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WLCALUM
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Name: WLCALUM
Gender: Male
Interests: volleyball, soccer, FB, BB, classical & Tex-Mex music
Expertise: clarinet player
Occupation: Administrative Assistant
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Member Since:
10/4/2006
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| Had a much better turnout at Greendale Concert Band rehearsal yesterday. The director is a bit more consistently cool, calm and collected. We've done most of the music before. There are only a couple of spots that I work on, just to keep from losing the edge on them. Lakeland beat my volleyball team in 3 in the playoffs--Lakeland also made the final--had to play on the road, and --incredibly, came back from 2 games down to overtake Dominican to get an NCAA bid--now they have to play Hope-MI on Hope's home floor --talk about a tough opening round draw! After 17 years, my rectangular conversation stopper (in polite circles, it's called a TV-set) has given up the ghost. Since I wasn't using it that much anyway (Saturday night Mexican league soccer matches I can still keep track of on the net) at this moment I doubt I'll get another one. | | |
| Low turnout for Greendale Concert Band rehearsal yesterday. Other than that things went smoothly with our new director. Been getting even more introspective than usual of late. . . | | |
| "My" volleyball team is entering the conference tournament as the 7th seed out of 8. To give an idea how much of a dogfight the race was, 3 teams finished tied for 1st, (10-2) 2 for second, (9-3) team 6 finished 8-4 and then my team was 7-5. Its' next in-conference match? Vs. Lakeland on the road. (We took that squad to a 5-gamer at home earlier this season.) I'm hoping one of the Illinois squads takes it, because in that event, in the D3 tournament an IL squad would be placed in a region other than that with WIAC power squad #2 nationally ranked UW-Oshkosh and the like. (Lakeland's had some extremely tough first round national tournament draws the last couple of years.) Second of my 2 playing engagements the other day was the better one. (Trumpet section was weaker than usual in the opener-but we made do with who we had.) Believe it or not, I've been playing on the same still-strong reed for some 6-7 months now. Incredible! (Even if I just jinxed it, it's due to be replaced sooner or later, anyway!) | | |
| Had 2 back-to-back playing engagements yesterday-German band in the opener, Letter Carriers later. German band trumpet section was weaker than usual but we still got through it. Letter Carriers I told one of the other 2 clarinet players my lip wouldn't be quite up to level due to the earlier gig, so I ended up playing a lower part on the second book that band usually uses. Fortunately, there's enough depth in both clarinet sections that parts can be switched around, while still maintaining a strong enough sound to pass inspection. Greendale Concert Band rehearsals start this Sunday. Someone on the band board mentioned they might put an ad in the suburban papers looking for musicians. We'll see what happens on that one. Guess where "my" volleyball team is scheduled to begin post-season play next week? "On the road again. . . . " Won't know who the opponent will be until later this evening. (sorry, tee, I'll just have to leave you hanging for a few hours on that one.) | | |
| The volleyball team I follow's going to the conference playoffs!! It clinched a spot after a 5-set win on the road at Concordia-Chicago. Now there's only 2 regular season in-conference matches left-Concordia-WI at home later today, and Dominican-IL on the road in a few days. Considering 1--there was a coaching change prior to the start of the season and 2 --the team had to fight to get out of an 0-3 in-conference hole to begin with--I'm not complaining much, regardless of where the first-round playoff match is. The team's right in the thick of it (top 6 are in a real dogfight for positioning.) | | |
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