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June 15:
Hello, all,
It's great to hear from you all and to know how you are doing these days. As for us, we're doing great. It's been raining here (yes, in Nevada!) and we nearly hit the record of 12 days straight, only missing it by one day. As a result, it's been a bit cooler than usual and Anne is enjoying it. I am, on the other hand, still saying "Bring the heat!"
Anne is loving her summer vacation, which just started last week. Reading a book, taking a nap and going to lunch with her friends are high priority right now. Lady has been overjoyed with this (as you can imagine).
We went up to the lake the week before last and saw Buddy Guy at Harrah's. Oh boy, what a show! Next month he'll be 74 and he still tears it up! He did a bunch of his old hits and some new ones. I especially love his "Skin Deep" song from the album of the same name. Anne thinks it's right up there with Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" and asked me to put it on a CD for her to play at school.
Her principle is SUCH a bigot that he's created an atmosphere of acceptable bias toward Latinos. Some of the things she tells me are just unbelievable. Imagine coming into a school and seeing a posting on the bulletin board where some teachers are saying that they want students to come to class speaking English!
Fortunately, Anne spotted it and took it down before any parents saw it. I tell you, when she came home that night she was fit to be tied! Even more unbelievable is that this guy thinks he can become an administrator without working an "at risk" school. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth I'm told.
Funny thing, though. He's stopped talking about the PhD he was working on. The bonehead had used some of Anne's work as his own and when Anne found out she started finding other ways to present her work! Hahaha...
As for me, I had been playing with the Freebird open jam on Monday nights at Sparks Music and Friday nights with Dave's Garage. But in January, Larry (lead guitarist for Dave's Garage) got a job and is only in town about twice a month. Then the music store decided to shut down the Monday night jam session.
I told the other music students that this was actually a good thing. Like momma bird kicking it's babies out of the nest to make them fly on their own. Well, I started working Craig's List and met up with "Bluesman" who wanted to see me play. So I met him at Sidelines sports bar on open jam night. We ended up on stage together, did three songs and the organiser asked us to do another!
Afterwards, we talked about what he preferred to play (old "black Blues") and he invited me to the jams he holds at his house and another he called the "secret jam" which is by invitation only! I came home and told Anne that I'd passed the audition!!! Pretty good for only taking lessons for four years, eh?
Hello, all,
It's great to hear from you all and to know how you are doing these days. As for us, we're doing great. It's been raining here (yes, in Nevada!) and we nearly hit the record of 12 days straight, only missing it by one day. As a result, it's been a bit cooler than usual and Anne is enjoying it. I am, on the other hand, still saying "Bring the heat!"
Anne is loving her summer vacation, which just started last week. Reading a book, taking a nap and going to lunch with her friends are high priority right now. Lady has been overjoyed with this (as you can imagine).
We went up to the lake the week before last and saw Buddy Guy at Harrah's. Oh boy, what a show! Next month he'll be 74 and he still tears it up! He did a bunch of his old hits and some new ones. I especially love his "Skin Deep" song from the album of the same name. Anne thinks it's right up there with Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" and asked me to put it on a CD for her to play at school.
Her principle is SUCH a bigot that he's created an atmosphere of acceptable bias toward Latinos. Some of the things she tells me are just unbelievable. Imagine coming into a school and seeing a posting on the bulletin board where some teachers are saying that they want students to come to class speaking English!
Fortunately, Anne spotted it and took it down before any parents saw it. I tell you, when she came home that night she was fit to be tied! Even more unbelievable is that this guy thinks he can become an administrator without working an "at risk" school. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth I'm told.
Funny thing, though. He's stopped talking about the PhD he was working on. The bonehead had used some of Anne's work as his own and when Anne found out she started finding other ways to present her work! Hahaha...
As for me, I had been playing with the Freebird open jam on Monday nights at Sparks Music and Friday nights with Dave's Garage. But in January, Larry (lead guitarist for Dave's Garage) got a job and is only in town about twice a month. Then the music store decided to shut down the Monday night jam session.
I told the other music students that this was actually a good thing. Like momma bird kicking it's babies out of the nest to make them fly on their own. Well, I started working Craig's List and met up with "Bluesman" who wanted to see me play. So I met him at Sidelines sports bar on open jam night. We ended up on stage together, did three songs and the organiser asked us to do another!
Afterwards, we talked about what he preferred to play (old "black Blues") and he invited me to the jams he holds at his house and another he called the "secret jam" which is by invitation only! I came home and told Anne that I'd passed the audition!!! Pretty good for only taking lessons for four years, eh?
posted by Mondo | 12:02 AM
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