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About Me

After over 50 years of striving for greatness, I have decided there's nothing wrong with mundane.I'm totally dedicated to my daughter, son-in-law, and three world-class grandkids, and still miss my one true love, Debbie.Music is my passion. I don't sing any more in public (having the vocal chords scraped twice takes the fun out of it), but I'm an industrious collector, and have a whole lot of fun taking old LPs and putting them onto CD. Nothing makes me happier than to spend three hours doing a quality remastering job, and then turn around three months later and see where a regular label has reissued something I've remastered.I do have a Bachelor's Degree, with a double major and a double minor, but the college I got the degree with isn't listed on MySpace...I guess they've never heard of the University of the State Of New York's Regents Degree Program!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Living: Whoopi Goldberg; Paul McCartney; Alison Krauss; T-Bone Burnett; Robert B. Parker; S.M. Stirling
Past: Debbie...every day; Grandma Wright; Robert A. Heinlein; John D. MacDonald

My Blog

An Uplifting Experience!

As most of You know, I'm a Member of the First Congregational Church of Baseball, Arizona Chapter.  In fact, I can Probably be considered a Deacon. Monday, April 7th, was one of the Major Celebra...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:32:00 GMT

Gosh...its 2008 already?

Well, 2007 was a pretty good year for me. I'm still single, which is a VERY mixed blessing, but have a few friends whose company I enjoy.  It might be nice to have a long term, permanent relation...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:57:00 GMT

Curmudgeon....Grumpy...Eeeee-villle!!!

Sorry I've been so long between blogs.  Between a cross country drive with my best friend, Halloween, work, and a whole stack of unexpected LP remasters, I've been short on time.  And I don'...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:48:00 GMT

Adventures in living with JD!

Wow, has it really been almost a month since I blogged last? I didn't realize I've been that busy...but then, time flies when you have fun. And fruit flies when you have overripe bananas... Anyhow!&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:35:00 GMT

The Dog Days and Elvis Has Still Left the Building!

Well, Elvis Week is finally over...and I didn't go again. Of course, I'm not a big fan of crowds, and while I admired Elvis a lot, I was never really a fanatic about him.  And I'm not a big fan o...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:43:00 GMT

Barry finally strokes it!

Well, Barry Bonds finally tied the home run record. I respect him for it.  I don't care if he took steroids (assuming they were legal when he took them) or any other performance enhancing drug, y...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:34:00 GMT

Well, it's the Big Night!

I probably won't go to bed tonight. And, of course, it's the end of an era.  The Harry Potter Era, to be exact.  When I first heard about J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter novel (way back wi...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:17:00 GMT

My annual rant about weather complaints

Okay, it's 11:00 at night, and according to WeatherBug, it's still 95 degrees outside. I don't care.  I take the necessary precautions about the heat, and don't complain, and have heard about all...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:12:00 GMT

I won't say I'm all ears...

What a strange week.  Too much stuff going on that's too personal even for a blog...let's just say I'm going to miss my Dad, and I want to slap my mother. One of my co-workers says I'm too strang...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:50:00 GMT

Drivin' My Life Away

Well, I'm taking today as a day away from everything...and then spending tomorrow with my best loved ones.  I'm going to drive up to Payson for lunch, and hope it's more than 15 degrees cooler th...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:53:00 GMT