After a whole bunch of car trouble (I lent it to my brother and somebody crashed into him) it looks like I'll finally have enough transport to take my trombone for some much-needed repairs.

Hopefully it'll be fixed by the time the band comes to visit me, but if not I have a cunning plan. I hear one of the trombonists recently acquired a much-awaited new instrument and apparently he's not all that careful about locking it up... ;-)