Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I even got a few things done….slept okay but lost an earplug and I can’t find it anywhere…that is just weird and I’m a little perplexed….no dreams to speak of and that’s okay….my back hasn’t hurt a bit today yet and I am just waiting for it to start….it is just crappy anticipating the pain that I know is going to come later today….I did get a bike ride in but I am going to skip today with the snow and Ice that I know will be on the trail….I can use the rest and just don’t want to be cold today…or maybe I’ll wait until this aft…it’s only supposed to get to the low 30’s so that won’t help get the ice melted….tomorrow will be warmer so maybe I’ll wait til then…..not much to do today…going to clean but first I’m going to be disappointed with watching Man U lose again..cripes they are getting to be the Lions…more later….
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Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…as you know, I have the long-running thing going where I report when I identify a band using the Hammond B-3 organ….it seems that almost all of the bands I still listen to use one and today I heard one in “Cry Baby” from the “Pearl” album by Janis Joplin. Yeah, I still call it an album…that makes me really old but I’m okay with that….more to come….
Exploding snowflakes…
Well…I did get out on the bike today even though it was only about 30….and I saw the weirdest thing that I can’t remember ever seeing before….just as I was hitting the trail it started to snow but instead of just hitting the ground and sticking like they normally do, when these flakes hit the ground they exploded into tiny, dust-like particles and blew away in the wind. Now, I’ve been around a long time but the world and the weather still make me grin at times….and never ceases to surprise me….pretty cool…
December 18th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get much done…again….and I will try to make today different…how much different, I don’t know….running late again, too, for some reason and I didn’t even shower this morning…yet….just can’t get started even with the second cup of coffee….sitting here, I was hoping that the back pain had subsided with all of the cracking it did yesterday but then I moved and it hasn’t…darn….feel okay, though, so that is something….not sure what, but something…haven’t had to put the snowies on the car yet and it looks like I won’t have to until late next week….I do need to take advantage of the warm temps to get that done….had them on the first week of November last year and I am pretty happy that there hasn’t been any snow yet this year….it is cold today, though, an that will make for full thermasuit if I decide to take a bike ride today…have been out with it as cold as 19 degrees but that is pushing it…not much to do today….just going to clean since the spiders are in the bathroom again and the kitchen looks like an abandoned house…more later…
January 20, 1975
Well…sitting here watching ‘Celeration Day”…the concert film with Led Zeppelin and it made me think back to when I saw them in person…January 20th, 1975 at the old Chicago Stadium, of course in Chicago. I know my friends have heard this story many times but I just realized today that I missed my chance to write about it on it’s 40th anniversary last January, so I thought I’d do a short one on it today. Getting the tickets is another story that I’ll talk about another time but it involved standing outside for a day at the box office…and had blood, ripped stitches and other cool stuff in it so maybe there is a post in there somewhere. The crazy day started when we checked into our room at a Holiday Inn at 1 south Halstead, in what we didn’t know at the time was the real inner city…we realized it when we noticed we were the only white faces in the place, and coming from west Michigan, it was a surprise to say the least. Okay, to the concert…we took a cab out to the stadium, which, at the time, was in the middle of a part of the city that looked mostly abandoned….the concert was cool but Robert Plant’s voice was totally fried and you could barely tell it was him…one funny aside, at the time I wasn’t really a Zep fan yet so I don’t know a lot of the songs but it was still fun….after the concert, the plan was to catch a cab back to the hotel but the cab driver that took us out neglected to tell us that they didn’t run out into that neighborhood after 11 pm since so many of them had been robbed…so, we set off walking through the worst neighborhood in Chicago, dressed for a cab ride, on the 20th of January, 20 blocks back to the hotel…a bunch of white kids freezing and stumbling through the dark. After the first block, my girlfriend at the time got some of the swirling dirt in her eyes and, wearing contacts, was basically blind the remaining 19 blocks. But, we made it okay…I think it may have been too cold for any muggers to be out and I was really glad we had turned the heat up to 85 before we left our room. It’s a day I remember vividly even 40 years later….the crazy crap you do when you are 21….
Oh, one last thing….the tickets cost $7.50….a lot of money at the time when I was renting a two bedroom house for 100 bucks a month…
Carly Fiorina is either a liar or just plain stupid…
Well…the repub presidential candidates have show themselves all to be liars, but one stands out in the crowd by being the best liar or just plain stupid. Carly Fiorina started her jaw dropping lies with the whopper that she saw a video that showed PP taking live babies and selling them for their parts…never taking that one back when it was a proven to be a lie….but now, she continues with a newer, better, and more delusional lie from the last debate this week. During the debate she rattled off a bunch of retired generals who she said were “retired” by Obama for telling him what he didn’t want to hear…two of the generals, Petreus, and McChrystal, were forced out for misconduct and one of the remaining, Jack Keane, retired in 2003, five years before Obama even took office and commented that he has never even spoken to Obama…but, did that stop ole Carly? Nope, she said that she didn’t “misspeak”, and that means she meant to tell this lie and didn’t give a damn that it’s not true….we all know that ole Carly is a liar, now we can also say that she is just plain stupid to go with it…geez…
December 17th
Well…running a little late today just because I can…it was an okay day yesterday and I won at pool so that was cool…didn’t get anything else done and today looks the same…just not motivated to do much…and it is snowing out there and that is depressing…it shouldn’t be since this year is just so much better than last year…we had already had below zero temps last year and all I have to do is get through the next three days of cold to get back to the 40’s and 50’s so I guess I shouldn’t bitch too much…my back seem to be a little better today but we’ll see as the day goes on….it still twinges some when I move and I am still going to try to get it to crack later so the pain will really go away….it looks like full thermasuit for the ride today but that’s okay if I can get out for a ride in the snow…..not much to do today….going to try to get a few things done around here and do some cooking but that’s about it….more later…
The clown car stops in Vegas…
Well…as you know, I couldn’t bring myself to watch the creepiness that was the repub debate in Vegas last night but there were a few takeaways the came up in the news feeds this morning…the first one I’ve commented on before…the Donald’s vow that he would commit war crimes if elected by going after and killing the families of ISIS members…isn’t there a law against threatening a war crime? Isn’t that terrorism in itself? After this low point, the night degenerated into a talking point showdown…and the general consensus by pundits is that none of the people on the stage are presidential material….and that none of them can ever get elected…so, I think they should all just grift away and make money from the rubes that they lie to every day….I think that’s the purpose of most of them running anyway…or they truly are delusional and that is even worse…geez…
December 16th
Well…it was an okay day yesterday and I made a little cash so that was cool….it looks like I’ll be able to pay the rent in January so that takes a load off…slept okay and had dreams of landslides and Ada and that was weird…running for your life in front of a landslide is kind of exciting, though, so I’ll take it….my frickin back is still hurting like crazy and it is taking all the energy out of me, but trying the old things to help it is just making it worse….need to think that one through and see if I can figure out something new….the new tire on the back of the bike is making me smile…I didn’t realize how bad the old one was…reminded me of the cartoon bikes with square wheels that were in my youth….not much to do today…pool, I think, and making lunch but that is about it….I did do the grocery run this morning and got some russett potatoes that are just huge…one could make two meals for me so I’m not sure how to cook them…may have to make mashed to portion them out….more later…..
The repub debate…
Well…didn’t know if you knew, but there is another repub debate tonight…okay, I should have said didn’t know if you cared….I was going to do one about that but I just frickin can’t…how can anyone listen to these losers without wanting to tear your ears off so you don’t have to hear it anymore…Muslims bad, Obama worse, tax cuts, tax cuts….close the borders…built a 10 mile high wall…ISIS, ISIS, ISIS….we’re all gonna die! Yeah….I just can’t take it anymore…hope you can’t either…going back to the couch to watch tv….and no debate….