220th say sober. I was up literally all night sorting, labeling, and listing 25 things on Ebay. Then I practiced, and it was "Eh" because I had a sort of ... not a scab, but a "place" on my lip that was messing with my tone, plus I was tired so I mainly just played a ton of the exercises in the Rubank book.
I also spent too much time, as always, looking at stuff online and I found out something really neat. There's a "chain" of two music stores in this area called Music Village. Leroy, the saxophone player, swears by them. But the two stores are really far, it seemed, from here. I was looking at them again last night and realized, one of the stores is just down the street from International Food Bazaar. So I can ride over there, check out Music Village, then go to the Bazaar and have a kebob plate or something, buy a bunch of stuff like dry-cured olives and halvah and so on, and go home happy.
The reason I'm so hepped up about Music Village is, not only does Leroy swear by them but it seems there's always something hinky going on with the other music stores. Union Music up in SF is always manned by some peon who doesn't know a thing about music and has very few trumpets. West Valley Music is at least a Yamaha dealer and right now is in the front running with me as the place to buy a new Yamaha "Shew Horn" when I'm ready. But I want to try somewhere else that's a Yamaha dealer. And Park Avenue Music is kind of used-car-dealer-y. I did get some killer deals on mouthpieces from them though so it's not all bad.
In other news, it seems the US is itching for a nice, refreshing proxy war with Russia over the Ukraine. It makes sense as the US backed the Ukranian fascists the last time this area flared up, our side being given to putting Nazi flags on their tanks etc. Our kind of folks!
It would suck not being friends with Russia. We can't go into Space without them, for one thing. And what would YouTube be without NFAKRZ and Life Of Boris? The US economy loves war, but the US people are tired of it. There's a saying going around about how it took the US four presidential terms and umpty-ump dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
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