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Thursday night was one of my dream concerts. The Young Fresh Fellows opening up for The Replacements. A near perfect pairing, at least idealy. Both bands are capable to doing great songs and then messing up complete sets in equal measure. My view wasn’t as good as I would have liked – nothing like the…
We recently got a massive box from Disney as a promotion for the upcoming digital release of the Star Wars film saga. The kids had NO IDEA what was in the box, who sent it or why. I just let them discover it on their own. There was a lot of great stuff in there…
If you have been on the internet the last day or so you most likely have heard – the Star Wars films are going to be available digitally. One of the things that I have a question about is the bonus features. There are going to be some new bonus features, but what about the…
It’s the first day of baseball season. Well, there were a couple of games yesterday but they don’t count because today is the opening day of my Seattle Mariners. Everybody seems to know “Centerfield” by John Fogerty (known perhaps better by the tagline in the chorus “Put me in coach!”) but there are many more…
This year for Easter I was up late the night before. The reason why is unimportant and has little to do with the rest of the story. The point is, I was up very late and wound up getting just a few hours of sleep. The following story involves my nearly 5 year old, Xavier.
Just a few this week. Dad went back home to Ireland. The Tevye got sick and we have been busy getting ready for Easter. I ran into Ciaran this week at school when I dropped of Xavier at preschool. Then there was spaghetti night earlier this week. Xavier made a seasonally appropriate mask at preschoool…
It is a shame the people who *should* read this won’t. Recently the topic of religious freedom and expression has become popular again as various laws are being passed. I don’t want to get into the specific laws, but wanted to address the general sentiment behind the issue from my own perspective.
What happened in Seattle on Tuesday? It was absolutely bonkers! 15 blocks to the south of us there was a storm. 30 blocks to the north of us there was some hail. Then there was what happened on our block. That’s not rain falling from the sky. It hailed for – and I am not…
I was late on Friday for Stations Of The Cross. I’ll get to that in a minute. This year I struggled with what to do for Lent. Every year I try something and it doesn’t stick. One year I tried giving up chocolate. That worked for a few weeks, but not the whole of the…
It took me long enough to pick up the soundtrack to Rock And Roll High School on CD. I had the cassette which has since been lost (most likely stolen by a roommate years ago) and still have a copy of the album on vinyl (which is tucked away in a special place for a different…