Greetings From Paradise - Pt. 2

This is the last day of mine and Jack's "mini-vacation" up here in Paradise. We are leaving early tomorrow morning. I have school Monday evening and then all day Tuesday.

The highlight of our day yesterday was a trip to Eckerton for dinner at the Bear Butt Inn. Jack and I both got hamburgers. Jack got american cheese and bacon on hers while I got all crazy and got american and pepper cheese,bacon, and ham on mine. Their hamburgers are the best.

I have been reading a book up here that my Grandmother bought for me called "The Encyclopedia Of Music". This is the most fascinating book I have read in a long time. It basically begins with sections on each of the orchestral instruments (strings, woodwinds, brass, ect.). Then it has sections on individual composition styles throughout the centuries such as the Medieval, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic era's. The third part of the book has individual biographies of over 100 of the most famous classical composers.

Jack and I have gotten some pretty cool shortwave stations in up here. We started off our day today listening to China Radio International. We were not fortunate enough to receive any more free Chinese language lessons. Yesterday we also listened to Radio Austria International, Radio Sweden, Radio Taiwan, Radio Habana Cuba, and KBS World Radio which is broadcast out of South Korea. I wanted to hear Radio Cairo Egypt but the reception was too poor.

Jack's Uncle Dennis and Aunt Barb are up here as well so we are going to go over to their house a little later to visit. We are going to the Yukon Inn for dinner tonight. Good Times.

Greetings From Paradise

Jack and I are up in Paradise until Monday. We got up here about 8:00 P.M. last night after driving through torrential rain and snow.

I am listening to China Radio International on my shortwave receiver. They are trying to teach me Chinese. As a result of their efforts I can now say "Cat" In Chinese.

I brought my old acoustic guitar up with us to keep at the house here. I don't use it much at home since I now have the Martin so I figured it would be good to have something up here to bang on.

I set up my "Audioblogger" account the other night. I haven't gotten a chance to make a posting yet but I will try to make one on the way home from Paradise.

That's all for now.

The Birthday Boy. 

The Holidays Are In Fact Over/Brendan is 4 Today!

Yes my friends, The holidays are over and the year is 2006.

Today is my nephew Brendan's birthday. He is the big 4 today. He will be starting his school career very shortly.

The holiday season was wonderful. Many good times were had. Thank You to all of you who thought enough of me to give me gifts. You are all wonderful, beautiful people and I love you all.

Mine and Jack's condo is still up for sale. We dropped our asking price by $3,000 in an attempt to lure some more "potential buyers". We have had a couple of people in to see the place but we have received no bids of any sort.

I received a lot of cool books for Christmas. My lovely wife bought me "Two Way Radios and Scanners For Dummies" and "Ham Radio For Dummies" as I am going to start preparing for my entry into the world of ham radio.

I am going to be setting up my "Audioblogger" account this evening so look here soon for my first "Audio" blog post. The way it works is I will call a phone number with my cell phone and record my "post" and then it will automatically be sent as an audio file to this very blog page. Pretty cool eh?

My New Year's Resolution is to be a more dilligent and attentive Blogger.

That's all for now as "The Gilmore Girls" is going to start soon.