Sacramentune

This is the piano room.

2009-07-05T23:21:00.000-07:00

No, it's the tent room. No, it's the piano... fine, it's the tent room.

I hear they don't use real monkey glands any more

2009-07-04T22:40:00.000-07:00

At UC Davis they engineered an organic compound that tastes pretty similar.

When you walk, you notice things

2009-07-04T12:55:00.000-07:00

Here's an amazing restored Victorian at 18th and N that I never noticed before.

Street art near 18th and Capitol

2009-07-04T00:49:00.000-07:00

I bought a tiny crowbar today...

2009-07-04T00:47:00.000-07:00

...for breaking into very tiny houses.

The future of social networking

2009-07-02T21:06:00.001-07:00

I punch into one of these boxes to get into a gated community. Soon, all human interaction will involved metal boxes.

My one Music Circus show this summer:

2009-07-01T22:57:00.000-07:00

Cats. Considering changing the title to Cash.

Neighborhood sculpture park

2009-07-01T22:56:00.000-07:00

This neighborhood near the El Camino exit on I-80 is full of these sculptures, mostly with musical themes.

Put three kids through college

2009-07-01T22:55:00.000-07:00

My customer actually makes a living playing this.

Testing the keyboards

2009-06-28T22:26:00.000-07:00

I was testing some of the keyboards for Music Circus the other day in the vocal booth. In the monitor above I could watch the rehearsal of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Poster at music department, Sacramento City College

2009-06-28T22:25:00.000-07:00

Free delivery!

2009-06-26T20:17:00.000-07:00

One of our favorite restaurants, Ma Jong's, is using these tri-shaws for delivering food to the neighborhood offices.

Fancy brickwork

2009-06-25T22:16:00.000-07:00

My customer's father built this house twenty years ago. There's amazing brickwork all over the inside and outside, including this arch.

I saw Mary Youngblood at Fairy Tale Town

2009-06-24T22:59:00.001-07:00

A lovely place to give blood

2009-06-24T22:52:00.000-07:00

I gave blood at a different Bloodsource branch today. It used to be an O'Brien paint store, and features a multi-color sculpture that the store put up and is now a civic landmark.

Rachel reading fortune cookies as Kate

2009-06-24T06:21:00.001-07:00

Pete's caricatures

2009-06-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a great self-portrait by our nephew Peter. To see more, click here.

They really do put two soups in one bowl...

2009-06-22T21:43:00.000-07:00

...at California Pizza Kitchen. Howard.

Oscar-winning card

2009-06-21T22:37:00.000-07:00

Rachel is visiting for a few days and she and Pat Burns (our gay son!) have been doing Katherine Hepburn as channelled by Cate Blanchett in The Aviator. After a while, every sentence ends with "...Howard [Hughes]". It made me think of a new way to enjoy fortune cookies: read the fortune as Blanchett/Hepburn, adding "...Howard." at the end.

"That should be a website!" said Pat.

George Bruno at Henschel Park

2009-06-20T22:18:00.000-07:00

I played with George Bruno at Henschel Park in front of 1,000 people! The wind kept blowing our music around but it was a lot of fun. The great Melissa Collard sang and John Doolittle played sax. "It's not a show unless Doolittle plays."

Tuning a rich man's piano

2009-06-19T21:59:00.000-07:00

This is not my wife's car

2009-06-18T19:26:00.000-07:00

She is not a vegan.

Stan Lunetta sculpture

2009-06-17T22:07:00.001-07:00

Go to Miller Park and look at it before someone knocks it over!

Panorama of Stan's basement

2009-06-16T23:19:00.000-07:00

Some of Stan's many drums in his basement.

Today I tuned a piano that I last tuned 20 years ago.

2009-06-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

I was 31 then; now their son is 30. Almost no one had a cell phone then; now I'm running my tuning software on my cell phone.