Irony

A decade and more ago, we talked of living downtown when we retire. Soon enough, alas, downtown property values skyrocketed out of our price range. New condo projects, however, included units for limited income folks -- but we had too much money to qualify. Well, the way the market is going, we might not have too much money to qualify a month or several from now! Of course, by then the waiting list for those living quarters will be very long indeed.

Music class (sight singing and reading) was incredible. He threw us into the water, sing or swim, by playing simple tunes and having us write down the music. I didn't do well at all. Of the 16 in class, about 4 or 5 seemed to know what they were doing, the rest of us were throwing darts in the dark. "Well, that note goes up, maybe it's this ..." etc. A challenging class, to say the least, and there's nowhere for me to go but up.