Tag: Rush

The Old Ebay She Ain’t What She Used to Be

I won three auctions on ebay two weeks ago.  All vinyl records, all less than $10.  One seller went deadbeat on me within minutes of the auction ending.  Suddenly and tragically the seller’s paypal had to be changed.  He graciously refunded the money that I gave him immediately after the auction ended and told me to let him know when I was ready so that he could relist the item.  Unbelievably, some one else bought it before I could bid.  Oh woah is me!

The first auction I won was for a copy of 2112.  The estimated ship by date was for all of last week through today.  Guess what hasn’t arrived.

The third auction went fine and it arrived in the mail today.  I guess one out of three ain’t bad.

Random Flickr Photo

Untitled by robj_1971
Untitled, a photo by robj_1971 on Flickr.

This random Flickr photo post celebrates (laments) the end of the Clockwork Angels tour. The last show took place in Kansas City last night.

Lets hope we don’t have to wait too long for new Rush music. The remix of Vapor Trails is due to come out in October, and there is a rumored Clockwork Angels tour video/live album in the works as well.

That’s not what I mean though. I mean that I hope we don’t have to wait too long for a new album of new original music. That’s what I really want.

Thanks for a great tour, Geddy, Alex, and Neil.

ADDENDUM: Touch typing on the iPad seems like a good idea until you find 30 typos, misspellings, and auto-correct errors in three paragraphs.

The Day After the 4th

Did you enjoy your 4th of July, USA? We sure did. Alas, it is now in the past and today is just plain old July 5th. I have to work today, but I get to work from home. My beloved wife has the day off but is going to be working hard on a number of non-work things at her desk, so she’s sort of working from home too. The kids woke up here today, but their father asked if we could please bring them to his house as if it were a normal Friday. He must have something planned for today. I hope the kids have as much fun today as they did yesterday.

So today started out like a normal Friday. Jen got up, then the kids got up, then I got up. All around 6:00am. The kids got ready for the day. I took a shower and got ready for the day. At a couple minutes past 7:00 the kids and I went up North to their dad’s house. I stopped at a convenience store and dunkin donuts on the way home.

When I got home the first thing my beloved wife said to me was, “want to go to Ontario?” She was referring to tomorrow night’s Rush show in Hamilton, Ontario. (What’s the correct abbreviation of Ontario now? It used to be ONT, but Canada has gone to a two letter system like ours, haven’t they? Ontario is ON now, right? Or is it OT? It’s ON. I think. I’ll just spell it out until I Google it. Ontario it is) Me being slightly psychotic said, “Sure!”

Are you aware that if you drive from greater Boston, Massachusetts to Hamilton, Ontario (Neil Peart’s birthplace) you will go past Niagara Falls? Fascinating, eh? Did we just stumble upon a major league weekend road trip?

I sure hope so!

WOOHOO!

Rush in Canada!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Hey Rush fans,

Now that Rush have been inducted into the idiocy known as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the ceremony has aired on HBO, can we please, please, please never talk about it again? Can we please forget about the whole stupid thing forever and ever and ever now?

Pretty please?

Thanks,
Rob