Go, Jarrett!

 JarretForHI for the win, let's hope! Yep, I still keep up with politics back home. And if I were back there, retired, I'd have time to work for his campaign. He's anti-AIPAC and anti-ICE like any normal human would be, and gunning for Ed Case's Congress seat. Ed Case, who my older sister thinks is a wonderful human being (he's the extreme opposite of that) need to go. 

I mean, the Red Hill scandal, how folks out in Waianae are doing, the Jones Act and what Matson's up to, and the price of lychee (never litchi) nuts are things mainlanders have never even heard of, but they're big things back home. 

Yesterday it just poured all day. I went to bed after packing all the things on Saturday night, woke up around noon or 1 and miraculously it wasn't raining, so I loaded everything on the bike and got outta here to FedEx and sent everything off, got a thing or two at H Mart, and got back here. No matter how I tried to stay awake, I needed more sleep so I slept until about 7 in the evening. 

Then up all night, got 25 things ready to list, and got a good practice in. Both of the mouthpieces I have for the cornet are more of a deep cup type than are common for trumpet. Finding a Bach 3C mouthpiece for a trumpet is the easiest thing in the world, for cornet nearly impossible. At least for a cornet that takes a "short shank" mouthpiece which this one does. 

What I'd want is a Yamaha or Schilke 14B4, and the Yamaha ones seem to be manufactured but hard to get, and Schilke (which uses the same numbering system) doesn't make short shank ones. Wick does, but Wick doesn't make an exact 3C model as it's a British company and really, really into the British brass band thing. The Wick I have is a bit closer to a 3C and a very popular cornet mouthpiece among the British brass band set, but has a huge bore, making it louder and I don't think sounds as nice at the 16E the cornet came with. 

Since for busking louder is better, and if the Wick is a really popular British brass band piece then I ought to learn to play well on it. But I really like the Yamaha piece. 

I'm just not "there" yet, I guess a year off because I was fooling around with the shakuhachi and another year off because of a combination of sickness and my year fooling around with That Horrible Religion meant no busking on Friday nights, no busking on Saturdays, meant pretty much ... no busking. Plus I was only going out there and blatting away, not practicing at home.