Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coincidence, employment, house, job hunt, loss, opportunity, rochester on July 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
For those of you as yet unaware of the situation, I have recently joined the ranks of the unemployed.
Along with the job, of course, goes the house we were gearing up to close on. Hard to pay a mortgage without an income.
I – and many others – have noted that it’s a very big ‘coincidence’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ac-dc, aerosmith, beethoven, classic, def leppard, guitar, guns n roses, intro, music, nirvana, rem, riffs, van halen on July 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There are a few songs which most of us can identify within the first few seconds, and will be able to do so to the grave.
Love it or loathe it, the intro riff to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is one of these. So is the opening to Aerosmith’s “Walk This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2010, 2012, 2016, alaska, governor, murkowski, news, palin, palin resigns, politics on July 4, 2009 | 11 Comments »
So the big news of the day is Sarah Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska.
Supposedly, Palin has grown sufficiently sick of being savaged by the media as to warrant resignation. MSNBC is running a report that says she wants to be out of politics entirely, to take the time to raise her family.
Of course, many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged america, britain, independence day, july 4th, king george, liberty on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Fourth of July to all my fellow Americans!
It still feels very weird to type ‘my fellow Americans’. Sort of like a new pair of shoes, which are very comfortable and look great, but due to their newness still seem a little awkward and tend to squeak if you turn around too fast.
Independence Day is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged double neck, eds1275, gibson, goodbye, guitar on July 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday I said goodbye for the last time to a dear friend – one who was in my life for ten years, looked cooler than I ever could and was curvy in all the right places.
She was very much the centerpiece of my guitar collection, and never failed to catch the eye and spark conversation.
But [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged al franken, climate change, democrats, filibuster, harry reid, politics, senate, supermajority, waxman-markey on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Or at least, it may feel that way to one Harry Mason Reid, currently Senate Majority Leader.
With the election – at last – of Al Franken, the Democrats have the “filibuster-proof supermajority” of which much has been said.
However, I think such things as the recent House vote on Waxman-Markey (the ‘climate change bill’) show that [...]
