Hey there my handful of FriendBurst readers! I am starting a new blog which will chronicle my process of getting my TESL certification, applying for a job overseas and the whole moving process, the last of which I have already begun. Eventhough it wouldn’t take that much effort, I probably won’t be mirroring that blog […]
May I be the first to wish a Happy Hallowsgivingmas to you all. I think we’ve all sort of gotten used to Thanksgiving being lumped in with Christmas & Hannukah as part of the “Holiday season”, but nowadays, it seems like Halloween is getting stepped on by the upcoming winter holidays too. At my store, […]
I come to you today after flying back from a fantastic vacation in San Diego. I went there to attend the San Diego Ukulele Festival, of which I will have more to write about later. Tonight, set to the music of Julia Nunes on a CD I picked up from the artist herself, I bring […]
Had to break up Monday’s travels into two videos. Here is the conclusion of my return to the Ice Caves of the Cascade Mountains. Any music experts out there, help me out. There are several “lead” instruments in the musical composition in this background music. I think they’re primarily alto saxophone and oboe, but I […]
My sole sibling, my older sister Deidre, is in town this week with her husband and my nephews, doing the summer vacation thing here in the great Northwest with friends of theirs. I had sort of vaguely heard that King Tut was in town, but had family not come to do the tourist thing, I […]
In Episode 12 of the Tour d’Joko, Yellowstone Edition, I was preparing to leave the park, but could not due to the snowstorm that enveloped the park… on May 27th. The snowplows eventually cleared the road north, and off I was. Planning one final stop at Fort Yellowstone at the town of Mammoth, where I […]
Five years ago today, I posted the video blog you’ll see here. I re-post it today because I want to get back to doing this kind of thing. The day before this was made, I was going through some old papers and I happened across some lyrics to a song I had written some 12 […]
My goal for this Tour d’Joko, Yellowstone Edition, was to make it as close as possible to an actual commercial production. You’ve yet to see the ripest fruit of that effort, but I’ve related some details about problems with government permits, bad weather and faulty or missing equipment, challenges which studio made stuff I‘m sure […]
The 4th Episode of the Tour d’Joko: Yellowstone Edition ends with me entering the park. The lead up to that… well… I’ll say this, I was very judicious in my editing. The original version of this video was 9 minutes long and was composed almost entirely of me sharing rather uninteresting minutia into the camera.
Day two took me into Montana, a place I had never been, and one of our more unusual states. Physically, as you’ll see, the place is gorgeous (okay, most places are gorgeous in the month of May). Politically, although a “red“ state, they aren’t the invasive, up-in-your-business kind of conservatives. I was able to find […]
