New Shoes in the Rain

Good Monday morning!  I'm off today, and spent a couple of hours on some much needed yard work yesterday and again this morning.  Shortly I will collect my younger grandson and take him to lunch and shopping, as he graduates eighth grade tonight and turns 14 on Friday! Have had a decent bit of success in getting things resolved with product and service sellers and manufacturers.  Not that I have all that many problems, but it's nice to get things the way we want them, right? Let's start with a simple thing.  I bought my wife a new screen protector for her iPhone.  Turns out I bought a three-pack, and ruined the first one attempting to install it.  Not happy.  The second one went on pretty well, but I saw that there were some bubbles and marks on it and advised my wife to go to the Apple Store and get a better one there.  She saw that I had failed to peel off the protective coating on this protective cover and the guy at the Apple Store was kind en...

Good Saturday, everyone.  I write this from Lexington, Kentucky, the part of Kentucky that's NOT hosting the Kentucky Derby today (that's Louisville).  It's cool and rainy here.  Looks the same for the race as well.  Guess you can't have everything, even if you bought a special outfit for the occasion. Here to touch on a subject near and dear to my heart, and that's music.  My whole family is well aware of my love of music, and most of my closer friends are, too.  My mom insisted that my older brother and I take piano lessons, but the music we were taught never really stuck.  I liked the stuff I heard on the radio better. And that would mean late 60's AM radio music, so we're talking about a little Elvis, a little Beatles, Three Dog Night, Creedence Clearwater Revival and some other luminaries.  Not much later I developed a great affinity for other artists, like Elton John (as I write this, I'm listening to his latest recording with his longtime f...