It has been too long since I have posted on Steemit, as I am still fighting off, as 
One of the most important things that we discussed was the inaccessibility of internet service here in the mountains. While debate over the content of the internet and it's uses and misuses are being discussed in the more populated parts of the world, access to the internet here in the mountains is still an issue. We discussed the possibility of a "mesh" type infrastructure, which I don't know much about, but it sounds promising, and I pondered, with my limited knowledge of technology, the possibility of a public-access type internet for small communities that had content that was deemed relevant, necessary, and useful and excluded the fluff and all of the internet we know so well.
I don't know if such a thing as a "PBS of internet" is possible, but I like the idea. Maybe it would require a dedicated device or something to access it, but i could see an ad-free, resourceful, user-respectful, and publicly funded/governed form of internet that allowed people to do what is essential on the internet like find jobs, network, manage finances, get educated, keep up to date with news from a non-corporate source, etc. What do you think? Am I so naive that it hurts? Can you educate me? Knock the edges of my thinking? tell me it is already happening elsewhere? crush it completely?
Anyway. . . We kciked off our first Show of the Season with my job, We had a symphony outdoors... Here I am taking a picture.
And here's a doddle I done sitting at the table for the event.
I have been working around the Music store more, you can learn more about that project by looking at some of my past posts. I am considering that it might be a good idea to make a separate account for each of the major projects I am pursuing.
I missed a whole week of work recently to attend "Mountain Music School" at Mountain empire community college, here I am on stage.
Here's my cool teacher, Martha Spencer, who is in the Whitetop Mountain Band with a bunch of her family in North Carolina
Also I got a hair cut from the local barber who has been cutting hair in the same place for over 40 years. I was afraid he was gonna butcher me, but I was pleased with the outcome.
In other news, My car is acting up, back tires are bald, and I have a 200 dollar fine to pay. But it will all be okay, as long as i keep hustling, like when I went to the scrap yard the other day, and got a disappointing 9 dollars and ten cents for two old washing machines. I kept the electric motors out of the machines because the scrap yard i went to quit giving you extra for them.
Oh yeah, there is going to be an eclipse soon that will be 95 percent visible from my house! I will try to capture it if I can. . .
Love from the summer heatwave surf,
Tommy In The Sun
