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Keith, I hope both you and your wife heal quickly and completely.
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All you guys who have made that marriage thing work for you have my deepest respect seasoned with a lot of envy. It just hasn't worked out for me, though I am well aware as to why.
Keith, good detective work. Second Helpings was a lot of fun. We actually won an award for some "online food column" category. The week that she was swamped and we decided that I would do the weekly recipe and SHE would review ME turned a corner. A lot of people took to that turning table and I actually developed a fan base where I was getting about 3/4 of the amount of fan mail she was getting. We had a local low-power AM radio station here that did a lot of talk radio and they called the house. She assumed they wanted to interview her and the guy said "Actually I was hoping to reach your husband. With that dry, biting sense of humor he will be radio gold for me." So I did a 60 minute spot, complete with phone calls, and the fan mail increased. When we parted ways I got a lot of "we miss you" email for about 4-5 months. Then, as usual, I became quite forgettable. That marriage was little more than a good idea at the time. Pretty much oil and water. The last 3-4 years was pretty much "on paper only". That was over with "on paper" 16 years ago now, but in practice it was done after 1 year, so 20 years ago. I am not a day at the beach, and she was an overbearing woman with inferiority issues who overcompensated by trying to bully people. I grew up on the inner city streets of Cleveland, and I have never been bullied, though many have tried, so that didn't go well for her.
Were you up this way to get the book signed? I have my doubts that she did a book tour that took her to Alabama.
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Hi Keith,
Sorry to hear about the health issues. I hope thing go better in the future. Your comment
"This was not how we expected to spend our retirement years, but we DID expect to spend them together." is one of the most destressing parts of the pandemic.
My wife developed four new fractures in her back near the beginning of the pandemic. It was a real nightmare. Five days in the hospital alone. Five days I had to totally depend on the medical staff there to do everything correct.
That was only the beginning. We could not get a pain management specialist. I only had occasional access to our primary doctor. I had to run a damn emergency room in my living room for about a month. As I had to give Eva pretty large amounts of pain meds, there was always the fear of her reacting negatively and stop breathing. Yes I have the meds and the skill to deal with a bad reaction but that is super difficult to do alone. My fear level was pretty high for a while.
I sat up at night to see if she was breathing OK. That was hard to assure. I finally called a friend in California and he was kind enough to send me a CO2 monitor FedEx overnight. It had a alarm so I could sleep setting up next to her.
There are a good many older people here on this site I believe will also understand your comment.
I also have a wonderful wife of more than thirty years. I can't imagine life without her.
Perhaps there was never the idea that we should have these types of conversations on this site. I think they are important and bring a different level of togetherness between people here.
Billy
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“Well…” Saint Peter, hesitated, “God’s got this girlfriend who thinks she can sing…”
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Were you up this way to get the book signed? I have my doubts that she did a book tour that took her to Alabama. Sandra and I find ourselves in Ohio quite often. If memory serves, the book signing was held at a book store in Westerville; either that or Columbus. I went to school for 3 years in Westerville so I have some close ties to that community, and our favorite nephew lives in Columbus now. Actually, works in Columbus and lives in Dublin. I probably should explain that I can’t drive past a bookstore without going in; while my wife can’t walk past a cookbook without buying it. Sandra probably has the largest collection of cookbooks in the northern hemisphere. We went into the store just to browse and Sandra couldn’t pass up the opportunity to buy another cookbook and chat up the author to boot.
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my wife can’t walk past a cookbook without buying it. Kind of like me and pretty guitars?
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I have an entire closet full of music books and a file cabinet drawer full of sheet music. I have so much, it's hard to know if I have a particular song in there somewhere or not.
There is a part of me that wants to scan them all with enough tags, so I can search by title, composer(s) or year and another part of me thinking it would take too huge a chunk of time that would be better spent writing more style and fake e-disks for Band-in-a-Box.
Music is one of my main passions.
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Sounds like you need to hire an intern Notes.
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I have an entire closet full of music books and a file cabinet drawer full of sheet music. I have so much, it's hard to know if I have a particular song in there somewhere or not.
There is a part of me that wants to scan them all with enough tags, so I can search by title, composer(s) or year and another part of me thinking it would take too huge a chunk of time that would be better spent writing more style and fake e-disks for Band-in-a-Box.
Music is one of my main passions.
Notes Just an FYI, there are free programs that using a cheap USB scanner, catalog books by their ISBN number. Book sellers, librarians and collectors use the method to catalog hundreds of books per hour or to search for used books to resell to Amazon and College Book stores. Take Steve's advice, hire a kid, make sure the program is gathering all of the data you need and catalog your library. Bookscouter and ScanIQ are two free programs that are popular.
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Notes: Will you guys get your regular Tuesday gig back this fall (Little Jim's)? Didn't that place just change hands not too long ago? Or am I confused? The new owners are undecided at this point. Perhaps they are waiting to see how the economy does and/or if the border between the USA and Canada is reopened. I don't know, they aren't as sharing about their thoughts with us as the old owners were. Since we don't usually return until October or November, we'll put out a feeler, probably in August. If not, there are some other places we think might work, but we won't approach them until we get a better felling about what Little Jim plans. After 12 consecutive years, it's our first choice. Notes I will get others I know there and in Vero to put in a word with them, asking about you guys coming back. That usually helps I would think.
My wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl. I told her I didn't even know he could.
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Notes: Will you guys get your regular Tuesday gig back this fall (Little Jim's)? Didn't that place just change hands not too long ago? Or am I confused? The new owners are undecided at this point. Perhaps they are waiting to see how the economy does and/or if the border between the USA and Canada is reopened. I don't know, they aren't as sharing about their thoughts with us as the old owners were. Since we don't usually return until October or November, we'll put out a feeler, probably in August. If not, there are some other places we think might work, but we won't approach them until we get a better felling about what Little Jim plans. After 12 consecutive years, it's our first choice. Notes I will get others I know there and in Vero to put in a word with them, asking about you guys coming back. That usually helps I would think. Thanks. Be sure to ask for Diego or Donna, as it won't get past anyone else who answers the phone. Notes
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My next band was "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang". The band leader picked all the songs, and most of them were by CCR. This band was so bad that in the middle of playing a Senior Prom the drummer threw his sticks on the ground and walked off the stage. I managed to get him back onstage by telling him we wouldn't get paid. That was, fortunately, the end of "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang"!  Regards, Bob
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Maybe Captain Billy had to TAKE a whiz...
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I can relate a story to you that shows SOME flexibility. There was a band in Cleveland called Wild Horses. Really popular. They were your basic cover band but they wrote one single, Funky Poodle, and it was a local hit. They were fronted by an old friend named Steve Jochim (who I have always called Poodle). A band I was in at the time played that song. One night Steve was in there just hanging out and I told the guys to start Funky Poodle but just keep looping the intro.
So we started it and I said "Where's Poodle at??" And I located him and pointed at him and then did the "come here" gesture to get him on stage, and we did his song.
But THAT was not an unknown quantity coming on stage to try to wing a song. I mean, he wrote the song he sang. Very different circumstance.
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Band-in-a-Box 2025 Italian Version is Here!
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