Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all whose browser brings them here! We had a very nice New Year, highlighted by a dinner party New Year's Eve at our house with friends, featuring an amazing 9 lb. Harris Ranch prime rib, which we slow cooked to medium rare and cut into entirely too large slices. I admit to my fondness for beef. (See my song "Food Chain" at the "music" section of this site). Marie made Chantrelle mashed potatoes, we sipped wine, Marie read aloud the Internet story of the dogs and the elk carcass,
(after dinner), and Blaine showed off his new Tivo and it's unbelievable features.

It was great to have Marie's mom here for a few days after Christmas and into the new year. We love having her here!

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Cell Phone-O-Rama

So my cell phone hasn't been working all that well lately, cutting out, dropping the signal completely (ya know how that sucks when you are trying to finish up a big record deal by phone). I decide I gotta get a new one. So I go out to the AT&T store, now the Cingular store, since the merger, and toss my 8 month old phone on the counter, tell my story. "Oh yeah", the nice woman behind the counter says, " we aren't even building out that technology anymore". So with a chuckle and a "I knew that" attitude, I ask about a new phone, oh, maybe make a lateral move, I don't need all the bells and whistles. She shows me a small, handsome phone I can get for $18.00!, so I go for it.

Last night, as we watched the news, I toyed with it, stunned by the features. Before I was done, sitting there in my armchair, I had downloaded, from outer space, wirelessly, for $1.99, an additional "seasonal" ring tone, just for the holidays, "Deck the Halls, Salsa Mix". It rang today while I was in FreeGeek taking my son to work. What a great time to be alive.

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Christmas!

I have a good friend who used to claim that he and his brother would go shopping on Christmas eve. I know there are lots of people who do that......WHY!!!? I would tell him he needed to push the envelope a bit further, you know, go to the 7-11 at say, 2pm on Christmas day, buy his wife a nice bag of pepperoni sticks, a six-pack, some scratch-off tickets.

We are gonna have a party here this weekend to celebrate, and we are going to have some platters of beautiful Christmas foods and sweets from Criollo bakery, which is the bakery in the commercial building we own on 47th and NE
Fremont in Portland. I am certain my kids are going to drive up in that sports car they have been promising me for years!

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The Reign Lives

Had lunch yesterday with two of my old "Morning Reign" buddies, Craig Chastain (still plays a mean rhythm guitar) and Doug Heatherington (bass). It was great to see them both. Craig is working for the Luis Palau organization and Doug remains with Farmer's Insurance. Of course it takes about ten minutes for us to start talking about "the old days", and some of the wacky stuff that we did back when we were kids. The three of us also attended Willamette University, where we were members of Delta Tau Delta, so the stories of our fraternity days as well as the band stories abound. I am certain we revisit the same stories every time we get together, which is about once a year. I love those guys.

Post Thanksgiving

We had a nice quiet Thanksgiving at our house, watched some football, chowed, and just generally had a family day. It's great to have Marie home for a few days from work. Over the Thanksgiving break, we cleaned out our greenhouse and put the winter tarp over it, a job I loathe, so it was great to get that done. Last night we watched "Trading Spouses", the one with the Vegan Mom and the Cajun Mom. Gawd I just have to hide my face watching reality tv sometimes. This episode inspired me to complete a new song I have been working on, titled, "The Fundamentalist Gene".

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Welcome!

Of course we jest when we suggest that one might find some "useful information" on this website. But one will find songs, old and new, photos, and some weblog entries made by me, detailing every minute aspect of my life.....NOT! But I will come here to write when it strikes my fancy, and I promise to include things that, though they might be a bit less than useful, are entertaining. Basically if I just stay home and record the wacky shit my step-son Blaine does, that should do it.

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