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On Monday, July 22nd I was at a Toad the Wet Sprocket concert and toward the end of their set the lead singer, Glen Phillips, said something along the lines of, "Thank you for coming out on this Monday night and being with us. I don't know about you but I'm feeling better than I did a few days ago ( Read more... )

Editor's Note: I am currently in isolation mode after a COVID positive (dodged it for over 3 years; worst of it seems to have passed, feeling better each day), I'm thoroughly bored with the confines of my condo, *and* in a month in change I will have my half-century birthday so I am restless, reflective, and nostalgic. This entry will reflect that ( Read more... )

I've had this running thought in my head for over 6 months now, first brought on in a conversation with one of my sons. The gist or summary of that thought was this: "So many of the things we do to or for ourselves are to relieve a pain we can't even name half the time or all kinds of pain we know by name and wish we had a word to summarize it all ( Read more... )

Election Day 2022 marks thirty years of voting in Presidential and midterm elections for me. 30 years! I was thinking of this marker as I filled out my ballot for this year and considered the various other races, ballot measures, and issues voters coast-to-coast are voting on this go-around ( Read more... )

A week ago today I had plans. Pretty simple ones. Go to the gym, work out, shower there, and then check in with my partner on our Saturday plans. Nothing especially unique about any of that, really ( Read more... )

Note: This is another entry or series of musings on 2012, a rather transformative year for me, a decade after the fact."Who says absence makes the heart grow fonder? In all the pictures that you send me now your hair seems to get just a little bit blonder." - The Refreshments ( Read more... )

So after two years of delays, it appears the Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison, and Joan Jett stadium tour got off to a good start last night. When it was first announced in 2020 the dates sold out faster than another stadium tour of Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer ( Read more... )

I am a big fan of the soon-to-be concluded NBC series This Is Us. In the golden age of streaming it has been rarer and rarer to find a network show so good. And with one episode to go it is doing the not-so-easy task of ending things perfectly. A lot of very good shows don't stick the landing when it comes to the finale. This one would have to ( Read more... )

I've been doing the long look back on ten years ago when everything started to change for me, which I still documented in detail via Livejournal. This past week I re-read Valentine's Day 2012, which hit amid falling madly in love with someone new for the first time in nearly 20 years and as my then-marriage was unraveling ( Read more... )