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Boy Scouts of America have announced a couple of changes. The first and more immediate one I particularly like. The latest campaign “Scout Me In” is not only catchy, but inclusive. This helps to get across the message that everybody is welcome, including girls into Cub Scouts and very soon into Boy Scouts. It was…
Lately I have been going through and cleaning up my MP3 files. Some of them have no band associated with them for some reason, or simply track numbers and no title. I was getting to my folder of Beatles music and decided to further split my collection into separate categories – by renaming the band…
Last Saturday was one of the busiest we have had in a while. August was at a robotics extravaganza, Xavier was at his baseball game and went to a birthday party, Déla served at a funeral and had a birthday party to attend, along with a couple of other items I know I am forgetting….
Approximately a month ago I posted the first set of announcements for the main stage entertainment at the 2018 Washington State Fair. What has been announced since then? How about local hero Macklemore? Or legendary act Chicago? First I’ll list off what’s been announced then the full list … oh, just keep reading. (Ticket prices…
I’m not sure when I was first introduced to The Cars. I remember watching Friday Night Videos and the video for “Shake It Up” from 1981, so this was probably it. I was beginning at this time to really become aware of popular music at the time, I was about 14 or so, and had…
Just a couple of pictures this week. This have been crazy, and tomorrow (Saturday) promises to be even crazier – and yes, there will be pictures. In the mean time… Went to get Grace up from nap one day and found her like this. How could I not? Earlier this week I posted a couple…
Yesterday sucked. Oh sure, there were things that went well, like dinner, but overall there are two items that overshadowed the whole day. First, I got locked out of the house. It was the afternoon, Tevye and Grace were down for nap. I was working in the kitchen, cleaning things up, and I went to…
It’s been only one week. And I’m getting this posted on Friday!! Last week I mentioned how the kids were on spring break and we hit a couple of places, including the zoo, but I was going to have those pictures this week. Here they are, starting with Ciárán and Xavier chilling in the penguin…
I don’t get why this is being reissued. CHANGESTWOBOWIE is being reissued this week on vinyl, no extra tracks, and not the CHANGESBOWIE compilation that combined the two “changes” compilations. David Bowie has many “best of” compilations including the (relatively) recently released and completely career spanning Nothing Has Changed (which, even for those of us…
If nothing else I want to get back into getting these posted every week. Especially when there has been a lot going on. Grace has enjoyed trying on some of Déla’s boots lately. Notice how clean this uniform is? It will never be this clean again. First game of the season and a good base…