Eine Schwarze Katze - One Black Cat

Kari's Birthday is today. She's been having birthdays all of her life, she says. I know this one is important because it's today. I woke up too late to fix breakfast, but I…

Kari asked me why I’m wearing my old glasses. Because they happened to be where I needed them at the time ... on my face. That has nothing to do with anything else.
 

I was stationed in Bamburg, Germany…

Wo Ist Der Bahnhof? 

Don’t ask me what that means. You don’t have to because I’m going to tell you. It’s German for “Where is the train station?” I used that phrase a lot when I was in Germany. I…

Here's that day that we've waited for throughout the past year, and it's finally here and nobody knows what to do with it! That grand Canadian holiday, Boxing Day! December 26th, the day after we celebrate commercial exploitation and capitalism…

Merry Christmas, Y'all. December 25th, 2020. Day 360 of the year. I am glad you've made it this far. There are six more days of 2020 until the beginning of a new year.

Just to prove that I am not…

Yes, every year, Christmas Eve, I usually end up wrapping a few small things for Kari. Every year I say, "Sometime before next Christmas, I need to buy a roll of scotch tape."

Here I am, Christmas Eve, tearing…

Happy Festivus, Y'all! I hope everyone enjoyed the celebration. In case You missed it, the da6d Daily Ramblin' from last week was all about Festivus. Have a look. Only a Week Away

I have the Festivus Pole in my…

"Four Score and seven years ago…" These words began Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. November 19, 1863. Four and a half months after the Union victory at Gettysburg. 

Looking back “four score and seven years ago” from today, not a…

Jupiter and Saturn, the two largest planets in our Solar System, got together today to talk about us. More particularly to talk about the U.S. Our planet is trying to kill us, maybe other planets want in on the action. 

Gas and gears and rubber on the road. Now booking Spring/Summer 2021.

This time last year, I was busy. I had finished recording I Ain't Stayin'. We had a cover design, insert booklet layout, and a budget planned. We were…

Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard (August 4, 1921 - May 27, 2000). The first player to score 50 goals in one season. He was also the first NHL player to reach 500 career goals. Who do you know that has…

Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkins) does some of the funniest stuff I've ever seen. The movie Bean (1997) has a scene where Mr. Bean is stealing the painting Whistler's Mother. Bean has a cloth over the painting and, while making…

It's been a while since I've used one of these. Really, I haven't used one this old, much. I have worked a bit with older Gurley transits. Of course, I've also used theodolites and GPS systems.

I spent a…

What's today? I'm not sure, other than Day Six of Hanukkah. One thing I am sure of, it's only one week until Festivus!

I do remember Christmas while growing up. Every year, we'd all dress up as homeless children…

Stephen King has always been one of my favorite writers. "Misery" has always been one of my favorite books. I recently re-homed several Stephen King books that I'd read enough that they were just shelf surfing. This paperback copy of…

Kari often asks me why I wear carpenter pants. She'll say, "You're not a carpenter. Why do you wear carpenter pants?" I don't play baseball either.

I used to be a carpenter. I've done lots carpenting. That's what carpenters…

Day 21,282 on planet Earth
Blog no. 171 

Today is Sunday, December 13th, 2020. There are 12 days until Christmas, 18 days left in the year, 38 days until the inauguration of Joe Biden.

One thing I enjoy…

Kari may have often wondered how I know so much about opera. The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show, of course. Would you believe that I had Kari singing opera this afternoon? 

"North winds blow. West winds blow. Kill the…

F-stop, that's a camera setting, right? I didn't want to alarm anyone.

I do know one end of a camera from another, but that's about it; f-stops, ISO, that's all over my head. I'm slow at learning what I'm doing…

Tonight she called me "Poppie." She's never called me "Poppie" before.

DeO'jie was only ten weeks old when we met. I was 47 years old. I had volunteered at the Forsyth County Animal Shelter and she volunteered to be my…

I don't think that I have ever introduced the band, have I? 

Harp players are a very weird sort. It's all about microphones, reeds, combs, amps, ceramic diaphragms, tone, tone, and most importantly, tone....do you see what I mean? I…

Ten years ago, I wrote a Facebook post about being (living) at the same place I had been thirty years earlier. On December 8th, 1980, I had been out to dinner. I came home and turned on the radio: WROQ…

"Gnomes on the Move" was my second animated production, following the video I made for my song "Shadow's Puppet." Just a few hundred photographs in the right order and properly spaced. Kari Weaver, the Gnome Wrangler, did all the hard…

I rode out to the Blue Ridge Parkway this morning. I was looking for quiet and solitude. I had heard that it was around somewhere. I was right. I left quiet and solitude at home with Kari.

I’m on…

Welcome home, Skipper! How’ve you been?

Skipper is home and nobody knows who Skipper is. 

Six years ago or so this coming February, I had a couple of gigs and a House Concert near Osteen and Orlando, Florida. Before the…