Tim is relatively positive he's never going to reach an age where he'll need retirement benefits anyway, so as far as he's concerned, this is probably the best he's gonna get.

"When notes go too high or too low, we put a line through them." He imprints a little lump of the circle in the sand beneath the staff, intercutting it with a line. "This note here, this is what we call 'middle c.' It's right in the middle of the scale. You wanna see the fingering?"