HiR:tb Toots (@warwalker)

Leading by Trailing

Oh, I really have been a bad blogger, and a bad Internet friend. Looking at the two previous posts, it occurs to me that I’ve posted exactly once in something like 45 days. That’s not good. No, that just won’t do.

You know the excuse is coming. I will try to make it brief. If […]

Radio Silence and a Roadside Homer

Sorry ’bout the extended period of radio silence there – we are not avoiding spies here in Juniorvania, and be not afraid that I have sawn off my blogging digits. The cause of my virtual muteness has been much more prosaic than any of that; the last two weeks have been crazy busy at work […]

Maybe Marketing Isn’t For You, Bob…

Spouse and I made a quick run into the Zehrs last night in preparation for a movie night; running low on popcorn and in need of a couple of other staples, we ended up in the detergent aisle where Spouse was conducting a search for a new product to tackle our laundry. She seems […]

Fuel for the Fire?

Last night was the final rehearsal for our little ad-hoc combo before next Thursday night’s charity auction gig. We rehearsed at our drummer’s house on the West Mountain (it’s really just a hill, for those of you not from ’round here) in Hamilton, which means a thirty-five minute drive each way for me.

When we […]

Video Evidence

Form apology. Please be sure to use a Number Two pencil:

Dear Friend/Relative/Countrymen

I apologize for ignoring your telephone call/email/angry banging on the door. I know that it has been some time/a few days/a long time since I last spoke to you/returned that thing I borrowed/rock and rolled. My excuse yesterday was that […]

Once More, With Feeling

Update: Thought I was finished with the Home Depot, eh? Not quite. Spouse and I sojourned to the local Lowe’s (just a bit farther down the same road that Home Depot is on, coincidentally), so that I could pick up one of those Workmate thingies. I got one of these little guys, which seemed to […]

Doug: This One’s For You

David Byrne and Brian Eno have been twiddling knobs together in the studio.

David Byrne and Brian Eno TOGETHER? That’s like awesomeness mashed on top of cool, especially if you’re my brother Doug, who feels about David Byrne and Brian Eno kind of like most eight year olds feel about Superman and Batman. But wait, […]

Project Squawk Begins

My work as a recordist on Saturday evening and Sunday morning (part of the Founders’ Day festivities) has inspired me to attempt to learn a little more about the voodoo magic that can be accomplished in a home stuido with one of these little fellas. One of my co-workers is married to a fellow who […]

Founders’ Day Recap

As previously mentioned, Founders’ Day took place on Saturday August 29th. The little Nation of Juniorvania hosted 15 visitors for a truly Wendelous complement of 17 festivicators, celebrants and partakers. The afternoon had been designed and conceived as an ongoing free-form exhibition of various Feats of Skill and Athleticism: badminton racquets and shuttlecocks procured, volley- […]

They’re hitched.

It’s a done deal; my parents can breathe a sigh of relief, as their last remaining bachelor officially changed his status last night at around 4:30 p.m. It rained – and how – forcing the ceremony indoors rather than among the ripening grapes in the Cave Spring vineyard, but the service was lovely and […]