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Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Thu, 27 Sep 2007
Public Notice
Saturday Night at Threadgill's has one of the best guitar players
that you'll have a chance to see in this lifetime.
Just sayin'.
Posted at 01:38 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Wed, 26 Sep 2007
State Of Things
Well, chirren, I've been head-down and eyes straight ahead for a
while now. We're adjusting to the new rhythms of life and making some
changes.
The best is that I think that we've found a nice little place in
Crestview, which'll put Ryan in the appropriate schools and near to
his friends. I've just talked to the landlord, and she relates that she
prefers us in there to anyone else. (I took Ryan along when we
looked at the place. Manic little boy energy exuded from every
corner. Kitchen!! Bedroom!! Pecan tree!! Look! A closet! We can do a
garden over here and you can have some tomatoes!) Ahh,
yes. Looks like we'll finally get away from this horrid little
apartment that we've been planning to escape since before we moved in,
and Ryan will be within a five minute walking distance of his high
school next year.
And God bless F.D.R. and the Democratic Party, who created and
defended Social Security for all of these years. Ryan will have the
option to go to any college he prefers. (Of course, given his
intellect, he'll likely have that choice anyway. So maybe he'll be
able to buy a house, too. In any case, the money is his.)
I've actually come out of the shell a bit and started looking
around, too. Everything got huge for a while, but it doesn't seem so
big now. I note that the politicians are still out there campaigning
like it's a year from now. Silly. I'll no doubt post some screed to
stave off an aneurysm sometime soon.
And, nice, the rest of the music season at the joint is going to be
chock-full of many of my all-time favorite artists, and work will be
play. Y'all should keep an eye on the calendar and come by, often.
Expect more of the patented trivial content here more often
now. We're gonna be okay.
Posted at 16:29 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Mon, 17 Sep 2007
Sorry For The Silence
I've wanted to say something substantive here for a week or so, but
there's not a lot in my world right now that is interesting enough to
say anything about. Ryan & I are still mapping the new terrain; there
are moments of joy and the opposite; mostly it's normal if not quite
yet routine. Finances are coming back into some area of sanity after a
fairly brutal few months. I have an overdue project at my day work
that is taunting me at every turn, one of those situations where
nothing does what it says it's supposed to do, and there's no
documentation to support the errata. Very frustrating.
Heh. That's not a bad description of day-to-day life in general
here lately. It's like badly documented beta code right now. Lots of
exceptions and very little in the way of instructions. Yeah, that's
it.
Boy, I can be a poetic kind of guy, aye?
Hopefully you'll see something more interesting here, sometime soon.
Posted at 08:45 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Sat, 08 Sep 2007
Goodbye, Loved One
This
Is our fork in the road
Love's last episode
There's nowhere to go, oh no
You made your choice
Now it's up to me
To bow out gracefully
Though you hold the key, but baby
Whenever you call me, I'll be there
I'll Be Around...
We'd had a hard breakup in 1987, seven years before we
married. "I'll Be Around" by The Spinners was the song that I chose to
get me through it. Tracy considered it "Our" song after we cycled back
into one another's life, which I thought was kind of strange—it
was my breakup song. Girls are funny that way.
Well, okay. Ours, e're it shall remain now.
It was a beautiful, unique service today. So many fine people. I'll
gather my thoughts sometime soon; tonight, I am doing the "bear in
hibernation in my cave" thing. But a truly blessed bear; one who is
aware of the extraordinary hearts who've crossed the path of my son
and myself in this fine life.
Posted at 22:34 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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