Achy

 After getting the news from Ken that he's out of town, I rounded up a couple of large things, and took apart another large thing to "part out", so I have plenty of bits and pieces to list today. 

I slept in again though, and dreaded getting out of bed due to a headache I kept trying to help with breathing exercises, and finally got out of bed around 1:30. I took some Tylenol, coffee, and the cranberry stuff I'm taking for what I think is a bladder infection, and waited for the Tylenol to kick in. I'd been wrestling some heavy stuff around last night, hence the aches and pains.

Another day in the Reich. One disappointing thing I'm finding is that Hawaii is a lot more right-wing than it's commonly thought to be. It makes sense, though, as being right-wing is normal for the US and it's part of the US. In fact, I can't think of a place that's more militarized. No one seems to have exact numbers; I'm seeing "references" showing as few as 10, and as many as 100, military bases in the state. Most estimates put it at 12-14, and that's a lot. Hopes that the military might oppose the present administration or prevent it from committing crimes, are far in the past. 

I packed a couple of things (OK 3) to go out, and got them to the post office and FedEx, did a study session at the Baguette, and got some things at 99 Ranch the most interesting thing being a "Taiwan" cabbage that has the interesting quality of being a sort of flattish shape, so it can fit on the shelf in my fridge OK. 

I got back here and did a practice session on the trumpet. Some good tone happening at times here. I really hope I'm not too old and "futless" as we say back in Hawaii, to really get somewhere on the trumpet once I'm done with this work for Ken, because I'd really like to get into some things in depth. For instance, Louis Armstrong's early recordings have a lot of note-bending and he didn't really have a high range, while his later, more mainstream stuff, he got away from the note-bending and more into showing off high notes and left a lot of those mannerisms behind. 

Those "mannerisms" though are probably the real original New Orleans sound and also are a big thing in Klezmer playing. Mostly in Klezmer it was the clarinet but there was and is also Klezmer trumpet. And I'm probably a genuine, dyed in the wool Klezmer player in that I have a day job, make very little from my playing, and have a relationship with printed music that's tenuous at best. 

This last has its bads and its goods. Granted it's within my range, I can play anything I can play in my head. This means I don't have to futz around obtaining printed music. But for something that's printed music, I have to laboriously work through it or cheat and listen on YouTube and then use the notes as a general guide to where I'm going.