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I thought the joke was amusing.

The music is dated, the video is definitely low-rez, bit it's amazing how many instruments these gals played. Doubling? Tripling? Quadrupling? etc. Band Beautiful - The Ingenues

"Father And Daughter" - Paul Simon

It's Professor Longhair's birthday today. Born in 1918, "Fess" influenced Fat's Domino, Allen Toussaint, Dr John and so many other NOLA pianist/singers. Tipitina - Professor Longhair

The Westone and Etymotic musician's ear plugs are something you have to get used to. They are a huge improvement over the foam inserts, and the response of the 15db inserts is reasonably flat. If you need the 25s they have some high frequence roll off. But they don't sound like naked ears. It's a compromise so that you can still hear when you get old and grey. It's a personal choice, but if you get old and grey and wished you would have worn them, there is no fix to the problem. Insights and incites by Notes

I've been off since March 17 and won't be back until enough of us get COVID vaccinations to encourage the +55 year old community to get back out to the bars where they belong.

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.