Archive for the 'hobbies' Category

almost done

15 Oct

warning: musician living in his head content on deck: In the midst of all the other stuff going on (college kid home, dance dad duty, new Letterkenny…), I think I have almost all the recording done for the album, and most of the mixing, after getting the eldest to knock out some vocals, taking a […]

friday random elevenish – “standard week, with testudines” edition

11 Oct

As it is every week, it’s been a week. I’ve actually gotten a ton done at work, and I’ve speedwalked/hiked the equivalent of three 5k races, but I’ve gotten next to nothing done on the record. Mixed bag, that. Hoping to change that this weekend, however; I’m taking the recording rig on the road at […]

wrock and whatnot

07 Oct

Yes, I missed the usual Friday post this past week, but, really, I don’t owe you anything, do it? Last week was pretty typical, all told. I spent a tremendous amount of time putting out other people’s fires at work, and I went out to see the second-to-last Kickers match of the season with my […]

playing through the pain

24 Sep

While I didn’t mention this last week, I’ve been struggling with a very quick-onset flu-like bug since the middle of last week. I started feeling an unpleasant tickle in the back of my throat as I was leaving Castleburg on Wednesday night, which, over the course of the 20 minutes-or-so drive home, turned into a […]

friday random elevenish – “financial reminder of your own mortality” edition

20 Sep

When I looked at my electronic pay stub on Wednesday morning for this week’s pay check, I noticed my bottom-line take-home was twenty-five bucks less than it’s been previously. I was concerned for a second, until I saw the notes section, which indicated that I’d moved into a new age category for my life insurance […]

friday random elevenish – “after the dragon” edition

06 Sep

I write this Thursday evening, my first day back at the day job after spending the weekend playing rock star with 85,000 of my closest friends at Dragoncon in Atlanta. We had a pretty good weekend, all told, playing some great shows and seeing some good friends, and hell, making the Syfy Wire web page, […]

friday thursday random elevenish: “600 miles (Dragoncon)” edition

29 Aug

Swearing is Caring by Misbehavin' Maidens For those curious, the above-embedded tune from my friends the Misbehavin’ Maidens is the source of today’s title, though, per the navigation app estimates I just made, my trip is going to be 555 miles…I won’t quibble over 45 miles, which is probably what I’ll end up walking this […]

longing for the rock star life…

26 Aug

Having finished that class I took the last two weeks, I went back to the usual office grind on Monday, to get some good news, mostly hassle, and finding that nobody feels like answering their email or voice mail. Grrrr. The good news, that I keep hanging onto, is the fact that I only have […]

friday random elevenish – “two points short of perfect” edition

23 Aug

So, by the time this posts, it’ll be my birthday. Hello, 45. I don’t feel old, until I sprain something by tripping over nothing. Still, I *am* in better shape than I was when I was twenty, which I guess says something. Tomorrow is the last day of the class I’ve found myself in for […]

slightly less hosed

16 Aug

Well, after fighting with things for a few hours this evening after sleeping on it, I eventually, after wrestling with ftp clients, IP addresses, and trying to write SQL queries when I barely know enough to be dangerous (remember, I’m the guy that once took a whole government agency’s clause-selection system in the contract writing […]

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