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1:19pm May 9, 2013
So my staff person of over four years is leaving tomorrow. Four years is practically forever in this branch of human services. My longest lasting person before this was only three years. And she always wanted to hear me play the violin and never got a chance, so I had her get it out for me and I’ve been tuning it up and practicing so I can play something tomorrow. My violin isn’t much as Official Violin People go. It was made sometime around 1914 in a German factory. A lot of people sneer at German factory violins. But I have a relationship with this violin. You couldn’t possibly find a violin that I would want to replace this with, no matter how fancy or impressive. It has a personality, a rather intense one, and I relate to that personality. I’m going to try to get it a new bridge soon. I’ve been putting that off for over a year now. Keep finding other things I need to do more than that. But I replaced the strings already, I just need to replace the bridge and it should work a lot better. The bridge is quite old. Fortunately the people at the violin shop around here understand what it’s like to have a relationship to a violin regardless of its lack of pedigree. I told them I wanted to make this violin the best it could possibly be, and they’ve been willing to work with me on that instead of telling me it’s not important. They also thought it was cool that I got it from my grandfather and stuff, and still had all the original papers from where it was purchased. Today I practiced a bit. Didn’t want to wear my arms down. It sounded good. I’m a bit rusty, but I could still hit all the notes without having to fumble around for them. I don’t really play tunes that I know, I make them up as I go along. And that’s what I’m going to do tomorrow for my staff person. I already bought her some chocolates and a card and a gift certificate to a coffee shop. I don’t usually do that when staff leave, but I’ve built a relationship with her and I figured she deserved something after all this time. And tomorrow I have to play the violin for her. I’ve got the violin case in bed with me new and I think Fey might be going WTF about that because the neck is sticking into her favorite sleeping spot. But I need a place to put it where I won’t forget it.

So my staff person of over four years is leaving tomorrow. Four years is practically forever in this branch of human services. My longest lasting person before this was only three years. And she always wanted to hear me play the violin and never got a chance, so I had her get it out for me and I’ve been tuning it up and practicing so I can play something tomorrow.

My violin isn’t much as Official Violin People go. It was made sometime around 1914 in a German factory. A lot of people sneer at German factory violins. But I have a relationship with this violin. You couldn’t possibly find a violin that I would want to replace this with, no matter how fancy or impressive. It has a personality, a rather intense one, and I relate to that personality.

I’m going to try to get it a new bridge soon. I’ve been putting that off for over a year now. Keep finding other things I need to do more than that. But I replaced the strings already, I just need to replace the bridge and it should work a lot better. The bridge is quite old. Fortunately the people at the violin shop around here understand what it’s like to have a relationship to a violin regardless of its lack of pedigree. I told them I wanted to make this violin the best it could possibly be, and they’ve been willing to work with me on that instead of telling me it’s not important. They also thought it was cool that I got it from my grandfather and stuff, and still had all the original papers from where it was purchased.

Today I practiced a bit. Didn’t want to wear my arms down. It sounded good. I’m a bit rusty, but I could still hit all the notes without having to fumble around for them. I don’t really play tunes that I know, I make them up as I go along. And that’s what I’m going to do tomorrow for my staff person.

I already bought her some chocolates and a card and a gift certificate to a coffee shop. I don’t usually do that when staff leave, but I’ve built a relationship with her and I figured she deserved something after all this time. And tomorrow I have to play the violin for her. I’ve got the violin case in bed with me new and I think Fey might be going WTF about that because the neck is sticking into her favorite sleeping spot. But I need a place to put it where I won’t forget it.

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