I'm still enthralled with Mindy Smith

Who can blame me?

I went to the High School Football game that was L.D. Bell vs. Central somebody. The quarterbacks were 10 feet tall. They executed. The game was exciting and the half time show was implicit. What? Good Tx Friday NIght Lights.

To Do before my end of time

We are supposed to compare notes on our Bucket List tomorrow. I went to lunch with Brie on Monday and she had two pages already and wrote three more while we ate. I have two (and even that's an exaggeration.) I want & plan to go to Europe but besides I don't have anything pressing.

This goes directly to my lack of imagination.

If you have suggestions please send them right away. It's embarrassing.

30 years in a Night

Bob Millby called me from Danville KY last night. I haven't talked to him in 10 or 20 years. He was my across the hall dorm neighbor when we were going to Transy in Lex. KY. We shared our stories. The highs and the lows. Dug up some buried memories. Gossiped. He still llives in the town he grew up in. Dad moved us all around my entire childhood but we landed in Central KY and stuck there about ten years (high school/ Transy) so it feels most like home. I'm living in Dallas Fort Worth about a thousand miles away from there. We talked and talked and talked until I realized it was late. It was fun. I getting great joy out of reconnecting.

Bucket List

She's half my age but insists were both going through a mid-life crises. We've decided to create our own bucket list. Well disclose it on Friday Night when we go see L.D.Bell Highschool play at Penington Field. She wanted to see a TX FrI NIght HS Football game. I haven't started my list and she has two pages. I gotta get started. On my list is to get rich so I can hire an assistant to help create bucket lists.

"I can't for the life of me remember a sadder day

I know they say let it be. But it just don't work out that way".--P. Simon

It's a good reason not to live in your head. Sushi with Brie for lunch helped clear the crap from my "Monday is hell & life sucks" brain. Thanks Brie. Were going to a Friday night Texas HIgh School Football game cause she's from MN and wants to experience the Texas religion which is HS Football.

Fish not Biting: HOme Early

Came home with my nephews last night. The two hour trip back to Mansfield was a hoot. We played at making up our own super heroes. I'd clue you in but this is a family blog. Yeah, we turned into adolescents. I'm back home and slept through church. Now' I'm on my way to Waffle House for 2 greasy eggs swimming in oil over easy, dry wheat toast and hashbrown scattered. I have 5 stints and take two cholestral meds. I'm covered.

I hope.

September Morn.

Beautiful morning here in E. TX. Got up at 5:30 am so I could be at the local grocery store when they open the doors. The produce manager bags up all the fruit and veggies at the height of ripeness and sell it for a $1 a bag. I managed to beat the local old man who buys it all up if he gets there first (he was a second behind me, HA!). In a couple of minutes Diana and I will meet my Uncle and Aunt and we start garage saleing cause my house isn't filled with enough junk yet. But it's fun and with gas prices lower it's fairly cheap entertainment.

Then this afternoon we'll try our luck at the fishing spot. It rained again last night so I'm not expecting to catch much.

Crappie Fishing: Fall Schedule.

The grilled b'day dinner for Diana last night was awesome. I needed that garden salad too.

NOw I"m on my way to E. TX to visit my Ma and Pa and my uncle is back in town so we'll be going fishing. I hope those crappie are biting. NOthing like catching a slab. I'll keep you posted.

Cloudy Cool, not Fancy

Mark's supposed to be grilling a birthday dinner for Diana. I'm invited but Mark runs on a 3rd shift schedule so this dinner may come off at about my bed time. Hmmm.

Happy Birthday Sis

Diana, my sister turns 55 today. It's not exactly an iconic birthday like 50, or 40 or 30 or 21 or 16 but it is sorta. She is taking this well as far as I can determine. I sent her Border Song's by Lynch via mail order and she got it about a week ago. Border Songs received good reviews in the NY Times Book Review I read the first chapter as the link was provided by the review. I liked it. I'm anxious for her to finish so I can read it. My Dad and Mom are avid readers also. We often buy books and pass them around and discuss them. Actually, I buy books and pass them around. I love books. And sharing them makes it all the more fun. Our own book club.

I also bought her white socks. She loves socks. I got them at Tuesday mornings cheap. Don't tell that though.

Beer and Publicity

Bear Tooth Pass Productions marketing people (Diana Lackey) are pestering me about not referencing Fedrick, not Fred enough. So, being the compliant 'what-the-hell' what-ever-you-say guy that I am: have you heard about my first CD Fred, not Fred.

No.

But, let me do one better. Let me reference the site where you can stream it for free:

http://www.myspace.com/stevenfedrick

but dont' tell Lackey. I don't think it's about free in her world. Don't tell her but the CD was a labor of love and NOt about money at all. NOt that money is bad. Buy 20 copies and I'll love you forever.

Rain

More rain. This makes about 20 inches. I know I was complaining about the heat. I know I was whinning about the damn Texas sun burning a hole in my brain. I know the temperature has dropped about 20 degrees these last three rain drenched days. I know sometimes it's a pain in the ass to get what you pray for. I know.

Damn.

Warning: This Game is addictive

Just got back from playing Guitar Hero with my nephews. Some of my old fart co-workers have been telling me about their GH parties which last all night and in to the next day. Really? Yeah. For some reason time goes into this wierd accelerator mode and you look up and it's been more than a couple of hours.

At one point I felt liquid on the 'strum' part of the 'bass' I was playing and was wondering what the hell....Here's the deal: I had worn and burst a blister on my thumb. Talk about a rock star.

HA!

Re-occuring Dream

I dream every night. They say everyone does. Even though dreams are in the temporary memory part of your brain I awake every morning and place them in the extended memory brain part.

The problem with this is when I go through my nightmare phase. I dread going to sleep.

Often I have re-occuring dreams with slight variations so they're not exactly reruns (but close). One of my most re-occuring dream is the one where I am exploring a huge older home with my family and we are determining who's room will be who's. To tell you the truth I love home tours so this is not a bad or boring dream to me. These houses usually have hidden rooms which enclose working kitchens and separate facilities. This make it nice since if we all have our own living space then we don't have to live too close since we are family and tend to get on each others nerves.

I had a variation of this dream last night. I dreamed me and my brother were looking a places to live in for college. He was getting his masters in psychology and it seems I was just tagging along. Anyway it was kind of cool because the rooms were fully furnished and had piles of antique stuff like clothes piled about.

Springsteen to be Kennedy Center Honoree

Congradulations Bruce. Well deserved.

ReMastered Beatles: Genius

Beatles on my door step.

Welcome to TheBeatles.com!

I pre-ordered the Beatles re-mastered box set (stereo) a couple of weeks ago. It was at my front door when I arrive from work today. I just finished listening to 'Please Please Me',. I'm listening to 'with the beatles --their second. Fantastic. I can't believe how pure the sound is. "It won't be long now 'til I belong to you". Beautiful. Inspiring. Makes me miss John. And George. You gotta love technology. Got the mania. Right here. Right now.

old acquaintance

I dont' mean to embarrass anyone. Especially Diana Frazier etc. We were in the same homeroom in 5th through 8th grade. We just reconnected on Facebook. You gotta admit that's cool. C'mon. Cool stuff. Well, I'm new to this social networking stuff so to me it's novel and cool. I always liked and respected Diana Frazier. Now I get to hear about her interesting life. All the while Wall Street Journal and other mass media outlets are demoaning the fact that social networking is passe. Hmmm. I guess. but I think it's awesome. So, let me be impressed just for a little while.

Angel & the Bad Man

He lived only for revenge...She lived only for his love!---so says the movie trailer.

Watched the 1947 John Wayne classic last night. Gail Russell's beauty is almost beath taking. Sad story though. She became addicted to alcohal very young and it ended up killing her at age 36.

Today, Sunday is talking heads. The country is polarized and the political discourse is marred by lies and fear tactics. It's almost unbearable to watch.

Idle Labor Day

New York City June 2009

Click on the picture to see the NYC Picture Album. Fell in love witn NYC

Facebook: Let's face it

NYTimes is lamenting the exodus of of Facebook.
IN the last couple of months I've just become initiated into the social networking stratus, of Facebook and MySpaceMusic. It's awesome. I've reconnected with most of all my highschool and university friends. For some reason (probably pathetic) this seems important to me at this time with all my recent history. All those smiling faces and reassuring--just to know.

DCist Photo of the Day-Peter Heywood

This was the August 31, 2009 DCist photo of the day taken by my friend Peter Heywood. Great shot. Got an artist's eye. Way to go Pete!