Ruth my voice coach talked me off the roof yesterday and convinced me to go through with the choir performance, holding my nose the whole time if necessary, and then quit and never look back.

In other news, we are departing on an extended road trip holiday soon, so for the next couple of weeks I shall be squaring away the house for our absence and lining up projects for when we get back. High on this list will be dealing with boxes of stuff that I inherited from my parents and have yet to either integrate into our lifestyle or move along elsewhere.

What, for example, should one do with photo slides, when one does not possess a slide projector, and very few of the pictures are of family, friends, or anything personal? Thanks to my packrat mother, I have hundreds of commercially prepared slides of various tourist attractions. I'm thinking landfill. Opinions?