Author: Brennick

  • New Look

    Hey all – Decided on a new look for the website. Whaddya think? I kind of like it – may change up the header picture every now and then. I have lots to choose from. Maybe even find a way to cascade photos. Other than that the site’s the same – still have all the…

  • April Showers Bring Snow?

    What an April Fool’s joke! 12 inches of snow fell here, and that was after the amounts of snow were scaled back by the storm. Mother Nature has quite a sense of humor. I guess that we’re in a pattern of odd weather again. We were quite a bit snowier this year than last, but…

  • 1972

    The year: 1972. While last year I said that 1971 might have been the best year ever for music, I cannot say the same thing for 1972. Sure, there were some great songs and albums, but nothing along the lines of what we had in 1971. In this podcast, I focus mainly on singles from…

  • Chuck Berry

    Chuck Berry died at the age of 90 on March 18. We’ve become used to the rock ‘n’ roll legends dying off, and I originally dismissed the death as someone who had lived a long life. But his legacy is such that I couldn’t let hid death go by without commenting on how profound he…

  • I’m Sick Y’all

    Man am I sick. I finally got the flu on Friday, and stayed home (mostly slept – no reading or watching movies for me). I felt a little better yesterday, but had a lousy night, barely sleeping, and am feeling worse this morning than I had on Friday – not a good sign. Get better…

  • Spring Forward

    Yes, it’s that time of year when we end Standard Time and go into Daylight Savings Time. So it gets darker later – why do we care about that again? I’m not really sure that we ever got a good explanation for that. Farmers, maybe (they don’t care: farmers do things based on crops or…

  • Jazz Post 2017

    I’ve been quite lax about posting these Wednesday podcasts – this one’s been done for awhile. I’s just laziness on my part for not posting. I’ve been listening to even more jazz than usual this year – not sure why. Sometimes it becomes more difficult to put together my usual Sunday podcast because of it…

  • New Car

    Yesterday was new car day for me. I’m not a great shopper for cars, as cars are a basic tool for me, and not the dream machine it is for some. I use Consumer Reports to help me decide which car I want. I wanted a mid-size car that gave me a good ride and…

  • Oscars

    Tonight is Oscar night! Oscar night! Do you care, because I don’t. I was never a big Oscar night fan anyway, but as the years go by I find I care less and less. In the last couple of years my wife and I have cut back on the movies that we go out to…

  • Yia Yia

    This morning we’re attending the funeral mass for my yia yia, Dee Angelpoulos. Dee was my sister-in-law’s husband’s mother, and as part of a very extended family I was adopted by this small Greek woman. She died at age 94. For many years we lived near her, and would pick her up and drive her…