So, yeah, it's been awhile. Sorry.
Life: Moved from South South South Texas (10 miles from the Border in McAllen, Texas) three + years ago to Gainesville, Georgia. My wife took us out of KC for a better job, and then took us out of McAllen for a better better job in Medical Administration. Since the moves, my Royals won the World Series, My Blues won the Stanley Cup, and my Chiefs won the Super Bowl (I must really be a jinx). We are up in the woods by Lake Lanier, where they film the series "Ozark," - which is ironic, because that is where I grew up - Rolla, Missouri - the Ozarks, for real. It's beautiful here. Mountainous, wooded, lake, wildlife visit daily. We are close enough to drive into Atlanta and Athens for shows, but too far to do it on the regular. That said, I've been rescheduled or missed out on six shows since the Covid drop in March. I teach at a Title I high school in Duluth, Georgia, which has been super ultra challenging since March 12th, but the kids are pretty great. My eldest Kylie is a senior-esque at Mercer University in Macon. My middle, Owen is a senior in the High School I worked at for two years... ... ... but it's complicated... ... and is taking drum lessons from this pixie like retired old man who used to play with the Atlanta Symphony and is super fun to hang out with, and my youngest just turned 14 and is ending his middle school years as an disenchanted eighth grader. I commute 40+ minutes each way to work daily, which leads me to...
Music: The commute has been good for my musical dabblings. I've been trying out an awful lot. Since Apple killed iTunes for me and a seriously vast collection, I've tried out various musical subscriptions, finally settling on Spotify. I've been deep diving the sixties a lot lately. last month I dabbled in a lot of Seventies genres. Owen has me trying out Hyperpop this week, but a lot of it is just not very good, with a few gems here and there. And I've been trying to build a lot of different playlists based some on genre, some on mood, some on functions that might need musical uplift. They are, of course, all in progress. New stuff (some to me) I've been enjoying would be the new Lickerish Quartet, Igorrr, Poppy, Black Pumas, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Natalie Prass, Superorganism, Parcels, Run The Jewels, the new-ish LCD Soundsystem, and the Gorillaz are actually kind of getting interesting again. I miss you all, I miss the outside world, and hope I make it to 2021, and am really missing live music.
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