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Sunday started out like any other day. No, that’s a lie. Laura and I knew going into Saturday night that Sunday was going to be a long slog. And it was. Waking up Sunday morning at 6, the plan was to load the van with all the stuff being stored at my house, take a…
Feeling confident with his new record contract Lou Reed decided to start experimenting in the studio. Not with his songs, but with the actual recording. His second album for his new label, Arista, was a binaural recording. This is a method meant to create a stereo effect during the recording process. I won’t go into…
Just a few pictures this time around. I know it’s not a great excuse, but I’ve just been so busy I have actually forgotten to take many pictures. Xavier is doing 1st grade soccer. They practice on a field that is attached to a park. Their school does not have a field. That park comes…
I have mentioned before that I rather dislike exercising, but do it anyway because it needs to be done. I need to exercise for the usual reasons, better cardiovascular health, weight loss, etc. Fine, I do it, but don’t ask me to like it. Because our schedule is so packed and crazy, the only time…
This past weekend I spoke at each of the masses as part of, well, I’ll just let my words speak for themselves. Hello. I am Daniel Pelfrey. Some of you may know me from my lectoring, usually at the 5 o clock vigil mass. Most of you probably know me from the school. But I…
After the debacle regarding Metal Machine Music and fulfilling his contract, Lou Reed got a new contract at a different label. Switching from RCA to Arista (both now under the ownership of Sony acting as the same label) Lou Reed got to work on a new record. Rock & Roll Heart was released the same…
Today has been… challenging? Rough? Just a day? It is difficult to write a post about getting only four hours of sleep while suffering from only getting four hours of sleep the night before. Initially I was going to go into the why of getting up in the middle of the night, then thought better…
Two somewhat unrelated yet connected thoughts this morning born out of experience. First – curb your dog. After dropping off most of the kids at school I took Tevye (and Grace, in the stroller) to preschool. While waiting for the door to open he walked off the sidewalk and around the rhododendron. It’s a small…
I thought “Yeah, this will be a fun movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Obviously if Mr. Hasselhoff is down with the idea of playing a version of himself where he deserves to be killed it should be funny.” For the most part my initial thoughts were correct. David Hasselhoff plays a fictional version…
Well, that’s been a couple of busy weeks. It started off with Déla’s birthday. For her 12th birthday she got her ears pierced. At the mall. The mall also has Cinnabon. Right before school started Ciárán was invited to a birthday party at a skate park. He had never been on a skateboard before and…