Shameless self-promotion

...and encouraging people to come to Thursdays on First this week and eat, drink, and be merry! In particular...from 4pm-5:30pm on the south stage (next to Bilotti's and Dooley's on First Ave) will be...my band! From Bob Marley reggae to Aretha Franklin soul to Santana, we will be doing some great tunes!

Come one, come all!

DADT

There are so many of these stories I don't generally forward them (just hop on youtube and search on "DADT" and you'll see them) but this is an example of the perfectly good servicepeople and officers that we're discharging for absolutely no good reason. This guy was discharged despite keeping quiet about his personal life and despite both his captain and chief saying how good a serviceman he was and how much they needed him back on duty.

Wesley Snipes as Geordi???

Another fun one for all you Star Trek TNG fans:

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/star-trekcasting.html

We're in trouble...

I know you can edit video and find stupid people, but the fact that there are even THIS MANY functioning adult people in our country that don't know some of the most simple things about history and current events is tragic.

Video Game nostalgia

All of you that played Atari 2600 games will remember these:

http://www.rundlc.com/news/the-misleading-world-of-atari-box-art-part-two-xbox-live/

I think it was kind of fun to imagine what the game would actually look like/do based on the graphic on the front of the game. Now we're pretty much there :)

10 ideas to change the world

A neat/short pictoral article with some great simple ideas. Thanks to friend Dan for this one:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/08/23/10.simple.things/index.html?hpt=C2

Big Band Weather

Lots of fun and beautiful weather going on last night in Pine Island, as I subbed on lead alto for the "Rochester Big Band", a band I've played with in the past. The Pine Island crowd at the band shell was great, the weather was great, and I don't think I'll ever get tired of playing big band music :)

An overall productive weekend, including our "kitty" life returning to normal as Fluffy Face is now out of kitty jail and we're slowly letting him back into more rooms. It's nice to see them both back chasing each other around and laying in their favorite spots by the window on the couch. Besides investing in a second identical litter box (so they each have their "own"), I purchased some cat-calming plugins from catfaeries.com, as well as cleaning the spots Fluffy Face has had accidents on a number of times with the special "kitty-be-gone" scent-removing enzyme.

In the coming weeks I'll be gearing up for what should be a great musical evening, playing saxophone with my friend Dan's "put-together" band. We had our first rehearsal last week and WOW is there some talent there. We are playing from 4pm-5:30pm at the south stage of Thursdays on First on September 2nd, opening for the feature band that evening. I encourage everyone to come out and have some drinks at Dooley's pub and sit and take in the great music :)