I have played the piano and sung with it for most of my life. I’ve rarely ever sung in a choir, though. This weekend I’m going to audition to sing with the Orchestra Iowa Chorus. They’re doing Mozart’s Requiem in the spring. That could be really fun. 🤞

2024 Reads: Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde 📚

It’s rare that I read a novel that feels like nothing I’ve read before. This combination of clever humor and dystopian adventure was a real winner.

What we need more of in popular music today: powerful and appealing ballads with ukulele accompaniment.

Cover of an old sheet music single titled “too many parties, too many pals” with a picture of an elegantly dressed woman on the front. Text under the song title describes it as “a powerful and appealing ballad with ukulele accompaniment”

If Moses really signed this I think they should be asking more than $75.

A large book titled The Ten Commandments with a post it note saying it is Signed By Author and a price tag of $75

Finding it remarkably hard to decline an automatic upgrade on American Airlines. I just wanna keep my economy seat next to my wife!

Eric Collins has play-by-play for the Iowa-Troy game on FS1 today and sounds like Gus Johnson on coke. Yelling to the point his voice breaks for a fumble in the 4th quarter of a 10-point game. Bro, take it down a notch. Maybe two.

Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve preordered a new iPhone on release day. 16 Pro 256 GB in natural titanium. 👍

Made it to YOW plenty early for my flight home… turns out US Border Patrol doesn’t open until 0500. At least I’ll be within the first dozen in line once they do…

I knew that the WNBA audience has grown substantially this year. I was still surprised to turn on TSN here at my Canadian hotel and see the Aces-Fever game on. (I’ll forgive them for the crap video quality, which might be the hotel’s fault and not TSN’s.)

Summer has been for family trips and fun; fall is apparently now for work travel. 5 of the next 9 weeks I will be out for at least part of the week for meetings or conferences. Today: CID -> ORD -> YOW. 🇨🇦