Wow, I haven't posted a LLP post since last June! I have been enjoying mostly the music I always have, even thought I have been looking for and listening to what new music (to me) that I can. I'm always open to new music but sometimes the new music is old music still waiting to be found.
1996 - Download This!
Cradle Of Thorns was first known to me as the CD my latest gal pal in the late mid 90's did not want to lose. The 1996 CD was called Download This!, I had never heard of them, but she could not wait to play it for me, and yes, I agreed it was pretty great, just not as fanatically as she. Okay, she'd say, I'll leave it here but you better take care of it and I want it back! This was a girlfriend that, well, chose me. You know, you're in a dead spot and she's kinda cute and likes you lots. Not sure if you want all your friends to know your seeing her but she does some things very well to and for you to keep you there. That kind of thing.
Not really long story short - she wound up off in Montana and her CD was still at my place, not my fault. It was a really good CD way back then and still is now. It has some of that in between song annoying, inane stuff, to me anyway, but the songs were innovative and differently good to me at the time. Plus it had a great cover of Motley Crue's 'Shout at the Devil!'
1994 - Feed-Us
Recently I had been listening to this CD again and I decided to look them up on YouTube. There is not much to be found. They put out three albums as Cradle Of Thorns, then a later CD as Videodrone in 1999. I have the Videodrone CD from a prior re-interest a few years ago (I guess when I have no new music interests I tend to research my prior favorites more). This time I went back and got their 1994 album, Feed-Us, I ordered the physical CD from my favorite place to shop, Amazon. This CD has things on it that reverberated on 1996's Download This!, but in my opinion not quite as well. But I would expect that, as this came before, and as of right now I've just re-added the 1999 Videodrone CD to my digital library to refresh my memory on that. If I'm still curious later, there is a 1990 CD called Remember It Day out there somewhere, probably waiting to find its way to my collection in another 5 years or so, depending on how bored I get finding new things to listen to.
They have no real 'official' videos that I can find, so try this - the song Flesh, from my newest CD; Cradle Of Thorns, 1994, Feed-Us.
It is winter and not as much happens, thus nothing to write. Plus, now that I have taken a step back from blogging for a bit it does get harder to make myself sit and write. So, since I may jump around a bit we'll make it a This and Thats post!
I've accepted my third promotion in about as many years. Tomorrow I start in my new department, higher in rank and money though not much of either. Still, this department has a whole lot more potential than the department I was in. I will have adjustments to make, like I will have a later schedule and I'll be changing buildings again. I'll be back in the building I first worked in for years, so there will be a lot of familiar faces - whether I like that or not.
And of course on the eve of my new job I get sick. After work on Friday, my wife and I went out for bit before coming home and ordering out dinner. Sometime during the course of the evening the back of my sinuses gave me that feeling and sure enough, when I got up on Saturday I felt terrible and it only got worse the longer I was awake. I only feel slightly better today, still very ill. I can only hope for a miraculous recovery for tomorrow morning or it will probably be a difficult week in training.
For good news, we went out a couple of weeks ago and bought a new bed and it finally got delivered yesterday. Our old bed had been worn out for quite some time. Nyquil, Sudafed and a new mattress helped me sleep okay last night. We also bought a couple new comforters for the new bed and we will also have to buy some more sheets to fit, this bed us much taller than the last.
My thoughts lately have turned to spring, and taking a week off with nicer weather. I feel the need for a vacation very soon and I have projects I would like to work on. But sawing and painting is best done outside in the driveway or garage. It's way too cold for that these days. I still have some designing to do but the final design is always just how it ends up, not always the idea I started with. I like creating as I go so only general plans are usually needed until I start sawing things.
We still have all the snow from a week ago, piled up everywhere. Temps the last couple days have started it melting but we know it is not over yet. At about 27 inches we're about six inches under our average for this date. There's still plenty of time for mother nature to wallop us again. I don't know what Jimmy the goundhog - the local celebrity for the holiday - told the mayor of Sun Prairie but he seemed adamant about it. The local 'hog's bite made news around the world.
Not too shabby having a team like this to root for now. I'm not saying it takes away the hurt from the Packers overtime loss to end their season, but it is certainly a good distraction. Go Badgers!
I'm over 50, married and child-free. My wife and I have a home not far from downtown Madison, Wisconsin, since 2009. I like music, taking pictures and good humor - plus writing about it all here. I am still not on farcebook or other social media, only Blogger and YouTube. Email me at scoakatsblog@gmail.com. I check it every so often.