New Music Playlist

There. Finally. I added a new music playlist to the My Music page. Quarantine Tunes Volume Seven is done and done.

This is a bandcamp.com playlist but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not buy it. I only use bandcamp for these things because the playlists look all nice on wordpress.com pages and they seem to work okay too. At least they did the last time I messed around with one. These recordings are absolutely not worth paying for. Believe me. Listen to your hearts content (which, obviously includes not listening at all. That’s 100% fine with me. I kinda suck at this stuff), but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not buy the album. Thanks.

Topics?

Daily writing prompt

What topics do you like to discuss?

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Translating today’s prompt from Jetpack to Robert-speak it is asking me to write about what I like to write about in my personal blog/journal/brain dropping target. I thought I had an About Me page around here somewhere that served that purpose for me. Whatever, I feel a bullet list coming on…

What topics do I like to discuss?

My wife, Jen
My step kids, Bellana and Harry
All things family
Music
- Playing music
- Writing music
- All things related to playing in a band
- Listening to music
- Arguing about music (I am a grade A music snob and I am always right)
- Recording music
- All things related to musical instruments and gear
- Leaving the house to go and listen to live music (which doesn’t happen often anymore because I am old and go to bed early)
Sports
- Hockey, both NHL and minor leagues and sometimes even NCAA
- Baseball, both major and minor leagues
Travel
Stressing about money and how we don’t have enough for what we want to do with our lives but still try to find a way if we can
Weight loss surgery recovery and all the gross stomach issues that go along with it that are 100% worth the struggle
Working as a programmer for a software company that develops systems for hospitals
Photography
- Digital photography
- Film photography
- Cell phone photography
Bad haiku that are likely viscously insulting to the actual artists who write real haiku
Technology
Being a total Apple fanboy
Social media and how it is both an obsession and infuriatingly awful
Politics
- How the maga cult is the new nazi party and how that fascist pile of orange goo is literally evil
Cats

Yeah, that seems like a good, short list of topics I like to talk about on this cute little bloggie page. Hopefully you, dear readers, are into reading weird, middle aged people from New England who like to write insipid crap about some of these topics, and hopefully I don’t make you wait too long before hitting something you are particularly interested in.

Yup, We’re Going Back

I don’t want to share any details yet, but we’re going back to Disney World… soon. Not immediately, but very soon.

Resort room booked, park tickets arranged.

Yeah… we’re going back. I wanna take another ride on The Falcon.

Haiku for You #182

I mentioned something earlier about this week feeling like a super long week. Now I reiterate in haiku for you form.

Longest week ever
Thursday’s coming to an end
One more day to go

Today’s Photo a Day Cat

As is usually the case on days when I work in the office, today’s photo a day pic is a cat, taken before I left the house this morning. There are only so many hours in the day, and most of them are not good for snappin’ pics while in the office.

I like the mirror view in this one. Cute kitty.

How is Today Not Friday?

My teeny tiny little pipsqueak of a brain is 100% convinced that today is Friday and it will not hear any arguments to the contrary.

How is today not Friday?

It feels like Friday. It’s been the longest week ever. I have had so much to do at work and after work and before work and around work and in between work and all of that. I feel like I’ve done three weeks worth of work this week, so how is today not Friday?

But it’s not Friday. It is Thursday. That’s going to make today difficult. I keep getting excited about the weekend’s imminent arrival and then I realize we have to get through a whole additional business day after we get through today. No. It can’t be Thursday today. It has to be Friday. It must be Friday!

How is today not Friday?

Yet Another Question About Risks

Daily writing prompt

When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?

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Okay folks… let’s change the subject. I’m tired of sharing stories about past risks. Enough.

You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.

Frank Drebin: The Naked Gun

Last night I took a risk. I was in Foxborough and I needed to drive home to Methuen. It was 9:00pm. There should not have been any traffic. I had three choices for the drive home. 95 South to 495 North to 93 North, 95 North to 128 North to 93 North, or 95 North to 93 North. The last option includes driving through Boston. At normal times of day that would be the last option I would ever take. Boston is a traffic nightmare. At rush hour I would take the route 495 option. It’s by far the longest, but by far the less likely to have an ugly traffic jam so the time on the road isn’t so bad. More often than not I would take the route 128 option. It can have some nasty traffic in places but it’s way better than going through the city.

Last night it was hours after rush hour. It was pretty late at night. Boston should not have been a problem. Even though I almost never choose to go through Boston, that was the option I picked…

and I got stuck in construction traffic that added half an hour onto my drive. Instead of getting home at 10:00pm, I got home at 10:30.

MuthaPussBucket!

It was a risk… and it bit me on the ass. Stupid risk.

Now, can we stop having daily writing prompts asking about taking risks for a while? It’s repetitive and it’s getting BORING.

Thank you, good night.

The Bruins Win Game Three

The Bruins beat the Leafs 4-2 tonight to take a two games to one lead in their best of seven first round series.

And all was right with the world.

I did not see a single second of the game as I was out all night at an after work, work thing. I missed the game and I missed my wife even more. Blah.

I’m in the office again tomorrow. It’s the third day of a three consecutive days in the office deal. Blah.

Game four of the series doesn’t happen until Saturday and that blows. Blah. I’ll have to hope that the Red Sox can tide me over during that extra day off. They beat Cleveland tonight and that is borderline miraculous. Praise be.