Just a quickie to show off my new beaters for my bodhran.  That's an irish drum for those not in the know.  I've been playing it regularly for about 3 months with the church band, getting pretty good with it I believe.

Will have a full cast up soon.

Happy late birthday kid!  This podcast is full of tunes My sister picked out, showing she knows far more about music made in this millennium than I do.  I still got her beat on stuff from when she was before she was born though.

The course I played had the longest hole in Florida.  1st Par 6 I've ever seen (I shot a 7).  I played like hell most of the round, but it was a great course, awesome weather, had a great time.

Here's a gator at the golf course I played.  One of the guys I was playing with lives down there, warned me not to get too close, or I might scare it away and not get my shot....yeah, I'll scare it.  That sucker twitches and I woulda pissed myself.

Florida was great.  Warm, sunny...great time, just not there long enough.

Here's a sign Marlene thought was hilarious...I got a chuckle out of it, but she loved it...that's why I married the great gal. 

It's my sister's birthday, and I'm working on her podcast....it won't get up tonight, but should have it sometime tomorrow.  It's all stuff she picked out, took my a while to find some of it.  Goes to show that my sister knows more about new music than I do.  Will also finish up my Florida trip posts.

We're down in Sebring, FL for a fibromyalgia seminar for Marlene...we wanna move down here.  It's currently about 70 outside, neat little town.  Will post some pics when we get home monday.  Going to get some serious golf in tomorrow while she's at the seminar all day, playing a course with the longest hole in Florida, certainly the longest I'll probably ever play...about 800 yards par 6.  Crazy. It's also home of the world's largest green, over 47,000 square feet, and in Guinness.  Speaking of guinness, booze is cheap as hell here too, compared to VA anyhow....gotta stock up on the Jack.  Will knock out another podcast when I get home too, going to do covers again...so if you have any cover requests put em up here...will play the Rush cover of "the seeker" for ya linc.  So, as most of my viewers/listeners are up in NY, weather is here, wish you were beautiful!

Finally watched my first debate tonight, was pretty enlightening...here's a few quick thoughts.

I've always seen Hillary as pretty devious and conniving (I think it's the perma-smile/smirk), and tonight only lessened this a little.  I think she's going to try to run a nicer campaign than she has up to this point to match Obama's "no mud" policy, so she's gonna let Bill sling the insults and just shake her head in that "oh, there goes Bill again" way she did tonight.  Both were very civil tonight other than the Iraq  vote thing.  Point to Obama on that for being right from the start.

I'd certainly vote for either of these candidates over Bush buddy McCain or the dog torturer Romney...Huckabee's a dead man walking in the other side's primaries, won't even throw him in the mix.  And Ron Paul has hippies, at least in this area (Virginia), so he'll never win over the republicans.

On healthcare, points again for Obama for basically saying, I'll make it affordable, so the american people will be free to make a decision on if they want it or not.  Clinton's mandate just seems too dictator like to me.  Can't force it on people if it's not free.  I must buy car insurance to drive, that's fine...if I don't want insurance, I don't get a car.  Same with home owners insurance.  Ok, so....if I don't want health insurance, I have to choose to give up my health?  It's impossible to enforce as well.  Healthcare is such a mess that I don't think it's going to be fixed anytime soon, but Obama seems to have the more realistic approach to it.

Both had decent ideas on immigration, and the driver's licence thing is a non issue.  If you're an illegal immigrant, you're gonna drive, licence or no.

The TV thing was a waste of time as well, in my opinion.  Anyone who's heard my podcasts or knows me knows my views on "bad words", and I'm a firm believer in parents getting up off their asses and doing some parenting.  There's enough technology out there to keep kids from seeing shit or reading shit you don't want 'em to see or read.  If you're too lazy to do so, too bad.  Government intervention begins to border on 1st amendment issues, and is a political quagmire (giggity).  It's not words that are bad, it's the intent behind them.  And I suppose if a kid is determined enough to go to a news stand and look at naked ladies or maybe to the library and read a book that has "fuck" in it, more power to the intrepid little fuckers....at least they're reading.

So, Obama wins tonight's debate by a length or so.  I'll go ahead and throw him my official "I'm a nonentity but I got an opinion goddamn it" endorsement.  I hope the 20 or so people who come here agree with me, and if you don't, please feel free to engage in a friendly debate here on the blog.  I love to debate.  I'm a master debater...Oh wait....that's something else....never mind.

Happy late New Year!  Sorry so long between podcasts.  Long story!  Not really.  Got a Playstation 3.  Joined the band at church.  That's basically it.  But I'm back!

This weeks podcast puts together the songs I've listened to the most over the past 2-3 shitty ass years.  What better way to start off 2008 than revisit the crappy past?

The play count has been reset, so I'll do this again after what I hope will be much, much better than the past couple years.  Got the band, an offer to join another band from one of the surgeons at work...2008 is gonna be great!  2007 sure wasn't heaven.  Sorry, best I could come up with off the top of my head.

Enjoy the tunes that got me through 2005-2007!

Sorry about falling off the face of the earth on this, but it's been a crazy couple months.  I'll have a new cast coming soon after the new year, I promise!