[speaker001:] you know about computers
[speaker002:] well I'm sitting in front of one right now
[speaker001:] you are
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah I just logged off when I got this call
[speaker001:] oh well good you can talk about it more than I can I I don't own a computer but um I'm in college right now and uh my boss has an IBM that she has me type letters on a lot and I do a lot of merging with addresses and letters and
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] that's basically the only information I have on computers I think I'd it would be good for me to have a laptop computer for for for college
[speaker002:] oh I see that'd be handy in college
[speaker001:] but um basically my knowledge is limited
[speaker002:] huh well so uh what uh word processing program do you use on that machine
[speaker001:] uh WordPerfect
[speaker002:] ah okay yeah that's the most popular one
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah I use Microsoft Word which is the second most popular one partly because uh oh I I live and work right right near Microsoft and uh it's just real handy to call them up for help or anything kind of a local product
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] so uh yeah they're real handy I got uh got mine a few years ago uh gee maybe it was five I'm not sure but
[speaker001:] uh-huh what do you do for a living do you use it in that
[speaker002:] well just for a little bit of typing and stuff I work for I do tech support for a company that makes telephone equipment
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh
[speaker002:] and uh so I use it for uh oh memos and for communications uh I have a modem on my uh computer
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I use it for electronic mail and for uh sending faxes
[speaker001:] oh I I joke around about being a mechanic on the printers I uh I dropped uh one of the paper the paper holder on that that connects to the printer on the floor the other day in my boss's office
[speaker002:] hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] and it broke into three pieces it comes in three pieces but it separated and there was there was a little little piece of it that broke off
[speaker002:] uh oh oh I see did you get it put back together
[speaker001:] so I panicked called the main office borrowed their's so I could go ahead and print out the the documents
[speaker002:] hum
[speaker001:] and then I compared the broken pieces to the good piece the the good paper uh paper holder that was together that I borrowed and put it all back together and huh
[speaker002:] hum did it take glue did it take glue
[speaker001:] no no it didn't it it needed it needed uh uh some glue to glue back the broken piece off but it works fine without it so I left a note to my boss am I out of hot water now
[speaker002:] it just popped apart huh oh well that's good you were probably in a bit of a panic
[speaker001:] I was I I was panicking I skipped my class to fix that
[speaker002:] huh so what school do you go to in Texas
[speaker001:] I go to Tyler Junior College right now in Tyler Texas
[speaker002:] oh Tyler okay
[speaker001:] but um I'm interviewing I interviewed I had an I'm I'm a music major and I had an audition yesterday at Baylor University it's a private Baptist Christian School
[speaker002:] oh really um-hum
[speaker001:] in Texas in Waco and so uh that went real well
[speaker002:] well my roommate's a music major
[speaker001:] oh really
[speaker002:] and I work with Seattle Opera
[speaker001:] oh my goodness
[speaker002:] when I'm not working as an engineer
[speaker001:] are you so you're into music
[speaker002:] oh a bit yeah yeah I I actually got into uh opera through an interest in acting but uh I'm getting more interested in singing
[speaker001:] oh my goodness
[speaker002:] so uh yeah I'm in about four operas a year up here and we're just I just finished Ballad of Baby Doe
[speaker001:] that's great uh-huh
[speaker002:] which was uh written in the early fifties by Douglas Moore
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] it's a true story of a uh couple in Colorado in the late eighteen hundreds who became fabulously wealthy from uh silver mining yeah uh but anyway it was a really great show it was kind of like doing it was more like doing a Broadway musical than a an opera it was all in English and it was uh it reminded me of Oklahoma
[speaker001:] uh-huh right I love that
[speaker002:] and and then before that I was in uh the Nutcracker with uh Pacific Northwest Ballet I've been doing that for a number of years playing the grandfather in the party scene and then before that I was in Phedalio which is uh the only opera ever written by Beethoven
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh my goodness
[speaker002:] so uh it's a lot of fun
[speaker001:] well well did you take music classes classes in college
[speaker002:] well I started uh no I didn't um but I've uh started voice lessons recently with uh a woman who's a a principle singer around here for she's in a usually in a couple of operas a year
[speaker001:] well my goodness that's wonderful I hope well
[speaker002:] so yes so my roommate Candice in uh uh music department at uh University of Washington and uh she's uh uh doing student teaching right now teaching music in junior high schools
[speaker001:] uh-huh so does she want to do that or does she want to get into opera
[speaker002:] I think she wants to do that she also sings in a chorus
[speaker001:] oh okay see what I'm I want to do is uh get my Bachelor's in music theory possibly music theory and uh if not that then music education
[speaker002:] um-hum