist from Georgia, (whose article would be better with more details about her music-making), - just click on music below the day lilies. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:16, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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