George Lopez is a lot funnier since I live down here on the border. I'll be listening to some of his stuff and recognizing friends.

Cool - I just talked to someone from Turkey! A couple weeks ago I talked to a lady in South Africa and have spoken with customers in various areas of Europe as well.

 

Via email I have written back and forth with customers all over Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

 

This is one cool aspect of my job.

One of the simple pleasure in life.

Playing catch in the pouring rain

One of the simple pleasure in life.

Playing catch in the pouring rain

That and getting toasted. Nicely toasted.

Cool - I just talked to someone from Turkey!  A couple weeks ago I talked to a lady in South Africa and have spoken with customers in various areas of Europe as well.

 

Via email I have written back and forth with customers all over Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

 

This is one cool aspect of my job.

Leaving us in the lurch are we?

Bad way to start a day.

 

Blowout on the Garden State Parkway.

I almost got hit by lightning while playing softball last night. The electricity flowed through the air, and the air turned a pinkish-yellow hue, and then the lighthing hit withing a couple of hundred feet of us. Needless to say the game was over at that point.

Leaving us in the lurch are we? 

 

LOL! Actually I have spoken via email with a guy that attends University of Queensland.

I almost got hit by lightning while playing softball last night.  The electricity flowed through the air, and the air turned a pinkish-yellow hue, and then the lighthing hit withing a couple of hundred feet of us.  Needless to say the game was over at that point.

 

Running around in an open field swinging metal bats during a lightening storm is not the smartest way to spend an evening. :rolly

Ok so tomorrow (well no it's really later today), I go schmoozing with HR executives from Accounting and Finance Companies from around here. Luckily there's a huge demand for accountants at the moment (glad I didn't choose Information Technology after all), but still I need to get some vacation work this summer, and hopefully this is the start of me putting my foot in the door.

Running around in an open field swinging metal bats during a lightening storm is not the smartest way to spend an evening.  :rolly

 

In our defense, there had been no thunder or lightning up to that point... Plus I was in the field with a leather glove

Ok so tomorrow (well no it's really later today), I go schmoozing with HR executives from Accounting and Finance Companies from around here. Luckily there's a huge demand for accountants at the moment (glad I didn't choose Information Technology after all), but still I need to get some vacation work this summer, and hopefully this is the start of me putting my foot in the door. 

 

Good luck to you.

In our defense, there had been no thunder or lightning up to that point...  Plus I was in the field with a leather glove

 

I believe you. I know of a kid in the Dallas area that was struck and killed at football practice. It was literally a bolt from the blue. Their was no sign of any previous T&L according to all on the scene.

In our defense, there had been no thunder or lightning up to that point...  Plus I was in the field with a leather glove

 

It came out of no where by us also Mike.

That happened once at a little league baseball game in Illinois when I was 15. It was partly cloudy and the nearest rain or storm was 20 or so miles away and some kid batting at the game got struck by lightning.

 

I remember Carol Marin telling me all about it...

Ok so tomorrow (well no it's really later today), I go schmoozing with HR executives from Accounting and Finance Companies from around here. Luckily there's a huge demand for accountants at the moment (glad I didn't choose Information Technology after all), but still I need to get some vacation work this summer, and hopefully this is the start of me putting my foot in the door. 

Buena suerte!

I bought the new Brian Setzer album yesterday. It's called Rockabilly Riot: A Tribute To Sun Records Vol. 1. It's gonna be a longstay in my rotation, as it is Brian getting back to straight up Rockabilly. I love the Jazz stuff he has done, and his modernizing of Rockabilly from his past two trio albums, but this is where he really shines. Though he doesn't do as much flash as normal, and he sticks to the songs quit strictly. They are all covers of old Sun Records stuff. Elvis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many others. Odd though is that Brian uses his Gretsch Duo Jet mostly. Not sure why he chose that over his standard 6120.

 

But on the back cover, there is a lot to be said about the fact that he thanks local restaurants (to the recording studio) and BBQ joints in the credits. Brings the CD and artist back to reading like a first album, or somebody who knows where he came from.

 

I love BBQ, I love Setzer. Setzer loves BBQ. I wonder if he loves me?

That Setzer album sounds really good. The last thing I picked up from him was the Christmas album a couple of years back, and I have meant to catch up.

 

My kids rock out to the Christmas album.

The Orchestra has a new Christmas album coming out in November! If you get a chance to see them on a Christmas tour, DO IT!!! Great fun. Fun for the whole family, actually. If it was an all ages, I would bring my daughter for sure.

 

But it is a great album. Like I said, it isn't as flashy as he could be, as the whole purpose of this is the expose people to the Rockabilly greats from the past. That is actually the purpose of all of the future Rockabilly Riot releases from him. So he is keeping it as true to the originals as possible (with little fun flares here and there) so that people will know for sure what they really like, and so he can pay real tribute to his influences.

Hundred feet? That is nothing Mike. I almost got struck by lightning when I was 13. I was playeing basketball wit h some friend and light rain started. We kept playing and noticed a puddle was in the middle of the ally. Well, we kept playing and all of the sudden ZAP! Lightning strikes dead in the puddle less than 10 feet from me. My ass ran home like there was no tomorrow!

Bad way to start a day.

 

Blowout on the Garden State Parkway.

 

is this written in some code or hip language I do not understand?

That happened once at a little league baseball game in Illinois when I was 15. It was partly cloudy and the nearest rain or storm was 20 or so miles away and some kid batting at the game got struck by lightning.

 

I remember Carol Marin telling me all about it...

 

Carol Marin

We have some genius HVAC workers here putting in venting for the extra AC/heating vents. They decided at noon to go into the lunch room and block the fridge. Of course there was no notice and now have to wait to get my dang lunch and I am hungry lol!

I'm trying to decide if I am hungry for lunch. If I am hungry...what do I want?

I'm trying to decide if I am hungry for lunch. If I am hungry...what do I want?

 

That sounds like how I sounded last night. Brian's buddies didn't leave until 8:30 and I didn't feel like cooking, but didn't want to go out either lol. We ended up getting tacos/burritos.