I’m off to band practice.  Once a year, alumni members of my high school band have a reunion and join the new kids for a halftime show. 

• I haven’t actually played the trombone since 1979, and I wasn’t much good then. 
• I’ve only done the reunion once – in 2000. 
• It’s just over an hour until practice starts, and I just found my trombone, in a cabinet in my garage. 
• We were supposed to have four practices before the halftime, but things got busy and tonight is the first. 
• The show is next week.
• I just printed out a trombone slide position chart on the ‘net. 
• I’m going to go down in flames, but I’m not going alone.
• As the Chink says, Ha Ha Ho Ho and Hee Hee.