A weblog about stuff and junk by Jake Sutton
That John Croghan kid sure puts on a good show. Like, for real.
As The Wife put it, “He plays country music I don’t mind!” 
Worth noting are the “Face Melting” covers* featured last night: “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Six Days on the Road” (which I know as a Taj Mahal jam).
* Not featured last night was my own request for “More Than Words”.
The Excuse: “The band didn’t have time to learn it.”
The Wife’s reaction: “There’s no band in that song!!”
Supposedly, that’s Irish Gaelic (which I’m allowed to rock thanks to my 13th century Kilpatrick heritage, yo)…
So, yeah, it’s St. Patrick’s Day and it’s snowing like a bitch this morning. Luckily the roads stayed mostly clear, and we didn’t get anything near the high end of the 4-8 inch predictions.
Nevertheless, I am pleased that I was able to get my celebrating out of the way this past Saturday with Brozovich at the “Lazy J Ranch” of one John Croghan. John pulls together a nice little crowd of good people, so it was an excellent laid-back time. Plus he had a keg of Guinness. Hard to go wrong there. (Hell, I didn’t even bother to check if it was carbonated or nitrogenated. No need to be rude in the man’s house.)
By the way, John is doing his country crooning thing in Olde Town Arvada on April 4 at the 12 Volt Tavern. He’s guessing he’ll go on around 10pm or so. I’m definitely going to be there. If I’m lucky, John might even sing my request.
In other music performance news, The Aggrolites are playing in Denver this Wednesday. I love those boys. We saw them open for Madness in Los Angeles a couple years ago and have since collected all of their stuff. Well worth the $13 ticket, I’m thinking. (Here are some YouTube samples for you. Oh, and The Wife’s favorite track.)
Oh, there’s also roller derby on April 5. The Wife was asking about derby last night, so we’ll probably try to hit that, I think. Derby’s always worth the $13 ticket.
That’s all I’ve got, but that’s way more than usual, so I’m fine with it.
Today, Rod posted these rejected Star Wars products to our sooper-seekrit IRC channel, prompting the following:
Jake: tauntaun suit is the best thing EVER
Jake: and pants are optional!
Rod: hell yes
Rod: and then if you’re at a halloween party and some girl opens up your sweaty suit to blow you, she can say “and i thought they smelled bad on the outside”
Rod: and then you can marry her because she’s awesome
That’s gold, people. Pure gold!
And then there was this exchange, as well…
Here’s to having MLK Day off from work!
Going for my walk/run today in 15 degree (F) temps wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting. Until my calf started cramping. That had nothing to do with the cold, though. It was ready to go from the activity earlier in the weekend.
Junk I’ve run across:
Random tidbits once again:
So yeah… What’s new with you?
My dear mother has made the leap to Apple computing hardware, which I welcome wholeheartedly. Of course, she had to do it whole-hog by getting an iMac and a MacBook, but I can’t begrudge her having her toys. Plus she got a discount through her employer, so she was able to get everything nicely upgraded.
Now I just need to get down there this weekend and install the wireless router I got her for Xmas…
Then we can figure out that crazy screen sharing action in iChat. That’ll be awesome for remote troubleshooting, should it ever be needed.
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