Bliss has always had other cats around. She was a year and half old when I got her, and she had been raised with her momma cat and a littermate. I only had her a month when Barry (whose in the Happy Hunting Grounds now) arrived, so these last 6 months have been a new […]
At any job, there are some basic rules specific to the line of work being done. These go beyond the basic get-to-work-on-time, don’t-steal-from-the-company and do-what-the-boss-asks type rules that are universal to all workplaces and directly relate to what the individual is doing. For example, somewhere in the basic training of Rite-Aid Drug Store cashiera there […]
Over the weekend, I got the bad news. The pre-amp on my tenor ukulele was not fixable. I think I was somewhat at fault, as it hasn’t worked since I replaced the connector for the 9V battery. I explained this to the nice guys as GuitarVille shop when I brought it in, and I was […]
A couple blogs ago, I wrote about how enthused I had become about the possibility of returning to the road in a motor powered vehicle. Driving is something I’ve taken for granted since I was 17; to be in one’s 40’s and to be banned from the road, yeah, that fact has been a big […]
I’ve always been a student of history. Ever since I could pick up a book and read about it or watch a PBS documentary, I’ve been intrigued with days past. My higher education is in sociology, and much of that learning has focused on American sociology. When I would learn about societies that did terrible […]
Here is my once-a-month blog where I don’t create anything new, instead, I just re-post memorable stuff I’ve done before. Most of you have never seen this before, so I don’t feel like that pathetic guy in the bar who goes on and on about his glory days playing high school football. LAST YEAR… Me, […]
Ah, what a beautiful day! Unless you’re a gorilla. I went to the Seattle Zoo today (AKA The Woodland Park Zoo) and, of course, I brought the camera along. If I didn’t, going to the zoo by myself would have been kind of weird, but with it, it’s like all of you were coming with […]
I am saddened that my ukulele repair skills did not prove to be all I thought they were. A month or two ago, with the help of a friend who owned a soldering iron, I was very proud that I fixed the battery connection on my uke. See, it has a battery-powered electronic pick up […]
So what did you do with your two hours of no Friendburst? Me, I worked on a cover of one of my favorite songs. It’s a cover of a cover, as a guy named Mat Weddle made a somewhat-famous YouTube cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya! Of course, he used one of those big, 6-stinged bass […]
I’ve been in a bit of video slump lately. Over the last few years, my videography hobby has had me recording, editing and publishing 10 to 20 YouTube videos every month. So far this August, I’ve made none. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Surely going to back to work doesn’t mean I have to abandon my favorite […]
