Well here it is, the day we're supposed to be thankful that we've genocided the people who were here before us. What remnants remain are marginalized, living on shitty land no one else wants. Let's celebrate!
I slept in until almost noon. Ken had come by last night and we had the usual bull session but he could not find his check book so it said he'll (maybe) come by today with my pay check today.
This would be a good day to go out busking except I'm not in shape to, and I seem to remember trying busking this day last year and there were no people around downtown at all.
I was worn out yesterday from packing and shipping four large capacitors, each in its own box, plus I packed another smallish but chunky thing, and took those all to FedEx. And found some boxes and bubble wrap, not a lot but some, on the way back. Then listed the 10 things I'd photographed before doing the packing.
Another thing I'd done is put the Connstellation cornet and the Getzen, in their boxes, under my desk here. The Yamaha trumpet is back upstairs in its original box and right now I'm tempted to sell the thing and also sell the Connstellation which is why I ordered a cheap cornet mouthpiece from Austin Custom Brass to go with it. Also I need to sell all my flutes.
Starving Musician has two Yamaha shepherd's crook cornets for sale, one in lacquer that's about $700 and one that's an older version of the same model in silver plate that they want far too much for. I can probably knock $100 or more off the price of the lacquer one by paying cash, and that would be a good "stuff it in the bike bag and go" horn. A short, shepherd's crook type, cornet also fits in my bike messenger bag just fine.
The idea being, of course, that on these Friday afternoons/early evenings, I could get in an hour or so of busking before going to services. As well as Sundays on lunch time or early evening. Plus now I can consider learning to play with a plunger mute. Not so great for Xmas carols but might be a real winner otherwise.
I'm still in pain but I notice I'm waiting longer to take pain pills and getting up in the morning is less painful than it's been.
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