Rep. Brian Baird is coming to Olympia.

Town Hall Meeting in Olympia
Friday, September 21
7:00 p.m.
Capital High School Theater
2707 Conger Ave., NW

Here is my rundown of an off the record conversation I was in on with Baird a few weeks ago. Needless to say, not much to say.

Do you own a business Downtown? Do you want to know more about the PBIA and what it does?

If so, then please join the PBIA Board Members and City officials for the 2nd Annual PBIA membership meeting to be held September 27th 6 PM - 8 PM at the Govenor Hotel in Downtown Olympia.

I'm making some moves on the music part of my life.  Although I truly love my regular partners, we are spread out all over the Puget Sound, which can make things a bit difficult at times.  I'm searching for some local talent to support my front act.

For those that haven't heard me, go to www.homestead.com/larryhillmusic and you'll find five pages on my website, each with a full length song from a live CD recorded a few summers ago.  Not much has changed since then. I'm trying to find players that can compliment this style.

I'm looking for a guitarist, percussionist and a bass player, in that order of importance.  I'm taking most of October off, but have gigs lined up for November and December that might require some help from new players, so they have to be able to comp parts on the fly.

If anyone knows musicians of this type, I can be emailed at LarryHillMusic@comcast.net

Thanks in advance and enjoy the tunes!

So I pick up a pack of gum while shopping the other day. I'm sitting here at work, pop a piece in my mouth and almost instantly get a headache. So the headache hung around and I thought, "Hmm, maybe it's the gum?" read the ingredients and there's all kind of substitute sweeteners in it...lovely. I had to stop drinking diet soda (at least as often as I was) because I kept getting this weird earache...which miraculously went away when I stopped drinking diet coke. So now I try not to drink it often, and I try to stick with splenda versions of sugar-free.

Anyone else had similar problems?

My mother and grandparents lived in the Swabian village of Gunzburg, Germany during the war. Opa locked the doors of the guest worker dormitory at night before walking to Die Rose to drink his beer. Oma cooked for them, the Czechs and Poles who slaved at the factory owned by Karl Mengele, Josef’s father. Firma Karl Mengele & Sohne continues to supply the world with farm equipment today.

Oma and opa were law-abiding, hard working, good Catholics who, like everyone else in that little town, knew not to ask questions or say the wrong thing to the wrong person. No one could ever accuse them of hating their country. So in little Gunzburg, “evil incarnate” was able to flourish.

29 days and counting until my family arrives in Olympia! My mind is racing with thoughts of everything that I have been reading on OlyBlog and in other places...I'm excited!!