Today's youth are so talented

Do not try to donate Elvis albums to the library

Please explain this image to me

A big rubber ball

My customer made this completely from scratch using rubber bands from newspapers.

Taller than Yoda, Rachel is!

This wedding cake looks just like gift boxes

This piano had a bill in it from 1981

Yes, I can see that there are no children in there.

I'm not blind. And I'm not deaf either, Mister All Caps.

The pit for BAT BOY

Chris Schlagel (I played Hairspray with him) and Erik Daniels (I did Tommy with him) are the keyboardists, and Elaine Lord (World's Greatest Drummer) is on the traps.

Last night at RH Phillips Winery

I played a wedding reception today at the winery famous for its Toasted Head label with the rearing bear on it. The winery, I learned, is going out of business and this was their very last event.

St. Francis High set for TAMING OF THE SHREW

Perhaps the best high school set I've ever seen.

Bat Boy at CSUS

I fixed the programming for the keyboards at Sac State today.

Isn't this a great poster?

The chosen ones

This cartoon got over 4,000 hits today.

The return of head shops

Positioning themselves for the coming legalization of marijuana.

When I first moved to Sacramento, the Tower chain actually had a store, Tower Posters, that was partly a head shop.

Antonio and a girlfriend

I visited Matias Bombal for the first time since the death of his father Antonio, who was my tuning teacher. We looked through many of Antonio's old pictures, including this one of him and an old girlfriend.

If you have Facebook, you can see a whole lot of the photos here.

Car in the parking lot at night

Model airplanes on the rear dash.

An old building in Esparto

Great old drugstore sign

This was on the wall inside the only pizza place in Esparto, CA.

While at Cache Creek Casino....

...tuning for Lea Salonga, I noticed this truck in the parking lot. It's from Wisconsin and has a Packers logo on it.

At Willie's Burgers, they tie up their tacos with a bow

And it was probably the best chicken taco I've ever eaten.

Loading in for Bat Boy

I brought the synths for Bat Boy to the theatre at Sac State today. The loading zone was full of fallen branches from the previous day's storm. I got out and moved enough of them out of the way so I could park my car there.

Big rain today!

I love driving through flooded streets.

Suddenly there was a spontaneous glissando

This harp once belonged to the principal harpist of the San Francisco Symphony. Later it ended up in the house of my tuning customer. One day while all the family members were in different rooms they heard the harp make a sound and came in to find that the soundboard had popped off on one side. No one plays it, so twenty years later they still haven't fixed it.

Girls waiting outside the stage door

...waiting to meet "Elle Woods."

Musicians waiting for the show to restart

Is the safety curtain safe?

Tonight, with about fifteen minutes left in the show, the safety (fire) curtain came down, seemingly on its own. In the picture, you can see the conductor and assistant conductor talking on the phone with the stage manager. It took twenty minutes to get the show started again.

One of the LEGALLY BLONDE dogs...

...and they also have a rose garden!

I've never seen an elementary school that has its own rose garden.

Another nice tile mural at John Morse

The front of John Morse Elementary

I tuned here today... lovely school.

He brags that he found this coat in a dumpster...

...in Manhattan.

I saw this bumper sticker on a car today.

I saw my first Halloween display today.

This is the front yard of an absolutely enormous house in East Sacramento.

I started programming the sounds for Bat Boy

which coincidentally was written by the same composer as Legally Blonde.

These dogs have their own dressing room

Two girls came to see LEGALLY BLONDE...

...dressed like Elle Woods.

More about Legally blonde

Today the other keyboard player loaded the wrong file and so he played the first third of the show with just a piano sound. I never would have noticed. Also, he and the conductor constantly look at their cell phones between songs during the show. I said, "In my day we read NOVELS between songs."