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Middling MIDI

About 12 years ago, while playing around with a friend’s recording studio equipment, I had a chance to try out a Casio DH-100 – “DH” for “Digital Horn.”  Basically a small saxophone-esque MIDI controller in the Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI, pronounced EE•wee – not especially dignified) category.  I was astounded at how, with the simple

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The Long Journey

I’ve written a lot about my health over the past few years, and my efforts to try and do something about it. Each little clue gave me new hope, into which I threw my full energy. I took every inch and reveled in it, moving as far as I could before inevitably declining once again

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Stay classy, Seattle

Ah, winter. Which, generally speaking, I love – but, if it comes with any kind of persistent precipitation, cripples the Northwest. Not just because they’re wimps when it comes to snow, it’s at least partially justified by tendency it has to turn into ice and the number and variety of hills which make up Seattle

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