<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""> Well, OK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Who are you?</div><div class=""> Dan Augustine.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) Where are you?</div><div class=""> Austin, Texas. </div><div class=""><br class="">3) Musician?</div><div class=""> Depends who you ask. But, yes, usually. Play tuba in 4 dixieland bands</div><div class=""> here and have written a lot of leadsheets and some arrangements of dixie tunes.</div><div class=""> Also have a Ph.D. in music theory, but couldn't get a job teaching in college,</div><div class=""> so i became a mainframe computer-programmer at the University of Texas</div><div class=""> at Austin for 24 years (but have been retired for 14 years). Also play in a</div><div class=""> British-style brass band (Eb Bass in Austin Brass Band), concert band,</div><div class=""> 2 polka bands, 4 dixieland bands, a brass ensemble, and substitute on tuba </div><div class=""> in a brass quintet, symphony orchestra, banjo club. Also write and publish</div><div class=""> arrangements (see my Daniel S. Augustine page at Sheet Music Plus Press).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and, for good measure,<br class="">4) When did you join this august list?</div><div class=""> No, i joined in April, not August, of 2000. Went to several "Face to Face" DJML meetings at the old Sacramento Jazz Jubilee and have an authentic "DLML" badge.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div> Dan<br class=""><div>------------------------------------<br class=""><div class="">On Aug 29, 2018, at 2:28 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <<a href="mailto:mjl@ix.netcom.com" class="">mjl@ix.netcom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear Digimellers. Quite some time ago, our dear listmate Don Robertson, in response to at that time the same request of mine I'm about to make again, compiled an Excel spreadsheet of the responses, ie, Who and Where We Are. The point of the exercise then is the same as now: lurker or not, it would be extremely enlightening.<br class=""><br class="">So, -- and no, I'm not going to do a spreadsheet, but I will compile an old-fashioned List -- let's hear it:<br class=""><br class="">Lurker or Not (and this exercise includes *EVERYBODY*, ie, even current/frequent posters; accuracy, you know),<br class=""><br class="">1) Who are you?,<br class="">2) Where are you?,<br class="">3) Musician?, and, for good measure,<br class="">4) When did you join this august list?<br class=""><br class="">I'll start.<br class=""><br class="">Mike Logsdon; Salinas, Calif; non-musician (except in my head); joined in approx if not actually May 1995, making me, I think, one of the "charter members", or, at least, I'd like to think of myself as one if not actually.<br class=""><br class="">Now... the rest of you...!<br class=""><br class="">M J (Mike) Logsdon.<br class=""><br class="">"Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.<br class="">"Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.<br class="">"Because that's the kind of guy, I'm." -- C Reiner, "Your Show of Shows", skit: "From Here to Obscurity".<br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="">
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