• Friday Playlist

    I have a couple appointments in the morning, so posting this late Thursday night. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54bCK34ThJRJpNUJZhZwhW?si=73b6918dd6e14396 “Anyway I Find You” – The Men A pretty solid song on its own. But the vocals remind me of an old-school classic… “Old White Church” – Arthur Dodge & The Horsefeathers One of the most distinctive, if not necessarily famous, voices that came out…

  • NBA Trade Deadline Insanity

    I have a couple posts in various states of readiness that I figured I would focus on for today. Until I turned on the local news at 7:00 AM this morning to catch the weather – storms were blowing through at the time – and saw a blurb on the crawl at the bottom of the screen saying Kevin Durant…

  • Jayhawk Talk: Bouncing Back

    I admit I was dreading Monday’s KU-Texas game. Normally, coming off a terrible loss like Iowa State’s destruction of the Jayhawks Saturday, I would be fired up for a Big Monday home game. It would be a chance to wash away the bad taste of the loss with a big, loud crowd and a W. But I also watched a…

  • Monday Links

    We had a pretty boring weekend and I’m saving the Jayhawk Talk for tomorrow, so a good day so share the latest stack of links I’ve accumulated. Simply the best accounting of what Tech Karen has done to Twitter. Extremely Hardcore It’s pretty amazing how many of the people who came out of Toronto’s Second City are still culturally relevant.…

  • Friday Playlist

    Generally my focus in these weekly playlists is on sharing new music, the stuff I have time to dig up that I know most of you are unable to. I’m going to tweak that recipe going forward. There will still be plenty of new music. In addition, though, I’m going to start throwing in more classic tracks. I don’t know…

  • Reader’s Notebook, 2/2/23

    Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story – Bono One of my sisters-in-law received this book from her employer awhile back and passed it along to me. I wasn’t super excited to read it, since I’m not much into U2 anymore. But when brother-in-music E$ told me he was reading and liking it, I pulled it from the shelf. I was surprised…

  • January Media

    Movies, Shows, etc Wednesday This was on constantly in our house over the holidays. I think the girls and S all watched it on their own, then we had several episodes on the main TV while we had guests. I sat and partially watched a few of them. I thought it was funny, clever, and generally good. Doubt I’ll check…

  • Insomnia/Sick Day Notes

    Ugh. I had battled a cold for a week or two, with this weird congestion passing back-and-forth between my head and chest. I never had a sore throat, never felt bad. Just constant plug of yuck in part of my body. In the midst of that, I took NyQuil for several nights so I could breath and sleep peacefully. I…

  • Weekend Notes

    A lot of sports this weekend. Kid Hoops L’s team played one game Saturday night. They were matched up with a team that we think were all soccer players in a hoops league for winter conditioning. We play at least one of these teams a season. Sometimes these teams are really good. This one was not. It took awhile for…

  • Friday Playlist

    It seems like embedding Spotify playlists has been funky for the past week. I’ve checked old posts a couple times and received error messages where the playlist should be, only to find them available again a few hours later. So just a note to check back later if it is being a bitch when you first read this post. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GwywyV4KkELK7mllOygWi?si=63c6292d3a564d7f…