Doing The Things, Keeping My Head Above Water, Ready For Brighter Days

Hey hey. How are you all doing? Sorry no check-ins this week. There were a lot of albums to listen to and write about, so the personal stuff got put to the way side. I’m here, and it’s Friday, so what better time to have a nice personal, mental cleanse. So last week I was […]

“This Is A Dangerous Place…”

Man, I don’t know. If there’s some legal action that can be done to stop the shit show currently going on in this country I wish they’d pull that rabbit out of their hat and do it. How long do we need to wait before something is done? I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories, […]

Monday Check-In, 3/10/25 : Spring Preview, New(Old) Jazz, Under The Weather

Hello all. Monday has returned in record-breaking speed. Maybe the fastest Monday turnaround yet. I’m trying to decide if Monday arrived quicker back in school, or as an adult. I’m leaning towards adult. When you were in elementary school, or even middle and high school there were some weekends where it seemed to drag on […]

Monday Check-In, 3/3/25 : Birthday Weekend

Like a bad penny, or maybe a cursed penny, Monday has returned. Seriously, the fact we have to spend the majority of our lives wasting 40 hours out of the total 168 hours we get in a week at work is preposterous. Nearly a quarter of our week is spent doing something we really don’t […]

Beater

We bought the “blue beast” in the summer of 2004. Well actually, we leased it in the summer of 2004. The year before we’d traded in my wife’s 1994 Nissan Maxima for a 5-speed manual 2003 Honda Civic. We had two daughters, 3 and barely 3 months old, and were ready to trade up to […]

Monday Check-In, 2/24/25 : Kalamazoo Art Fair, Grinders, Outdoor Walks

The weekend was a pretty decent one. Back in February of 2018 my wife and I headed up north to Kalamazoo, MI for the annual Kalamazoo Art Fair. I can’t remember how she found out about it, but we booked a room at a hotel for the Friday night before and headed up after work […]

Keep It Fresh

It’s a great feeling growing a record collection. Sure, it’s great growing a CD, cassette, 8-track, phonograph, etc…collection as well. But for the purpose of this long-winded post I’m talking about vinyl. I had records as a kid and in my early teens, but for about 16 years my obsession was with CDs. From 1992 […]

Monday Check-In, 2/17/25 : “Lazy Weekend”

Man, it was a lazy weekend. It’s not like I usually have jam-packed weekends anyways, but this past Valentine’s Day weekend was especially sloth-like. Besides running to town Friday afternoon for a few things, I never left the homestead. Friday night I had a couple beers and started the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red. It’s […]

Relationship Appreciation Post

My wife and I started dating in January of 1991. It was our Junior year of high school. I wasn’t much of a teenage lothario. Things got off to a great start when I started middle school and had two girlfriends within two months of entering Warsaw Middle School. Nothing to write home about. The […]

Music Gets You Through

I’ve been a little down the last couple weeks. Nothing specific I suppose, but I’ve been thinking a lot about my dog Otto and I guess I just miss him. Our hangs at home, me watching a movie with a pint and him laying up on the couch next to me. He, of the smarter […]