Do you have plans to observe the eclipse today? I have my glasses and will be popping out of the office to have a look.
THAT WAS COOL! It got slowly darker and colder until it felt like early evening. That part was almost cooler than the eclipse itself.
Those of you on Facebook may know there was a lot going on the last two days. No, I’m not talking about that 45 minute outage (although that did have me scrambling to change passwords, until I emailed Tim & Jex to find out if it was a more widespread issue).
There is a lot going on here with health, and not just mine. I’m finding myself under the pressure of having to step up and be more active in other people’s health, and ensuring they stay on track. It’s not easy. It’s 24/7. It feels like every day is one step forward with an unknown number of steps back.
All this is happening at a time when I wanted to expand Grab A Stack of Rock to include pre-recorded solo shows. I wanted two shows a week. I have been busting my butt advertising. The pace cannot be kept up. I am not going out of my way to do advertising anymore and I’m not going to do two shows a week anymore. I’d love if my life had room for my ambition.
It doesn’t.
I will have to be satisfied with what I’m doing.
Oh, and I got sick!
Jen had a sore throat all last week. She never got sick. Guess who did?
Yeah. Man-Cold Man is back!
Merry Christmas one and all! Whether you celebrate or not, I wish you all a merry December 25! I hope you are not working today, and I wish you true joy on this morning.
If you’re sick of all the shows on TV, and tired of your Christmas albums, the Arkells have just what you need. The Hamilton band have their “Fireplace Channel” all set on YouTube. You can listen to acoustic renditions of all their hits from the Campfire Chords record, while Max hangs stockings and brings you cookies. Put it on a loop and enjoy with your tea and gifts!
Please drop a comment and let me know how you’re doing on this Christmas day. I value every one of you.
Mike
Please join me in wishing the beautiful Jennifer a happy birthday today! I know all she wants for Christmas is the Leafs to win the Cup, but let’s wish that for her birthday too. They need all the help they can get if they wanna hoist the cup in 2024.
OK, so now I’m in trouble on her birthday.
But seriously, she’s the best Jen in the whole world and if it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today.
Happy birthday Sweetie Cutie.
No show tonight as we celebrate a special day. Instead we are re-running the awesome Arkells Appreciation episode from last summer with Nurse Kat. Enjoy and we’ll be back next week with surprises and recap!
Yeah, I’m flogging the shirts again! Check it out – they now have tie-dye at teepublic. I made this little video showing off the latest in tie-dye Grab A Stack of Rock, and Tim’s Vinyl Confessions shirts. You can also get 2Loud2OldMusic and Visions In Sound shirts at teepublic.
If you feel like supporting the community, then you can do so at the links below. We always appreciate the support, and it’s a gas seeing you guys in our shirts!
Enjoy the video.
https://www.teepublic.com/user/grab-a-stack-of-rock
https://www.teepublic.com/user/visions-in-sound-store
https://www.teepublic.com/user/loud-2-old-music
https://www.teepublic.com/user/timsvinylconfessions
I took the weekend off to go to the lake with Jen, but I have been busy! This is what I’ve got cooking.
Stay tuned folks! Lots of content dropping soon!
There were three of you, aged 17-20. You were playing some kind of flashy game on your phones. It was causing my epileptic wife distress. She asked you to stop. She told you she had epilepsy and could have a seizure. What did you do? You angled your phones at her, and she had a seizure.
That’s assault.
You are lucky my wife does not want to call the police.
You are lucky I was not present, or I would have called the police.
Consider yourselves very fortunate today.
It was a weekend of classic board games! I have not played Stratego in over 15 years, and over 20 for Clue. Here’s the scores went down:
Blokus – Jen victory over Mike
Clue – Mike victory over Jen
Stratego – no idea what we were doing, but Mike clobbered Jen!
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