{"id":1210,"date":"2021-03-18T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T16:15:11","slug":"more-stamp-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"More stamp indexing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn&#8217;t really do much today, or, not much besides<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> practicing piano &#8212; a few measures of the second strain of &#8220;The Entertainer&#8221;, which have been very rough when I play through the whole piece. I need to get the fingering right so the whole section is smoother and I get all the harmony in place<\/li><li>practicing trumpet, just the lip flexibility exercise. I sounded terrible on it today, getting a poor tone on the high C. I can often hear the D, and pretty frequently hit a Db (2nd valve) but neither of those today.<\/li><li>recording a few measures of the Candide overture for SymBa on euphonium.<\/li><li>working on my Shiny application, with the goal of adding a graph for vaccination statistics.<\/li><li>Indexing 20 stamp mounts. How about that:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Indexing2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Indexing2.jpg 378w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Indexing2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They came out particularly sharp! I&#8217;m running low on ink; yesterday I scraped dried ink off the top of the ink in the can (it&#8217;s an oil-based printers ink) and ended up with little bits of hard ink when I rolled it out. Today I got good ink only, rolled it out smoothly, and got super good results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the ink. We&#8217;ve been using it since 1999 or earlier, Great Western Ink&#8217;s Soy Hi Tech T-12 Dense Black:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IndexingInk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IndexingInk.jpg 504w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IndexingInk-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I googled Great Western Ink before I phoned, and looked at the map besides. Their Seattle address looks like a side street in an industrial area, but here&#8217;s their headquarters in Portland. You can see the &#8220;G&#8221; and &#8220;western&#8221; on the sign to the left in the Google Street View &#8212; being able to do this cracks me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"469\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GWIHQ.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GWIHQ.jpg 469w, http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GWIHQ-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t really do much today, or, not much besides practicing piano &#8212; a few measures of the second strain of &#8220;The Entertainer&#8221;, which have been very rough when I play through the whole piece. I need to get the fingering right so the whole section is smoother and I get all the harmony in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=1210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More stamp indexing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,16,8],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music","tag-programming","tag-stamps","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}