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May. 4th, 2022 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal-Someone did a deep dive into the history of Uranus jokes and I feel like some of you might appreciate this.
-Change ringing continues to be fun. A couple weeks ago I reached a milestone on (real life) handbells and today we almost accomplished something similar but failed very near the finish, womp womp. One of my comrades is moving, unfortunately, so it might be hard to get a quorum, but that's what virtual bells are for, right? :D
-Ringing on tower bells is (orders of magnitude) more challenging. The bells are like hundreds of pounds so obviously I can't just expect to provide that force by pulling on them. In fact, counterintuitively, I often get told "no, use less force when pulling the rope down..." But when trying to stop the bell so it doesn't bounce, that requires upper arm strength too! So I feel like I need to build my upper arm strength. Long story short, now I have dumbbells. I'm by no means diligent about practicing but it's something.
-Having dumbbells means I more frequently have to spellcheck "wait, dumbbells"? Double B? So I looked up the etymology and...sure enough, "an apparatus similar to that used to ring a church bell (but without the bell, so noiseless or ‘dumb’)" Great minds think alike! :D
-Change ringing continues to be fun. A couple weeks ago I reached a milestone on (real life) handbells and today we almost accomplished something similar but failed very near the finish, womp womp. One of my comrades is moving, unfortunately, so it might be hard to get a quorum, but that's what virtual bells are for, right? :D
-Ringing on tower bells is (orders of magnitude) more challenging. The bells are like hundreds of pounds so obviously I can't just expect to provide that force by pulling on them. In fact, counterintuitively, I often get told "no, use less force when pulling the rope down..." But when trying to stop the bell so it doesn't bounce, that requires upper arm strength too! So I feel like I need to build my upper arm strength. Long story short, now I have dumbbells. I'm by no means diligent about practicing but it's something.
-Having dumbbells means I more frequently have to spellcheck "wait, dumbbells"? Double B? So I looked up the etymology and...sure enough, "an apparatus similar to that used to ring a church bell (but without the bell, so noiseless or ‘dumb’)" Great minds think alike! :D
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Date: 5/5/22 05:01 pm (UTC)