towards a better attitude...

[Three Valves]

I sit on my *** in an air conditioned building.

I could be tarring a roof!!

[Dan Schultz]

"gigantic piles of school repairs" pay the bills nicely, but (well...) are not at the top of my list of "favorites"...

..... not having to deal with many people, and all we have to do is to put some object made of soft, easily-malleable metal back the way it was before - or at least close enough so that it works like it's supposed to".

Unlike Joe... I do not do school repairs. However... I get my fair share of walk-ins starting about two weeks before school starts. It's mainly stuck mouthpieces and slides. Too bad the kids don't practice during the Summer months!

[Three Valves]

....likely, though, you'll find my buttocks warming up in the natural hot springs right behind the Arlington Hotel (Hot Springs, AR) - during their annual just-after-the-holiday-season half-price rates.
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/ ... -hotel.jpg
You might even catch me sitting in with the house band:
http://www.arlingtonhotel.com/bpimages/ ... /home2.jpg

Don't forget Oaklawn Park!!

I liked that hotel and the whole town so much when I went home I read Hot Springs, followed by Dirty White Boys (Stephen Hunter)

[bort]

Coming up north, eh?

[Three Valves]

Horse racing isn't gambling, it's handicapping!!

(My father took me to the track when I was young, other professional sports were too far away in Philadelphia)

Strike up Fugue for Tin horns, I gotta story...

The wife and me are at the track, see??

$2 window as usual.

Wife says, "why is that little boy running around in his underwear, you should say something!!"

I says, "that's Stuart Elliott!!"

[Heavy_Metal]

NO, we are NOT crowding down into the blazing-hot Redneck Riviera with the Memphi-dumbasses. nope... We're headed to this undisclosed location:

Wisconsin, right? Going for the cherry barbecue?

[bisontuba]

Yummy

[Three Valves]

Thant's strange, I hear a Polka band...

[bort]

This is the non-cheese side of Wisconsin, apparently. Make sure to get some New Glarus beer while you're there -- great stuff, and only in Wisconsin! (I have to drive an entire half hour to get some. )

[Dan Schultz]

Thant's strange, I hear a Polka band...

I'm not saying that I won't pull over and check a few pawn shops, but this is a NON-working vacation.
Oktoberfests (along with the inferred bloke-stumbling-though-the-clarinet-polka-on-the-tuba) are over a month away.

While in Hot Springs.... look up a husband/wife combo that calls themselves 'The Itinerant Locals'. http://polkayoureyeout.com/ Fun couple!

[Three Valves]

WOW!!

They must really knock 'em dead at the Steinhaus Keller!!

[Dan Schultz]

WOW!!

They must really knock 'em dead at the Steinhaus Keller!!

Interesting couple. They were by my shop once about ten years ago. He bought that helicon from me.

(as a side-note to Lee Stofer).... remember that York Eb body that you stuck a Courtier bell on when you were in Stockbridge and then asked to have the bell back? Well... THAT's the same horn with a different bell. I added the main slide ahead of the valve cluster to get the pitch down. I guess the guy is still playing it.

[Three Valves]

Can it be as bad as boiled peanuts??

[Heavy_Metal]

I'm not saying that I won't pull over and check a few pawn shops, but this is a NON-working vacation.

ISTR Ebert's Antiques at I-43 & US 10/SR 42/County Highway JJ had some brass instruments for sale last time I was there- trumpets, 'bones etc. No tubas though:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/I43-J ... 87.7292117" target="_blank

[jmichaellopp]

Thats the wurst thing I have ever seen!

Mike

[Ken Herrick]

Oi, nothing wrong with boiled peanuts. Boiled, in the shell in salted water just long enough to make them soft - not mushy. Quite popular out here in Oz. Goes great with a cold beer.

[Donn]

While in Hot Springs.... look up a husband/wife combo that calls themselves 'The Itinerant Locals'. http://polkayoureyeout.com/ Fun couple!

It is my pleasure to say I've played with that guy, though so long ago that it's only a vague though entirely positive memory. Glad to see they're still at it.

[Donn]

Boiled peanuts start out fresh, am I right? Not roasted, like peanuts commonly available at the supermarket.

I've tried it once or twice, with fresh peanuts (they can be grown in the NW, though not right around here), and while I was not really captivated, I can imagine that with some practice you could turn out something tasty. That's different than turning out buckets of something that will be tasty after purchase at the gas station.

[Donn]

Plus, the joy you bring to their little hearts, when they can resume (or begin) their love affair with music!

[DonShirer]

Why don't you adopt the slogan: "If it aint Bloke, don't fix it!"

(Apologies if you've heard it before.)