Great Royal Mail day!
I was sure the site I ordered this from was going to just take my money, so this was a nice surprise yesterday.
I do seem to remember ordering two of them, though…
That gum I like is coming back in to style
It’s probably been two years since I had my road bike in rideable shape. I’ve been riding a lot of mountain bikes in the pandemic so far, but there is nothing quite like long, country miles on a road bike to really get into the zen of it.
I’m out of town and away for the next couple of weekends, but my future will definitely have some local coffee shop rides and more than a few miles along the Virginia Capital Trail.
Official-Official
They clinched it weeks ago and Anfield is empty (thanks, ‘Rona) but today Liverpool finally got to hoist the Premier League Champions Trophy.
It was awesome.
Tipsy Bandcamping pays off
Bandcamp runs a deal on the first Friday of every month where they give their cut of the sale back to the artist. In turn, lots of artists have been donating that extra cut to worthy causes. It’s been fun to go music shopping with a cocktail once a month. Sometimes I spring for the physical copy to go along with the download, which is what happened here.
Moon Duo’s Occult Architecture, Vols. 1 & 2, from 2017, are in the classic Moon Duo guitar-and-synth wheelhouse. It would be a decent starting point if you’re new to the band.
Pared it back this weekend
I still had some fun outdoor time but it was too hot to go hard. Saturday morning tennis was just an hour but the humidity was over 70% so it was super-sweaty and gross. I got some new tennis shoes, too, so the hour-long session was a good break-in session. I didn’t have team tennis …
My first “TNT” Thursday was a personally humid affair
I continued my headlong adventure back into tennis last night. At my pool there is a Thursday night men’s pickup tennis game. They call it “TNT”, which is maybe “Thursday Night Tennis”? It’s supposed to be casual and everyone brings beers to share at the end. There were only four of us there last night …
Back in the recording saddle.
We had a week delay to make room for a vacation. It was great to get back to hanging out with Adam.
It was also great to get into this Greyhound. Vodka and grapefruit delivers a low hangover risk as well as an ally in the fight against scurvy. We call that a win-win.
Three down…
Here’s Jeb Stuart coming off of the pedestal.
The last one is the biggest and it will be the most controversial.
I’m excited to see it happen.
Hamilton with the family
We were all excited to watch Hamilton over the holiday weekend. Like so many families, ours had a strong bout of Hamilton-Mania back when it was a national sensation. The soundtrack was on all the time and the kids sang the songs themselves when it wasn’t. There was a minor flareup when the show started to tour the US, but it died down pretty quickly. This week leading up to the Disney+ debut of the filmed stage production saw a return to the full-blown Mania but this time I was also excited about it.
I was the last person in the family to see it and it somehow exceeded my expectations. The show is great. The way it’s filmed is great. It looks and sounds so good that I never felt like I was watching a filmed stage production. I can’t recommend it enough if it something you’re remotely interested in.