One of my favorite tunes that we played in high school jazz band was “On Green Dolphin Street” which we played as a bossa nova. This tune had a moderately difficult trumpet part, but the version we played was more of a saxophone feature. For many years I thought that…
Category: Miscellaneous
Anything that doesn’t fit in anywhere else.
The Jedi Mind Trick
I first tried this when I was at Walt Disney World a couple of years ago. When I got back, I found the recipe somewhere (I don’t remember where) and threw this together for my friends and family. Jedi Mind Trick Ketel One Grapefruit Rose Vodka – 1 oz.Bols Blue…
U-505: In Depth Experience
This past weekend I had the opportunity to take an extended tour of the U-505 submarine at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. This was a guided tour of the submarine before the museum officially opened for the day, question and answer session with former US Navy submariners, and an…
I seriously hope the rodent was right…
I don’t like Winter in the Midwest very much, which seems like an odd thing to say since I live here (mostly) by choice, and have lived here my entire life. Aside from the cold, which sucks for all the obvious reasons, everything is just gray/brown and dead looking. If…
Hello World (again)
I’m back! The price of hosting with my previous provider had been increasing substantially every year. While I wasn’t at all unhappy with the service, I could no longer justify the expense. It was my intention to go back to either using the free WordPress offering, or to use my…