Well, it's brag time. An interesting fact came to light when we were speaking with our oldest daughter on Sunday. The subject of her recent band concert came up again. We were surprised to see that she was in the "first chair" position during the band concert and we noticed that she stood when her band conductor entered, and the rest of the band followed. So after the concert we asked her if she was the first chair clarinet. She said no, they don't do chairs in 8th grade band. During their 3rd song, a boy playing the clarinet had moved to sit next to her and so we asked her why he only sat next to her during that song. She said it was because he was playing 1st part for that song only. What we didn't realize until our conversation on Sunday was that our daughter was the only clarinet playing first part for all the other songs. As she reports in her disgusted teenager tone, "Everyone else was too chicken to play the high notes. I was the only one that could play them." So that was the reason that she was in the 1st chair--she was the only one that could play first part. Ironic since she will probably get a C+ in band this quarter since her teacher didn't get her (being a new student) set up on the computer so she could complete some required computer assignments until a little over a week before the term was over. Then when the computer seemed to be malfunctioning, he didn't have the time to help her with it. We've tried to get this all straightened out but we're not sure we succeeded. We'll see what happens when the grades come out. No matter what her grade turns out to be, we are proud of her for continuing to progress on the clarinet.