Big things in my life lately: – I joined Planet Fitness. A new facility opened in Prattville, and I have been there every single day it’s been open. If I’m feeling slow on a given day, I don’t do much, but I’m determined to stay on it – I need to lose about 40-50 pounds […]
New Year, New Stuff Read Post »
Until recently, I had a minidisc recorder which I had used to record live music – mainly my own practices and performances – and which I had occasionally used to make digital recordings of public speaking. The latter were mainly sermons at church which I recorded off the sound board so that I, as the
Music recording, past and present Read Post »
For about the time it takes to mow the entire lawn, I worked on my weedtrimmer on a recent afternoon. The last of the original line had spooled out, except for about a foot long piece. I looked forward to replacing the line with child-like anticipation. Because my new weed trimmer had a Speed Spool(TM), which eliminates the tedium
Troy-Bilt’s Revenge Read Post »
An Evening of Magic: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Chuck Mangione) My brother worked at a radio station and got a copy of this on LP. I wore the grooves off of it. Perhaps one of the good things about the LP format was it encouraged you to listen to the whole thing instead of
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As the woman emerged from the audience today at the funeral, I feared that she would be the first of a line of people which sometimes form at such events. I call this part of a funeral “amateur hour” or “open mic night.” I feared that she would have some wandering, off-the-cuff remarks, and that
The real moment in a funeral Read Post »
Two of my friends have lost close relatives in the past few days. It calls to mind the following excerpt from “At a Country Funeral” by Wendell Berry. What we owe the futureis not a new start, for we can only beginwith what has happened. We owe the futurethe past, the long knowledgethat is the
At a Country Funeral Read Post »
In keeping with my policy of spending every evening goofing around with web sites, I have spent this evening setting up his site. Bob is a great friend of mine who has helped my business tremendously, and while he is currently much more about the e-mail than the web site, I wanted to set up
Setting up a blog site for a friend Read Post »
Monday I spent three hours at the Autauga County courthouse waiting to go onto a jury duty panel. Judge Sibley Reynolds told us that the jury selection process used to be “ten old men” who were selected to pick jury panels, and they placed names of potential jurors in a washing machine box. Unfortunately, the
One more post about the accident from last January (not to be confused with the accident from last May, or the bumper-tap a couple of months ago). The settlement is finally done. One of the first things that people say after you’ve been in an accident (aside from Are you okay? and Shouldn’t someone call
Well, that’s settled… Read Post »