I had breakfast today with my friend Patricia (she's visiting from Boston) and gifted me with her mothers brass zills from the 70's! Yeah!! They are very cool and sound great. I'm very excited about this gift because currently I have 2 sets of cheap zills and I really hate the way they sound. . .too tin like for my ears. I think the cheap ones ( Read more... )

Bakersfield. . . ugh, why on earth my parent's chose to move there I'll never fully understand. I know the reasons they gave, but still it was so nice having the whole family here in the bay area. They've been there since 2002 and still don't know it all that well. I really don't think they like it all that much. . . . but what do I know. ( Read more... )

Thank you to all that could attend. We had a great turn out on Saturday night. Many of the usual suspects were in attendance and plenty of new faces too. I was at the front door from 10pm to 11:30pm so I met some of the new people there and many others through out the night. At one point Megan asked me to survey the area and get back to her know ( Read more... )