Its not easy believing in the immenent crash (within my lifetime) of the industrialized society of which I am a part. Between bouts of depression induced by reading about the clusterfuck that is the modern human condition, I like to take pleasure in the simple things of life… My wife (not particularly simple, but you […]

I got drawn into watching the evening news with my Kelligirl today, and the local segment had a few interesting segments, back to back.
There was the SANDAG (San Diego Association of Governments) awarding companies that support vanpooling for their employees. The award went to SAIC for getting 12 passenger vans for their employees to […]

My friend Phil Cole died this morning, just hours after I got an email alerting friends that he was pretty bad off with cancer and had a week or two left in him. I had a letter composed in December that I only managed to get sent off by email just last night. I don’t […]

1995 wasn’t the first year I recorded, but it was the year when I started doing it like I meant it. I was just glancing over some scanned pictures of old, and was reminded of how far I have come in this recording world. There was a stack of boom boxes and tape recorders in […]

Today I woke up at 10:30 am after going to bed at about 3 am. I was awake for a half hour or so and tried to read in bed some. Fell asleep for another hour and a half (my midday nap, as it were). Glenn and I were going to get together at noon […]

I don’t think I ever heard of Nik in the 80s when he was famous. Though when I heard his song Wouldn’t It Be Good, I recognized it right away and seemed to know half the words, despite probably a decade and a half passing since I would have heard it last. In the same […]

Now don’t take this the wrong way…I am not actually soliciting a kick in the nads but this business of hunting for work seems like a protracted knee to the balls. Well, it might as well be. I don’t think its in human nature to go seeking the sundry forms of rejection that can be […]