Tonight I completed the collection of State Park Quarters and polished off the collector’s book. If you didn’t know the US Mint ran a program called “America the Beautiful Quarters“, and there was a quarter design produced for each of the 50 National Parks, as well as one for each of the 6 US territories […]

Last year, just as the pandemic got started and we were all locked in, I did something I haven’t done since the early 80’s. I bought a record player. Somewhere around 1988 I stopped with records completely, as I got my first CD player in Dec 1987, and I was mostly into cassettes then due […]

For the last 5 or 6 years or so, I’ve been keeping a “xxxx deaths” playlist in iTunes.  Whenever I hear of some musician I know and like something from, I’ll add a song for them to my playlist.  As today is the 31st of December, it struck me as a good time to put […]

On the surface this is a music post, but it really isn’t. It’s about human emotion and feelings. Before I get to that…

Those who know me (and have read my blog over the years) know that I spent quite some time working for Scott Miller & George Broussard of Apogee Software (later 3D Realms).  Was probably the single most fun job I’ve ever had in my life, and to this day, I still wish the old team […]

I’ve known about George Takei for probably my entire life, as I was watching Star Trek as far back as the 60’s (in a playpen, but still)…  As the years went by I learned he was way more than just an actor, he was an activist for any number of things, including gay rights, but […]

Today I installed a totally new theme on my blog.  I did something I’ve wanted to do for ages, was install a dark theme blog. Problem is that most new themes for WordPress don’t have plain blog themes.  They’re all eCommerce this, or publishing that.  The good ol fashioned blog format has kind of fallen […]