Regular Life

(On my Free Christmas Song Each Day page, I added “Be Merry, Be Merry,” and “In the Bleak Mid-Winter.”)
Time isn’t holding us,
Time isn’t after us.
-Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime (same as it ever was)”

Sorry, Mr. Byrne, I’m not buying it.
Time sucks, and it’s working against me with each passing [...]

While I’m waiting for a tech support guy to look over a techdump file, here’s another video in the holiday spirit.
Shot in 2002 and edited in 2003, it shows a family tradition celebrated less grandly than others. Sort of an unsung hero story, if you want to stretch your imagination a bit.
This one features my [...]

(Today on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page, I slow things down again, with one that makes me want to close my eyes every time I listen to it. Click the link to preview and/or download “Sweet Was the Song.”)

Photo by Shannon
In today’s shot, Ben enjoys a mini cinammon roll while sporting a hat [...]

(Today we pick the pace up again with the longer, alternate arrangement of “Gaudete,” which to me is musically superior to the first, on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page. Wow, those sopranos at the end.)
Christmas Present
Ben had a blast helping us decorate the tree Wednesday night. We recovered quickly from the incident, and [...]

(Today we have two slow, sometimes haunting numbers. Listen to and/or download “Gabriel’s Message” and “To Him We Sing” on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page)
Heir to the Drone
In a move away from the sweet, soulful music on today’s Free Christmas Song, I must post the first recording of Ben “singing” a Christmas carol. [...]

(You may go preview and/or download “Riu, Riu, Chiu,” and “The Stable Boy” on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page.)
Update on the Free Music
Anyone following the Free Christmas Song Each Day feature might have noticed I’ve been doling out two each day lately. I want to make sure in case I miss any days [...]

(While the titles might be recognizable, I doubt you’ve heard the arrangements of “I Saw Three Ships” and “Away in a Manger” that you’ll find on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page)
Has stopping for coffee at Starbucks ever saved you money? I never would have believed it possible, but it happened to us.
We were [...]

(You may preview and/or download “Lullay My Liking” and “Deck the Hall in 7/8 Time” from my Free Christmas Song Each Day page.)

The above is something Ben probably never will imitate. Know why? Keep looking. You’ll find it.
Ever since visiting my work last week, Ben has been carrying around a small desktop calculator and his [...]

(Two songs, “Gaudete” and “The Holly and the Ivy,” are available on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page)
Wednesday last week, when our van was in the shop, Shannon and Ben brought me into work. For his part, the boy spent the 25-minute commute munching on his Organic Mini-Wheats and sucking milk from a sippy [...]

(The song “Remember, O Thou Man,” is available on my Free Christmas Song Each Day page)
A small chunk is missing from the tip of my left middle finger, and the Band-Aid covering it has severely curtailed my typing speed and efficiency. The tingling, for the most part, is gone. It only hurts when I use [...]