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Sounds great, Trey! Thanks!

It's a small town. You can walk between all the hotels, pretty much. Grab 'em while you can. Hope-ful hotels.

Mr. Hughes, Thank you for the H-I clarification. I was wondering how anyone could claim Heresys placed one on the 15th row. With the HF drivers detached, possibly. ;-)

In the queue, Allan. Thanks for the recommendation!

More Slack, Brother!

I attend a "liberal" Missouri Synod Lutheran church (everyone raises only their right arm during praise worship, at a 45 degree angle). The Wisconsin Synod folks call us heretics because women are allowed to speak AND vote. ;-)

You're an Episcopalian (like PWK)? Episcopalian, Lutheran, Catholic, ... Church of the Liquid Spirits... Episcopalians: Wherever three or four are gathered, there will be a fifth. I was raised in that denomination, with great fondness of memory (mostly). All in good humor. ;-)

You're an Episcopalian (like PWK)?

Big score at the Sally over lunch. The Longines Symphonette Complete 5-LP Box-set of Herb Alpert & The Tiajuana Brass (and some Baja Marimba Band cuts) for $2. My Herb Alpert collection is now complete! ;-)

Dang!!! I forgot to ask for one! No, it's a "non-refundable" deal through hotels.com. I may bring BOTH son-in-laws with me so the daughters and their mother can have a Girlfest in Kyle.

I just booked my room, for $55 a night through hotels.com, at the Super 8 Motel in Hope. Either my wife and I and daughter/son-in-law/grandaughter combo, or just the son-in-law and I (he came with me to the last Hope Pilgrimage). Woo hoo! Maybe I'll bring some Frazier Concertos to kick some Heresy tail. ;-)

Glenn, Good luck on the job front. Sorry I won't be able to see you this year!

Woo hoo! Hope I can believe (and participate) in!!! ;-) See y'all there!

Current office rig:

Count me in for Hope. Looks like I may need to bring a bobtail (just kidding, Honey!).

A book review of interest from The American Scientist.

Photos hosted off-site (i.e., Picasa, photobucket, Imageshack, my own server, etc.) shouldn't be a problem, should they?

WRR-FM 101.1... my local generic classical radio station.

Steam first... then TiteBond II woodglue. Nail-guns work great to keep the disc steady on the platter.

PROMISES KEPT Steve Kuhn ECM

KING'S COURT AND CELTIC FAIR Empire Brass Quintet Telarc

I like Garrison Keillor and P.J. O'Rourke. They are two of the best observers/satirists of American Culture working today... and neither of them are COMPRESSED.

The Loudness Wars: Why Music Sounds Worse The sad irony of this story is that my local "Hipster Headbanger" NPR music station seems to be doing this (loudness compression) more than the local rock stations do.

At their best, a good analog FM signal fed to a top notch tuner beats this plastic thingie. Trouble is, that's almost impossible to find nowadays. This little Sony and HD easily falls into the top 10% of FM tuners I've listened to... and that's normal FM. The HD is slightly compressed, but not really noticible, and sounds better than most regular FM broadcasts. All INHO, of course, and YMMV. P.M.

Well, that is a topic of some debate here at Casita Verano.