A pretty good day, but expensive

[mdlbear]

I had a teeth-cleaning appointment this morning. Learned that the large filling with a little decay around it really needs to get fixed, before the tooth breaks. It's been a year since it was noticed. So I go in for a crown on Thursday. That was the cheap part: insurance pays half.

The other nagging problem was that my 20+-year-old Roland synth is in really bad shape, and the chaoswolf is taking beginning piano this quarter. And Guitar Showcase is right across the street from the dentist's office. So for about $750 I now have a Casio PX-310 digital piano, a sturdy stand for it, and a folding bench. It sounds, and feels, great -- I may have to re-learn piano.

We re-did our demo this afternoon with a slightly smaller audience, an ad-hoc wireless network instead of an access point, and about four more run-throughs. It worked, of course. And we had a little more time to discuss the system, which on the whole was a good thing. It dovetails neatly with some of the other things the company is doing, but getting the people who do the actual product planning to understand what we have is going to take a lot of work.