End Of Week Reflections

Anymore as soon as I hit work at 6am on Monday it’s just a matter of putting my head down and plowing through it. I want to get past Monday through Thursday so I can enjoy that fresh Friday feeling. Doesn’t matter what plans(or lack thereof) are on the docket for Saturday and Sunday, I’m […]

For Your Consideration

It’s awards season, folks. You know what that means, right? A lot of pomp and circumstance around actors doing acting in those things they act in. But you know what? Instead of throwing your vote away to some Hollywood starlet or Leo DiCaprio for his turn in the sequel to What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, What’s […]

Monday Check-In : 2/3/25

I’m finding it hard to believe we’re in the situation we are – politically and socially – in the year 2025. I’m astonished that some in the country believe that Donald Trump is fighting for them. Like, they’re that naive to think he has their best interests in mind. After all of the (proven) stories […]

Monday Check-IN(1/27/25)

What’s happening, folks? Yes, it is indeed another Monday morning. Another work week has begun and we’re standing slack-jawed wondering what the hell happened to the weekend. This has been an ongoing trend for the as long as I can remember. At least as far back as the early 80s when I truly started to […]

Long, Cold Weekend…Future Forecast? Not Looking Good

It was a successful 5-day weekend. Lots of relaxation, lots of record spinning, and some good time spent in the basement working on new music. My wife is better, but still dealing with post-Covid stuff. Mainly an annoying cough she can’t give the slip. I didn’t end up going to the Y, but I did […]

In The Cold, Doing The Work, Missing My Four-Legged Friend

Well we are in the thick of it, folks. The cold has arrived and plans on sticking around for a bit. It’s currently 10 degrees with a nice northerly wind that slaps hard every time I open the door at work. Within about 5 minutes the indoor temp on the dock went from 65 to […]

Free As A Bird

I was a pre-teen and teenager in the dark days of the mid-to-late 80s. For a kid that wanted his music loud, fast, and marginally offensive the powers that be wanted to make it as hard as possible for a 14-year old to get his slab of expletive-strewn metal. When I first started buying music […]

New Year, New Covid

The year has gotten off to a great start. It’s begun with good old Covid. We’d had plans to have my best friend come over on New Year’s Eve. You know, some tacos, some movies, maybe spin some records, and maybe some classic video games to scratch that early 80s arcade itch. But I was […]

2025…Behave

The last 6 months of 2024 felt like a whole year in itself. From the infamous Colorado vacation on, time seemed to simultaneously expand and compress. It was one grating, extended hot/humid week after another until the next thing I knew we were looking down the barrel of end of year holidays. 2024 was this […]

His Final Drive Home

Got a call from the vet yesterday that Otto was ready to come home. Yes, Otto is gone. But we had him cremated and put in an urn. I couldn’t fathom bringing him home and burying him. My dad did that with my childhood dog Klaus, but I just couldn’t. I mean, what if we […]