Dyna Won't You Blow...
Your horn.
I was able to bring back one of my instruments across the border this last time... And it ended up being my trumpet. The bass may be next, but the trumpet was small, compact and would probably disturb my neighbors the least. Well, that is, once I got a mute. And that's what I picked up today.
There's this music store near my office called Steve's. And this place has one hell of a selection. Kind of if you combined Music Men, Gerry's, Falcetti's and Downtown Sounds into one big-ass store. They had a guitar shop, drum shop, keyboard shop, brass and woodwind shop and pro-audio shop. Crazy stuff. Their prices aren't too bad neither. I don't get a discount there however, so it's still cheaper to buy in Springfield or South Hadley when I'm in the area. So I bought a mute there. They had a bugle on sale for $40 Canadian. I may investigate that later.
So I get home from work and decide to bust out the horn. Man, this sucks. I bought that trumpet almost 7 years ago. Can't believe its been that long and I still can't play it for shit. Then again, for the last 3 years, I'd pick it up once or twice a year whenever I had time. But now, I should have a little more time to practice up here. I oiled it up all nice, and practiced for about 5-10 minutes (after a warm up of course) and that was all my lip could handle. But, it's a start. I wish I would have brought my Bb book with me so I have some tunes to play. Oh well, I've got some stuff here that'll tie me over until my next trip back.
Which brings me to my next topic... It looks like I'll be back Friday March 11 again. All those lame reviews that have soaked up my time for the last couple months, well I was supposed to get mine from my old manager, however, he and his wife just had a kid that week so, he rescheduled it to the 11th. The company didn't want to pay for the trip down there, so if I couldn't find a way to justify paying for it out of my budget, it would have to be delivered over the phone or I'd have to pay myself to get down there. I was leaning towards going the phone route, however, one of the girls at work is going to Boston for an interview or something on March 12 and noted that I'm from there and asked if I was planning on going back that weekend if we could carpool. Cha-Ching!! So I'll be back in town that weekend. But I have to be back Monday morning for a friggin' meeting at 8:30am so, it'll be a short trip.
And some alarming news for you all. The other day I mentioned how I've gotten the Canadians hooked on State-Line Potato Chips, which are "The Pride of New England". Well State-Line fell into some financial difficulty in the 90's and were bought out.. By Herr's I thought... Well, I happened to look at the back of the bag to find out that they are now made in Warwick, Quebec. That's right, State-Line Potato Chips are a product of Canadia. Sad Sad Sad. But what's funny is, you can't buy them up here. Dumbasses.
Time to catch Smallville.
I was able to bring back one of my instruments across the border this last time... And it ended up being my trumpet. The bass may be next, but the trumpet was small, compact and would probably disturb my neighbors the least. Well, that is, once I got a mute. And that's what I picked up today.
There's this music store near my office called Steve's. And this place has one hell of a selection. Kind of if you combined Music Men, Gerry's, Falcetti's and Downtown Sounds into one big-ass store. They had a guitar shop, drum shop, keyboard shop, brass and woodwind shop and pro-audio shop. Crazy stuff. Their prices aren't too bad neither. I don't get a discount there however, so it's still cheaper to buy in Springfield or South Hadley when I'm in the area. So I bought a mute there. They had a bugle on sale for $40 Canadian. I may investigate that later.
So I get home from work and decide to bust out the horn. Man, this sucks. I bought that trumpet almost 7 years ago. Can't believe its been that long and I still can't play it for shit. Then again, for the last 3 years, I'd pick it up once or twice a year whenever I had time. But now, I should have a little more time to practice up here. I oiled it up all nice, and practiced for about 5-10 minutes (after a warm up of course) and that was all my lip could handle. But, it's a start. I wish I would have brought my Bb book with me so I have some tunes to play. Oh well, I've got some stuff here that'll tie me over until my next trip back.
Which brings me to my next topic... It looks like I'll be back Friday March 11 again. All those lame reviews that have soaked up my time for the last couple months, well I was supposed to get mine from my old manager, however, he and his wife just had a kid that week so, he rescheduled it to the 11th. The company didn't want to pay for the trip down there, so if I couldn't find a way to justify paying for it out of my budget, it would have to be delivered over the phone or I'd have to pay myself to get down there. I was leaning towards going the phone route, however, one of the girls at work is going to Boston for an interview or something on March 12 and noted that I'm from there and asked if I was planning on going back that weekend if we could carpool. Cha-Ching!! So I'll be back in town that weekend. But I have to be back Monday morning for a friggin' meeting at 8:30am so, it'll be a short trip.
And some alarming news for you all. The other day I mentioned how I've gotten the Canadians hooked on State-Line Potato Chips, which are "The Pride of New England". Well State-Line fell into some financial difficulty in the 90's and were bought out.. By Herr's I thought... Well, I happened to look at the back of the bag to find out that they are now made in Warwick, Quebec. That's right, State-Line Potato Chips are a product of Canadia. Sad Sad Sad. But what's funny is, you can't buy them up here. Dumbasses.
Time to catch Smallville.
posted by Surviving In The Burbs at 3/02/2005 09:41:00 PM
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