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Friday was our last day of band only rehearsals as we'll be joined by the orchestra this afternoon. The core band consists of those who are soloists in the show:Charlie Adams - Drums Michelle Amato - VocalsKaren Briggs, - Violin Victor Espinola - HarpPe...
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We jumped right into second half of the show Tuesday. It will once again begin with For All Seasons in which Samvel, Victor and I have solos. I got that same sweaty palmed feeling I had last year when the show was about to begin and I'll have to admit m...
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Charlie Adams and I were pickup up promptly at 10 am yesterday by the same driver who carted us around last year. His name is James and he's a New York transplant whom I recall describing LA as flaky. He told us he's gotten used to it now and may be get...
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My plane's tires barked down onto the runway of Los Angeles International Airport yesterday evening as if to signal the start of some new adventure. The flight from Atlanta was bumpy, but enjoyable in part due to the young man in the adjacent seat. He w...
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My mother is here for just a couple more days and I'll use getting her back and forth from dialysis as my excuse for not posting much recently. It's funny how adding just one more thing to an already packed schedule can throw things out of order. The pa...
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I'll be playing at Alexian this afternoon which is a luxurious mountain top retirement community a couple of miles from my home. The Activities Director there told me to plan plenty of time for hanging out and chatting after I play. I can handle that. ...
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Hopefully you were greeted with a D Major scale when you last navigated to this site. This is evidence that I really having been spending time learning to do Flash animation. This is just the beginning. My first project is to recreate an animated versi...
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Angie and I visited with an accountant today regarding our 2003 income taxes. We've done our own taxes for quite a while now and he informed us that we are paying much more than we should because we haven't taken full advantage of all possible tax breaks...
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Some of you might enjoy reading thank you notes in the guestbook from Fairyland Elementary schoolers. You have to use the pull down menu to select previous notes in groups of twenty. Use the button to the left to go to the guestbook page. ...
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My first festival after returning from the Yanni Spring Tour will be the Roscoe Village Dulcimer Days in Coshocton, OH May 13 through 16. I had to turn in my workshop titles and descriptions today. Here they are:1. Exercises in Core Rudiments (Intermedi...
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My mother arrived here safely from Missouri yesterday afternoon. She'll be staying for a couple of weeks and taking her regularly scheduled dialysis treatments in Hixson. Apparently when they tell dialysis patients that they can travel and be worked in ...
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I'm back from my slosh through the woods and have posted a few pictures. Five inches of rainfall made for spectacular changes to normally peaceful creeks and streams. What the pictures can't convey is the incredible sound of being surrounded by rushing ...
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I'm getting ready to head to my normal hiking grounds in the Prentice Cooper State forest to see the effect of the huge amount of water that has fallen here in the past 24 hours. Hershey, my four legged hiking companion won't be accompanying me today for...
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Thank you to everyone for the smiles and warm welcome at Fairyland Elementary School in Lookout Mountain, GA where I played this morning. I was scheduled to be there a couple of weeks ago but had to cancel due to a minor ice storm that closed most area ...
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We're done for the day. My daughter now has her own working shower, I now have a working bathtub in the master bathroom, the hot water on my wife's sink works again and we have a working water filter under our kitchen sink. All it took was about $400.0...
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I probably won't post much today. I have a good friend over, Brent, who is going to help me repair all the plumbing issues in the house. It seems that something leaks or runs in just about every room. ...
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The Signal Mountain Mirror, one of our local newspapers, arrived today and it contains a nice article written about me written by Lorie F. Tessmer. Thanks Lorie! She included my URL in the story and I'd like to do a quick check of how many people come...
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HeadersI just noticed that Ecto is leaving off the titles of my blog posts. I'll have to figure that out tomorrow. It's time for bed....
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EctoI'm playing with a demo of a program called Ecto. It provides a desktop interface for Blogger, which would be handy to use when I don't have an internet connection and feel like writing. It crashed on me once tonight, so I'm skeptical as to its stab...
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PracticingI just spent an hour practicing on the linear chromatic hammer dulcimer. Man, I'm just as excited about this tuning scheme as I was when I first found it. The possibillities of this instrument astound me. With just a little more practice, Fli...
