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jacki

take it from someone who knows - being a smartass is very dangerous

About Me

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50 questions for your myspace profile Where were you born?: Waterbury,Connecticut In what year?: 1953 What color is your hair?: brown What color are your eyes?: green How tall are you?: 5'3" What size are your feet?: 7 Are they ticklish?: no What's your favorite movie?: The Lord Of The Rings Whats your favorite TV show?: LOST Who's your favorite actor?: Tom Hanks Actress?: Cate Blanchett Type of music?: folk/rock Artist/band?: Mark Knopfler Color?: green Sport?: baseball Food?: seafood or italian Season: autumn School Subject?: none Do you have a best friend?: yes Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?: no How many close friends do you have?: several Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi?: pepsi Dogs or cats?: dogs Desparate Housewives or Gray's Anatomy?: neither Where were you when you first heard about the hijackings on 9/11?: had just gone to bed Whats the furthest from home you've been?: australia If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?: raratonga Who was the last person who said hi to you?: wendy Made you mad?: bart Helped you fix something?: wendy Drove you somewhere?: wags Bought you something?: bex You called?: book club You Messaged?: none Sang to you?: none Read to you?: mom, 45+ years ago Have you ever laughed so much milk came out of your nose?: no Got gum caught in your hair?: no Ate dog food?: dog biscuits Kissed a dog?: not on the mouth! Aced a test?: bouku times Stayed up all night?: all the time Gone a day without eating?: lots of times Gone 2 days without brushing your teeth?: no Can you pat your stomach and rub your head in a circle at the same time?: dont think so Stand on your hands?: no Wiggle your ears?: sort of Speak another language?: does pig latin count? I can ask where the bathroom is in a bunch of languages Make a wine glass hum with your fingers?: yes Whistle?: yes
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Click here to create your own . Well folks, where to start? It HAS been a long strange trip. Born in Connecticut BEFORE it became yuppie heaven; when I was small, there was a farm every other property, I knew cows by name, and you knew what family a kid came from almost by the way he walked, certainly by getting a close look at him. I became unsettled by the displacement of old families as kids grew up and couldn't stay for whatever reason; endowed with a deep love of small towns, I went far afield when it came time for college, and ended up 4 1/2 hours away as far north in Vermont as you can get and still be American, at Lyndon State College, in possibly the most beautiful setting in New England at least. Before that, I spent time working at Benrus Watch in Ridgefield, CT; Audio-Dynamics, a speaker plant in New Milford, CT; 2 1/2 years in a grimy textile mill, in an old bleachery building built in 1911 on a point of the Housatonic River, suffering regular pigeon and rat invasions during work shifts, flooding, temperatures of (at times) 116 degrees in summer inside, and an industrial hand injury which at the time I thought signed the end of my musical career. At this point I made the move to Vermont and never really looked back, though I do go back to visit occasionally. I now consider Vermont my true home though I have lived in the Midwest for 18 years oweing to a decent job in Omaha. I have attended and graduated from Harry Wendelstedt's Umpire School in Daytona, Florida because my father was an umpire and I love baseball; worked in countless restaurants, a few offices, a couple road crews (snow in the pass in New Hampshire constructing a bridge on I93 in July), briefly a projectionist in an art theatre in Vermont, cleaned houses (you'd never know it lookin at mine), was a brickie's helper working on the Ambassador to Chile's house in Peacham, Vermont; lived in Australia for 10 months, helping to run a couple of hostels there as well as working on 5 sheep stations in 2 areas of New South Wales and busking on Circular Quay in Sydney (and in Townsville, Qld.)with a hock-shop violin I bought in Newtown, Sydney for $166 and which effectively fed and sheltered me for months. I LOVED AUSTRALIA. Some day I hope to visit there again. A great country. I hated to come home and for months searched the shelves in vain in import food stores for a nasty concoction called Solo (a lemon soda; no, I never got into the other craze down under known as Vegamite). I came home incurably affected by that beautiful red land, and settled for want of a job back home with relatives - and later friends - in Omaha, Nebraska. By sheer serendipity I landed in a good job there and have been working toward retirement ever since, feeding my need for music by busking with my violin in Omaha's Old Market (18 years now and counting) and escaping when I can to concerts by some of my heroes. Recently I again took up where I left off about 25 years ago with my guitar and am putting my teacher through theory hell trying to make sense of it. On side trips I enjoy South Dakota and the Badlands, Montana (Little Bighorn), Wyoming (Devils Tower) and Western Nebraska. I like to drive home to New England and camp along the way at KOAs. I also like Michigan and Colorado although I get nosebleeds in the Rockies. I work with an amazing bunch of people who shall remain nameless to protect them (you all know who you are; I love every one of you, even though I can be a bitch sometimes after 4 a.m. or when I'm working with certain other people who I just can't stand, you know who they are too)who do an incredible unsung job for incredibly unappreciative other people. Kazoos to them; Kudos for all youse guys!
What Fantasy Archetype Are you?

The Unlikely Hero
You are the Unlikely Hero! Others like you are Frodo (Lord of The Rings), Young Aurthur (arthurian Legend), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars), Peter/Susan/Edmund/Lucy (Narnia), Richard Mayhew (Neverwhere), Harry Potter (Harry Potter) and Richard Cypher (Wizard's first Rule). You were happy to just live out your life as a peaceful schoolboy/farmer/wood's guide. But alas, greatness was thrust upon you. Don't let the hordes of The Totally Wicked Villain get you down, you have your Seasoned Veteran Friend to protect you and you almost always end up with the Pillar-of-Strength Love interest. Heed you Mentor well and keep your chin up, hero! You are simple, humble and kind but possess great potential for truly inspirational heroism, bravery and strength in dark times.
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My Interests

Music(folk/rock, blues, movie music);guitar,reading, movies,the great outdoors,New England, Australia, Great Britain, writing, baseball, NASCAR, travel, my friends on the internet, days off, guitars, playing fiddle in Omaha's Old Market, restaurants, tea, did i mention guitars?,scotch, wine, autumn, hanging out with friends. .... .... ....

I'd like to meet:


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Music:

........................................ Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Taylor, Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel, Counting Crows, Eric Johnson,Joe Satriani, Bruce Hornsby, Keith Jarrett,John Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffett, Eric Clapton, Enya, Stan Rogers, Pink Floyd/David Gilmour, Craig Chaquico, Sandy Denny, Brule,David Arkenstone, Randy Newman, Thomas Newman, James Horner,Ennio Morricone, Sting, Midnight Oil, Joe Walsh, Jethro Tull, Paul Simon, The Band, Peter Buffett, Planxty, Liam O'Flynn, Christy Moore, Donal Lunny, The Chieftains, Eric Tingstad, Larry Coryell, R. Carlos Nakai, Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer,oh jeez I'm so old I could continue for about a page... ..

Movies:

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Television:

................ , The Sopranos

Books:

The Lord Of The Rings; The Poldark Series; The Jungle Books; Collapse; The Once And Future King; anything by Samuel L Clemens, Charles Dickens

Heroes:

Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton,all my cops,all my chat buddies, all the great people in the Tree (you know who you are), Gayle for being so brave, the NASA astronauts (I don't even like going to the second floor), Bex for keeping me grounded, my 3 spirit guides

My Blog

Home in the Old Market

It's amazing to me how much the Old Market has changed in the nearly twenty years I've been here. I started playing violin on the street in the Old Market 3 days after I came to Omaha, and over time I...
Posted by jacki on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:29:00 PST

Out After Dark (The Luigi Waites Show)

Who knew Sunday could be such a good day? I had a really incredible day busking in the Old Market - people were generous and friendly - and around 2 I decided the day was just too nice to ruin by goin...
Posted by jacki on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:31:00 PST

The Midlands Renaissance Faire, Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 15 - 17, 2007

Well, hi, folks. Just finished a long but happy weekend at the Faire. I didn't do Friday night oweing to a late guitar lesson and the fact that the Faire is quite a ways away from home, but was in att...
Posted by jacki on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:55:00 PST

Buddy Guy and Eric Johnson at Stir concert in Council Bluffs, Iowa

I blew off a guitar lesson to attend a concert by these two legends tonight - I see it as a sort of expensive field trip along the road of my guitar apprenticeship - and prayed it wouldn't rain; it wa...
Posted by jacki on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:27:00 PST

rumenations

Oy, Spring. The windows are open, the night is beautiful, and we're finally drying out. The Midwest had a bit of flood trouble lately - driving to work at night on Interstate 29 I likened to driving t...
Posted by jacki on Fri, 11 May 2007 11:51:00 PST

childhood maladies

You haven't lived til you get poison ivy as an adult. I have badly neglected my yard and gardens over the past 3 years due to serious back issues, so this Spring, after a long and depressed winter, I ...
Posted by jacki on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:37:00 PST

Springtime in the Midwest!?

It is COLD here. I'll say it again....COLD. And cold does not, as a rule, bother me. Beautiful sunny day, so I chose a violin, layered up (I had heard it might be brisk out), and headed for my time-of...
Posted by jacki on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:26:00 PST

middle of the cold, cold night, 1 a.m.

Howdy, beaners. It's February 16, and we're still in the heart of it, whatever the weatherpeople say. (Although they make a huge big deal of 6" of snow here in the Midwest while, back home in Vermont,...
Posted by jacki on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:32:00 PST

cold

February 2nd,2007. It's 5 degrees outside. Back home, this would not be an issue. It's February. Northern Vermont. Get over it. But this is Iowa. All that people remember is what the air felt like in ...
Posted by jacki on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:08:00 PST

december 31, 2006

Well, hi again, folks. I guess I should do something about a blog for December before it's January. It's been an interesting year: I've rejoined the world of the culturally active, after a few years n...
Posted by jacki on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:30:00 PST