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10/31/2009 Renting to FamilyAfter six weeks of effort our new renters are in the house and we’ve received our first rent check ahead of time and in full. And we don’t have to cover electric and water bills. After we’d had the house painted our last renters moved out and we found new ones.
Here are some of the things we, well mostly Suzy, did to prepare the house for the new renters.
We finished these items in the last week rush to be done in time for the new renters:
Rumor is the new tenants love the house which is so good to hear. 10/29/2009 Happy Halloween. Boo!Some killer pumpkins to get you an early start on the festive ghoulish holiday that is Halloween. I especially send this out for my son and his wife who are exceptional pumpkin carvers:
Enjoy. 10/27/2009 "Don't-Tell-the-Wife" Secrets All Men Keep
I luv Secret #11 – Give us an inch and we’ll give you a lifetime. But I think most of these ‘secrets’ cut both ways. Especially in a successful marriage. For the most part I can’t relate to the problems many couples have. I suspect that is true because I was fortunate (read lucky) enough to pick a very laid-back, hard-working, and rich girl. (I can say girl because I met her when she was 15 years young.) Suzy is so low maintenance that sometimes I take her for granted. But not often. Especially when I meet some of my friends’ wives and ex’s. ;o) 10/26/2009 HTC Imagio: What’s in a Phone Now?
PCmag.com sez: The HTC Imagio is Verizon's best smartphone in a long time. It's Verizon's first device to come with Windows Mobile 6.5 out of the box. It's also the first smartphone to feature genuine broadcast mobile TV. Overall, the Imagio is a powerful touchscreen device for business-minded globetrotters who value multimedia performance, as well as compatibility with Microsoft's Exchange and Office-based ecosystem.
But here are the basics:
I don’t plan on on using the TV capabilities. But that still is very cool. :o) 10/23/2009 Lester Young - Blues for Greasy (1950)Life Magazine photographer Gjon Mili joined with jazz producer and Verve-label owner Norman Granz to produce the short film "Jammin ' the Blues" in 1944 with Lester Young, Red Callendar, Harry Edison, "Big" Sid Catlett, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel, Jo Jones and Marie Bryant. The film was nominated for Best Short Subject at the 1945 Academy Awards, but didn't win. The pair came together again in 1950 to shoot footage of leading jazz artists of the day, but when funding dried up, the film ceased production and sat on shelves for 50 years (except for a few snippets which found their way onto bootlegs).
There so much goodness in this video. If this doesn’t start your toes tappin’, nothing will. :o) 10/20/2009 Guess who woke me up this morning…Yes, sweet Amelia was keeping my feet warm again last night. As soon as I hit the alarm off button and grab my glasses she comes up to my face and starts licking me. What’s that about? :o)
We’ve never had a bed dawg before. When she was younger, we would chase her off the bed at night just to wake up in the morning and find her sleeping at our feet. You can’t fight that. So often we’ll have two cats and a dawg in the bed, Shelby, the ol’ dawg at the side of the bed, and Theo roaming the house. 10/19/2009 Vocal and Instrument Range ChartSecrets to a Good Life
Sleep as much as you can .... 10/15/2009 Stella Awards – from the ‘Only in America’ series…InfoNIAC.com reports, The 2009 Stella Awards Reveals Most Shocking US Lawsuits:
10/14/2009 Woodinville Community Band – Fall Concert ‘09Kudo’s to Greg for this nice poster. Suzy will be playing the sopranino and soprano clarinet and I will be playing the baritone sax for this concert. :o)
Hope to see you there. 10/11/2009 Swing Dance Gig tonightI have a swing dance gig with the Pacific Cascade Big Band. Started last year as the B jazz band of the Woodinville Community Band, it is quickly becoming a fun place to play with decent musicians. The swing dance last month had over a hundred high school and older dancers. Two of us from the band got to help choose the best dancer during a contest.
The set list looks like this:
We’ll be at the North Bellevue (Seattle area) Community Center starting at 7 PM tonight. 10/10/2009 Wizard of Oz – Redux
The illustration is by designed by Sebastian Giacobino. From the article “The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. In the film, Dorothy, a schoolgirl living in Kansas, is struck unconscious during a tornado. She dreams about how she and her dog Toto, with the help of a Scarecrow, a Tin man and a Cowardly Lion, find their way home from the magical world of Oz. Many people like these four characters very much: sweet Dorothy, smart Scarecrow, brave Tin man and sensitive Lion. Many artists like them as well, and they have created various artworks featuring the four to show their fondness. We have selected 25 of the best illustrations, which might remind you of that magical world and that famous song “Over the Rainbow”. Note it was hard to pick just one characterization as so many of them were excellent. But the idea was to tease you with just one shot to get you to view the rest at the Designing Inspiration site. Enjoy. 10/6/2009 Microsoft’s Give CampaignIt’s Microsoft’s annual Give Campaign and is my custom for the last four years, I have donated a late-bloomer sax lesson. Not only do I get to meet people returning to music, the giving program gets a donation. Here’s my entry as of today.
The Giving Campaign Auction is just one of the many programs and activities to raise money for the United Way. You can win items donated by fellow employees, and donate something yourself. All funds are matched by Microsoft. The Auction tool is built this year by a group of volunteers from MSIT and they are using Windows Azure with a brand new Silverlight UI. It is so much easier to use than last year’s auction tool. 10/5/2009 SWOJO: And now for something different…Mom, sister Deb, brother Pete, Suzy and I went to hear Tina sitting in with the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) at Crossroads. Luv’d their stuff. So interesting. Here's John Carisi's "Israel" done by the SWOJO at Crossroads of Bellevue on a frosty autumn in '09. See and hear more at swojo.org.
For those of you on my Facebook network, there is a cool Daniel Barry original done right by SWOJO called ‘La Folia Lando’. It was a minute longer than YouTube allows so I had to post it to Facebook. 10/1/2009 Microsoft’s Free Anti-virus Offering
We all know folks who won’t spring for anti-virus and malware software. For these kind of friends and family point to this from the Washington Post today:
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