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Hi Vulgano,
I just finished reading the book by Aron Ralston. He's the guy who got his arm trapped by a boulder in Utah and had to cut it off to get out. It was a great book although a little squeemish at times.
My wife and just went to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall which was a cute movie. Maybe not terrific cinema, but very funny and easy too watch.
I have to admit that we are also big Grey's Anatomy fans. They just restarted the season after the writers strike so that's back on our list of things to do.
Other than that I am doing a lot of indoor rock climbing with my wife. In fact we are getting ready to go on our first outdoor trip in a few weeks and we're very excited about it.
The other thing that I am pretty busy with are the contract negotiations here in Toronto. I'm co-chairing the negotiating team. A friend of mine from the Buffalo Philharmonic told me when I was really young to never get involved in committee work. Some days I think I should have listened more carfully.
I'm off to play Tchaik 4 tonight. We are doing it on Bb trumpets. Last night was very exciting because we realized just before we started that we could barely remember the right transpositions. I guess that comes from having played it on C for so many years. If you are wondering why we are doing it, so are we. Needless to say it seemed like a good idea at the time.
It's up a fifth, right???
Best,
Andrew