Busy weekend for music coming up! Friday night, the Bensen-Scott Big Band is doing a wedding. Saturday finds me hopping a bus up to Queensbury, NY (near Lake George, about 2.5 hrs. one way) for the Hudson Valley Volunteer Firemen's Parade. That one is with the always fun Tappan Zee Bridgemen, and we're actually marching in the parade twice! On Father's Day, Sunday, I won't be sitting by the pool, drinking beer, but playing euphonium in the Bronx with the Lehman College Community Band.

But wait, there's more! Monday morning, at the ungodly hour of 6:30, I have to be at the US Merchant Marine Academy graduation. It's an early start because of security procedures for a certain mucky-muck. One whose name has been mentioned here many times before... I won't mention his name, because I don't want to be strip-searched when I get there. It'll be a pain enough getting through security with a tuba, I'm sure. Also hard to play the tuba whilst biting one's tongue. I promised my wife I wouldn't do anything to get arrested.

More details next time...