I thought becoming a father deserved a blog post. It doesn’t seem that much else does. And we just took a nice picture of Andre after his first bath. Ally and I are busy taking care of Andre and not doing much else. 
Father of One 2010/01/18
Hack Job 2009/08/16
At the risk of upsetting Western Dave’s artistic integrity, not to mention sensibilities, I’m posting my photo-shop hack job of Ally in Utah. I’ve been attempting this type of work for years now, and still have troubles. No practice, same problem as with music. But I thought I did a good enough job to use it for a graphic to go with Ally’s music on my iTunes. And thought it would be a good opportunity to highlight a good work that Western Dave did at our nephew’s wedding in Drapper Utah.
M. Ward 2009/08/16
Enjoying some M. Ward courtsey of Western Dave, as usual with a new musical find. I don’t have good coherent thoughts yet, but sorta jazzy, mellow. I think work Adam would like it.
Also testing a new Android app to post. wpToGo. Seems nice so far…
…wpToGo is good for a quick post, but it’s too hard to do anything interesting on the tiny screen and keyboard. Couldn’t contemplate the pain of finding a good page for M. Ward and copy and pasting the text, then figuring out how to do links in wpToGo interface. Maybe next time. When I’m not sitting infront of Bootstrap.
update: moments later
fixed a typo, linked M. Ward, expansion on wpToGo.
End of an Era 2009/04/17
I’m sad to report that I have given in and now have a G1 android phone, which I posted this blog from.
My Musical Debut 2009/03/19
I played Old Black Bartleby for open mic night at the Green Bean in Greenwood. Ally played Jolene and we both sang. We needed a bit more practice, I was extremely hot and extremely nervous. There were like 4 people watching, and they were very supportive. We performed “Little Boxes”. I’d give the experience a 4 out of 10 for fun.
Meet the latest in our Guitar Family 2009/01/17
Check out Old Black Bartleby. Or Bart for short. He is the latest member of our family. I got him for a very good price at the Trading Musician today. I’ve been wanting an acoustic bass guitar for a while so, when I saw what a good price he was I just couldn’t resist.
It’s an Ibanez acoutic electric bass guitar. I haven’t looked up the details yet. He has been repaired for a badly cracked head stock, and a pick guard glued on with an Epiphone logo on it. I hate to think what might be under that. So I had to cover up the Epiphone logo with a Skullcandy sticker I had laying around.
All and all, I’m pretty pleased.
[Edit 7:28PM]
Here are the details.
Quote of the day 2009/01/14
“But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn field…” Ulysses Everett McGill
Brought to my attention by Language Log, but a fitting sentiment for these troubled times.
Quick Howdy 2009/01/12
Hey, mumbojumbo is now on wordpress.com. Version 3.0 will hopefully offer better spam filtering and therefore a higher completion rate for legitimate comment approvals. That means you bitterkat.
RIP Phil McCombs 2008/07/27
The time I was closest to my brother Phil was when he was home from grad school looking for work, I was not old enough to drive yet, and he would hang out with me and sister Kriste. We would watch TV, Pee Wee’s Playhouse and Days of Our Lives were some of our Favorites. We would go bargain shopping at the Nordstrom Rack, and no one could get a better bargain than Phil. (more…)
