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I looked down at the bottom row of cages and there was a gray paw sticking out between the bars. She knew what we were looking for, even then—even before we’d even met her. Without even enough food for groceries, Sweetie and I took our 40 dollars to PAWS to look for a large gray cat. We had both done a little day work for a friend of the family and armed with our first paychecks after moving to Seattle; we drove out to Lynnwood to see what we could find. As we signed the paper work, the woman behind the counter said “Remember, these cats can live upwards of 18 or 19 years, are you sure you’re ready for that?” But back in 1987, as a fresh-out-of-college-first-apartment-no-job-yet-but-looking kid, that was kind of a hard concept to grasp. My Chevy Nova still had an 8 track cassette player where we listened to Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, and my grandma’s Time Life 4-cassette collection of the Big Band Greats. Although I new some people who had a CD player, we bought LP’s when we had t...

Well the laptop took a pretty bad fall last night. I was cleaning off the table to get things ready for dinner and when I picked up my briefcase, I didn't realize that I had forgotten to zip it up, so I got to watch it flip over a few times before crashing screen side down onto the linoleum floor. The good news is that the insides still seem to work, minus the screen and the CD drive of course, but at least I have access to all the pictures and my writing and whatever else is in there. I’ve replaced the screen once already on this computer and now I’m trying to figure out if I really want to spend the 850 or so dollars that it’s going to take to fix it all so I can have a two year old IBM laptop that’s been dropped twice, or if I should just give it up for lost and buy something new. These seem like pretty lousy choices to me. Since the laptop is unusable, I’m writing this from my recording studios computer. It’s a computer without a home really since my studio is in pieces in the...

Ah Ike…was it really five whole years ago that we came into your room at the Infant Intensive Care Unit to see you and your new liver? 60 months later…that’s as long as a new car loan. Have we really been in the city of destiny for all that time? Have we really all grown that much older? I remember the first thing we did that day (well after patting the only piece of exposed skin on your face, your pink little forehead) was to take a look at your chart to check out your ammonia level. My memory is that is was in the mid thirties though I’d have to ask sweetie to be exact. I remember being pretty excited because though you were still intubated, had about a dozen IV lines all over the place and your stomach was so swollen that it wasn’t stitched up, but only covered with a thick latex patch, you still looked way better than all the other times when we had seen you close to death. I remember thinking "hell, you look great!" In hindsight I guess it was pretty clear that we were h...

The Museum of Flight in Seattle has chosen my suitcase to be exhibited along with 30 other suitcases at their beautiful facility for a special exhibition entitled “Suitcase Sightings” at the Museum of Flight. The dates of the exhibition are from Saturday, October 29th, 2005 to Saturday, February 4th, 2006. I’m gonna ride this piece of art all the way to the TOP baby!

I had some spare parts in the garage. Pieces from an electric whose neck had broke off the body years ago in one of Sweetie’s cleaning frenzies. Even at the time I knew it wasn’t that big a deal. In fact looking back on it, Sweetie breaking that guitars neck was the start of this very productive period in my life. It lead me to buying the Dobro , which in turn, led me to start the Prairie Dogs , to recording and producing my first CD , to getting out and playing more gigs, which in turn led me to buying the two new guitars I bought this past year. I thought about throwing the broken parts away when we moved in April. It just didn’t seem like there would be any situation I could think of where I would want to rebuild a guitar using those parts, and so it seemed like kind of a waste to box them up and move them, but there is a lesson that I keep reminding myself of, one that I’ve learned many times over the years, and that is to never get rid of any guitar ever. Every time I have parte...

Well since I moved this journal to Blogger, my readership has gone through the roof. At first I was a little confused as to why I’ve been getting so many hits, but once I started looking into it, I came to realize that a lot of the people who visit my site are Googling “Cat peeing blood”. In fact I’m third on the list for that particular Google search. So to all of you who’s cat (or in come cases, dogs even) are peeing blood, welcome. I’m sorry to hear your cat is peeing blood, as that can be kind of scary. I never did an update to the whole cat peeing blood story, so I should just say here and now that my cat is fine. Of course by fine I mean that she’s blind and arthritic, has a tumor on her heart that keeps growing, is losing her hearing, can’t make it down the stairs without falling 50% of the time and frequently misses the litter box, but she is also 18 years old and alive, and is at the present moment meowing loudly in the kitchen. The whole peei...