April 2026
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April 26th, 2026. Post Dark Horse.
Kristen getting the check and the chat from Pinky at the end of the night. I was amused that their hair matched from the back. I must admit that one of the most satisfying things in my Life right now is playing Dark Horse in Annapolis, MD, coming home and eating our leftovers while watching…
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April 19th, 2026. Erik Perkins.
A beautiful day for funeral. For a moment at least, it slows down. Today was a day we’d been working towards for quite some time, a memorial service for Erik Perkins. He’s not someone we knew really well, but we’ve known him for a really long, long time. 20 years? More? His daughter, Bryn, was…
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April 11th, 2026. Follow up.
A beautiful day at Sugarland Mountain Vineyards in Dickerson, MD on Friday, April 10th, 2026. T’was a glorious afternoon. Everything is about follow up and follow through. I make a LOT of good starts on things. I’m terrible about follow up and follow through. I’m trying to keep track of all my mother’s doctors, I’m…
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April 9th, 2026. Rough week on a Thursday.
Monday morning, I fielded a couple of different phone calls from various doctors before being fully conscious and then had this problem. Yep, there’s a freakin’ wasp on my D7 Battlecruiser. It’s been a hard week. Sunday morning my mom had surgery for her broken wrist and I spent the day with her before heading…
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April 7th, 2026. The SPARK.
We do this every Tuesday, with or without me, at the SPARK at School of Musical Traditions (7112 Willow Ave., Takoma Park, MD). Signup before we get started at 7pm, randomized list. Tis the best free night of entertainment in Takoma Park on a Toosday in my opinion. House piano, webcast, 2 songs or 10…
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April 5th, 2026. Happy Easter.
Well, I’m not going to post a picture of my mother, because they’re all awful. (that’s not rude, keep reading). So here’s the photo out her hospital window (that’s why they’re awful) of the insane HVAC of the University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center. It’s not a particularly NICE photograph, but I hate having blank…
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April 5th, 2026. The Music City Open Mic.
This weekend sucked. But we got through it and I was grateful to head over to my open mic. In other news, what’s with every hospital hanging Kandinsky mobiles? This fucking hospital. It’s new and has definite usability issues. They hung the signage and THEN put up the exitsigns. In multiple places. It’s been a…
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April 4th, 2026. Alaina Tamash.
I could do this for a long time – just record my friends. Alaina ran into some problems with the engineer she’d been working with, a friend who just found himself out of his depth and out of time, and I was flattered she came to me. This morning we knocked out a couple of…
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April 3rd, 2026. Ouuut.
Wednesday before the Lair my mom called and reminded me about the Artemis II moon launch. Watching from the Lair, my own little command center, knowing that my phone’s orders of magnitude more powerful than any of the “computers” we sent to the moon last time. Wish my dad was able to watch with me!…
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March 31st, 2026. The SPARK.
We do this every Tuesday, with or without me, at the SPARK at School of Musical Traditions (7112 Willow Ave., Takoma Park, MD). Signup before we get started at 7pm, randomized list. Tis the best free night of entertainment in Takoma Park on a Toosday in my opinion. House piano, webcast, 2 songs or 10…