An “I Was There” moment! Many parts of the U.S. are experiencing very unusually cold weather. Here is a blerb about the current weather in the mid-west: “White Christmas… Again! Earlier in the day, a glaze of ice from freezing rain led to numerous accidents in Oklahoma City. Euclid has brought the second white Christmas […]
Kevin Kirby passed away on Christmas day last year, at the all-too-young age of 42. He was a great guy, extremely smart and with a wicked sense of humor. We were going to get together at our house for the annual Dr. Who Christmas special, and got the horrible call from his brother John just […]
A couple of people on my Facebook page have wondered why my politics are what they are – libertarian with a dash of conservative. I started to write what I thought was going to be a short answer, but realized there is no short answer, and it was going to be longish, so I moved […]
So…. How was your Tuesday? Yesterday was one of those hectic days. Work was backed up due to Monday’s rain. I installed a heat exchanger on a heater, and that took longer than I thought it would. got home with just enough time to string the Taylor… Oh, if only I had only strung it! […]
Feed the creatures! (Miss Bird, Odo and Elsa. Do pool route. Practice Police Tribute Band songs. Diagnose spa in Sanger. Join math / physics list. Work on some math problems. Practice Police Tribute Band songs. Inspect bike for Tour de Fresno tomorrow. Go to Police Tribute Band practice. All the other stuff I’m leaving out […]
I’m neutral! Which is interesting considering I was born in New Yak, and raised in Daaallaaas Teexaas. To be fair though, I did want to be an actor when I was a kid, and did pay very close attention to the way I talked. Somewhere, there is a cassette tape of my brothers and sisters […]
A diving score card, circa 1980-ish. My best score was on dive 5111, which is a from drive with a half twist. On twisty dives, I used to throw the very unusual reverse dive in layout with a half twist, dive 5311. In all my years of diving, I was as far as I […]
It’s called “Insanity”. As I said, it was the first song I ever wrote. My song writing journey started when I was about thirteen. So, I’m 47 now. That means it took some 34 years to complete this song! Many if not most of the songs I’ve written over the years are incomplete. In the […]
I am crying right now. He meant so much to this nation, so much to the world. There are so few people in this world who can say they were the very first to do something. Neil? Armstrong certainly could. So precious few have been able to bring the world together, if only for a […]
Ever heard of Sixto Rodriguez? Neither had I. But his album 1970 debut album “Cold Fact” apparently did not ever completely go away. Oh, it never took hold as a music masterpiece here in the United States, but apparently it was HUGE in apartheid South Africa, where the themes of political and racial injustice struck […]