Update Update

[tbn.al]

The response is much better with Colgate, but only on a BBb and it doesn't help lacquer.

[Dan Schultz]

Crest has been shown to be an effective decay preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.

Actually... most toothpaste contains a very fine abrasive. It can also be used for lapping valves.

[bearphonium]

Well, I am fighting intestinal battles again...the good news is that the coaching I got from the ER doc and the G/E have let me stop the blockage (odd choice of words, but there you are) without assistance from the NG tube and the hospital, just some old fashioned rest and some soft foods. Think I'm out of the woods...or the pines.

[The Jackson]

Picked up this 20-30 y/o Monarch cordeen from my friend today! I'm happy as a clam.

[tubatooter1940]

A Saint Patrick's Day toast:

Here's to the wine we love to drink
And the food we love to eat.
Here's to our wives and sweethearts,
And may they never meet.
Here's champagne for our real friends
And real pain for our sham friends.
And when this journey finally ends, may all of us find peace.

Here's to all the women I've loved
And all the ones I've kissed.
As for regrets, I just have one:
That's all the ones I've missed.
While women's faults are many,
We men have only two:
Every single thing we say and everything we do.

But I wish you health, I wish you wealth
And happiness galore.
I wish you heaven when you die,
What could I wish you more?
May your joys be as deep as the ocean,
Your troubles as light as its foam,
And may you find sweet peace of mind,
Wherever you may roam.

[bearphonium]

Three inches of snow on the first day of spring...

[Dan Schultz]

On Monday... I took out a hot tub that I installed back in the mid-70's. The feeling was sort of like owning a boat. The best days are when I bought it and when I got rid of it!

[Tubajug]

I got a permanent, full-time job as the 5-12 band teacher at the rural school I've been subbing at this past school year! Boy it's nice to be able to start making plans (both in and out of school-life)!

[TubaRay]

I got a permanent, full-time job as the 5-12 band teacher at the rural school I've been subbing at this past school year! Boy it's nice to be able to start making plans (both in and out of school-life)!

Congratulations! I hope you enjoy the job.

[Kevin Hendrick]

83ºF on the first day of spring...

Yup, and we know we're going to pay for it later (probably several times over), don't we? Keep the ice scraper and snow shovel by the door -- it ain't June yet ...

[Tubajug]

I got a permanent, full-time job as the 5-12 band teacher at the rural school I've been subbing at this past school year! Boy it's nice to be able to start making plans (both in and out of school-life)!

Congratulations! I hope you enjoy the job.

It is a good job, it's a lot of job for one person (it could easily be turned into two full-time jobs) but given the economy, it's probably going to stay as a one-man show for a while. It's a lot of work, but it can be a lot of fun too!

[Kevin Hendrick]

I call "unfair". I typed, "striped", and the spell-correct pop-up came up (as it will) and picked the wrong one.

' reminds me of those stupid mousepad tricks on laptops (nearly impossible to disable) where (if you get slightly too far to the right on the pad) you get thrown back into the past three or four websites.

bloke " 'spell-correct'...yet ANOTHER yankee enterprise"

I feel you're pane. Know swett. U r nau updaitd.

I've always called it AutoCorrupt -- it takes your (defined-as-correct) input and changes (corrupts) it. It's infuriating when the machine acts as if it has half a mind (or less) of its own ...

[bearphonium]

I suspect that the "corrector" is programmed by people with a mind in the gutter so as to embarrass folks. How else could you get "apartment for the whores" from "appointment for the horses"? I do hate the presumptiveness of the auto correct. And it is unfair.

[Biggs]

I suspect that the "corrector" is programmed by people with a mind in the gutter so as to embarrass folks. How else could you get "apartment for the whores" from "appointment for the horses"? I do hate the presumptiveness of the auto correct. And it is unfair.

Works for me; I need the former far more often than the latter.

[MartyNeilan]

You know your national anthem rendition is lame when even your own band members think it is:


Marty - Secretly hoping the Marine color guard would take them out before they finished their "performance"...

[bort]

The one good thing... it was just about the fastest version I've ever heard, so at least it didn't last very long!

[Teubonium]

After a couple of days of 80 degree weather, its snowing today in Denver!!

That was a short summer!

You have been updated.

[sousaphone68]

Make it so ....

[Chuck Jackson]

OPENING DAY OF AMERICA'S PASTIME!!!!

Hebrew Nationals on the grill, cold beer, pretzels, Detroit, Cincy, and my beloved Dodgers!!! And I'm on Spring Break. AND I watched it in 75 degree weather on my patio!! What a GREAT day!!!! You have been updated.

Chuck" who thinks ALL sport pales in comparison to 9 Innings of pure bliss that is Baseball"Jackson

P.S.- Navy Band Southwest sounded wonderful at the SD/LAD game.

[bearphonium]

While on vacation in Portugal, a wandering band came into the restaurant where we were having dinner, and let me play their "announcement horn". None of the valves worked, but when I was able to communicate that, yes, I did play one of those, they let me try it out.

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