Yes, but it reminds me of a very enjoyable period in my life when I was touring through Europe performing that requiem with a youth choir. Lots of music. Lots of good experiences. And yes, lots of alcohol.
Oh Man, I'm Flat
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Yes, but it reminds me of a very enjoyable period in my life when I was touring through Europe performing that requiem with a youth choir. Lots of music. Lots of good experiences. And yes, lots of alcohol.
I'm guessing that whole period of time you were playing an instrument in the wood section.
one time, they had a lady from Russia, and all she did is sing an aria from Rossini. But the agreement between USA and the Soviet Union was, if they were going to perform in USA, they had to be allowed to give a 15 minute dissertation on the benefits of communism.
It sounded pretty good to me. They payed you to play and didn't ask that you did anything else, plus you got time off.
beat the heck out of 256 days on the road.
but once she started singing in rehearsal, it was so beautiful that I just started crying, and my eyes got so wet that I couldn't read the music.
they had to stop the rehearsal
and the guy next to me said, "Boy, you are really eating up that communismn shit aren't you?"
It sounded pretty good to me. They payed you to play and didn't ask that you did anything else, plus you got time off.
beat the heck out of 256 days on the road.
but once she started singing in rehearsal, it was so beautiful that I just started crying, and my eyes got so wet that I couldn't read the music.
they had to stop the rehearsal
and the guy next to me said, "Boy, you are really eating up that communismn shit aren't you?"
I was in the string section, but from the waist down I was definately in the wood sectionQuote from SimpleTrades:
I'm guessing that whole period of time you were playing an instrument in the wood section.
it got so bad that she even brought her boyfriend in just to say, "Hi, how you doin? I'm the bassoon player's boy friend."
A stringer able to stare at those boobs? You play the viola!
no, back then they didn't have any programs for guitar, and I was only making $30/night, so my father bought me a string bass and said, "If you just show up on time you'll have more work than you can handle."
and man, he wasn't kidding, 6 nights a week, sometimes 2 or 3 gigs on a friday, saturday.
oh shit man, those Sunday's were depressing
Sunday was crash day
Double bass? A pair of sunglasses would have solved the boob problem and you would have looked cool to her. Maybe she would have dumped the boy and played with your mouth piece..
sometimes they are all moving against meQuote from Zr1Trader:
Great story.
I have a question, when you spread your pairs out , does everything ever go against you or you get caught with positions being too correlated? Do you have a point where you're at loss where you ever go "im flat" or are you always diversified and "in" ?
if they are are ever all profitable that is usually a good time to just get flat or at least reduce
yes, about 3 times in the last 15 months, once when I really got on the wrong side of qe3, the whole thing just broke down, and I slowly just liquidated and started over. Would have been better if I had hung on, but I completely lost my bearings.
I've made some changes since then. Number one is, I never add to my largest loser
yes, too correlated for me is long aud.usd and long eur.usd, it's just too much if they both move against me at the same time, so if I'm long one I want to be short the other