There’s a tweet that has lived rent-free in my brain for 2+ years, and I want to get rid of it, but I don’t know how. So I figure if I tell you about it, maybe that’ll do the trick. 😅 IIRC, it was the summer of 2023 when I saw a tweet that went …
January 13, 2026
(Christmas Eve always makes me reflective, so here goes, even though most of this stuff is already on this site in earlier posts.) 2025 was the year that I… Got back in the ocean for the first time since my accident. Not actual swimming — far too cold on the Oregon Coast in May for …
December 24, 2025
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and it’s always been an interesting holiday around Casa McGee because neither of our kids likes the traditional turkey-stuffing-potatoes-etc. meal. For just about all of their pre-college childhoods, Cari and I forged ahead, anyway, making or buying a full turkey dinner and asking them to eat as much as they …
November 29, 2025
I set a new personal record last night! 14,658 days between my first time seeing an artist live and latest time seeing them live. That’s to say, I went 40 years, 1 month, and 17 days between my first time seeing Bryan Adams (Oct. 5, 1985 – I reviewed the show for my high school …
November 22, 2025
If I’m on my deathbed and they tell me I have enough time to listen to 4-5 more songs, one of them will be “Gypsy.” To me, it’s a perfect song. The notes, chord changes, production decisions, lyrics…I just love it. It was a “put your phone away” song for me last night. I stupidly …
October 2, 2025
What a birthday celebration this year! It began with my second-ever Billy Idol show, and this one was light-years different from the first in many ways. I saw him in 2023 on a hot night in Spokane, doing an outdoor show on a small stage. This time, he was at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle …
September 26, 2025