The great, legendary, and irreplaceable Meat Loaf has passed away. He was 74.
https://www.facebook.com/MeatLoaf/posts/483327946483936
The best way to honor a fallen rock star is to keep his music alive, so let's listen to some tunes and remember him.
R.I.P., Meat Loaf. :(
This just happened a little while ago. :o
That's actual time-lapse satellite imagery of the eruption. Notice the pressure wave.
I don't how strong or destructive this eruption is, or the tsunami, but hopefully the Tongans will pull through with a minimum of casualties.
Looks like 2022 is trying to get off to a roaring start.
Just booked my first promo of the year.
It's weird. It feels like I'm starting anew after having taken a vacation to another planet or something. That's how surreal these past couple of years have been for me.
I also weighed myself today, and I'm heavy as I've ever been in my life. I've got to slim down. My weight is actually less--significantly less--than the American male average, but it's still too much for a man of my slim, long-legged frame. I intend to do something about this. Wish me luck.
So 2021 is thankfully gone, but not before taking Betty White away from us on the VERY LAST DAY of the year. And just days before her hundredth birthday, too. That's some real spite, folks. Oh, and there was a tornado warning around here later that same day. Just dandy. (I'm fine, though; thanks for asking.)
On the positive side, my new mouse has arrived from Amazon. The old one wasn't clicking very reliably, so it was time to get a new one. I think it was five years old. Anyway, it was a fine mouse until it got old and the contacts got imprecise, so I replaced it with the exact same model, a corded Amazon Basics version. Eight bucks and change, and now I'm clicking like a boss, at least for the next five years or so.
It was unseasonably warm the past several days, but now winter is returning. There's a bunch of wind right now, and there's some blue stuff (freezing rain?) heading this way on the Doppler radar. That's good, though, because warm winter temperatures are a good way to have a false spring, and then a late freeze kills all the flowers, and that just sucks. I like spring flowers, dadgummit.
I'm really hoping that my body cooperates with me this year. I'd love to get in better shape, and I'd love to have enough energy to actually do a good bit of writing. Its been nearly two years since I last published, and that's just not acceptable.
In the meantime, I hope you, dear reader, had a nice holiday season, and I hope you have a great 2022, assuming events beyond our control don't interfere like they have for the past two years.
Merry New Year! :D
John Madden was one of those people who you thought would be a part of the football landscape forever. What was football like before Madden? Did it even exist? What will it be like now that he's gone?
He wasn't just an announcer. He was also a huge fan of the game. He never had to fake his interest the way some younger sports journos do. For them, it's just a job. For Madden, football was his life.
R.I.P., sir. You're already missed.
I had my fourth consecutive day of headaches today. That usually doesn't happen. I'm feeling good right now, though, so hopefully tomorrow will be a good day.
I haven't watched any of my Christmas movies yet. I need to do that soon. Only a week left. It's not Christmas until Hans falls off the Nakatomi building.
The supply chain issues are bewildering to me. Not the fact that they're happening--I predicted that as soon as the first lockdowns were announced--but rather the timing of them. I thought this stuff would have manifested much sooner.
I've learned that different kinds of wood react differently to my efforts to plane them. Pine works well. Whitewood, not so much. If I try planing whitewood, then I inevitably end up with gouges wherever knots appear. The wood near the knot simply prefers to break away rather than be cut. I suppose this is why furniture and stuff is usually made from trees like walnut and cherry.
It's been just over thirty years since the historic rock concert in Moscow just a month after the August Coup. And that was just a few months after the Gulf War concluded. It's kind of crazy thinking back to that time. I'd go back in a heartbeat, though. Technological advances notwithstanding, everything was better back then.
This will probably be my last blog post before Christmas, so Merry Christmas, everyone! :)
...and I'll be glad when it's over. Can I get 2019 back? Pretty please?
The good news is that I've stayed ahead of my seasonal chores to a lot better degree than usual. Christmas shopping, leaf removal, and so on. I'm pleased with my accomplishments in that regard.
The bad news is that I haven't written much at all. I really need to give myself a good kick in the pants about this.
The other good news is that some of my health issues have resolved over the last few months.
The other bad news is that I've fallen out of the exercise habit yet again.
The other other good news is that I don't think global hostilities will break out until after the February Olympics, so we've got a couple of months of peace, or so I'm betting.
The other other bad news is that I fully expect a major war to break out some time next year, probably in late summer, but possibly earlier.
So there we are.
In any event, I hope you all are doing well and living satisfying lives, and I hope you have a great Christmas/Hanukkah/whatever season. Make sure to get together with family and/or friends at some point, because that's the sort of thing that can keep you sane in a world that is doing its best to drive you batty.
And read a book at some point. Preferably one of mine. ;)
