Experiment!

It's not even on my list to stop. It really needs to be hiking season, and not the middle of Winter. My main form of exercise during the cold months is running up and down the stairs to my basement studio. I do that quite a lot.

So until it gets up there in my face, I am gonna smoke em if I got em. Bum them when I don't.

However I have broken no laws; My only firm resolution this year was to spend some money on my poor old piano so I will want to practice it more. The felts are all bad. Bad ev… Continue

I granny sat today, all the daylong day. And Granny likes fresh music.

I put Ry Cooder's "My Name is Buddy" into her album rotation quite a bit, and she likes it a bunch - until he loads on a bunch of rock and folk roots fusion towards the end. She might fuss for a change then.

But she often complains she doesn't understand the story or what they are singing about. So in response I began sharing the story of the album, about the cat with a suitcase his dad said he needed to carry with him alwa… Continue

Several years ago I was struck by the fact that, in the Bible book, The Revelation of John, in spite of the rather harrowing circumstances in the book, large crowds of people quite often seemed moved to burst out into song. I found some of these passages, studied them a bit, and formed them into songs. This was the first one I wrote and recorded.

As one might expect, it's an out and out Christian worship song. It's also the first song I ever recorded, and performed all the parts for, in my life… Continue

I prolly wouldn't know anything about this if it weren't for a librarian friend of mine, who explained for me her frustration about things like this:

Illinois HB1727 creates the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act.

1) Provides that each public library must have a technology protection measure to prevent the display on a public computer of any visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors.

2) Authorizes enforcement by the Attorney General or an individual.… Continue

As some of you know, I got hit by a virus - 3x in the last 2 weeks. I was attacked 5 times. My scanner caught two - then they figured out a way to get around that.

The virus was released the day after Microsoft's Patch Tuesday - when they release all their updates at once once a month. There is still no patch available, so I have switched browsers to Firefox and disabled active scripting in Internet Explorer. Which makes the web pretty much useless.

I also fired my antivirus immediately even t… Continue