Manny Laureano

MB,

I love Texas! Some of the nicest times I've had with the trumpet have been in Texas, most recently in Lubbock with a former student. When I go to Texas I always eat well, am treated like I live there, and get to speak Spanish virtually everywhere I go.

I love the way that all the Texans I've met put the fact that they're Texans above their race, ethnicity. At least, that's what my experiences have been. If there's a different reality I'm not aware of it. Maybe it's just that way with students, I don't know. I do know that it's always been a welcoming place for me.

Feliz Dia de la Independencia!

ML

Dr. Stu

Getting ready to leave for the Macy's fireworks show here in NYC. For those of you who will miss it...

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-Stu

Tootsall

Don't be shy... tell us what your impressions were as soon as you get the time. And have a SAFE 4th!

tpter1

Hmmm....a band director's paradise...first, drive 85 (please don't read that part, .40 Cal!) to get to pracctice on time at 7:00 am...then, a scorching parde, finishing with an uphill march for parked cars...followed by helping a kid into a fire engine to help cool off so she doesn't pass out from heat...then carnival sausage and peppers with a coke to help it down...then, the announcement of the winners of today's parade...

Lisbon...5 points ahead of the competition pulls out the first victory at the first parade of the season! Showing our rival school who's boss..in their home town! HAH! Way to go guys! (And we had fun, too!)

Then, time to head for the barn, do some archery with the kids...

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"Roses have thorns; shining waters mud. Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun; and history reeks of the wrongs we have done. After today, after today, consider me gone."- Sting

40cal

Don't worry, it's not the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stop!

Oh, good news, no dead people to clean up.

There were however drunk drivers galore.

I got two of them.

The "least" drunk of the 2 was 2.5X the limit.

The most was 3X the limit. Both parties were arrested before 7:00PM.

Scary stuff.

Eclipsehornplayer

Thank God you got em before they killed a family of 6 with their stupidity...

When I was in law enforcement drunks were my stickler. I would let a few things go here and there situationally but DUI's got taken care of by the book.

I still get a bunch of crap from certain friends of mine over arresting a friend of ours that I caught. At the time Michigan's law stated that .10 was legally intoxicated. He was .25 and stumbling drunk..

I can honestly say that I may have just drove him home and left it at that. But, a few days earlier I got to see first hand what a drunks careless ways do to innocent people.

I had the non-pleasure of being the first on the scene at a MVA with 2 fatalities. The drunk was driving a big Chevy SUV and had T-boned a much smaller 1987 Plymouth Horizon. It was a classic T-bone style accident the Horizon had the right of way via the green light and started to proceed through the intersection the SUV ran the red light and slammed into the driver side of the Horizon. Both the occupants of the Horizon were killed instantly I'd say. I won't describe what I saw but it was almost the ugliest thing I'd ever seen (Next to the crash of Northwest Flight 255 at Detroit Metro Airport which was just horrific) The fire department took about 35 minutes to cut the wreckage away before we could even remove what was left of the occumpants.

After seeing that I would have jailed my own father had I caught him DUI and although my dad has never been a drinker he was told the same.

Go 40cal!

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Manny Laureano

We always take the time to honor and thank our military. Today it's your turn, 40 cal... thank you for keeping the roadways safe and for putting yourself in danger everytime you have to walk into some nameless hotel to investigate a call, not knowing who or what awaits you on the other side of the door. Thank you for enduring some of the sights that you've had to look upon after cutting through wrecks. Thanks for the educational classes your colleagues put on to teach our young ones to be safe. Thanks for the risk you put yourself in everytime you draw your weapon. Thanks for being the trooper I think about when I say to a friend "Well, I know a state trooper and he says..."

I'm proud to know you.

ML

davidjohnson

hooray for the troopers. a classmate of mine became one, a student became one, and now i have the children of one as students.

dj