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It was, yes!! My brother organized a small flashmob visit to my room that included some of my favorite humans including Bill Arkins who is almost 96 years old, a retired pharmacist who said he still has ways to smuggle dope if I need anything good. Also mentioned that my house is still standing and that he hasn't stolen anything yet. He rides by every day like clockwork on his 1960s style Schwinn bike with coaster brakes that looks practically new still. Best bang for the buck ever. Bill's son-in-law Don, one of my high school classmates, walked in behind him and said, "Oops, wrong room. I thought this was a removal call. I get a lot of those here..." He's a funeral director, so naturally followed that up with "We appreciate your business but we're willing to wait..." for probably the 10,000th time with his typical stoic delivery. There was cake... it was an Office Space sort of birthday celebration but in a good way.

Molly Tuttle w/ Ketch Secor from old crow medicine show as a guest Cecilia Castleman and Joshua Ray Walker opened https://archive.org/details/cc10250928 https://archive.org/details/jrw20250928 https://archive.org/details/mt20250928

^^ :{ no vid for me.. Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 by Ingrid Fliter (2025) https://album.link/mcwwxmh8wsm0b Example: The Mazurka's are not my fav for Chopin, but I had not seen a Linn recording in so long, I had to listen. Very enjoyable. Well recorded, but the perspective is a little far back for me (especially compared to the Osokins recording above). For piano only, I like to be a little closer.

Black Rabbit (Netflix) I'm finding it enjoyable and trying not to binge it too fast...

Very great, familiar song that I never knew the name of, nor the act that performed it. Was led to it by the comments section in another video short:

Post-rock (of the non-crescendo-core variety) -- very tasty (The F1rst Take is a YouTube channel dedicated to showing (off) musicians performing a song -- live in the studio, or at least the ones on screen -- in its entirety in one take):

That IS awesome....but please stay safe!! I hope your voice will be part of a healthy turnaround!

I just thought something funny... These women are Al's Sister in Laws, a lesbian couple. They and their gay carpenter seem so excited to put up closet doors, even though we spent a good portion of time knocking them down. Just caught me as ironic.

I'm elected as City Congress Member of CHP (main oppotsition party) also elected as Town board member. Getting knee deep into politics.

I made some cotton sleeved speaker cables - going to get them hooked up to my horns which I moved my rack over to the side and as such needed two different length cables… couldn’t find any coconut fiber sleeving

Hope you're having a good one Wayne! Cheers!

Happy birthday! Hoping for a fast recovery so you're able to scurry down chimneys this year.

Happy Birthday and sorry to hear about the back! Heal up!

Happy birthday and I hope the recovery goes smooth. Careful on those stairs!

Happy Birthday, and I hope you're "back" in action soon.

Holy shiznit, Wayne I am so sorry to read about this. Hopefully those nurse spent a little "extra time" on your birthday 😉. Wishing you a speedy recovery, buddy.

Happy Birthday!

I hope that despite the ailments it was a good birthday.

Congrats!

Hope you had a good b-day run along the beach!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Wayne!

Cheers Wayne - Happy birthday --

Happy Birthday Wayne!!

Happy Birthday, Cayman Santa!

Speaking of Arvo, I had this in my queue. For Arvo by Georgijs Osokins (2025) https://album.link/cnccvbdpfrwff Example: Also worthy. And DG knows how to record piano.

ayea Yeah, that’s what I tell myself, “I’m mature”. My wife also says that but there is no space between the two ms.

Thumb is almost fully healed. And the homeowners knew that I had to do a lot more work than what we originally talked about, because their contractor wasn't supposed to build out the opening, so they agreed to pay more. Enough to cover the cost of the saw blade and cartridge. Hurray for Saw Stop! The handles for the doors and vanity are supposed to be in sometime in October. Then I can completely finish up.

Moar funz...

Good one, Brent!! Seems I forget to post in here my news update... let me do a cut and paste... Broke my back a couple of weeks ago, but other than that I'm doing well. Gotta laugh sometimes!! On September 15th at 3:30am, I was at home at the house in Illinois (my parents house which I bought from my siblings after mom died in 2020) where I usually spend my summer months. Lost my footing going down the stairs to the kitchen and broke my back pretty badly. Ended up at St. Francis in Peoria until they transferred me out yesterday to a bounce back place in Peru, IL just 7 minutes from the house in Oglesby. Thankfully (miracle, I think) there is no nerve damage to the spinal cord or anything it controls so everything is still working right. They decided that (just barely) I could avoid surgery so no hardware being put into my back. They made a custom fit TLSO back brace, like a 2 piece turtle shell. Been using it with better and better results since Sunday. Lots of pain but meds are controlling it pretty well. Need to be on my back most of the time for the next 2-3 months but the bones should fuse back together in time and I'll be as good as new. I feel lucky. It's not fun but there is a good path forward and God is watching over me. Kind of tricky doing a lot of things and odd to have to rely on nurses to wipe me up but whatever. It's not their first time! At least I can get up out of bed and sit in a recliner and go for walks with the back brace on, even use the toilet so no bed pans. But can't wipe! Maybe I'll need a garden hose when I get home for the shower!! The L1 (highest up lumbar) and the T12 (lowest down in the mid back part of my spine) both were snapped straight through, including the diec between them. It's a 3 column fracture which is the worst kind possible since all 3 layers of bone broke through so there isn't any one layer of bone still in place to provide stability. Thus its considered an unstable fracture (back won't support itself again until they fuse back together in time). But the good news is there was no horizontal shifting so my spine is still straight and that makes it possible (with my high tolerance for pain) to allow the brace to be an option to avoid surgery and locking 6 vertebrae together with pins and screws for the rest of my life. That would be VERY expensive and risk infection, but mainly I'd be less flexible once healed since the hardware for that kind of surgery is not designed to come out. So it's the right approach we're taking, just kind of a PITA in the short term. But I've got my laptop, phone, and TV. Really just need people to help me get into and out of the turtle shell. After that I can get to my feet and so long as the meds are doing their thing, I can do pretty much anything for myself. When I get home there may be some new challenges but life is never without them. I'm good and getting better already.

And three more dead in a North Carolina mass shooting yesterday. Both the NC and Michigan shooters were former US Marines who served in Iraq. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/28/nx-s1-5556033/north-carolina-shooting-southport-american-fish-company

4 people gunned down in a deplorable act of violence in an LDS church in Michigan. https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-shooting-michigan-dcb79ee701b0b8076bf73e30e10ba2b7?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us I know I'm pro-2A and anti-superstitious, but I also believe in freedom from religious persecution. Fucking rednecks.