The sound is now fine after a total re-install over the C:\bb directory and others, I did let it go through the new midi software install, but I have not used midi at all for 2 or 3 years.

As this is my 'practice' platform for now, I'm not into producing a music CD or video, I'd like to do the video but I can't find the required hot women to go into an old warehouse with spider webs and the like. My wife is hot again, but just in flashes.

For my first working life, forestry, the bunkhouses were always hot. One year in Camp 95 on the Missinabi River, my room was beside the 'dry'. That was a big long room where you hung your work clothes, and walked through to the showers. That room was about 90 to 100 degrees F, and the sweaty clothes mixed with spruce and balsam gum provided a great odour. We had no windows, and slept 3 guys to a room, usually with the doors open. I hated the heat.

Now I can't get enough heat. I'm cold all the time. Cooked thyroid gland. So I have 3 layers of blankets and my wife has none. Used to be the other way around.

I think my brain just did another left turn. Wow.

Not to despair, I'm groovin' on the piano with the laptop on top, and my old Cube keyboard amp that has made one arm longer than the other carrying it around is cranking out the bass and drums, usually with Oliver Gannon on guitar, and doing the 'American' songbook. And some latin stuff too, just so I can pull out the baritone and knock off a few tunes to keep the chops for Brass Band, which starts again soon.

As the executioner said, "I'm getting the hang of it."

Keep on flatting your 5ths and as Peter says, "Have fun".

John Conley
Musica est vita