second chances

ok, so i had a pang of regret on my way home from work....istening to npr...about a group of 'retired' band folks who have formed a second-chance band somewhere in oregon.......the only requirement is that you played some sort of instrument.......well, heck......they had me until that statement........i love marching bands....but i cannot carry a tne in a bucket...let alone read sheet music and pay an instrument.....if the gene was there is remains dormant.......the piece was quite whimsical in that the folks who choose this as their adult endeavor seem to be enjoying it all more the second time around than they did the first.......even the twirlers and the dancers......who perform regardless of cellulite.......ah well.....i was coming home a bit late, having spoken at the quarterly gathering of the M..W..A (mdrn wdsman of am).....trying to avoid a lifetime google link to this life insurance group...they met....all 80 of them at the pizzahut.....and the place was so loud and crowded htat i ended up speaking briefly to each table rather than to the entire group......hmmmm.....i focused on family food safety...a timely issue...in that people are so apt to avoid spinach and to miss the point that most food poisonings happen in their own homes out of carelessness.......in fact, most folks admitted that thye were eating pizza with their hands without having washed first....i did pass out hand sanitizer.....for this very purpose....our own hands taint our foods to a much greater degree than any retailer or food purveyor.......but enough about my soapbox....the low point was when one of the older ladies asked me if i was stil at the hospital......oy!.......i received a kindly email on sunday, and a followup this morning from a dear brother-in-law who only reads my blog on occassion....and he was quite worried when the google search produced the early september entries( the cached entries....) only....he was concerned that something was very, very wrong for me not to blog......nice to know that my gentle readers notice these things........and keep up with my daily doings.....for the record, I am no longer at the hospital.......