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[Tubaryan12]

Never underestimate the value of comfortable shoes on your daily outlook on life.

[tbn.al]

For me, that would be the Florsheim Riva. I bought my first pair at Dillard's in 1981 and have had a pair on my closet ever since. Just bought a replacement yesterday. In and out of the store in 10 minutes. No need to try them on. If nothing else I am consistent. You have been updated.

[tbn.al]

Hey, they are identical to the US made ones, just like tubas. Much Happy!

[bort]

At the Minnesota State Fair today. Cheese curds and beer before 10am. Life is good.

[davidgilbreath]

At the Minnesota State Fair today. Cheese curds and beer before 10am. Life is good.

+1

[Chadtuba]

At the Minnesota State Fair today. Cheese curds and beer before 10am. Life is good.

I was there Thursday. We had a great time, and some good beer!

[MartyNeilan]

I threw out my back early yesterday morning blowing my nose. For real.
I managed to get through a full workday even though it was excruciating at times. (I drove the wagon, the wife would not let me ride the scooter with a jacked up back.) I felt like a ballerina every time I had to squat straight down to pick something up - bending over was not possible.
I still feel very uncomfortable but am somewhat better today; will play a long rehearsal tonight.
Hopefully back on the bike tomorrow.

You have been updated.

[Chadtuba]

Thursday I begin my second year as a substitute teacher with a half day assignment as an elementary music teacher. I much prefer teenagers, but I'm glad to get started in a music classroom. Hopefully something permanent will come along mid-year.

[Donn]

Elementary music teacher! I bet you'll have it a more together than my 3rd grade flute-o-phone teacher. I've occasionally wondered if expulsion from that class hindered my musical development, or helped.

[Chadtuba]

Elementary music teacher! I bet you'll have it a more together than my 3rd grade flute-o-phone teacher. I've occasionally wondered if expulsion from that class hindered my musical development, or helped.

I've been fortunate that the positions I've held have all been in smaller schools where I taught the entire music program so I'm used to the little ones, so even though I prefer the secondary band students, I can do this job and do it well. This is a good start to the new academic year for me as I was offered, and accepted, a long term sub at a K-5 charter school while there regular music teacher is on maternity leave so that'll give me two and a half months that I won't have to play the "where am I working today" game as a sub. I'm really hoping that I can pick up either a mid-year opening or another LTS position after the first of the year.

[tbn.al]

The wife is out with the girls tonight so I started to my favorite steak house for dinner. After realizing I didn't really want to dine out alone I swung into my neighborhood grocery to see what they had. Walked out with a 1/2 price NY strip and a baking potato. Went home, fired up the grill, poured me a glass of a fine Charles Bieler Rose', and grilled up my nicely marbled steak. I have now finished a wonderful meal on my back deck that would have cost me $50 at the steakhouse for $10. I didn't even have to eat alone, the hummingbirds saw to that. Life is good! You have been updated.

[tofu]

The Seattle City Council passed a new ordinance Monday that could mean $1 fines for people who toss too many table scraps into the trash. […]

Under the new rules, collectors can take a cursory look each time they dump trash into a garbage truck.

If they see compostable items make up 10 percent or more of the trash, they’ll enter the violation into a computer system their trucks already carry, and will leave a ticket on the garbage bin that says to expect a $1 fine on the next garbage bill.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/ ... t1xml.html

Oy Vey! I compost and recycle etc. but this is nuts. If it isn't the NSA snooping through your email/texts/phone calls now your local government wants the garbage man to rat you out. How will they handle due process? How do you contest an arbitrary estimate of being over 10% after they toss your trash into the truck. The Seattle City Council must have enough idiots on it to manage to pass something this stupid.

You have been updated - your trash is now under surveillance

[tbn.al]

Seattle has long been known as a "green" thinking place. Come to think of it dollar bills are green aren't they?

[Donn]

Some years back we officially proposed a goal of zero waste. I suppose no one seriously thinks we'll get there - zero is a very small number - but at the time it looked like if we could halve the landfill weight, we'd save a couple million a year. Meanwhile I think some of the more nearby landfills have closed, and that's how it goes - landfill space isn't a renewable resource. Compostable waste doesn't need to go to a landfill.

[Donn]

Seattle is supposed to be the fastest growing major city in the US, based on last census. This has a lot of consequences, most of them bad as far as I'm concerned, so if you all in the rest of the country could do something about the problems folks are fleeing, that would be appreciated.

[bort]

I read an article recently about Portland, Oregon the other day (to us northeasterners, "over there" is all the same to us ). It was about how many college educated people are moving there for the lifestyle, but there aren't enough jobs to support them all. The result is a a boom in population and underemployment. I hope (and expect) that Seattle is a bit better prepared for it.

[Donn]

Nope. Well, honestly, Portland's desirability:jobs ratio is higher than Seattle's, that's probably true. Same basic problem though, all down the west coast. We can't lock them out, I'm told, so we depend on the rest of the country to stem the tide of refugees by becoming more attractive.

[tofu]

Mayor Daley used to deal with Chicago's huge bum population by giving them 1 way train tickets to the suburbs. So now we have to deal with them. We will now buy them 1 way plane tickets to Seattle so they can rummage through the garbage cans to keep the table scrap percentage under the magic 10% mark.

Your garbage can inspectors are on the way.

You're Welcome!!!

[MikeW]

... I think I need to figure out some way to make an Aerophor, it would certainly help on play pedal BBb on my EEb.

I feel your pain (If you do actually build one, some project notes on TN would be very welcome).

[tbn.al]

I am soooooooooooooooooo out of touch. I just heard a brief news flash and went to the computer and looked it up. There is a music festival just South of Atlanta this weekend that is drawing 120,000 people. It is called Tomorrowworld and it headlines 30 or 40 Disk Jockies. That's right DJ's. 120,000 people go and camp out for the weekend on a farm and listen to electronic crap and watch Dj's up on the stage spin records, and do other stuff in those tents, I'm sure. I am really very old and very out of touch. This has been going on right under my nose for 10 years without me having a clue. I guess this is what is going to replace music as we know it. Global warming be damned, this is serious folks!