Miscellany

Today, I'm lamenting the fact that this blog has not been very interesting (totally boring is more like it). Creative juices have been flowing but not the kind that produce text of any sort.

I've spent quite a bit of time in the last six months thinking about and designing a modest model railroad layout. Construction will begin soon and I hope to have track laid and trains running before the New Year. My original plan occupied the entiure 19 feet of one wall in my finished basement. The final plan has been scaled back to 2' X 8' with accomodations for another 2' X 4' extention on an 'L'.

I've discovered a new addiction: Sudoku. It's a paper-and-pencil number placement game made popular by Nikoli publishing in Japan (though the game's roots are ancient). I obtained a book of 320 games, fairly evenly divided between easy, medium, hard, and extra hard puzzles. I can solve the easy puzzles in about 20 minutes. I've heard that expert solvers can complete a hard puzzle in about 10 minutes. I'll keep practicing.

Rhumba

Samba

Upcoming Events

Jam dates at Baker's Keyboard Lounge:

• Oct. 5
• Oct. 19
• Nov. 2

B-Side Blues Project at Corradi's Sports Bar on October 29. This will probably be our last gig of the year at Corradi's.

B-Side Is Back

The B-Side Blues Project, a six-piece blues band, will be playing Saturday, July9 at Corradi's Sports Bar. Corradi's is located 1090 Rochester Rd., Troy, MI -- that's between 14 Mile and Maple (a.k.a. 15 Mile). We'll be starting around 9pm and playing until 1am. Come and join us for this premier reunion engagement. We'll be playing a little more regulary again but we'd really love to see you this weekend.

B-Side Blues Project is:
Kim Lang - vocals
John Giordano - lead guitar
Kevin Bowman - saxophones
Dave Sobolewski - keyboards
Skip Barnes - bass
Dan Ragnoni - drums

My Other Little Girl

This is Rhumba. She likes sitting with her paws resting on something. In this picture she's resting on the railing at the top of the stairway. She also has a favorite chair in which she sits with her paws over the arm rest.

First Mobile Pic Post

It's "daddy's liitle girl" Samba

It's Here

I got the Treo a week ago and I'm just now playing with the mobile blogging possibilities.

Coming Soon

Verizon begins selling the Treo 650 smart phone to individuals on May 23 and I'm going to be in line to get one. PalmOne upgraded the camera to 1.3 pixels which seems to be a minimum for usable photos. Blogger offers a mobile blogging service so you can expect to see some snapshots here in the near future.

Two Become One

I've merged my other blog, Omnisonus, into this one. I just didn't see much sense in maintaining two separate blogs with links to each other since I wasn't posting frequently to either one.