Author: Brennick

  • She didn’t make it

    Fiona is no more. She didn’t get any better, and we ended her life. It was pretty sad – although she was not eating, drinking or going to the bathroom, her bladder infection had cleared up, so she was walking close to normal again. The Doctor said the next step would be hospitalization that would…

  • Sick Dog

    My dog’s 13th birthday was on May 5. She had diarrhea for the next week, but then it cleared up. The last Saturday, she became very lethargic and stopped eating. We took her to the vets on Tuesday but she still didn’t get better. Yesterday (Saturday) we took her to the emergency clinic, where she…

  • Anniversary

    Hello and welcome. Today is a very special day – I’ve been doing my podcast for a year now. I’ve enjoyed putting together these podcasts for you, and I have a small but sincere audience who listens – thank you. If not for you I would have stopped doing this and been very frustrated. I…

  • Infrastructure

    The Amtrak crash earlier this week highlights the importance of the need to improve our infrastructure. The U.S. has been left behind when it comes to the railroad system. Europe and Japan have markedly improved their rail systems, including high speed rail service. California is building a high speed rail track, which will see phase…

  • 2015 Jazzcast – with 2015 music

    Hello and welcome to one of my midweek podcasts. This is a jazz podcast, and in putting it together, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of new jazz I had purchased this year, so 8 of the 9 songs were released in 2015, and the final song was from 2014. I feature 3 songs…

  • I’m So Tired

    Started the podcast but got really sleepy – a bit unusual for me, but changed things up a bit in recording the podcast. Don’t know if age is catching up with me, because there are days when I find it’s tough to do much – I never had those days when I was young. I’m…

  • April showers bring Spring?

    I hate to harp on this, but the weather until yesterday has not been great this spring. Temperatures are supposed to jump beginning today, so we’ll see. With a scheduled high of 82 Fahrenheit on Monday, maybe we’re skipping spring and going straight into summer – I’ll take it. On today’s podcast we start with…

  • 1985

    In 1985 I was trying to be a responsible adult. I had a full-time job, a wife and a son (and I still have all 3, albeit a much better job). I didn’t have the time I used to have to stay up with music, but I did make a valiant effort. Since MTV had…

  • Lost and Found

    I’ve been killing myself this week – I’ve had problems uploading files to the blog, so potentially there was no podcast this week. I have limited technical skills here and did not know how I was going to fix this. Finally, I found a way to access all my files on my website (I know,…

  • Kidnapped!

    I’m posting late – I was kidnapped this morning and forced to have fun. We went to Plum Island, near Newburyport, MA. We share a beach with the piping plovers- they get 90% of the beach and we get the ends of the beach. There’s still plenty of space to walk, and the park is…