Had orchestra practice last night. We were joined by another violin player, a high school gal. Yay, I'm not alone. And, there might be another joining too. Wow, an actual mini-string section. We already a cello player.

I keep forgetting to say, there's been a bus strike here for about a week now. True, there are some people greatly affected, the poor and those who don't have cars. But, the odd thing is traffic during the rush hours doesn't seem terribly affected. Traffic levels seem about the same. In fact, it hasn't been too bad lately, but I don't know if that's because some people are off on vacations or spring break or something.

The issue is the usual one for unions, they seem to think money grows on trees. The funding for the Metro Transit comes in large part from taxpayers, and health care costs are going through the roof, like it is for everyone. They want to have the unions pay more for their share of the cost, and the union sqwuaked, saying it was a pay cut, etc... Well, yeah, it is in a sense, but welcome to reality. It's the same for everyone. They do get insanely generous retirement benefits, and the government doesn't want to keep making the taxpayers pay for everything.

So, the union is about to miss their first paycheck, so will be interesting to see how much longer this goes.