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I understand that the health care system in Pittsburgh is very good, maybe better than the DC area. My brother in law moved there just before the covid pandemic and he's happy with it. He previously lived in a Maryland suburb of DC and was born and raised here. He was tired of the suburban life and wanted to live in a city with good health care, was walkable, had big city availability of arts and culture (though I bet DC has a better arts and culture scene). He likes the ethnic neighborhoods and the blue collar vibe. It's more affordable than DC and Maryland. He's moved a couple of times already because gentrification has resulted in raising his rent. My wife and I have visited twice to catch baseball games at the wonderful MLB stadium. We were surprised that there's not much of a nightlife or restaurants in that downtown area. There was a fun foodie scene in an area of town called The Strip -- an area that used to be the warehouse district for meat and produce but has gentrified over the years and is now the hot spot of the foodie scene. I can't speak to the music scene. My brother in law mostly likes roots music -- blues, old country, rockabilly, ethnic music like Irish and Ukrainian. I don't believe he's very knowledgeable about jazz. Hope this helps!

Hadn't heard Undercurrents by Bill Evans & Jim Hall in years and couldn't believe how much I enjoyed it this week! Made me feel so good!

The Reddit poster, simplehuman, is my nephew, it turns out! LOL!

Could be.

Yes!

Sorry, y'all! NOT ADT. ATR Magnetics! See what Google AI says about it. It's supposed to be something of quality between original master tapes that the recording engineer would have and high grade audiophile recordings. My nephew's image explaining it is too big to post here. I can ask him to resize it.

Thank you, jazzbo and Kevin, for your helpful responses! I will look further into what ADT means and post here what I find.

My nephew came upon ADT recordings when clearing out a storage facility and wishes to know if there is a market for them. I told him I would ask here and see if there is any interest. Dexter Gordon, One Flight Up Thelonious Monk, Monk's Dream Herbie Hancock, Takin' Off There are numbers for each one but I don't know what they mean. Numbers like 15IPS IEC R2 NEW He has the ADT equipment too. Please let me know if you have any information or better yet any interest in purchasing them and I can put the two of you in contact. He is not a member of this discussion group. Thank you!

Jack, did you ever know Sweet Pete?

Great music! Haven't stopped playing if for days! Note that cd 3 didn't have metadata, at least for me. Had to enter all info for iTunes and burning it to flac on my hard drive.

I am just glad no one suggested they start a Home Run Derby in the top of the 10th! About as half-baked!

I've never seen mayonnaise ON french fries, but in Belgian restaurants I see that pommes frites come with a container of mayo (aoli) on the side and you DIP one fry at a time into it. Just a little. It's not SPREAD over a pile of fries like ketchup. Maybe some places spread it over but I haven't seen that. I''m kinda surprised gumbo hasn't been mentioned. Wikipedia will usually says it's a soup or stew. I disagree. It's its own thing. I fix chicken soup, chicken stew, and chicken gumbo and they are all very different from one another. Well, chicken stew is closer to chicken gumbo than chicken soup is. But we call it chicken fricassee. Cajuns may state forcefully that gumbo has NO tomatoes in it. That's New Orleans style. I disagree with that too. I grew up in Vermilion parish which is one of the most Cajun parishes there is., Even when I went to school the cafeteria ladies fixed okra and shrimp gumbo and it DID have a little bit, not a lot, of tomato in it. It was definitely NOT a New Orleans recipe. I doubt those cafeteria ladies knew any New Orleans recipes! My mother used a little and so do I when I make it. How do you dress your hamburgers? I put ketchup on the bottom bun and mayo on the top bun. Lettuce and tomato and top of the patty. For steamed or boiled shrimp or crawfish a lot of Cajuns fix their own sauce at the table -- a mixture of ketchup, mayo, and worcestershire sauce. For oysters you vary that with a little bit of horseradish. Restaurants used to put all those ingredients on the table and you fixed your own sauce at the table. I don't know why but in English we don't say make something, we say fix something. But in French we DO say fait (make or do). Even in A Confederacy of Dunces, set in New Orleans, the characters say "Fix me a weenie" (Make me a hot dog) to the Lucky Dog representative. I guess it's both Cajun English and Yat.

I agree with Alan's remarks about her some time back. A much underrated jazz singer with a great voice and phrasing. We were lucky to have had her.

My all time favorite basketball player. It's good to know how respected he was.

Happy Happy!

Terrifying!

Funny! I know of a Cajun fiddler from Lake Charles named Nookie Martin. Meanings changed over time, I suppose! I remember Puggy Moity closer to my home. That man would run for more than one office at a time! He was supposedly a Private I who dug up the dirt on popular Edwin Edwards, using nicknames for Edwards like Tweety Bird, Chanel Number 5, etc. (If inappropriate just delete, don't ban me! ha!)

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!

Doesn't ring a bell. Google search showed he was from Thibodaux. Was he a character? Makes me think of Warren "Puggy" Moity.

Oh my! The rule of thumb in Cajun country is you go far away for your "favorite" crawfish boil place but as close as you can for your morning boudin! When I am in Lafayette LA visiting family I go no farther for boudin than Nu Nu's grocery in Maurice! And I mean to go to Hawks in Branch LA for crawfish even though Richard's Seafood Patio and Cajun Claws in Abbeville are closer!

Thanks to a kind man!

Happy!

Thank you Paul! Yes that's correct. To tell you the truth I had to look it up myself!

Hope it's a good one!

I didn't know this existed. Looked around a little bit and it's paired on CD with Songs of the Coal Mines. I've been wanting to find that Coal Mine Songs album since first hearing Doc Watson talk with Merle Haggard about it on Will the Circle Be Unbroken (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) when it came out. On order! It's not the 78s but at least I will finally be able to hear it!