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Hot on the heels of what is arguably my best Music Monday post yet, I offer up another of my”quick and kind of lame” posts. Perhaps the only redeeming thing about this entry is I finally am featuring music more recent than the 1980s. “Everything Is Awesome” is of course the song from The LEGO…
Here he is – Tevye Stephen MacKay Pelfrey Born May 6 at 3:47 in the afternoon. Everybody is doing fine, which is the most important thing. The older kids are excited to have a new addition to the family. Saturday there seemed to be an hour and a half where “things were going to happen”…
I’ve mentioned this band before, most prominently when ex-front man Charlie Chesterman died last year. A bit of country, a bit of punk, a bit of folk and roots rock, maybe a little rockabilly – Scruffy The Cat was a little hard to define. That might be way “alternative” radio at the time never got…
A couple of great events happened over the last week, so let’s jump into it. First off, no, the baby hasn’t arrived, but here’s Laura at 9+ months, ready for the baby to arrive. Any time now. Last Saturday August had his Cub Scout pack’s pinewood derby. He came in 1st place for his den….
It’s that time. Things are imminent. Her due date was Sunday. Oh, we’re not on pins and needles, a watched pot doesn’t boil and if we sit around staring at her belly it won’t help matters. Besides, all of the kids that she has given birth to have been late. The earliest was Ciaran at…
I agonized over this one. I don’t know why. I guess because I was thinking I should showcase something new, or at least within this century. Well, I do buy new music, but that wasn’t where my head has been at lately. So what to share? How about something from my favorite band? Oh yes,…
Settle in, it’s gonna be a long one. First up we have Saturday night. We go to the Easter Vigil mass, which begins late – about 8:30 or 9 depending on the date. This year it started at 9pm. It goes late, nearly to midnight, but it’s my favorite mass of the year. That’s not…
I’m in the kitchen working on dinner when Ciárán comes through on his way outside to play in the back yard. As he walks through the door he turns around and says, “What if every time you say ‘No way, José!’ some guy named José popped up and said ‘Oh, man!’” And with that he…
I recently finished ripping my music – well, most of it. My general “A-Z” stuff has been converted to MP3 with most of my soundtracks and collections as well as the classical music still waiting. There are a few random CDs that didn’t make it, such as a Robert Plant CD that simply refuses to…
Spring is here, and you know what that means. Unpredictable weather. At least in Seattle. Sunday was nice so we went to the playground. August proceeded to get stuck going over an area of the play structure in a manner he shouldn’t have. Oh well. At least the other kids behaved themselves. …