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e in my mind the money spent on political advertising could be so much better spent in other ways commercials using covers of rock songs biggest offenders at the moment are really bad versions of footloose chase bank and old time rock roll shark pro steam pocket really kenny and bob will spin in their graves for a long time i know they re not dead yet national rifle association this once well respected organization is now being led by nutjobs montana senate republicans even though they hold the majority in the mt senate they have had a very public split between nutjobs and reagan republicans unfortunately the nutjobs are in the majority in that party so be sure to check back to see what they try to get passed on the other hand maybe the minority republicans will side with the dems on the really wacko stuff posted by unknown at 11 19 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday january 11 2013 vocabulary it s been brought to my attention by those around me that jackass has become my new favorite word i can live with that posted by unknown at 9 54 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 8 2013 2013 this is my first post of 2013 it should be an inspirational one but it s not posted by unknown at 10 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 31 2012 the highs and lows of 2012 the highs i actually found 2012 to be a pretty good year when making these lists i found more highs than lows and that s a good thing nothing surprising or earth shattering though be sure to read the post below this one first it s my lows list makes the highs list much better most have links back to posts the 10 high points of 2012 from less high to highest of the high 10 symphony i noted earlier this year that in spite of my bitching about symphony stuff lately it was about production glitches and frankly those have declined but none of my bitching had anything to do with the actual performances that s because we have been having great concerts i can t think of any performances over the past year or longer that we came out of feeling like we hadn t nailed it without our really realizing it our performances have been off the charts 9 new bathroom i took far too much joy in this but after six months of dealing with management about a leaky ceiling it got repaired and because the carpet in the bathroom yeah ewww was ruined i got a whole new floor it s the little things that please me 8 ipad a bout of late night web surfing in january found me as the winner of a new ipad2 i d report about how wonderful it is it really is but i ve found that i don t use it as often as most people probably do that would be due to the proliferation of other mac apple toys around still i did become one of the cool kids that night 7 mahler 8 i included this separately from 10 because it was an event all its own mahler s eighth symphony is one of the largest scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and is often referred to as the symphony of a thousand we didn t have that many but there were a total of about 450 singers and instrumentalists that performed this in may in my symphony position i was in charge of all sorts of logistics for this while at the same time working on producing the summer concert see 3 when all was said and done our production team was praised for how smoothly things ran as well as anticipating any problems that might arise praise is a wonderful thing 6 my 55th birthday i m at that point in life where age is just a number and as that number increases it bothers me less but as i hit 55 i found out that there s numerous senior discounts that kick in i m lucky enough that i don t look 55 so if i want to use them i have to ask for them but that s ok a small price to pay to save a buck or two 5 hnt i believe this is the only thing that appears on both lists while i lamented the collapse of the community down below there s no question that hnt provided plenty of opportunities to meet friends and with its retirement i found that i had more time to do things in the middle of the week i really hadn t realized how much time it took to get ohnt posted or finding ideas for hnt or actually taking the pictures on the other hand this week s hnt reunion was a nice bit of reminiscing all in all hnt was a good thing 4 tv shows for as little as i watch tv especially network tv i found that there were a couple of outstanding things that i could not miss first off would be the walking dead i am hooked i have not missed a single episode speaking of season 3 is on all night tonight i even bagged sunday night football to watch twd another bit of wonderfulness was hatfield mccoys a fine little mini series neither of these could ever be found on network tv a few other dirty little secrets would be hoarders to catch a predator and even a bit of intervention always good to keep my own self esteem high 3 summer concert this year s symphony under the stars was a turning point for me it s the first one i ve been involved with that didn t find me on stage playing instead i was the project manager the producer if you will it was my show my decisions my organization a big name guest artist 17 500 audience members a concert budget approaching 100k and questionable weather conditions leading up to concert day without tooting my own horn so to speak it all came off flawlessly well to the public eye anyway there were a couple of things that happened that weren t quite the way i envisioned them but that just gives me the opportunity to fix them next summer and yes i ll be in the same position next year 2 yellowstone park i was reading something on facebook in june and come to find that bfd was going to be vacationing in yellowstone in june that was only about 2 1 2 hours away in the state of mt that s like a quick jaunt to the store to pick up a six pack of beer so i imposed upon her to see if she wanted to meet up for a quick afternoon and after my asking her hubby if that was ok it was like asking her dad for a first date i met up with the family in the northern part of the park we hiked we talked we did all the stuff that normally happens when i meet bloggers she was everything i expected and she s got a kick ass family too the only thing that kept this meeting as 2 is that it was far too short 1 ostour 12 ostour 12 took me west to portland or it was a much needed break from the summer around here and particularly after the summer concert i headed out with no real timeline and not idea how long i d be away in the first days of the trip i got to meet up with a couple of my very first high school students whom i hadn t seen in thirty years once i got to portland i met up with my best friend from college and then a series of meets with hnters including the bipolar diva emmy addict and audra i left portland by heading up the pacific coast of oregon and washington then headed through bigfoot country east of seattle other than meeting with the washington state police regarding my lead foot it was a much needed break and easily ranked as the best high of 2012 there you have it my highs for 2012 many of you are probably already at parties as i m posting this i m staying home and watching the walking dead all night i hope that everyone is having a safe but fun nye looking forward to a great 2013 posted by unknown at 8 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the highs and lows of 2012 the lows once again it s time for my annual recap of the year in the greater scheme of things this year was really pretty good this is my eighth year of doing this and as i ve found in the past it s hard to come up with ten real lows in fact this year was easily more full of positives than the prior three years combined of course there were some terrible things that happened in the world but i won t list those this list is filled with things that affected me somewhat directly they don t necessarily mean they were bad things or that life as i knew it changed in fact you ll probably consider many of these fairly petty that s the problem when you had a pretty decent year just things that brought me down or perturbed me during the year these are what make my lows list the highs list can be seen above the 10 low points of 2012 from least low to lowest of the low 10 new blogger i started blogging in 2005 blogger was in its infancy and had plenty of bugs associated with it enough to drive many over to wordpress i on the other hand stuck with blogger as it turned into a pretty decent and stable platform at some point the geeks at blogger google decided that they needed to make a major overhaul for those who were relatively new it wasn t that big of a deal for old timers like me it was a fight to the death finally the last hold outs were switched over to the new blogger was it a big deal no bothersome somewhat a pain in the butt most definitely after all these months i still don t like it 9 balcony remodel ok this one is just frustrating the owners of my apartment complex decided that all the balconies needed to be replaced actually there s some merit to this however the final results are far less than adequate there s real problems with the lack of a roof on the top ones and ceilings for the lower ones making them fairly unfunctional add to it the shoddy workmanship and the property value plummets and i ve found out this winter that the bottom of the door frame to my balcony door was damaged when they ripped out the original flooring i now have a half inch gap where the sub freezing temps and snow can all blow in 8 big soul that s the name of the soul band i ve been playing in since 2010 the band itself isn t the downer here it s the lack of playing opportunities one of the problems with a nine man band rehearsal scheduling is difficult too sadly we haven t played since march and there s nothing on the horizon 7 the neighbors fortunately i don t really have to deal with them the only time i really see them is when the fire alarm goes off which happened three times this year due to the poor cooking abilities of someone on the first floor what i ve learned is that i now live in a white trash building i believe i might be the oldest tenant i know that not everyone who lives here is paying rent there s more than one family living in a couple of the apartments and the ones upstairs have a toddler who has learned how to run from one corner of the apartment to the other over and over and over loudly an added bonus i ve heard this same running around from the kid at 2 and 3 am unfortunately the rent here is some of the cheapest in town and it s not worth it to try to move 6 davy jones i found myself far more affected by his death than i expected or should have it made me reminisce about my youth my musical influences and the deaths of celebrities i grew up with more deaths are going to come each one marking a spot in the road map of my life 5 health not really something that i blogged much about but my health still consumes more of my time than i d like it to the diabetes is being controlled though it s a pain in the ass i m in the midst of switching over to a different brand of insulin so there s the accompanying tweaks to that my vision is not as good as it used to be but that s probably more due to my advanced age in addition my knees are causing all sorts of problems i think it s the arthritis that has been genetically passed down from my dad s side of the family some days are good some are painful it s bound to get worse too all i can really do is neutralize the degeneration there are days where i wish i would have taken better care of myself 4 death of a friend over the past couple of years i ve had to deal with deaths in the family and the death of a close blogger friend this year was pretty free from that sort of thing until i learned that a high school friend had died in late october and not just any friend but an old girlfriend and not just an old girlfriend but the one that i learned about the boundaries of first second and third base with nope no home run we hadn t actually spoken to each other in decades but this news really caught me off guard 3 football i m rather embarrassed to admit that this one ranks so high so low on the list in 2011 the griz played in the fcs semi finals the saints played in the naia championship game and my high school alma mater were the state champions this year the griz had their first losing season in 20 years missed the playoffs and lost to the cats the saints didn t win their conference for the first time since 2000 and missed the playoffs the bruins backed into the playoffs but lost their first game it was a painful year as far as my teams were concerned and sort of put a dark cloud over helena 2 hnt ohnt retirement s interestingly this ranked 2 last year too but for different reasons last year it was because of the unknown this year it s because of what was missing all year many blogs i thought i d continued visiting disappeared as did their writers many people i thought i d still be chatting with after a year disappeared many people i thought i was closer to i found that perhaps i wasn t being the optimist i ll take some of the blame on that part but overall the hnt community scattered to the winds and i don t know if i ll ever experience anything similar 1 politics man was this year a banner year for bad politics negativity permeated the news at all levels and social media wasn t spared many fb friends were unfriended by others my facebook friends list didn t take a hit since i don t really care about the political stance of any of them but this meant that my newsfeed was filled with posts from the loonies on the left the loonies on the right and the loonies that didn t have a clue what they were talking about i saw more misleading graphs quotes and polls that supported their points of view even the same info supporting both sides the ignorance that was spewed by friends friends of friends links to news it all was pretty sad to watch outside of the internet the commercials that ran for far too long were so full of lies that i couldn t possibly watch them anymore all in all it was a disgusting display from all sides sadly it s bound to continue the mt legislature convenes in a week and there s already controversial bills being written up i can t wait so that s the downer list for 2012 mostly not so bad but as i said at the top the year really wasn t monumentally bad fortunately there were lots of good things that happened too you can check those out in the highs post above this one go now posted by unknown at 8 30 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 29 2012 reunion over a quarter of a century ago i attended my first class reunion our ten year reunion there was a lot of hesitation excitement and 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