I'm a Michigan kid, so I've been a Tom Brady fan since his Wolverines days. My NFL team has been the Raiders since the early 70s, so watching him kick my team's ass over the years was always bittersweet. He's a minority owner of my team now, so those days are over.

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It was nice to see the Patriots honor him yesterday. It was definitely well- ( Read more... )

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Question: when is the right time to part ways with someone?

I've had an extremely itchy trigger finger lately and have been parting ways with people at an excessive rate. When I went back to the Midwest, I contacted a cousin about my visit and invited her to a get together that was being held. She never showed. When I posted on instagram that there ( Read more... )

I left my shift 3 hours early last night. I had enough. We've all been there, you're doing such a good job do you think you could do this too? I'm the wrong guy to ask. Usually I bow out of those situations a little more gracefully than I did last night. While my words weren't directed at anyone in particular, you never know who takes offense to ( Read more... )

I've been running for a really long time. From everyone and everything. Shortly after I quit drinking 30.5 years ago, I disappeared for nearly 15 years. It was much easier to do back then. I often think about doing the same, but who would I be disappearing from? I'm 1,400 miles away from my family currently. I haven't talked to anyone from my Step- ( Read more... )

My last relationship ended in October 2020. I found myself starting over with basically a collection of art and records. I signed a year lease in a city that I despised. A few months later, the company that I was working for closed their doors. An old coworker was in a similar situation after her marriage fell apart. Needing income for the first ( Read more... )

My cousin Scott died on June 2. He had been ill for longer than a person should have to be. 5 years ago they thought he had MS. He was later diagnosed with MOGAD. While hospitalized this past year, he survived COVID & pneumonia, but c diff was more than he could fight off.

His death isn't what shook me to the core, it was the reminder that I haven' ( Read more... )

If you're a music lover and haven't subscribed to Night Flight yet, do yourself a favor and take advantage of their trial offer this weekend. I'm currently watching Analog Love and realized that I need to start blogging about what I find enjoyable (as I've watched close to a dozen at this point).

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I rarely start something that I know out of the gate is destined to be short-lived. It's a period of time that I want to document in some fashion and I've been feeling nostalgic about LiveJournal, so here we go.


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I've had an entry in my head for a while now. I feared that it might be taken out of context, so I never published it. A light went on this morning and I decided to turn that entry upside down.

Mike Felten was the owner of the Record Emporium in Iron Mountain, MI. It was the record store that would become my second home as a teen. There was never ( Read more... )