Dan Gould

But why? I kept 40 second performances of "Honky Tonk" for the Percy thing. They obviously have a different understanding of "complete" than I do.

And, Audiologists have PhDs they are not medical doctors. They don't split their time between hearing tests and setting up your new hearing aids and doing cochlear implants.

I suggest you use that thing that is your "friend" and educate yourself. (I will state that I have never worked with a 'technician' because again, everybody working with patients in a hearing center is a licensed audiologist.)

You can't do anything to treat hearing loss in the state of Florida unless you are licensed. I have never concerned myself with the specific training or level of experience of anyone who has helped me in the past. Maybe that's a different kind of white lab coat effect. In my first encounter, I went to the person who had an existing relationship with the insurance office I worked in. I did note that he was a few years older than me and had gotten his degree from Cornell. He also had a small "wall of fame" in his office, the only name I now recall is Barry Gibb, or whichever Gibb brother still lives. The one difference between his office and the Sam's hearing aid center was discovering that Sam's did not allow the manual removal of ear wax due to the liability risk. I basically used an off-the-shelf product for a period of time, which took care of a good deal of wax build up and softened up the rest. He then used tweezers and a strong light to remove the remainder, (weird feeling to have wax gently pulled away from ear canal, I can tell you) and only then did I have my official hearing test the first time. Obviously you want a test that isn't effected by wax issues. (Believe me I clean ears often but it does build up regardless.) At Sam's they could only use a camera and a probe to show me what I was up against and it took a period of time before he suggested that I find a doctor to finish the job. That turned out to be a Walgreens clinic, where it was about $120 for her to blast the ear with a water pik to finish it up. (They made me sign a liability waiver, too.) So really I would prefer, in the future, a place that will handle final wax clean up themselves. Other than that, one audiologist or another, not my worry. I know what my hearing loss looks like.

Maybe Consumer Reports would be a better place than your average TV ad? Beltone and Miracle Ear still seem to have coverage in the Tampa area so I really can't imagine they haven't kept up with technology to compete in the market. BTW I can't say that the batteries are such a terrible problem for me. $8 gets me three blister packs at Sam's Club, I think 30 or 36 total batteries per pack. Practically nothing, and since I am rarely away from the house, getting the "(tweet) - Low Battery" message in my ear every seven days is no big deal. Maybe its different if you are out and about regularly but when I wasn't working from home I just kept a battery package in my desk in case it ran out of juice while at work. Easy Peasy.

For whoever might be curious, and for whatever it is worth, current stats since launch: 404 total hits 317 unique visitors 5:35 average session time. I can get bounce rate by page but I'd really like to see total number of bouncers that spend no time on the site, to calculate session time by people actually interested. Given the number of brief "looks" the site gets, that 5:35 average session time feels pretty good to me. I've still got at least two promotional efforts to come - Night Lights broadcast early next month, thanks to GoM, and the Mosaic Gazette mention which MC promised but hasn't followed thru on. After that I rely on a future WKCR broadcast, should the pandemic ever end, and that might be just about it.

The person who chose "Mogie Man" as his first online handle at a jazz discussion site remains unmoved.

My hearing loss started a very long time ago, in childhood. Never thought about aids though until new employers liked my work and they helped me purchase hearing aids about 12 years ago, utilizing a client who ran an office for a national hearing aid chain. They were siemens and certainly were an extraordinary blessing to be able to hear things normally. They still function as back ups but the then-modern technology of ambient noise reduction and other "personalized" settings became non-functional so I sought new ones. Second set of hearing aids, still in use, bought about 4 years ago at a Sam's Club. Not as great - I've had to use the extended warranty plan far too many times, and I am not sure but I think it will expire around the end of this year. At least the Siemens pair still turn on and work even now. I did not buy any blue-tooth options, didn't want to spend the money. I remove the aids while driving on the highway. They amplify too much road noise so signal-to-noise is messed up with the car stereo, which happens to be where I hear more music than anyplace else. So I take the aids out and crank the volume instead. (I've never ever had a horn or a siren go unheard when I am on the highway with no hearing aids.)

New Houston Person is welcome. He usually has a new album every Fall but I think skipped during the first year of the pandemic.

If I understand, one chooses, then proposes a new one? Therefore: Billy Sol Estes (I don't know him but I know who Kefauver was from history/Poli Sci.) So: Percy France or Percy, France

Yes he wrote some really nice words about the site, I hope it triggers a nice spike in page visits! (Still haven't gotten the plug in the Mosaic Gazette but with the Jazz Lives post I am less inclined to nudge Mr. Cuscuna too soon. Only so many bullets in my clip, would rather space out the promotional efforts.) Nah, I actually used your phrase in a conversation with Mike Longo's wife who asked me for advice on donating his archive, which also includes many private recordings.

So basically it was a variation on "let's introduce the virus to trigger an immune response" but long before anyone had a clue about it? Its remarkable to me to think that the man who ordered this treatment to his troops would end up dying of what was probably an easily survivable cold, due to "modern" medical practices of the time. How could Small Pox innoculations co-exist with "bleeding" as medical treatments? Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber, anyone?

They had two shots at Dexter's Clubhouse. Can only provide a link but this version, while weird and hideous, is the one I was happy to find on CD 30+ years ago. https://www.discogs.com/Dexter-Gordon-Clubhouse/release/456062

Thank you Claude.

I am posting some audio bits to youtube hoping to drive traffic to the site so here they are. Bob Neloms in on piano for Ain't Misbehavin':

Have never heard of a call from the CIA. I think I would have had fun by challenging them that if they are the CIA, they must know all my details anyway. Or at least give them a fake name like Thelonious Monk or Sun Ra (the latter even better give them an address with city "Moons of Saturn" or something like that.)

The Red Sox are officially helpless, hapless and hopeless. It only took about 7 weeks longer for them than it did for the Cubs. I have nothing left to watch except to see that the Yankees crash and burn in October and while its probably likely, its by no means a sure thing.

Cool!

I don't ever see The Good Life, with Hank Jones, mentioned, but I have always been partial to that one. https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Stitt-With-Hank-Jones-Trio-Good-Life/master/842189

The only thing I find appealing is the cover art.

Sorry to hear about this Tom, I am glad that there are decent options. You may look into elder care service companies - after a fall a couple of months ago that broke a rib, we (meaning my sister) finally convinced my mother to move into an assisted living facility. She needed essentially 24 hour care at the house to make sure she didn't fall again and the two factors were that she hated having people "hovering" around her, and the realization that she could net $300,000 more than she paid in 2013, and possibly more (and she paid cash at the time), due to the current market and the popularity of her development. My sister handled the whole thing, I was just called upon to back her up and support her on the need for this change, but one of the things she found was an elder care service company that handles the entire seamless move from house to apartment, in one day. She is marking up the things that she wants with her, soup to nuts, and they will move it all on August 31. Good luck.

Sorry to hear this Larry. I regard it as the cost of the unconditional love we get from our animal companions: the knowledge that their time will come up sooner than yours and you have to make the decision to ease their suffering and let them go. Our Weimaraner Gracie was put down in March, at the age of 14 or so. It was a decision made easier by the fact that the vet (we used a service that does euthanasia at home) took no time at all to judge that her facial lumps and copious, funky drool that had developed only in the prior ten days or so was in fact lymphoma. We're fortunate King adjusted quite easily so we didn't need to find him a new companion.

Too bad he escaped before Darwin could take over and the idiot owner dies of a toxic snake bite. Either way snake would be out in the wild but idiot owner would be removed from gene pool.

I am not interested in "high intensity level" nowadays (not sure I ever really was) and so having heard a full track on Bandcamp I am quite comfortable passing on this ... glad I got the Harold Land at the Penthouse though. That hits the spot for me, way more than "intensity".

As predicted, Rizzo is lengthening the lineup and tearing it up. The Yankees can hardly be counted out of, at minimum, 1st Wild Card. OTOH the Sox looked like shit over the weekend and it occurred to me that they are about to collapse, possibly like the Cubs did in June. And I thought that looking at the calendar and seeing Tigers, Jays, Rays just at the same time when they can't hit and can't pitch. And the much-improved Tigers take 2 of 3. What happens in Toronto now? In other sad news, JR Richard is dead: https://www.mlb.com/news/j-r-richard-dies