Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving people. Jack and I are going to my parents house this morning to watch the Thanksgiving day parade. We will eat a little bit over there before we go to Jack's Mom and Dad's house for dinner. It should be a stellar day. All you crazy mofo's be careful driving today in Deathstorm 2005.

Saturday Morning

It is Saturday morning. It is good.

There is a new web address for my music download page. The new address is

http://www.soundlift.com/jeffarcher for those of you who want to hear the terrible noises that I produce. The site I am working through changed their name from IC Music Media to Soundlift so they changed all the page addresses as well. I am finally starting to feel somewhat normal again after two weeks of being sick. Last weekend I watched 12 episodes of "What's Happening" back to back. I am thinking of going to the cider mill today. Jackie has a dentist appointment so I may go to the mill for some pumpkin and buttermilk doughnuts. Aren't you glad that you took time out of your busy day to read this blogpage today?

I took this picture in Kuster cemetery in the middle of the night. This pink mist showed up in about five different pictures I took at Kuster that evening. I can't think of a rational explaination as to the origin of the mist. This picture and the one below this go with the "Ghosts Of Anchor Bay" discussion in the "Recovering" post below.

My brother -in law, Ryan took this picture of a random headstone in Arlington cemetery. It wasn't a foggy night and the white mist captured in this shot is unexplainable. 

Recovering

I am in recovery. I got laid off from my life destroying construction job Monday. I have had a bad cold since then. I was supposed to give blood yesterday at the pipefitters school but I couldn't since I am sick. Today is the first day that I feel somewhat normal although I am far from 100%

Jackie leaves today for her Lapeer scrapbook weekend. This means that my bachelor weekend begins. If all goes as planned I will be making some music with Rob Scheys, making some music with myself, and perhaps making some music with House Music. All in all I am hoping for a thoroughly musical weekend as I haven't had the energy to do anything musically for about two months.

Halloween was a good time. It was great to see my nephews Brendan and Aaron. Brendan was Spiderman and Aaron was Superman. Jackie's mom got pizza for us. I was really tired and working a lot so I didn't get to put together my Halloween presentation that I wanted to this year. My presentation consisted of me playing Black Sabbath songs backwards to the trick or treating children while yelling at them in a Satan voice produced by one of my guitar pedals while hiding. It was going to be awesome. Perhaps I will try it next year.

I recently bought a book called "Ghosts Of Anchor Bay". It is written by Debi Chestnut and Linda Sparkman and as the title suggests it focuses on hauntings and paranormal activity in the Anchor Bay area. I emailed Debi Chestnut about a couple of the houses mentioned in her book. I also mentioned in my email some pictures that I have taken in which "unexplained" things have appeared. She wanted me to email some of these pictures to her so I sent her some pics that I took at Kuster cemetery in Lenox Twsp. in which an unexplainable pink mist appeared in some of the shots. I sent her a couple other "ghostly" pictures that I have taken at other locations as well as a picture that was taken by my brother-in law Ryan at Arlington cemetery. I include both the pictures of the Kuster pink mist and Ryan's Arlington white mist above this post.

I have been listening for "numbers" stations on my shortwave radio lately. "Numbers" stations are basically frequencies whose transmissions consist of a voice repeating a series of numbers over and over. It is generally believed that these "numbers" transmissions are coded messages for spies in other countries. The transmissions originate in and are directed at many countries so it is hard to identify the nationality of the transmissions other than by the accent of the "numbers" voice. I have never heard a "numbers" station but I have read alot about them and Jackie's father, Norm told me about them as well.

Looking out my window I see a beautiful, cloudy, gloomy autumn morning so I am going outside to play.

One And A Half Feet In The Grave

I am slowly dying.

I know people work the hours that I am working all the time but I just don't see how they do it. The physical deterioration of my body has progressed to the point where feeling as if I died two weeks ago feels normal. On the plus side the money is nice especially with Christmas coming up soon.

Mine and Jack's third anniversary was October 12th. She got me an ELO CD box set, A Bob Dylan CD and DVD and a new copy of The Band's "The Last Waltz" CD box set. She is the best and I love her with all of my heart.

Jackie has some cool Halloween themes posted on her site right now. Check it out.

Jackie and I heard the pirate station WMPR on the shotrwave radio the other day.

I was having some problems with uploading Mp3's to my download page but I got everything sorted out so I will probably upload the next ten tracks from "A Beautiful Morning" onto the download page tommorrow afternoon.

Hello

I've been working 10 hour shifts down at the Marathon refinery. I am a "service" technician which means I go out to various commerical heating and air conditioning units that are not working and attempt to troubleshoot those problems and then fix them. Since I was laid off and "service" has been slow I have been placed at the Martathon job which is "construction". I am not a "construction" pipefitter and I do not know much about it so it pretty much sucks.

I have this weekend off and then I will be working 10 or 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for the next 30 - 45 days. Now as far as I can see there is two ways to look at this.

10 or 12 hours a day, 7 days a week = a lot of money. or,

10 or 12 hours a day, 7 days a week = A complete physical breakdown of my body.


In lighter news, Jack and I have had a couple more people walk through our condo to check it out but we still haven't gotten any bids on it yet. Below is my "Golden Rule" concerning condominium purchasing.

Never, Never, Ever Under Any Circumstances Buy A Condominium.

I won't go into my reasoning for giving you this advice because it would take far too much space on this blog and all of you would fall asleep before you finished reading about the things that suck ass about living in a condo that you own.

The only exception to my "Golden Rule" would be if you are old and you cannot physically take care of a yard or shovel snow, ect. Then it is probably a pretty good deal.


I continue my study of Leonardo Da Vinci. I have started to read "Leonardo Da Vinci" by Sherwin B. Nuland. I have found that whenever an individual reads several biographical texts of a particular person, that individual is bound to find differences in the stated facts between the texts. I first encountered this problem when I started my study of the Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. I bought about 5 different Coltrane biographies in the span of 4 months or so and when reading these book it sometimes seemed as if the 5 books were about 4 different people. In the case of Da Vinci I can somewhat understand the problems of the varying stated factual occurrences of his life as he was dead by 1519 but with the Coltrane books it seemed that it was plain laziness on the part of certain authors.

I have updated my music download page with the next 10 songs from "A Beautiful Morning". Check it out if you like insane guitar jams.

I'm done writing.

Back To The Real World

I guess I didn't do too well on my pledge to update this blog every other day or so. Oh Well.

Jack and I have been back from the U.P. for a week now. We really wish that we were still up there. We had alot of fun. When we got back we both started new jobs. I started a temporary job in St. Clair Shores that should last another week or so. Jackie started working at the DTE Royal Oak service center since they shut down the Lapeer customer service station where she was working.

There are some pictures of the "Good Old Days" beer tent trip on my main website.

I haven't been writing or recording at all lately. I played with "House Music" last night for the first time in a couple of months.

My study of Leonardo Da Vinci continues.

I'm sorry I really thought I had more to write.

Paradise Pt.2

I meant to write yesterday but I forgot. By the way you can check out the "Northern Estate" where Jackie and I are spending time this week by clicking HERE.

Sunday night Jackie and I watched "Rome" on HBO. I had heard there was a lot of nudity in the show but I didn't think there was, too bad. I thought it was a really good show and we saw the first two episodes. Unfortunately we don't have HBO at home so those are the only two episodes that we will see until it comes out on DVD.

Yesterday Jack and I went to Sault St. Marie. I bought another book on Leonardo Da Vinci and a "Recording" magazine. We also went to the "Dollar Tree" where we struggled in vain to find a copy of "Gamera vs. Monster X" on DVD. Norm and Sass bought it while they were up here and we watched it. It is one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. While in the Soo we ate at Clyde's hamburger place. Both Jack's parents and her Aunt and Uncle told us that we had to check out Clyde's for their big burger. Well they weren't kidding. We split the hamburger between us because it was really big. Good stuff.

We also visited with Jack's Aunt Barb and Uncle Dennis for a while last night. It was nice to relax a little and talk with them. They also have a beautiful place up here. You can check out their website by clicking HERE.

We watched "Rome: Engineering An Empire" last night on the history channel. While Jackie has always been interested in ancient Rome for it's political power struggles, I have always been interested in it's inventions and engineering feats. The show on the History Channel centered on the design and construction of the aquaducts, the Coliseum, the Parthenon, and other structures.

I tried all weekend to receive a pirate broadcast on the shortwave radio. I figured that Labor Day weekend would be a great time to hear a pirate but I heard nothing. Damn Pirates.

I mentioned that I had brought my Martin acoustic guitar up here. Yesterday Jackie and I sat by the creek and I played old country songs while she read. It was really nice.

Tonight we are going to sit on the beach, look at the stars, and drink some alcohol.

Paradise

I am writing this, sitting about 35 feet away from Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior.

Jack and I are up in Paradise for a week. We came up Friday evening. Norm and Sass were up here but they left this morning. Jack's Uncle Dennis and Aunt Barb are up here for a couple days as well.

Me and Jack are looking forward to a week of R&R. We don't plan on doing too much up here other than a trip to St. Sault Marie and the occasional aimless drive around the area. I brought up my Martin acoustic guitar, my shortwave radio, the XM radio, and books on Leonardo Da Vinci. Jackie brought up some books and she plans on putting some puzzles together.

Yesterday we basically hung out with Norm and Sass. We got ice cream uptown but there wasn't much of a selection left. Last night we hung out on the backporch and looked at the water and stars.

Also I wanted to let everyone know that Ozzy, the Archer family dog for the last 16 years passed away last week. I wanted to bring up a picture of Ozzy to post on this page but I forgot. Ozzy was the best dog that anyone could have and he will be missed. He rocked hard.

I will try to write more tommorrow but we have a big day planned of sitting on our asses.

Norm and Joe On The Silver Screen

Hey Everyone, I wanted to let you all know that my brother in-law Norm and Jackie's cousin Joe have made a movie. They sent me the trailer to post up on my websites to get the word out. It looks really good. Check out the trailer for their movie by clicking here.

Joe Miller's Ghostly Images, Nick Hydel and more.

Hey Y'all,

I thought I would make an attempt at updating this blog every other day or so like people are supposed to. We'll see how long this lasts.

A couple of months ago Jackie's cousin Joe Miller had a photograph that he took of his sister Anne Hull's house posted on the "Coast To Coast A.M." website. "Coast To Coast" is pretty much Mine and Jack's favorite radio show. The show tends to center on the paranormal, mysterious, and unexplained which, after music and art of course, are my main interests . The picture contained some ghostly images that are pretty convincing. It was a pretty substantial feat to have a picture posted on the "Coast To Coast" website as people submit hundreds of photos a day. I don't know why I didn't post this before but here it is. People in the know will recognize Joe as "Nick Hydel" from the "An Evening With Nick Hydel" audio that was posted on my main website about a year ago. Here is the link to Joe's picture on the "Coast To Coast" website.

Speaking of "Nick Hydel" I think it's time for Nick to start making some more appearances on my website. Maybe we can create a "Nick's Corner" type of thing where he can interview different people about various topics. What do you think Nick? Richmond's "Good Old Days" celebration is coming up so it might be a good time to dust off the old microcassette recorder.

You can check out Joe and his wife Alida's website here.

You can check out the Hull Family Blogspot here.

I can't think of anything else to write. Stay Gold people, Stay Gold.

Finally An Update Pt. 2

Hello everybody. I am finally getting around to another update. I know blogs are supposed to be updated daily or somewhere near daily but this has proved to be an impossible task for me as of late. A lot has been going on so let me clue you in as to what has been happening.

Jackie and I got back from "The Northern Estate" last night. We had a good time and just relaxed for the most part. We arrived there on Thursday evening. Jack's parents Norm and Sass came up on Friday night. On Saturday night we went over to Jack's Uncle Dennis and Aunt Barb's house down the road. A lot of Jack's cousins were there and I won't name them all as I am bound to forget someone and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings but they are all great people and it was good to see them. I didn't take any of my usual "toys" with me such as musical instruments, shortwave radio, ect. but I did get a chance to listen to my XM radio on the way up there.

I got laid off from my job two Friday's ago. This is probably a good thing since I now have more time to clean and straighten up the condo being that it is up for sale. We have had quite a few people come through the condo to look at it since it has been up on the market and it is very encouraging. Hopefully we can sell it in the not so distant future and we can concentrate on buying a house.

Now that I am laid off I will have to wait for a little while before I can buy the Paia P9700S modular synthesizer kit that I wrote about last time. I am really looking forward to getting it and putting it all together. I really like getting projects like that and soldering everything together and learning about the electronics involved. It will be alot of fun to be able to sit down with the finished modular synthesizer and experiment.

I have been studying and reading a lot about Leonardo Da Vinci lately. To me Da Vinci has always been the Patron Saint of Creativity. It is amazing to me that someone could be so prolific and productive in so many areas and I have always loved his art. My favorite artist though is still Hieronymous Bosch. I would love to know where he got his visions from. There is nothing to compare to his paintings. I have included some Da Vinci and Bosch painting below for you all to view.

I updated both my main webpage and my download page today. I posted the first ten tracks from "A Beautiful Morning" on the download page. Enough about this music shit. This blog is for other things.

This is probably my favorite of Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings "The Virgin Of The Rocks". 

This is Leonardo Da Vinci's "St Jerome". 

This is "Hell", the right panel of Hieronymous Bosch's "Haywain". 

Hieronymous Bosch's "Death And The Miser". 

This is the center panel of Hieronymous Bosch's "The Temptation Of Saint Anthony". 

This is the PAIA modular synthesizer kit as it is sent to you. 

This is the top view of the modular synthesizer in it's case.