Parrothead Jeff

I’d heard the name of the band from my good friend Kerry, but I didn’t know anything about them.
Then I found this video on YouTube while looking through videos of rogue waves and such:

I just fell in love with the song and had to have it A quick googling of the [...]

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So I was just watching the video for one of my (so far) favorite Nightwish songs - Nemo - and the line about “Oh how I wish for soothing rain” brought forth a number of thoughts and visions in my head. Some might say I’m scatter brained, but I think it’s just that my [...]

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I don’t know if I should write about the way Saturday started off. Screw it - here’s what happened. I live in a storage facility. No, I’m not camping out in a 10×30 or anything like that. The manager gets an apartment built into the facility and I’m her roommate. [...]

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I was perusing the interwebs and came across a sad news story - Richard Wright of Pink Floyd has passed away after a long bout with cancer.
I was and still am a big time Pink Floyd fan and I’m glad I got to see David, Nick, and Richard together in 1994 in San Diego.
Richard wrote [...]

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Last night’s episode of Moonlight (see my last post) included a song that I just had to search out and get somehow. A bit of Googling later, I found out that the song is “All Fall Down” by a new band called “One Republic” and is included on their debut CD “Dreaming Out Loud.” [...]

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I know there are some people out there who actually read this, and I would like to apologize for failing in my blogging lately. The truth of the matter is that I’ve been just too run down to come up with any sort of quality product. Between the stress of work and some [...]

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Airspeed: “Hey, Don!” and Oshkosh 2007 Wrap-Up
I’ve got quite a few feeds that I subscribe to, one of which is Cap Blog. It was there that I happened upon a link to Airspeed which I think I’ll have to subscribe to, as well .
One of the links on that page went to a [...]

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I like to close out the day with something positive if I can and today it seems that fortune has smiled upon me and my guardian angel has seen fit to look out for my mental health.
It took a while, but my “Wahine Man” CD has arrived !!!
I wrote about ordering it a while [...]

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Welcome to the Home of the Boat Drunks!!!
(He said) I wanna take your boat as far as it goes, feel Jamaican sand between my toes,
I wanna ride on the wind just as far as I can,
I won’t be any trouble to haul- I can sleep anywhere at all,
And I don’t eat very much for a [...]

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Dos Gringos - Fighter Pilot Songs for Our Generation
I was on my ACT upgrade, standard 4vX
The AWACS guy was out to lunch and I couldn’t get no decs
I knew that they were hostile but I couldn’t take the chance
So I flipped the switch to outboard and said, “Boys it’s time to dance”
And they asked me [...]

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