Perseverance

I was sitting around with my buddy J this morning when I asked him what I was going to write about today.  J suggested perseverance as a topic and I wondered just exactly would I have to say on the subject of perseverance.  I suppose I should know a little about it seeing as I have survived so much bull shit in my life through sheer determination to get through it all.  So I was thinking things over while I was putting together the Music and the Men before surmising the exact verbiage I would be using.  Little did I know that the events of the next little while would provide all the words I would need. 

Just as I finished the prep work and was getting ready to expound on the topic of conversation for today, my buddy J came over with a small project with which he needed my help.  So I got involved in that little project which ended up not being so little.  It actually took about 3.5 hours to complete because the printer/scanner interface decided to be a bitch and we had to keep starting over and over and over again.  However, with great patience and some little bit of frustration on my part, we persevered and persevered some more until we finally had copies of everything and a .pdf file for his flash drive.  The .pdf file I also have stored on my computer for safe keeping.  Voila, one lesson in the art of perseverance upon which to expound and communicate to you my loyal readers.  Sometimes perseverance is mistaken for stubbornness, only because one has to stubbornly and consistently put forth the effort to overcome all obstacles to complete task at hand.  Which is exactly what happened today.  The software and the hardware were having a bitch fight and neither would cooperate with the other.  However with dogged persistence, and not a few curse words, I was finally able to copy all the pages.  It was then that I took the copies, scanned them into the computer and then created a .pdf file which I saved to his flash drive and my computer.  It's funny how life sometimes gives us the inspiration we need, when we need it and from a direction we least expected.  

So now we come to the entertainment portion of this post which is chock full of beautiful Music and marvelously, muscly Men for your edification.  First up, your Monday With Mozart today features an all star recording of his Divertimento for String Trio in E Flat Major, K563.  The trio performing today's selection is truly a cast of stars with Isaac Stern on Violin, Pinchas Zuckerman on Viola and Leonard Rose on Cello.  You may also hear Mozart's Divertimento Number 11 for oboe, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola & double bass in D major (K.251) Performed by Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Ton Koopman over on my tumblr.

 To kick off this week of Art in the Male Form is a group of delectable and delicious dudes on display below the video, adorned in their finest Monday's Undies for your visual appreciation.  Additional inspiration can be found by checking out the Bed N Breakfast treat who is your Hottie of the Day! over on my tumblr.  Thanks for stopping in, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!