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 […]

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 […]