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.