Author: Brennick
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Fall Back
Well, we fell back this morning. Daylight Savings time ended. Still unsure of why we do this There’s a movement afoot in some New England states to change to the Atlantic time zone, and not switching to Daylight Savings time – so we’d always essentially be on daylight savings time. I’m a little late getting…
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Trip-Hop
Do you know what trip-hop is? I didn’t, although I love many of the artists in the genre. Take it away, Wikipedia: “Trip hop (sometimes called “downtempo”) is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990’s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as “a fusion of hip hop and electronica…
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Halloween
Halloween has become a major holiday. When did that happen? This year is is expected that we will spend $10 billion (yes, BILLION) on costumes, candy, and other ephemera (decorations. People now go nuts putting up Halloween decorations). What caused this big shift from a night when kids went around getting candy (and apples and…
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Birthday
Today’s my birthday. Many of you will wish me a happy birthday, some won’t. That’s fine – I don’t bat 1.000 when it’s friends’ birthdays, either. I just don’t keep that much of a social media presence. Thank you to everyone who does wish me the best today. I won’t be doing anything special to…
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Dogless
We had dogs for twenty-five years – first a black lab mix that we had for twelve years, then after a very brief period, a full-bred Siberian Husky that we had for thirteen years. It’s been a couple of years now since Fiona passed, and we still don’t have a dog. People ask if we’re…
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Tom Petty
It was another week of losing a rock star – this time Tom Petty. It’s becoming more and more regular that we are losing the beloved rock stars of not too long ago. Chuck Berry died in March, but he was 90 years old. Tom Petty was just 60 years old, so we lost him…
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Sleeping Weather
Well, on Thursday night the weather changed from super hot (and humid, man was Wednesday humid) to autumn-like temperatures, falling into the 40’s at night. You know, sleeping weather. I dug out my fall blanket and tossed it on the bed, and sure enough, sleeping was so much easier. I like keeping the window open…
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Taking a knee
Ed Asner stole my knee joke – time to call the Doctor about the pain in my knee (went away for a few days, but is excruciating right now). Really, how can I get it to be just dull pain? Dropping a quick 1982 podcast on y’all today. Not much to say about 1982 –…
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Train Table
I’ve got a busy day today. Along with all my regular chores (laundry, making supper, cleaning), I’ll be going to my wife’s school to build a train table. My wife is teaching kindergarten, and in order to spend as much of her salary as possible on school supplies for the kids, she decided that she…
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Knee’s Up Mother Brown
Time to talk about my left knee, which is now constantly talking to me. It’s taken a beating over the years – odd sprain in college (snow football – the inner part of the knee was sprained – I guess the outside is usually where the sprain occurs), and a meniscus tear in 2000 (from…