Ice in the NorthEast has been bad. On Saturday night, I fell on my behind after putting Tommy in the car. A day and a half later, my dad fell in nearly the same spot and broke his hip. He’s 81. The last time he broke a bone, he was preparing to fight the Germans in World War II. This is not good. And this comes on top of my brother’s almost unbelievable series of health woes which has been ongoing but lately, has been more intense and has landed him in dialysis every other da. There is nothing routine about pinning an 81 year old’s hip so fingers crossed. And be careful on the ice out there. It is a serious thing.
The statue is coming due soon and I’m not sure what the next few days/weeks hold for this latest development. I still expect to have it done for the deadline but finding the time over the next two weeks will be difficult. All in all, it’s doable. And did you ever notice that a while after a big project is done, you can’t recall how tired you were or hard you worked! It just goes away, doesn’t it? But you can recall the prize and goal more or less. It’s a motivator anyway. It’s time I might have squandered. But still, there are nights I’d like to squander it with Tomicle.
On other fronts, my nephew’s team is plus 5 guys. I was an evaluator at the tryout and that was a different deal. Usually, I’m on the other side. It was a little weird seeing some parents with “those” looks and knowing that we’re only looking for 5 slots and there were 10 kids. And I was nervous about the post-mortem; you know, where the coaches have a beverage and decide who they liked. In our case it took about 10 seconds for us to all unanimously agree on the kids. No question. You have to like that.
A last dopey thought. The XM Zep channel. Can they stop with the promos of the song beginnings? It’s a tease. I hear the opening notes to The Lemon Song and I’m in my car getting cut off by Vinny AyOh and I’m thinking, “…ahh, good song”, and then it flips to the opening bars of Four Sticks, etc. And they do this ALL the time. Guys. XM guys. We KNOW we are listening to the all-LZ channel. We have long ago memorized ALL their material. We want you to STFU and PLAY IT! Not promo it like we never heard it before–that’s obnoxious! But that’s the way radio has been done since Jolson was on it so that’s what they are determined to carry on doing. You thought that they had a chance to totally reinvent the radio. But no, chance blown.
