I spent yesterday evening in Alpine. A bit over 30 miles each way, in driving rain. We need the rain, that's certain, but the timing could have been better ( Read more... )

First there was the band music incident. The van is cleaned out and now smells faintly of Pine-Sol, but still ( Read more... )

The band I play in/manage on Wednesday had to cancel our rehearsal this past wednesday, as we had a few guys who couldn't be there, and couldn't get subs. But Tim and I (Tim is the band manager, I assist) had planned on picking up the music and getting it organized during the holidays (yes, being a band leader is mostly paperwork ( Read more... )

One of my co-workers told me this week that she went on-line to get her comic-con tickets for 2010, and found out that 4-day passes are already sold out. They've been on sale for what - 2 months?

Geez, but the con is getting big. I wonder when it will be completely sold out.

Life has been mostly pretty normal (for a bizarre version of normal) lately. Of course, with lots of holidays coming up, I expect to fall behind again. [sigh] Fitting 40 hours of work into 30 or less can be challenging ( Read more... )

If you do it right.

And then there's the old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times."

My life is full, but not currently frantic, and that's a good thing.

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LOS ANGELES - Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," the films "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!" and television's "M-A-S-H," is dead.

Then again, according to some, God is in the details.

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Just trying to get something goping here to let you know I'm not quite dead yet ( Read more... )

Well, it's been interesting in various ways here. I hope it's been fun for you as well. Lots going on here, and some of it has been good.

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