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My project is growing.

Cheri's coming back from Flin Flon in a couple of hours. For those unfamiliar with Manitoba geography, Flin Flin is way the hell north, on the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border. It's a mining town, or was; the jazz band Cheri plays in was doing a performance and clinics there this weekend. It's a long way from Winnipeg - nine hours by bus ( Read more... )

I wrote exam #1 this week, and passed. Lots of tricky questions, like the one about how to best minimize the tax impacts of a deferred preferred. But, it's done! Time to start studying for exam 2 ( Read more... )

It's spring, or it must be, because I'm running and writing again. I bought new running shoes for the first time since I started running. I think that was in the summer of 2003, when I was about to start grad school. James could confirm. Anyway, long overdue, and they're much nicer than the ratty old pair I've been using ( Read more... )

Article. Sad, but probably necessary. Still, I remember playing in/near that as a kid.

The orchestra will disband in November. I think this is really, really sad. I own quite a few of the orchestra's recordings, and they've always gone out of their way to showcase Canadian composers and talents. Their recording of Colin McPhee's music, which I heard just before we started playing his Concerto for Wind Orchestra in my first year of ( Read more... )

Canada's federal budget promises tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs).

This would basically give Canada an equivalent of the USA's Roth IRA, and the Roth IRA = win. Long and short: contributions aren't tax deductible, but they grow tax free.

Happy five years, Cheri.

To continue where I left off in late September ( Read more... )

I bought a classical guitar a couple of weeks ago. It's a Yamaha, solid spruce top, and plays beautifully. I wanted to get a solid top/back/sides guitar, but really couldn't justify the price tag when I'm still a rank beginner. But anyway, I love the guitar I bought, and today I figured out the guitar solo from "Gimme Shelter": it's all just a ( Read more... )