Monthly update

[hawklady]

Crazy-busy but then what else is new? In theory, this is a light week, just closing out some dolist items and finishing out some documentation. In reality, well, that's reality for you. A bunch of 80+ hour weeks to get stuff in before the deadline was followed by scrambling to catch up on the other things that had been set aside for so long

Comments

[bear_foot]

/me *offers* some cat *purrings* from my boss :)

[peteralway]

Merlin-Trapping-in-Florida

So that shopping mall construction zone that is about to unearth Arthur's wizard is actually in Florida? I hope your net is strong enough, as I hear he's been healing up over the centuries.

[bear_foot]

or a passage to xanthland :)

[hawklady]

damn you, I'm laughing to hard to come up with a good comeback.

Where I am (Panhandle coastline between Panacea and Panama City) there are a lot of started-but-never-completed developments. Maybe he's been practicing?

[wolfmare]

Wish I'd known you were selling those, I've actually been considering getting a sax :(

[hawklady]

How have you been? *hugs*

I've still got one alto left, a Yamaha YAS-23. It is missing a pearl, otherwise fine but hasn't been played in a year. No mouthpiece, of course. The case is solid, with dinged outside and needs a sticker to cover where someone cut out the logo from the outside (whatever that black stuff is they coat it with, that's what has been cut off with the logo).

Let me know if you're interested. I'll be dropping it off on Tuesday otherwise. I didn't drop it off in the original run because I wanted to keep at least one alto, and figured this one is 'generic' enough I can sell it myself via Craigslist or such ... whereas the other horns were specialty and needed and Ebay-style exposure.

[wolfmare]

Yeah. I'm definitely interested, I've wanted to try to learn to play a sax for years now (only instrument I got the hang of was the recorder, and from what I've been told the finger positions are *very* close to the same)... And the alto sax has always sounded awesome to me.

But.

I don't know when we'd be able to afford it, especially with the surgery next week and such. I've already sold off my 50cc scooter to put toward bills and expenses from right before payday, etc. Tech won't tell me the full brunt of it, but we're tight on funds already. I don't think I could add another expense on right now with a clear conscience. If I asked him, he'd try to anyway, and there's limits to what even Tech can pull off :(

[hawklady]

The finger positions are pretty much the same from what I know. And sax is relatively easy to learn to play not-sucking ... it's a bitch to play really *well

[mrz80]

"prioritization via avoidable crisis" mode
I LOVE THAT! :-)