A little catching up…

My apologies to any readers that have been wondering where I’ve gone… I know it’s been quite some time since I posted here, but quite frankly I’ve been having ‘one of those days’ for a couple/few months now.  I really try to not let this blog be a place for bitterness or despair, so I’ve had my head down just trying to ride the storm out.

I’ve got to say, 2024 will go down in my personal history as the worst year on record, and I’ll be glad to see it in the rear view mirror in a couple months.

And while the last few months have been pretty disastrous for me, it hasn’t been ALL bad…

Back in early September I had a reunion of sorts with some old friends, brothers from other mothers so to speak, that was LONG overdue.  While I’ve been in touch with them both fairly regularly,  the 3 of us hadn’t been in the same room together for over 30 YEARS!  Yeah, seriously overdue!  So that was certainly a bright spot for me.

And we saw a few great shows along the way – Dogstar at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, Nikka Costa in Berkeley,  Abhi the Nomad in San Francisco and Still Woozy at the Greek Theater in Berkeley as well.  All were great shows and there were some awesome opening acts as well – PawPaw Rod for one, was exemplary!

The Mrs. and I also had our 33rd wedding anniversary in October.

We had a couple nice outings with the family as well…  A few day trips to Henry Cowells to bask amongst the Redwoods, we did the annual ‘Wine Walk’ in our little town which was nice.  And just last week a 3 day camping trip down in Big Sur (more Redwoods!!) These are things that I hold dear.  The things that kept me from losing my mind altogether.  Much needed and welcome distractions from ‘the real world’.

And today is VOATING day.  Yippee…  Ordinarily I consider myself a very patriotic American and take my civic responsibility very seriously, but I’m struggling this year.  BIG TIME.  I’m sick of it all.  Sick of the two wings of the same, diseased bird.  Sick of the lies.  Sick of the hyperbole and the projection.  Sick of getting the short end of the stick,  regardless of which way the wind blows.

Alrighty then, that is enough doom and gloom.  Tomorrow is a new day and hopefully a better one.

Thanks to all who have supported me here, I do appreciate it.   It’ll probably be a little quiet in the near future, but eventually I’ll dig myself outta this hole and get back to it on the regular.

Thanks for stopping by.