day 36

We turned in Madeline's oboe yesterday, she tried to play it, really! We told her it was a hard instrument to learn, but she didn't listen. I'm glad to be rid of it, it was un-goddly expensive and it sounded like a flock of chickens getting molested! Now the boy wants a bugle or trumpet but that can wait till the 6th grade. Madeline hates it when I go in music stores with her and ask to play stuff, she thinks I'm beyond uncool and a total embarrassment! But then, haven't I always been?



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day 14

Well, back to the Sub world today and into the jaws of musical education, now I spent almost all my post-elementary school daze in some type of musical endeavor, unfortunately, as a drummer! Drummers are the village idiots of the Music world. We kind of read music, but not notes, just rhythms and stuff, oh, we may memorize a couple of notes for that big Chimes solo at Christmas, but come on, most of it was count 300 measures and then hit the friggin' triangle twice. Except for football season, we rocked football season!!! Today I watched the middle of "Fiddler on the Roof" six times, have I ever seen this movie before? No....but now I know how the middle part goes..I never knew Starsky (or is it Hutch) was in this movie. I go back tomorrow for more of the same and Madeline gets back from camp and Andrew loses his only child status. Such is life.....



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