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I heard an instrumental song on my public radio station yesterday between segments. I think it’s kinda popular because I’ve heard it before but never knew the name. I was driving and couldn’t Shazam it at the time.

Kind of a 70s mellow smooth jazz vibe. It has a basic drum beat that propels it along at a relaxed 70bpm or so. The main melody is by two harmonizing flutes or recorders. They play two bars of the main riff, repeat for another two bars, then a guitar plays an ascending scale pattern and takes over another melodic line.

I’ve sort of notated two bars of the harmonized flute/recorder melody. Any recognition?

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I heard an instrumental song on my public radio station yesterday between segments. I think it’s kinda popular because I’ve heard it before but never knew the name. I was driving and couldn’t Shazam it at the time.

Kind of a 70s mellow smooth jazz vibe. It has a basic drum beat that propels it along at a relaxed 70bpm or so. The main melody is by two harmonizing flutes or recorders. They play two bars of the main riff, repeat for another two bars, then a guitar plays an ascending scale pattern and takes over anither melodic line.

I’ve sort of notated two bars of the harmonized flute/recorder melody. Any recognition?

As someone who loves the book, I knew I’d be biased and would forgive a lot. But I’m so glad there’s very little to forgive. They stayed true to the spirit and the major plot points. No glossing over or outright eliminating some of the major points like in The Martian. They held the Holkywoodization to little more than the necessary mount. The Grace-Rocky relationship is a little more wacky-roommate-ish than the book, but in a fun way that never loses sight of their working relationship and their genuine affection for one another. I’ll be happy to see again and one day own it on digital.

Kiddo veered too close to a construction barrel this weekend and smashed the passenger side mirror on her 2017 Accord EX sedan (modern steel metallic).

I've looked up videos on how to replace and I think I can manage. But all videos I've seen show the driver's side replacement and say passenger side is similar. But the passenger side also has the side camera.

Questions:

• When buying a replacement part, does it come with a camera, or just a hole for the camera - and the camera itself is part of the car?
• Anything I need to watch out for that may differ from the videos shot on driver's side replacement?

Many thanks!

I’m in a summer community band that plays outdoors, often in windy conditions. Toppled stands and windblown papers are an occupational hazard. I finally got smart and am using an iPad for sheet music.

My needs are simple – scan the sheets, play the sheets. Been using the Notes app to document scan each page, and it more-less works fine. Until this weekend when I had 25 pages of music to scan and found out the app limits you to 24 pages. Ah well. Delete “Star-Spangled Banner” – it’s in C and I have it memorized anyway.

Is there a better way? Like does ForScore just let you scan sheets and be done with it? I know it can do fancy stuff, but all I wanna do is scan sheets. My band gets the mus

Years ago, when I sadly didn’t follow the show too closely, I vaguely remember a scene. Curious if anyone recalls it or if I’m just imagining it.

Dale was asleep in front of the TV in his skivvies one night, and the TV was playing the theme to “What’s Happening.” I seem to remember maybe someone was sneaking into the house looking for something. But the way that theme song sounded in cartoon-verse just made me laugh.

Does anyone remember it? Or am I fever dreaming again?

You know the part of Crosstown that comes north from the Southside and it narrows down to one lane to join with the stretch that comes from SPID? I travel that stretch pretty regularly for work.

More times than I can remember, I’ll be motoring along at a reasonable speed to that part where it pinches to a single lane. But some jerk behind me decides I ain’t going fast enough and passes me right as the lane ends. I’ll have to move a little to the shoulder to ensure we don’t trade paint.

Clearly these folks’ time is MUCH more important than mine. If they gotta get ahead of me that badly, fine. But can’t you make your leadfoot move earlier when there’s room to pass?

Thanks for listening. Yo

Searched the archive and saw this problem brought up once but there were no answers.

Last night after a rehearsal the upper and lower joints of my R13 (made in 1998) wouldn’t come apart. The joints rotated but wouldn’t separate. Figured it was either loose cork or the wood swelled a bit. Laid it in the back seat of my car and drive home. Soon as I got home they came apart easily, and the cork was fine. I guess the rest gave the wood time to stabilize.

Any prevention tips? I have a gig Sunday and worry if it happens again it may be worse.

Buffet Crampon just announced Julian Bliss is now one of their artists. I’m losing track of who endorses what now. 😀

• Bliss was a Leblanc/Backun artist, now Buffet

• Jon Manasse was a longtime Buffet artists, now he’s with Yamaha

• Ricardo Morales famously played Selmer Recitals for years, then went to Backun and helped develop their series, and now he’s with Uebel

Any other major moves in recent years?

Having some issues with a 2011 CR-V EX-L with about 127,000 miles. If anyone has some insight, I'd be grateful.

• Vehicle runs fine in cool weather and in early mornings when temps are low. I live in South Texas so hot weather is always at hand.

• As weather gets warmer, vehicle has very slow and sluggish acceleration from a stop. As in I fear needing instant acceleration to merge with traffic, navigate an opening, etc.

• It takes a hard goose on the throttle to get it to shift into second, and after that it lingers to pretty high revs before it'll go into a higher gear.

• Gas mileage takes a noticeable hit. If weather isn't too hot I can get around 21 MPG in the city. Plummets to 16 or

Are there any other Astound customers here going through an internet outage? Ours went out last night and is still out. Their chat service confirms an outage but this one is lasting much longer than usual, and I can find no other acknowledgment elsewhere. Just checking.

So Stephen Colbert sent us all a little valentine during his show last night, in his intro to his “Meanwhile” segment. If you watch the show, he describes preparing his monologue in terms of fine craftsmanship… and then compares his “Meanwhile” segment as a thrown-together project using spare parts and leftovers. Anyway, the “Buffett” Crampon Legende (in boxwood) got the craftsmanship treatment.

https://youtu.be/YPmy9V-UfWw?si=q5uodtgIir9cY0Wk