Update Update

[TubaRay]

UPDATE: Today is our last Football game for this season of marching band, and we have guests with us, 400-500 high school students. I hope we all have fun!

How could there be any question?

[djwesp]

Ca4Si2O6(CO3)(OH,F)2

who needs geology when you can have chemistry...

[windshieldbug]

Update:

None o' that pussy stuff!

[TMurphy]

After a day of drinking all that scotch, you might need a cordial to unwind with. I suggest this:



I don't think it's readily available in the US, unfortunately. I snagged a bottle when I was in the Virgin Islands...absolutely fantastic, if you like sweet cordials.

[bearphonium]

I am sorely tempted by those bottles...in the meantime, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale will have to do. I have been on a Maker's Mark jag, but might just have to try some of those other treats!

[The Jackson]

I'll have a Diet Coke.

[scottw]

I'll have a Diet Coke.

With all the talk about spirits, my daily drink of choice is still Pepsi or Coke.

Much as bourbon has appeal, I still use iced tea 52 ounces at a time as my daily drink of choice. There, I am updated.

[MartyNeilan]

I'll have a Diet Coke.

With all the talk about spirits, my daily drink of choice is still Pepsi or Coke.

Much as bourbon has appeal, I still use iced tea 52 ounces at a time as my daily drink of choice. There, I am updated.

Holy cow, 52 ounces, I hope that is decaf!

[The Jackson]

UPDATE:

It's 9:54 PM, I finished cleaning my CamelBak and I'm going to bed. Good night.


Updated is what you've been.

[scottw]

Holy cow, 52 ounces, I hope that is decaf!

Yes, decaf. We all must make accomodations--sigh!


Edited for misleading edit of quote! Apologies!

[tbn.al]

All in all "Enigma" was wonderful Saturday night. There is one lick I would like to have back, but considering my pay scale it wasn't too bad. I absolutely love the piece and considered actually getting to play it a once in a lifetime experience.

[MartyNeilan]

UPDATE:

I am still left handed. Please continue with your lives. Thank you.

I am fast becoming left handed. I think I broke my right hand near one of the knuckles a couple weeks ago, and it is getting increasingly harder to move, not to mention the swelling has never gone down. Still can play the piano and tuba, although it is sometimes excruciating.

My right hand still hurts. A lot. The middle is still swollen, and mobility is limited, so I am doing almost everything with my left hand. I can still play the valves on my CC (thankful for the short stroke of rotaries) and even played the piano at work every day last week, although it left me writhing in pain afterwards.
I broke down and made an appointment with an orthopedic specialist for Wednesday afternoon. Besides taking all my money, I am not too eager to go to the doctor - the last time I saw a doctor they stuck a camera up my rear end (and I have the pictures to prove it!)

[MartyNeilan]

I am fast becoming left handed. I think I broke my right hand near one of the knuckles a couple weeks ago, and it is getting increasingly harder to move, not to mention the swelling has never gone down. Still can play the piano and tuba, although it is sometimes excruciating.

My right hand still hurts. A lot. The middle is still swollen, and mobility is limited, so I am doing almost everything with my left hand. I can still play the valves on my CC (thankful for the short stroke of rotaries) and even played the piano at work every day last week, although it left me writhing in pain afterwards.
I broke down and made an appointment with an orthopedic specialist for Wednesday afternoon. Besides taking all my money, I am not too eager to go to the doctor - the last time I saw a doctor they stuck a camera up my rear end (and I have the pictures to prove it!)

Are you - at least - taking aspirin or some type of anti-inflammatory?

bloke "who does not - as he is encouraged to do by the media - throw away old prescription medicine"

No, I don't believe in "pain relievers" except for rare and extreme circumstances, as I have seen what their overuse can do to someone's digestive system or liver. I have also seen the addictive qualities of many of the "prescription" pain drugs and do not wish to go down that road myself. I have become of the old school "suck it up" mentality; when I was younger I was given all kinds of medicines for all kinds of reasons, and I greatly regret that to this day. However, I do realize that there may be some value in having an anti-inflammatory. I have put this off for three-and-a-half weeks hoping it would get better (and because I am too darn cheap to pay the co-pays) but it has stayed the same or gotten worse. I just really hope they don't put my full hand in a cast; I have a concert downtown the night after the exam.

[Donn]

Are you - at least - taking aspirin or some type of anti-inflammatory?

No, I don't believe in "pain relievers" except for rare and extreme circumstances, as I have seen what their overuse can do to someone's digestive system or liver.

If it helps, aspirin isn't much of a pain reliever, in my opinion.

It is however a great anti-inflammatory. Try aspirin next time you get a sunburn - much less swelling, and hence much less pain, itching, peeling, etc. As soon as you notice the burn, and/or any time thereafter.

[Jeffrey Hicks]

My wife and I attended our first class to become foster parents with the end result of adopting. Therefore my kids may have the musical talent that I am severely lacking.

[MartyNeilan]

Uh, scottw, you may need to edit the quotes on that - My quote was the response about the size and the decaf - NOT the bourbon or the iced tea.

Marty "who could be fired immediately from my dayjob (and possibly my adjunct) if people found something online that erroneously claimed I was drinking bourbon."

Holy cow, 52 ounces, I hope that is decaf!

[scottw]

Uh, scottw, you may need to edit the quotes on that - My quote was the response about the size and the decaf - NOT the bourbon or the iced tea.

Marty "who could be fired immediately from my dayjob (and possibly my adjunct) if people found something online that erroneously claimed I was drinking bourbon."

Holy cow, 52 ounces, I hope that is decaf!

Done--sorry for my ham-handed editing of the string of quotes! Technology!

[windshieldbug]

Update:

I have just posted the latest versions of my re-created serial number/date tables for the York company (Including the York Masters) and Couturier-related instruments at

http://www.horn-u-copia.net/Yorklist.html" target="_blank

and

http://www.horn-u-copia.net/Couturierlist.html" target="_blank

You have now been backdated.

[Chadtuba]

Update:

We just had a fire drill here at the school. Lucky me it was during my planning period so no kids or instruments to worry about getting knocked over.

[Eric B]

It's been a dry year musically since moving to Malakoff, TX. I'm sure that comes as a big surprise to the readers. But, I have found a great community band in Canton. It's a 40 minute drive, but worth every minute and drop of gas.