Spring Has Sprung -- The Kayak Will Be On the Lake Soon!

I've had this "Bald" post sitting as a draft for some time -- It was inspired by a friend who fwd'd me some very funny YouTube Videos about men buying hair replacement supplies on-line and then creating their own hair piece to wear. The videos are pretty funny -- and creative at the same time. Checkout this video -- Meet Ron - A Hair Direct Mailorder Hair Replacement Client . Feel free to post a comment.


Last weekend I cleared some debris from a flower bed and as if animated bulb flowers, crocus, daffodils, tulips, poked through the ground in 2 hours. Go Spring. Aside from the mud this has got to be my most exciting season. Lot of intense energy in the universe happening right now. Birth...............for me it means I lived to see another year of this cycle. Having spent my whole life in the Northeast my experience is around the classic four seasons. It would seem very different to live with out the same environmental change the we go through in the Northeast.


Great Music Site -- Last.FM
If you haven't yet discovered http://last.fm yet I highly recommend it. Last.FM is kind of like MySpace for music lovers. No you don't setup your own page -- however you do get to select your own style of music and the computer catalogs a user's music styles and then you can pick a list of Neighbors -- music that other users are listening to. Like many music sites it has a free and some additional pay features. ......I typically go with the free and if I want to buy some music that is the idea. Just check it out. Once you download their free software player you get to request specific artist and then let them mix in similar artists. There are several neat things about Last.FM -- perhaps the best is you'll hear lots of great music for hours on end. If you miss the old liner notes since you've been downloading your music -- Last.FM has you covered here too. I just discovered a whole series of artists that have been around forever. Meredith Monk Other artists new for me are John Cage, Steve Reich. The really, really, really cool thing about Last.FM is if you're a band you can actually upload your original music to the site and drive traffic to your Amazon site for people to purchase MP3's or a CD.


File Sharing for Music -- Limewire
To get a sample of some of John Cage's visit another favorite site of mine, Limewire -- it's a file sharing site -- you get to share music together with other users. File Sharing Explained briefly -- File Sharing is like going to the library and taking out a book reading it. One copy used by many people. This maybe somewhat oversimplified, however users all make certain folders on their computers containing music, videos, pictures available to other "peers" along this big File sharing Network. Much like the Free Public Library the same book is there to be borrowed and read any time you like -- all with a single license being sold, over and over, and over again.


Bye for now -- gotta go make another batch of my homemade laundry detergent -- there are 10 recipes -- I've tried #1 and it works just great.

See You On The Lake!

Females Everywhere

My wife and I have been married over 30 years, OMG how did this happen? What I can say is it took lots of fighting to get to this point. You win some and you lose some. At times though I must admit I was losing most of the disputes. Having grown up in a household of boys, no sisters - learning to live with a female, a woman of the 60's, well it took some adjusting. I'm still not saying I'm very good at the relationship thing. I guess what has changed is the perspective -- winning or losing, has been replaced by working to be happy.

We were empty nestors for many of those years, and never really knew if we'd have any children of our own. I know now that those 18 years were probably more difficult for our parents than it was for Barbara and I. Many of those years were just enjoyed being free, and then suddenly when we wanted to start a family we discovered getting pregnant wasn't so easy. It was fun trying, however the disappointment soon filled us with resignation that maybe we had missed out and God had other plans for us.

We were fortunate in the end and we have 2 great daughters. Problem is these girls are growing up so fast on me that by the time I figured this situation out ........well let's just say I'm looking forward and not behind at this point...............God has some (??) plan for me with all these women -- I forgot to mention, a female business partner and friend Kristin Murphy, and the majority of our contractors are all women -- and so I had to resort to my own intervention, by getting a male dog. We're still outnumbered, but if I had only one pick of a teammate -- there is no better buddy than my dog Roscoe. Those that know me, know that Roscoe and I travel everywhere together. Motel 6 chain is his favorite overnight place.........I guess that leaves me open to a future Blog Posting -- "Gone to the Dogs" -- I've got a ton of pictures of Roscoe -- it sometimes upsets the rest of the family.

Think spring