Just one short year ago....

...I had 'the accident'. It's unfair to pin things on that one instance, but since then things got weird.

I will take the time now to take my personal inventory.

PLUS: My hand works, outside of a nasty lookin' scar. My family is healthy and relatively happy. I have great friends and a supportive family. I am supposedly healthier now.

MINUS: Still need a job. Money is tight. The house is showing it's age (100 years this year). I am showing my age (20 year reunion tomorrow). Quitting smoking is a pain in the ass and a pain in the attitude.

There. That doesnt look so bad typed out like that.

..and, this typing stuff out that I'm thinking ain't so bad either. Maybe I'll try and do it more than once every couple of months.

Stand In The Light

Okay, time to reboot the blogging thing. Spent a lot of months not writing, not playing much, and worrying way to much about job, health, sanity, and crap like that.

But things have settled a bit, looking for a job, the hand is better, still crazy after all these years, and the crap level is at a minimum. So I spent a decent amount of time writing.

And with the encouragement (and deadline) of some friends, I have not one, but TWO songs near the point of completion. I plan on posting these this weekend. Neither are groundbreaking, nor the great american song....but they are a start.

Until then, I'll post a Mike Doughty song I played for myself while taking a break from recording tonight.

Your Misfortune

It's High Time....

yep....took a long break.

Quick catch up: The hand is healing slowly but surely...wound is all closed up, but still not completely useful. There is going to be some closure at work, the plant is closing in December and I will be looking for a new job.

..And, the Paul Westerberg tribute CD, Bring Your Own Lampshade, that I contributed Wild & Lethal to is finished. If you would like a copy, I'm hosting a BitTorrent thing that includes it all in mp3 format. If you are unfamiliar with BitTorrent downloading, you can get the client software here.

There's some really good tracks on this one, check it out.

I'll be posting more often now...have a few projects coming up, including NaNoWriMo.

From The Bottom Of A Well

Summer moves along. A trip to Centuria to see the boys play softball, trip to Spooner to sweat at the cabin, and some general sweating around the house.

The hand is moving along, the wound is looking smaller. But now the concern is the scar tissue building up. I guess that is gonna need some work to allow normal movement across the knuckles.

I made enough progress to do some exercise playing guitar. It is nowhere near comfortable yet, and I can only get 2 fingers on the fretboard at a time, but it's an improvement.

I recorded a quick cover of an awesome Mike Doughty song tonite. It's called Unsingable Name. Featuring alot of 2 finger cheat chords.

We'll roll down interstate 94

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I'm back from our dream vacation in the Dells.

The family had a blast, it was cool for me as well, even if I wasnt able to participate in waterpark or other typical amusement type stuff. I mainly sat by the pool, drank beer, and read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

oh..and I didnt know why Heather thought taking my picture was so funny, until now when I see the sign behind me.

nice.

my celebrated summer

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That's me and Bob Mould. Went to see him play at the Taste Of Minnesota, and got lucky enough to meet him.

Was a great show, he played a lot of his new stuff, plus some old Husker Du and Sugar. He is just an incredible singer/songwriter/guitarist.

And of course, notice me slyly hiding the bandaged hand behind Bob.

hardly getting over it

A lot of stiffness and soreness has set in during the healing process. I have a lot less motion and strength in my hand than I did a week ago, but I guess that's part of the deal.

I can't really play jack on the guitar right now, so I spent some time remixing Wild & Lethal (again).