Monday, May 21st, 2007
Still Solidly Squirrel-less
Yesterday I drove to Decorah, IA (a six-hour round trip) to attend my brother’s college graduation.
Here he is finally standing up to go to the platform. The speakers were much better than the ones at my graduation—even given a couple thousand graduates they couldn’t track down two adequate public speakers—although I wasn’t amazed. While I’m sure it was nice to receive one of the two awards for which they singled out a new and previous graduate, having to stand on the platform while my achievements are blandly enumerated would drive me nuts; if I’m ever to be honored publicly, I hope the presenter can dig up at least one interesting or amusing anecdote.
The band was doing pretty well until they played a medley. I know they can be fun to play, but they just don’t impress me in a concert repertoire. In the end, though, their reputation was saved. While I was reviewing the pictures I took, I discovered this guy playing a soprano clarinet. Any band with a soprano-clarinet guy is fine by me.
Check out the smirk. You’d think he’d just hoodwinked the regents into giving him a master’s.
