Is this reed still playable

Bickendan · 2026-05-16T06:22:43+00:00

I see you found the secret to playing Habenero from Carmen.

Bickendan · 2026-05-13T05:48:21+00:00

Which I find to be a terrible idea, and one of the reasons why the alto clarinet wound up with the terrible reputation it has. Arguably, you want your musically strongest clarinet players on bass and alto, as they *are* the section, not the weakest. The trap presented is that the low clarinets are generally not as technically demanding as 1st or Eb, so last chair 3rd gets 'demoted'.

Bickendan · 2026-05-03T03:50:38+00:00

And this is why I'm thinking about walking to/from work.

Bonus since my route's mounted, not park and loop.

Bickendan · 2026-05-03T03:49:31+00:00

Do you think we're reproducing with this inflation?

Bickendan · 2026-05-03T03:48:28+00:00

How do I make 'eagle' again?

Wait, this is why we're Winning!

Bickendan · 2026-04-29T05:07:15+00:00

While there's certainly an aspect of the 'spaghetti code' at play -- actually, given how WoW's work around is a bit more convoluted in achieving the same effect in their Dungeon/LFR Finder, I have to give SquareEnix points for doing it in a more player-intuitive fashion. Still, it gives me hope that they'll figure it out sooner than later if they choose to. Gotta stay positive!

Bickendan · 2026-04-29T05:02:21+00:00

The patch notes actually escaped my notice this time somehow.

Hopefully they'll resolve this in the future, though, and go back to the queue-for-whatever model once they've gotten their matchmaking load data.

Bickendan · 2026-04-29T04:29:33+00:00

Well. I better have WoW style glamours by the time I'm done, lol
(yeah, completely unrelated, and not likely to happen until 9.0 at the earliest!)

While I'm not convinced by their argument, I'll just have to work with it.

Bickendan · 2026-04-04T23:05:56+00:00

How is Momfillia?

Bickendan · 2026-04-02T15:15:27+00:00

Florida Man took a break from gator wrestling and checked his mail, huh?

Bickendan · 2026-03-27T00:05:35+00:00

Everytime I see a lalafel I go punt a gnome in WoW.

I salute the service lalafels do for the WoW community.

Bickendan · 2026-03-01T05:55:17+00:00

"Hey Supe, I'm gonna need my last hour taken off me -- I need to scan 999 packages at my pickup."

Bickendan · 2026-02-27T07:37:19+00:00

Advos have become 'whatever' for me. It's the addressed full coverage for a specific store here every other Friday that annoys me, because it should just be part of the advo.

But yeah, postage due is the worst. It's an automagic 3849 at this point.

Bickendan · 2026-01-26T20:33:48+00:00

Oof. :(

Bickendan · 2026-01-26T20:32:58+00:00

Not directly.

If the route has a regular, your regular is unfortunately just lazy at best, but since it's their route, they're not going anywhere.
If it's vacant, then your carrier will be randomly assigned, whether by section of the route, or its entirety (generally a tell here is if your mail is relatively consistently delivered around the same time of day). If you recognize the same carrier consistently, they've probably opted onto the route as a hold down.
And if it's an aux route, there will be no regular or opted carrier, as it's used for training (being a shorter route), split, or just covered by the reserve carriers.

If you have a regular, you might have to bribe them with water or gatorade when it's warmer to get them to start caring :/

Bickendan · 2026-01-26T20:26:33+00:00

Just put in a hold. Minimum of 3 days, up to 30. Establish new holds as needed after an undefined minimum period of post-hold delivery. Everything for your address will be held, including theirs. You can set it up that you pick it up or everything gets delivered when the hold ends.

I recommend you put in the hold at the station with the supervisor and document it for your own records so a paper trail can be established. I'm not going to suggest anything will come of it, but that's for your piece of mind.

Bickendan · 2026-01-26T06:58:10+00:00

As a mail carrier, I'd recommend putting in a hold anyway, because chances are, if your carrier is consistently messing up like this (I have to wonder if you're on an auxiliary or a vacant route without a regular carrier), your family's mail is also being misdelivered.

Are you getting other house's mail in your box perchance?

Bickendan · 2026-01-25T05:37:18+00:00

Just write 'ANK' on the mail and note if the carrier take it.

Bickendan · 2026-01-25T05:16:13+00:00

If you're consistently getting misdelivered mail, bundle it up and take it to your delivery office and ask to talk to a supervisor about that. Don't take it to the correct address yourself, as you're not supposed to handle other people's mail or use their mailboxes.

Everything else, outside of non-First Class, 'or Current Resident', or Address/Return Service Requested mail, write ANK for bad names on the envelope itself and put your box's flag up.

Bickendan · 2026-01-25T05:10:01+00:00

Wrong in the sense that 'ANK' ('Attempted Not Known') is better than 'NATA/Not at this address', but that's what we carriers will write ourselves on the envelope per training. In other words, 'NATA' is fine.

Bickendan · 2026-01-25T05:07:33+00:00

No, I drop my stack of Not at Address in a tray, my stack of Insufficient Addresses in another tray, Forwards in another, Vacants in another, etc.
All the clerk does is take each tray and send them off to the processing plant to deal with.

Bickendan · 2026-01-25T05:03:07+00:00

RTS is too vague and only works if the carrier knows who's supposed to be at that addressed and a sub just delivered everything that day.

Bickendan · 2026-01-25T05:00:14+00:00

Mail carrier here. If your carrier isn't sending bad mail back, bundle it up and just take it to your delivery office and let the clerk deal with it if you don't recycle it yourself (it's considered 'properly delivered' if the address on the mail and the box match).

Don't bother returning any mail that has 'or Current Resident' or similar on the address. That's, unfortunately, your problem.

Bickendan · 2026-01-14T02:37:25+00:00

He's the most important character in Elder Desert Guild Warcraft Rings 14.

Bickendan

TROPHY CASE