Sorry for the delay...
"Sing me a song, you're a singer;
Do me no wrong; you're a bringer of evil..."
Heaven and Hell--Ronnie James Dio--Black Sabbath from the Heaven And Hell LP, 1980.
Normally I choose something musically that relates to the post--not so today.
Sorry for the delay to the thousands of people who read my blog--uh...that's a lie (the "thousands" not the "sorry"). Pam and I have been doing all sorts of things lately and our lives have been busy--much more so than it has been in about four months for me.
I will post later this week on Guinness--new happenings with the world's most dependent cat. He will miss me in two and a half weeks--trust me--but more later this week.
Currently, I am sitting at Saturn while the fix my car to the tune of $350.00 and an hour and a half worth of labor. Sigh. Routine stuff--but they said I must be really rough on brakes. I think I am, too.
After that, I head to the school in which is foolish enough to employ me to "clean up" my room waiting for the kiddies to return. I have, however, moved my computer to the front and rearranged my room. Like Superman, I have a little fortress of solitude in the front.
Recently, I watched the Metal: The Story of Heavy Metal documentary on VH1 and enjoyed it. I scanned for some books on Amazon and bought Martin Popoff's The Top 500 heavy Metal Songs of All Time. Now some of his stuff is "metal" and I would safely argue some of his stuff is "hard rock." All of which is fine with me, as I prefer early Heavy Metal/Hard Rock over today's "death metal" screams about Satan and his minions. I used this book and a few others to burn some CDs for the car and came up with fifteen (about twenty hours) of burned CDs of hard rocking and metalesque music. Knowing full well I would not be allowed to play this stuff with the folks I ride to work with or my wife, I think I will regulate it to solo road trips. I emailed former roomie and fellow hard rock/early metal enthusist Keith and asked for his take--Jon and Dan who regularly read this, feel free to post some of your favorites--in fact, it would be appreciated. I want to go five more volumes.
In other news, Pamela and I recently attended her class reunion at our old high school. I saw some folks I have not seen in a few years including my next door neighbor as a kid, Drew, and an old eighth grade friend Tim. Considering I am four years older than Pam, I really did not know many people in her class, but I knew some, chatted a bit with Sue Mac (a great person who was part of a clique we named 'The Beautiful People' due to our stage pressence and the plays we performed), Monkey Boy Adam (a nice guy who was a 'beautiful person' as well), Mo (a former BP), Jamie (not a BP, but Pam's Maid of Honor in our wedding), and Kathy (a late edition BP). A picture of Pam and the lovely ladies will be forthcoming. The nice part of the reunion was a tour of our old high school to see the changes made. There is a certain pride the community has in their school; a pride I believe is being transferred to my place of employment.
I have also hit the road to speak as Pam and I went to lovely Hollywood, LA. The most important happening of note (other than finding an obscure guitar shop that let me hold a 1968 Stratocaster and putting my hand in Ian Anderson's hand print in the cement outside) was that we attended a taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The guests were Allison Janey of West Wing; Morgan Spurloch of Supersize Me and 30 Days, and a hip-hop band Jurassic Five who performed for a half hour after the taping of the show. It was unique.
While there, I was waiting in line for our seats and we bumped into Derrick from the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. He was a pretty tough kid who competes all out (OK, I admit I watch this show). He noticed that I noticed him, shook my hand as I said, "You have guts and we appreciate your ability on the MTV show."
He said "Thank you, sir, I appreciate the kind words."
'Sir'???!!! I have never felt so damn old.
We also saw the place where they film Hell's Kitchen (best damn show on TV period--get it--Hell's Kitchen--"damn show"?). We went to Warner Brothers Studios and...well more on that in another post as well.
Since we have returned, I have spent most of my evenings training people at our new Humane Society building. I will continue the four or five training sessions a week for sixteen volunteers per session for the next two weeks. I have trained over a hundred new and old volunteers in the last three weeks and everyone MUST be re-trained. It has been very fun. While there, we met a new cat we wanted to take home for Guinness and Foggy--but he was taken. He was a great cat--another Maine Coon--that was nineteen pounds, a male, front paw declawed, and only a year old. HULK would have been a great name for him, but Pam says if we take in another cat (and we think it will also be a male and a bigger one like Guinness) we should name it Stout. How cool is my wife? That would be great!
Just a bit of a tomato paste and vinegar (TP + V = Ketchup--catch up--get it?) post. I will post again this weekend with a wonderful picture of Guinness and some new comments and observations of the gentle Maine Coon who now inhabits our dwelling.
Oh and for the comic readers out there, this week's 52 from DC was incredible and Civil War rocks! Make Mine Marvel!
Do me no wrong; you're a bringer of evil..."
Heaven and Hell--Ronnie James Dio--Black Sabbath from the Heaven And Hell LP, 1980.
Normally I choose something musically that relates to the post--not so today.
Sorry for the delay to the thousands of people who read my blog--uh...that's a lie (the "thousands" not the "sorry"). Pam and I have been doing all sorts of things lately and our lives have been busy--much more so than it has been in about four months for me.
I will post later this week on Guinness--new happenings with the world's most dependent cat. He will miss me in two and a half weeks--trust me--but more later this week.
Currently, I am sitting at Saturn while the fix my car to the tune of $350.00 and an hour and a half worth of labor. Sigh. Routine stuff--but they said I must be really rough on brakes. I think I am, too.
After that, I head to the school in which is foolish enough to employ me to "clean up" my room waiting for the kiddies to return. I have, however, moved my computer to the front and rearranged my room. Like Superman, I have a little fortress of solitude in the front.
Recently, I watched the Metal: The Story of Heavy Metal documentary on VH1 and enjoyed it. I scanned for some books on Amazon and bought Martin Popoff's The Top 500 heavy Metal Songs of All Time. Now some of his stuff is "metal" and I would safely argue some of his stuff is "hard rock." All of which is fine with me, as I prefer early Heavy Metal/Hard Rock over today's "death metal" screams about Satan and his minions. I used this book and a few others to burn some CDs for the car and came up with fifteen (about twenty hours) of burned CDs of hard rocking and metalesque music. Knowing full well I would not be allowed to play this stuff with the folks I ride to work with or my wife, I think I will regulate it to solo road trips. I emailed former roomie and fellow hard rock/early metal enthusist Keith and asked for his take--Jon and Dan who regularly read this, feel free to post some of your favorites--in fact, it would be appreciated. I want to go five more volumes.
In other news, Pamela and I recently attended her class reunion at our old high school. I saw some folks I have not seen in a few years including my next door neighbor as a kid, Drew, and an old eighth grade friend Tim. Considering I am four years older than Pam, I really did not know many people in her class, but I knew some, chatted a bit with Sue Mac (a great person who was part of a clique we named 'The Beautiful People' due to our stage pressence and the plays we performed), Monkey Boy Adam (a nice guy who was a 'beautiful person' as well), Mo (a former BP), Jamie (not a BP, but Pam's Maid of Honor in our wedding), and Kathy (a late edition BP). A picture of Pam and the lovely ladies will be forthcoming. The nice part of the reunion was a tour of our old high school to see the changes made. There is a certain pride the community has in their school; a pride I believe is being transferred to my place of employment.
I have also hit the road to speak as Pam and I went to lovely Hollywood, LA. The most important happening of note (other than finding an obscure guitar shop that let me hold a 1968 Stratocaster and putting my hand in Ian Anderson's hand print in the cement outside) was that we attended a taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. The guests were Allison Janey of West Wing; Morgan Spurloch of Supersize Me and 30 Days, and a hip-hop band Jurassic Five who performed for a half hour after the taping of the show. It was unique.
While there, I was waiting in line for our seats and we bumped into Derrick from the Real World/Road Rules Challenge. He was a pretty tough kid who competes all out (OK, I admit I watch this show). He noticed that I noticed him, shook my hand as I said, "You have guts and we appreciate your ability on the MTV show."
He said "Thank you, sir, I appreciate the kind words."
'Sir'???!!! I have never felt so damn old.
We also saw the place where they film Hell's Kitchen (best damn show on TV period--get it--Hell's Kitchen--"damn show"?). We went to Warner Brothers Studios and...well more on that in another post as well.
Since we have returned, I have spent most of my evenings training people at our new Humane Society building. I will continue the four or five training sessions a week for sixteen volunteers per session for the next two weeks. I have trained over a hundred new and old volunteers in the last three weeks and everyone MUST be re-trained. It has been very fun. While there, we met a new cat we wanted to take home for Guinness and Foggy--but he was taken. He was a great cat--another Maine Coon--that was nineteen pounds, a male, front paw declawed, and only a year old. HULK would have been a great name for him, but Pam says if we take in another cat (and we think it will also be a male and a bigger one like Guinness) we should name it Stout. How cool is my wife? That would be great!
Just a bit of a tomato paste and vinegar (TP + V = Ketchup--catch up--get it?) post. I will post again this weekend with a wonderful picture of Guinness and some new comments and observations of the gentle Maine Coon who now inhabits our dwelling.
Oh and for the comic readers out there, this week's 52 from DC was incredible and Civil War rocks! Make Mine Marvel!
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