Barack Obama at the 2008 DNC
Whether you believe or not. Whether you care or not. Whether you like him or not. He has a 50% or so, chance to be the president, thought maybe we should listen to his speech.
Good morning all! It’s garbage eve, so let’s celebrate! On to work!!!
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Camp site
so, you know that we were @ a folk festival in N. Illinois last weekend with 600 other music lovers/ partyers. We’re sitting around in the afternoon, practicing & playing. One of the older bluegrass players , a wonderful, 70+ year old extrucker from a small town in Wisconsin says to us: ” say, anyone know anything about this Linux? I am so tired of Windows”. We all just kinda stopped, and stared. It was like your favorite grandfather asking you how to hack your iphone or something like that.
Go figure what will come up in a cow pasture in the summer time….
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we spent the weekend @ a folk music festival in rural Northern Illinois. I posted some photos to flickr.com/photos/magtimmag, if you’d like to see what singing, playing, and sleeping in a cow pasture is like.
I will blog about it later….
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so, last week, I was doing my dog & pony show, here @ work. A very sincere show, btw, for a tour group of prospective customers. Later, the sales rep came back, and told me that I was the best salesman that the Co. has. Whoa, that was unexpected. Nice.
Today, I was informed that I am not up to snuff enough to receive a raise this year. “If you received one last year, you won’t receive one this year”. Well, don’t think that didn’t inspire me…. I don’t understand. I’m here constantly. I really care about the quality of the product, and that the customer receives what he needs & ordered. I work through lunch, and long hours.
Short of offering up my wife for carnal pleasures for management on a weekend retreat, I am not sure what I can do to increase my stature, or pay…
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we are getting ready for our camping trip to the Willow Folk Festival, in Northern Illinois on Friday. It’ll be a great weekend of music, friends, fires, and fun.
We found the tent, the shady thing, the inflatable mattress, and the chairs for sitting while jamming. We grilled the food tonight, ‘cuz we found that it’s easier to cook & freeze it now, rather than cook from scratch there. Go figure.
New strings on the guitars tomorrow, so they can stretch out before Friday evening, & then, load up the car. It’ll fit, it’ll fit, it’ll fit. Good thing we have a Vue to pile it all in. Last year, we had a storm around 2am on Sunday. A nasty assed storm that pretzeled several tents, shade things, and general mayhem. We were home by 4am. No sense setting it all back up. Hopefully, nothing like that this year.
Can’t wait!!!!!
There’ll be photos & videos later..
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well, here it is, past time for some of us to be in bed. After all, it’s a school night. We had a great weekend. We went to a party @ our friends Rise’ & Pierce’s house. Rise’s son Jordan, and his wife Peggy, mainly, Peggy, had a baby girl a couple weeks ago. The party was so we could meet Allie Rose, and share in Rise’s happiness. Cute little girl, and nice party.
Saturday morning, bright and early, we picked up our friends, Mollie & Bill, and off we went to the farmers market in Madison. One of the best in the country. Yes, you’ve read about it here before. Can’t beat it. Fruits, veggies, cheese, baked goods, and every one, a photo op before becoming a gastronomic adventure. Finished that, and off to the Wollersheim winery, about half an hour from Madison. Never liked wine that much ’til we went there a couple years ago. Good stuff. Back to Madison, after buying a case of wine, and sharing a bottle on the balcony. Oh, for a hammock and an nap then.
We had lunch @ Bluphies, our favorite restaurant in Madison. Rockford needs a restaurant of that caliber & under stated atmosphere. Good food, well prepared, with an ever changing menu. They always are on their toes, as far as the food. A quick Starbucks, so we wouldn’t fall asleep on the way home, and back to Rockford, with a quiet night ahead.
First thing on Sunday, yardwork. Pullin’ weeds, waterin’, clippin’, oh boy. Off for errands, a bit ‘o breakfast, and then back home to work on our set list for our 15 minutes of fame next weekend @ the Willow folk fest. That’ll be another big adventure. If you want to see it, you can also go to youtube.com & search for magtimmag. Good stuff.
Now, on to bed, and start the week all over. Still hard to believe that a couple weeks ago, we were wandering around Ireland. Sigh. . . .
Nite
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