No Daytona Beach or Ft. Lauderdale wildness for me this year. (That ship has sailed!)
My ten-day Spring Break is over. Time to get back in the classroom which is fine by me. The best part about being off like this is I had no agenda or schedule to follow. No ‘have to be here by this time and do this’, it was just a go with the flow deal. Still, I did get a few things done while off and here goes the list.
**I paid for and picked up my new season swim pass from the Elmhurst Park District. Since I spend so many days at East End Pool the price of $75 is more than worth it. It comes out to less than a dollar a day. Also, this year all season pass owners get 4 free passes to take guests to the pool. This was one of the suggestions I’ve issued to the Park District the last two years and now they’re rolling with it! The EPD has also come through with other changes I and others advocated for so it pays to make your voice be heard! Opening day is May 25th.
We’re less than 2 months away from the opening of another swim season at East End Pool.
**I renegotiated my Comcast cable bill and landed more channels and a 28 dollar cut in monthly fees.
**My snowblower (which I only used a couple times this winter) got its gas blown out and that beast is in dry dock until December.
**Months ago, the DMV sent me fresh new license plates and I finally switched them out with the old ones. This took about an hour because after 13 years of being mounted on my car, the screws that held the plates in were pretty rusted and messed up. Still, mission accomplished.
**I had my PC cleaned out of junk and scored updated spyware thanks to my good friend Luis of Alchemy Tech. Luis does all this remotely and it’s well worth the annual cost I pay to keep things running well.
**My garage needs a new side door and I met up with a local carpenter to get that plan into action. BTW, even the simplest new door isn’t cheap. Damn materials cost more than ever.
Al Flash finished up a new parody video to a tune I wrote for Channel 9 Morning Show weather ace Paul Konrad and it turned out well. We’re emailing it in for Paul’s birthday this week.
The TV Watch-
**I caught plenty of men’s and women’s NCAA March Madness games plus regular baseball with games that count started. I see the Cubs struggling to get to the play-offs and sorry but the White Sox are going to lose at least 100 games.
**The remake of “Roadhouse” starring Jake Gyllenhall stepping into the late Patrick Swayze’s iconic role should’ve been titled “Road Apple.” C- grade at best.
**I DID enjoy the nine part “American Rust” series which starred Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. It came out on Showtime 3 years earlier to dismal reviews but I liked it to a grade of a ‘B.’
Mediocre reviews of this 9 part mini-series baffled me. I found “American Rust” to be well done.
**Comedian Dave Attell’s new Netflix special “Hot Cross Buns” was another good watch. That guy often goes rude and wrong and there’s nothing better.
**Musically, I know Beyonce’s “Carter Country” release is the big story in Nashville right now but I rolled with some jams from “Hixtape Vol. 3.” This is a collection of hits from the late great Joe Diffie that are re-worked with Joe swapping verses with singers like Clint Black, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, Brooks & Dunn, Tracey Lawrence, the late Toby Keith and even Post Malone. Joe D passed away from complications of COVID 4 years ago but his influence on so many singers remain.
Clint Black & Larry Fleet get to join in on vocals with the late Joe Diffie as part of this Hixtape release.
So now we wrap up eight more weeks of regular school and then four weeks of Summer School and then on to our Summer break. Yes, I am counting the days!
NEXT BLOG- Great performances on the Howard Stern Show.