I'm Still a Band Geek

After all of these years I am still, quite unquestionably, a BAND GEEK. When I am teaching classes my notebook PC spends a lot of time hooked up to LCD projectors in classroom. I extend my desktop onto the screen and use Powerpoint in presenter view so I keep the background to my desktop black. This means that nothing appears on the projector screen unless I specifically put it there. BUT...during the intersessions, when I am not teaching, I do run a background image, and you see it above. In case you are not as much of a geek as I am and don't immediately recognize the uniform, this is the Drum Major of the Scots Guards. (Giveaways: buttons in groups of three and thistles on the collar.) Very few people I know get the thrill that I do just looking at this picture. It makes me a great band/drumcorps parent although I do work pretty hard at making sure I am not trying to live vicariously through my daughter. That does not preclude me (of course) from being extremely proud of being the dad of the kid who was Marching Band Member of the Year in the Naperville North Marching Huskies, and is now in a top-six World Class Drum and Bugle Corps. The point of this is that no matter what has happened in the 37 years since I left the band and music rooms of Vista High I am still, without a doubt, a band geek--and damned proud of it.

Posted by trygstad | Category: Music | 10:07 AM