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I really like this one "Grandma's Hands" - Bill Withers

A giant is a big man "Big Man on Mulberry Street" - Billy Joel

I've used either Westone or Etymotic hi-fi ear plugs for decades. Since we play wit less that 100dba volumes on stage, the rather flat 15db inserts into the audiologist mold work rather well. For me I just have to make sure the audiologist makes the mold deep enough or the bone conduction of my saxophone will make it sound way to loud in my head. If there is something much better out there, I'd be happy to know. Insights and incites by Notes

Today is the birthday of Keith Richards and the sax player Bobby Keys, so I'll listen to both playing on: Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones

Butchers - Meat - BBQ Barbecue Blues - Barbecue Bob

Today is the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven's baptism. There is no record of his birth, but it was probably on the 16th according to the custom of the day. So to celebrate, my two favorites Beethoven Symphonies #4 and #7. Both conducted by George Szell. I know most people seem to like #5 and #9 the best. I think #5 has a great first movement and then pedestrian and #9 is IMO pretty harmonically dull. Great in their day as they broke ice, but I think 4 & 7 are the ones that stood up to the test of time.

Avalanche = Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Oh! You mean a mop.

"Astrud" - Basia

Mornin' - Al Jarreau

Heating vent? What's that? (I live in Florida).

No but the battery is dead.

"Candy Is Dandy But Liquor Is Quicker" - Between Parallels Their take on an old Ogden Nash quote

I seldom have a problem with a windows update. It's just nice to have that backup - just in case. The time the Disk Imaging software saved me the most was when I bought a guitar pedal (FX/amp sim) that came with a LE edition of Cubase. I use Master Tracks Pro, Power Tracks Pro Audio, Cakewalk, and Audacity. I was curious so I slipped the CD in, and began the install. I got some kind of an error message, and the installation was aborted. I turned off the computer, waited a minute and turned it back on. A message came up telling me the install was aborted, and asked if I wanted to continue. The only option was "Yes". It got stuck again in the same place (perhaps the CD was corrupted???). Off/on/same thing. Stuck in a loop. I tried Ctrl+Alt+Delete when the box came up, thought I got rid of it, rebooted, no dice. I tried a few other things and nothing could get me out of the loop. Fortunately I made a disk image before installing the software. I put in the rescue disk, initialized the restore, and sector by sector the software restored my hard drive. I tossed the Cubase disk in the trash. The backups are an insurance policy. They seem like a bit of a bother until you need them. When you do they are a sigh of relief. Insights and incites by Notes

One thing I found out is that you can replace your computer, but you can't replace your data. The nice thing about that docking station is you can have different hard drives to back up different things. Just pop them in and out like a toaster. Notes

Dirty Laundry - Don Henley

Male cat? Keep your eye on the --- oh never mind.

Pontoon - Little Big Town We learned this one for a regular audience member.

I back up data daily on a drive that gets removed from the system. I do a disk image once a week on another drive that gets removed. I do a disk image once a month on yet another drive that gets removed, and keep many months of disk images on that drive. That should protect me from anything my AV software doesn't get. I use one of those SATA drive docking stations, and remove the drives when not in use, so if anyone attacks the computer, they are not getting to the backups. I don't trust the cloud.

True.

Whenever Windows wants to make an update, I do a disk image on Acronis first. That way if it goes sour, and I can't un-do it in Windows itself, I can restore the old disk image. I do the same for any new piece of software or update that gets installed on my computer.

It looks good. I'm afraid it would give me too many opportunities to play wrong notes. Right now if I hit a bad one, I can always bend it a half step and make it right ;)

"Long Distance Runaround" - Yes