"I'm Not A Savior, So Do Me A Favor...."

"..... stop in and see me sometime." - From "Beautiful Ways" by the Pat McGee Band.

I chose this song lyric because I just saw PMB in Dewey Beach this past Friday. What an incredible show. I can't say enough good things about that band. You have to check them out. iTunes users can find a great live album available. Highly recommended.

Anyway, muchos gracias to Kim and Lisa for their swell comments. I'll keep this thing on life support a bit longer and see if it pulls through.

I created a page for my good buddy Murphy on dogster.com. The link is on the sidebar. Just click on his wonderful picture and you'll go to his little corner of the internet. It's so strange to me to think that I've only had him for 4 months now. Seems like I've had him forever. No disrespect to other dog owners out there, but I really have the coolest dog in the world.

I start my day shift rotation tomorrow. Ugh. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but allow me to reiterate. I HATE day shift. I'm not that much of a morning person, and waking up at 3:30 AM to be at work by 5 just sucks. Fortunately, I only have to do it 7 days out of the month, so I guess it could be worse. But those who know me know that I prefer to keep vampire hours.

Well, this post is going to be brief since I need to get a few more things down around the hacienda before I throw myself into bed at an ungodly early hour.

Again, thanks for the words of encouragement folks, and I'll see what I can do to keep things lively around here.

"Due To Lack of Interest, Tomorrow is Cancelled....."

"....let the clocks be reset, and the pendulums held." - from the Kaiser Chiefs' "Ruby."

I will be the first one to admit that, as bloggers go, I suck. It's been, what, a month, since my last post? Probably longer. There are times when I really wish that I had the discipline to sit down here every day and write something. Problem is, I don't always have anything terribly interesting to say. Or, at least I don't think I do.

Anyway, here's another round, of brining things up to speed.

I did have some things going on recently which would've prohibited me from really doing much in the way of regular updates here. I decided around a week or so ago that I was going to revert back to my roots. I bought a new iMac last week. The first computer I ever bought myself (eons ago, it seems) was an Apple. I loved it. Reliable, easy to use, etc. But, back in the 90's, I ran into the same glitch that many other people did. File compatibility just wasn't there. So many people were Windows users and when someone would hand me a disk with a Windows-based file on it, I was screwed. Unless I bought (what, at the time was) an expensive software package, my Mac couldn't open any of those files. So I was, more or less, forced to switch to a Windows machine. Well, these days, that just isn't the case. I can plug in flash drives that contain MS Word files and I can open and edit them very easily on my new Mac. And it didn't require a ton of extra, expensive software. Dig it. Plus, the switch made sense since I have an iPod and an iPhone which get used on a VERY regular basis. It is true what they say, Macs are much easier.

So I spent several days working on the file migration from my Dell to my Mac. Having a few thousand songs, plus photos, plus video, plus other files can take awhile to get from Point A to Point B. But I got everything I need right here in front of me on this smokin' new machine. It took me a few days to get reacquainted with the Mac OS. My computer obviously came with the newest version, OS X. I think when I had a Mac before, it was OS 7.2 or something like that. So it's a bit different from what I remember, but very cool nonetheless.

Went up to Frederick. MD a couple nights ago to see a triple bill of Collective Soul, Live and Counting Crows. What a good show. The weather was awesome, the beer was cold and the music kicked ass. Next week I'll be in Dewey Beach, DE to see the Pat McGee Band play. It's been about a year since I've seen them and it's always a good show. And, of course, I'll be at the beach, so it's win/win.

So here's a big, fat, "I'm Sorry" to anyone who has been checking in here with any frequency, looking for new material. I wish I could do better than I do. Maybe I sell myself short as a writer, but I don't always feel like I've got much to say. If I go another month like this without posting anything, I think I'm just gonna shut this thing down. We'll see how it goes.