You Lose Some, You Lose Some(But You Also Kind Of Win)

After a month and a half of hand wringing, evidence gathering, restless nights of sleep, and hesitant optimism(everyone else, I’m more of a reluctant pessimist or doomed realist) we had our day in court trying to get our daughter’s puppy back from the shit stain ex-boyfriend in small claims court. What we hoped would be […]

Upgrading To The 21st Century

Life tends to evolve, shift, and upgrade right before our eyes. Sometimes it even does it when we’re not watching, so the next time we turn around its as if we’re living in some strange, new existence. I’ve always tried to keep up with the times. I never wanted to be left behind, yet it […]

Another Weekend Laid To Rest

The weekend wasn’t bad. It moved along like it was in a hurry(as usual) to get back to whence it came, but that’s par for the course. That’s the nature of the weekend; here and gone like Haley’s Comet. Friday afternoon is but a distant memory(did it really happen?) I sometimes feel like it’s the […]

Dualing Cassettes

Not sure if I should be as excited as I am, but you know what I don’t care. I ran over to Ignition Music this morning with my wife and picked up a used Sony Dual Cassette Recorder. It’s a little over 20 years old, but it’s a clean looking machine. And by the fact […]

Radiohead, James Bond, And Growing Up A Little Sad

A couple days ago I was rifling through Youtube when I searched ‘Radiohead “Nobody Does It Better”‘. I vaguely recalled hearing Thom and company cover the Carly Simon Bond theme years ago on some live bootleg, or possibly in some fever dream while sick with a gifted virus. Turns out it wasn’t my fever-y brain […]

October

Fall was making its presence known even before this past Sunday, October 1st. About a week and a half ago I noticed pine needles beginning to cover the driveway, then the front yard. For me, growing up in a pine woods there was no surer sign of fall than pine needles falling. Even more than […]

Danish Butter Cookies, Cigarettes, And Resentment

As a kid I never saw my paternal grandparents as much as my maternal grandparents. My mom’s mom I saw the most because my mom was really close to her mom. We’d spend many summer days at my grandma’s house on the lake. We’d fish, take the pontoon out, go get lunch at the Streamliner […]

Wednesday Check-In : Feeling It, Man

How’s everybody doing? It’s ‘Hump Day’, which in my world I consider ‘third Monday’. There’s Monday, then second Monday(Tuesday), and then third Monday which is Wednesday. Then there’s Thursday and Friday. It’s been this way since we were told our plant was closing almost two years ago next month. I find Monday and Tuesday pretty […]

Queens, Car Alarms, Stomach Bugs…My Weekend In A Nutshell

There’s never really a great time to get sick, but the day of your first concert in a year is especially not a great time. Months ago I was lucky enough to snag a couple tickets to see Queens of the Stone Age down in Indianapolis at the TCU Amphitheater for the boy and I. […]