Tag: memories
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Blast from the past
So, we’re all tired of reading the news, freezing our collective asses off, and generally enduring dickdom. So I’m going to wax nostalgic today. Way back in 1988, I didn’t live in Colorado. I lived in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. My family had fallen upon hard times (sort of a repeating theme with…
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The Friday News
I know it’s Saturday, or for some, Sunday. Just go with it. This is something my father used to do back in the day. 2001, to be exact. I think these were typed out about 8 feet from where I sit now, on a computer that now sits upstairs, mostly full of cat hair. A…
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Chambers Lake
I love this place. It’s a largely artificial lake at about 9000 feet elevation. Even in the summer, it’s nice and cool up here. It’s crystal clear, cold water. But then 2020 came, and like everything else that year that sucked, this fire happened. As it were, I had a trip scheduled to Steamboat Springs,…
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Song of the day
This actually happened while I was typing this – there was originally a “D” where the “S” is in song. Damn fat fingers. 1988, Leetown, WV. Leetown is just a mailing address, the closest city of any consequence was Martinsburg, tucked up in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. There’s a neat road there, US…
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Songs that remind you of stuff
We all got ’em, don’t we. So, I’ll start talking about mine, and if you want to chime (see what I did there?) in, feel free. Song #1. So, I first stumbled onto this song, and this band around 1981, when I was 11. I think this is one of their later albums that came…
The Night Driver 