Bio

Hometown:	Kirksville MO, via Corvallis OR, via Elk Grove CA
School:	Many in number
Employer:	Kirksville Farm and Home TrueValue

I am a hapless and unrefined lover of most any noise that distracts my mind from the pain of today's realities. My 4th of 5 daughters is studying the oboe, and I am and always have been absolutely enamored by that instrument and am therefore delighted that she has given it a somewhat more than casual attempt to master, but being in the 8th grade, she has a long way to go yet. As a result, I tend to keep Pandora tuned to oboe music. I have noted that in most cases, Pandora starts the set with almost exactly what you want to listen to, then a gradual but immediate departure from the original artist occurs, and soon you haven't an inkling as to why that artist is on that thread. But happily, the oboe selections are nearly continuous.