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I got a side hustle at a factory making plastic Dracula statues. There are only two of us on the line, so I have to make every second count.

Bonus Round: I named my iPad "Titanic." It's syncing now.

Sitting at the dojo before class started last Friday, I said, "Hey Siri. Why have I always been so bad with women?"

She said, "This is Alexa, you idiot."

Hey guys, Seven adopted some stray kittens. Some jerk left them on the side of the road in a Tupperware bin slowly filling with rain water. He and Zoe have been bottle feeding them SIX TIMES A DAY the last three or so weeks, and rubbing their little tummies to stimulate their p*e p*e response. They'll be weened and ready for adoption by early / mid October.

SO WHO WANTS A KITTEN!?

HAPPY EASTER!

No, I'm not posting from church. To avoid the crowd, we hit the Friday night service. 😉

Remember the drum books I have been mentioning during class? Well, I finally finished restoring them! In case you missed those classes....

Back in the 90s, music was my thing. I taught at Belmont University in Nashville and wrote four instructional books for drum set during that period. The 2000s were a time of great change in my life—upheaval may be too strong a word, but not by much—and I managed to lose track of them. Though I tried not to dwell on it, sometimes the ghosts of those books haunted my dreams.

Until about a month ago.

I was digging around in storage one morning and ran across a box labeled "Jeff's Music Books." I don't know how long I stood staring at it, but crickets were chirping outside in the darkness when I finally jolted awake. And I'd grown a beard.

Just kidding, of course, but the discovery did indeed spike my pulse.

Inside the box were the print masters for all four books. I dropped what I was doing and went to work scanning the music parts and copying the text into new Word documents. A few weeks of grueling work and...

VIOLA! 🎻

Wait. I mean...

VOILA!

I released them on Amazon, all under the name "Jeff T. Wade" in order to separate them from my fiction work. (My fiction is under "Jeff Wade," no middle initial.) Though I revised the text a little, the music is still the same. The "Demystifying Rhythm" series lent itself to eBook editions. You can find them along with paperback versions here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW6H4S9H

The Infinity Book, however—being an OCD inspired, linear-pattern reference work comprised of tables jammed with cryptic sticking figures—only works in paperback. You can find it here:

https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Book-Jeff-T.../dp/B0CXMS4DSX

I realize few of you are drummers. But I thought I'd let you know in case you have friends or family who slam the skins. And in case $5 bucks is too steep for your percussionist buds (don't laugh; music is a tough life!), I will soon run free eBook promotions for the Demystifying Rhythm series.

Take care and c u on the mat!

Jeff

The Infinity Book The Infinity Book

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