Almost a year since my last entry.  Emerging once again.  I do a lot more looking on Facebook, these days.  Every now and then, I go, hey, why not poke into LJ again.

Reporting from Lincolnshire, England.  A quick blow by blow of the show so far.  The convention wound down yesterday and we began our trek north east to stay with TIm and Annie Walker for a day or two.  We arrived in England last Wednesday morning and were greeted at the airport by Lissa and off we went to her place.  We spent a relaxed kind of day ( Read more... )

It has been nine months since my last entry, and those of you who have seen the fun on face book know that a lot of stuff has been going down since then.  In my last entry, I had mentioned a nasty bout of sciatica.  It was a herniated disc for which I had surgery in September and I have been pretty good ever since.  I can walk, sit, stand up ( Read more... )

We had kind of a bitter-sweet weekend at Minicon.  I have been dealing with sciatic nerve issues that have been most... uncomfortable.  Sleeping is difficult, as any time I move it causes painful twinges.  Getting up in the morning is one, big, bucket of suck. Once I am up and have exercised a little, gotten the muscles warmed up and I'm on my feet ( Read more... )

Stuffing is done.  Now to roll up the sleeves and tackle some pies.

What a wonderful convention they run down there.  Becca had class on Thursday Night, so I rode down to Chicago with Chasophonic and bonz_lizard.  We got to Becca's aunt's place and played for her over the better part of the evening.  A couple more friends of theirs came and played with us and a good time was had by all present.  Meanwhile, Becca had gotten through her ( Read more... )

...or very early, depending on which side of the day you are on.  I haven't slept much and I'm trying to decide where I am at that point.

Renaissance Festival tied up a couple of weeks ago, and since then I have been getting together with one of my colleagues out there once a week.  My goodness, we have been having fun!  I have been learning parts to new songs, and I am even working up and playing guitar solos on some stuff.  I have never been much of a lead player, but I believe I ( Read more... )

I have been seeing a lot of posts about what happened in New York on this day in 2001. There is a wide variety of feelings on the matter from near irrational hatred to "let's leave it alone." As I was not living in the US when this happened, I have a different memory of the events from the out pouring of grief, shock, sympathy and hostility. All ( Read more... )

Every now and again, I come to realize I haven't posted or checked in with LJ in a long time.  I do most of my social media stuff on facebook, these days.  I know some of my LJ friends are not there, and I don't blame them when it comes right down to it.  I have lots to do without getting to mired in it all.  but, hello out there to those of you ( Read more... )