u/InternationalPipe937

I don't know if I'm progressing anymore. I started playing piano 4.5 years ago. Teaching myself. I don't know how to find a jazz piano teacher in my area. So I've been in an online program that has lots of resources. I thought I could spend some time practicing comping chords, some time practicing improv, some time learning tunes. But I feel like I do all 3 things poorly. And when I get a tune to a good place, if I put it down for a bit, I need to pick it back up again to get it back to where I was when I put it down. Maybe I should just do comping for the next 3 months. See if doing nothing but that gets some improvement. I just get a little bored when I try to do one of these things to the exclusion to the others. idk.

Hello - i take meds for blood pressure. Then other meds for chronic pain. Then other meds for low T. Then other meds for bladder issues. Then other meds for weight. But I have a couple of other issues where it seems like the treatment is more meds. How many meds can a person take? If I'm taking 20 pills a day in my 50s, that can't be good right? Or does it not matter?

I'm looking for a forum to ask about how much medication you can take. I have 5 conditions i take medication for. I take 8 different pills each day. Some multiple times. But I have a few other issues that could be helped by medication and i want to ask people who are in it. Not doctors. How many different things can you be treated for at once? If you're taking meds for a bunch of different issues - how much is too much?

Best I can figure, it's a show about a town beset by monsters. The town has 2 groups - Colony House and Main Town. Each group has an official leader, but with a #2 being the "heart" of the group. In each case, the #2 might be a hottie if you squint with a nice mid-riff and small boobs. One a hippie, the other a doctor. Everything is going well until a car crash inserts 2 new characters. A teenager with truly spectacular but age-inappropriate boobs who goes to Colony. And her mother - who has equally spectacular boobs and also fortunately age appropriate- who goes to Main Town. They wear low cut clothing everywhere they go causing upset and chaos. This boob-off unravels the natural order of things to the point of creating a hurricane and house collapse. Season 2 starts off strong, with a fantastic bounce-a-thon. The teenager falling out of her top trying to help her dad in every boobtastic way she can think of. The mom slopping around with Victor saying "Be quiet! we have to go!" - not quite as good due to lighting but still pretty gripping stuff. But if all this main boob-plot is not enough, another bus crashes into town and a hot white sweater low cut boob girl and her boyfriend appear. Stupid boyfriend opens the door to monsters and that storyline ends. Except no! She's nailed to a tree thru the head! You don't know whether to look at the boobs or the spike thru the head! (maybe a play on cleavage and cleaving someone's skull?) It all actually starts to seem a little gratuitous and maybe the writers needed an understandable cool-off. But they stupidly make the weather cooler, start covering up the boobs and switch the focus to the B-plot. But the B-plot, I mean come on amirite? Balding kids yelling "angooey"? music boxes and boy in white and you can't sleep and monsters and voices on radios and cicadas and omfg make it stop! it's actually funny how stupid this B-plot is! But just as you're starting to think this is all just random nonsense and give up the show, it warms up again and this red head shows up. And omfg does she have amazing boobs! That's as far as I've gotten.

56 here. I dislocated my shoulder in December 2025 doing dumbell presses. Unbeknownst to me, I had very little cartilege in the shoulder and the MRI showed lots of degenerative tears in the labrum, but also a tear in the capsule.

First cortisone shot before the MRI did nothing. Second one was done after the MRI and with ultrasound guiding it to the proper location. Doc said no more weight lifting. My shoulder felt better for 7 weeks and then started to hurt again. But beyond the shoulder starting to hurt again, I started developing muscle knots in my upper back. Below the shoulder blade and up through the neck. On pain scale of 1-10, it was a 10. I couldn't function. I couldn't sleep. I got some dry needling done on the muscle knots and it improved them somewhat. PT recommended a place for a PRP injection.

I did that today. They did about 6 different shots. They all hurt more than a bit. 5 hours later, i am sore AF. I can't lift my arm or even move it that much. The doc swore up and down that he thought this was gonna work and that the muscle knots were caused by muscles overcompensating due to my shoulder being unstable. The shots would repair the damage and stabilize the shoulder and that the muscle knots would resolve after that on their own accord.

I hope so. Will report back. If anyone has any advice or wants to share something they know that I should know, I am all ears.

Never heard of it, let alone tried it. But the characters on the Wire are always ordering it. I picked up some today. Jarritos. it's in the fridge getting cold. Will report back.

I am rewatching and am on Season 1. D'Angelo says he's going to the corner and does anyone want anything. I thought Bodie said he wanted "trout". I rewound a couple of times. There are no subtitles and I'm thinking "did he say lake trout?". So I googled "Did Bodie order trout in the Wire?" and man I was not prepared for all the love letters to Baltimore "Lake Trout" that I found. Honestly sounds kinda gross. Like a "you had to be there" kind of precious food memory.

I'm finally at Season 11 of my rewatch. Episode 1 is an abomination. It is bad on its own. Truly terrible. But it is such a major betrayal of the show. Not a betrayal of the plot. I'm ok with the fact that the prior seasons were a misinterpretation about alien invasion. But turning Mulder and Scully into action heroes is gross. They're FBI agents who walk around in the rain with umbrellas! Not experts in martial arts and car chases! Mulder literally cuts a dude's throat? Sure he was trying to kill Scully but cutting his throat? That's not Mulder!

But we finally learn about William and....omfg

I seriously hope it gets better.

I just started Season 10 of my rewatch. I'm surprised Scully's aging. I've seen Gillian Anderson in other things and she's obviously a freak of nature in the good looks department. But...is she acting old? Her voice sounds very tired compared to earlier seasons. She sounds like an old woman in Season 10.

I can't quite figure out if it's a choice or not. In the Fall she had a measured tone. I don't know she just sounds a lot older than she looks. what's the consensus?

Beginner here. I'm wondering if my practice is focused properly.

One of my practice routines is to just play the relevant scales over a tune in time. For an easy to understand example, take the bridge of rhythm changes. I'll play 2 bars of D7 up and down, 2 bars of G7 up and down, 2 bars of C7 up and down and 2 bars of F7 up and down. (If I could stick this practice I'm about to describe, I'd try to do this in different keys).

The trouble comes when I start to play these scales from different degrees. After starting from the 3rd, 5th and 7th and running these scales up and down, I'll switch to running them down and up. Starting from 7th, then the 9th, then the 11th, then the 13th.

If all I did was pick one of them (e.g. run the scales down and up starting from the 9th) i could do it no problem. But playing in time continuously, after I finish running the 9ths down and up, I can't think fast enough to get the 11ths in time and I wind up having to wait for the track to loop around again. Or after running the 11ths down and up, I can't think fast enough to get the 13ths in time.

I can slow the track WAY THE HELL DOWN and do it - although it can be difficult to play that slowly. But I'm curious as to whether this is even a useful practice at all. I mean, I can't do it, so I think if I keep at it eventually I will be able to do it. But is that going to ultimately pay off? Am I going to unlock some freedom by being able to do this?