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 […]

RIP Mr Pooch McGooch: 2010-2024

This has been one of those things I’ve been dreading for months. So I suppose you could say that deep down I knew it was coming. Yesterday morning we had to give our goodest boy Otto some final peace. Standing around a small table with a warm, fuzzy blanket covering it my wife, my son, […]

Time Waits For No One

I turn 51 today. December 2nd, 2024. Going in to 50 last year I felt perfectly fine with it. I honestly feel like I truly came into my own when I turned 40. Sure, my body started the old breakdown with worn out joints, snap crackle pop sounds every time I went up stairs(or got […]

Stepping Back Is A Good Thing

Being away from work and essentially the world for over a week has been a good thing. I was pretty burnt out when I left work over a week ago. Burnt out and tired of being angry for some truly nefarious shite they pulled. I knew I needed to kickstart my Thanksgiving vacation early as […]

Welcome To The Future…And The Past : A Curmudgeon’s Weekend

It’s been a pretty solid weekend. Honestly, the last two or three weekends have been what I would call solid time spent outside of work. Lots of record spinning, lots of walks, quality time with my wife…I guess what I’m saying is I can’t complain. But knowing me I will soon stumble upon some reason […]

“All The Children Are Scattered”

Been feeling everything a little heavy lately. It was a nice four-day weekend, albeit we skipped out on that Van Hagar concert Friday night. My wife and I decided that neither of us wanted to stand in a field at 93 degrees for three to four hours, so we opted to just pick up our […]

It’s Friday(Don’t Waste It)

We made it to Friday. Finally. I don’t know what it is about these 4-day weeks that end up feeling like 6-day weeks, but it happens every time. Now, if you’re week is short because you took a Friday off, well that’s completely different. Those weeks feel short and special. You take Friday off and […]

My Kind Of Weekend

Feels like it’s been a while since I had a four-day weekend I was happy with. The last few extended times off were decent, but in the end I felt I’d spent the majority of the time being busy as opposed to spending time doing things for myself. No down time, necessarily. No “me” time. […]

The Grateful Dad

My wife and I were driving this weekend and I looked down at the tops of my hands. I was shocked by how old they looked. Or maybe not so much shocked by how old they looked, but by the fact they looked like my dad’s hands. The hands that I’d see on weekends when […]

Mini Vacation, Digital Delays, Splitting Hairs

As I figured, my mini vacation was over before it started. Last week I was off Wednesday through Friday, then the weekend as well. That was 5 days in a row for you folks not counting. I had big plans that included working on some painting, recording some music, and just in general getting all […]