Quick Trip To Austin

 I am constantly reminded as to how I am the luckiest guy and how truly blessed I am. 

My daughter, Noodle decided to give me a special birthday present........albeit a month early........in the form of a paid trip to Austin to attend a Ringo Starr and the All Stars concert at the Moody Theater! Imagine that!
I got to see a Beatle!......and as a special bonus, my favorite musician Todd Rundgren was performing with him! This was really awesome. Not to mention that I got to visit with my daughter and two of my grandchildren. Can't you tell by the picture that happiness abounds?

It was one hell of a show! Totally awesome. Perhaps I will write some more about this but I am pressed for time, as always. I flew to Austin on Tuesday, returned home Friday night, stayed up all night painting crab shells, worked the flea market on Saturday, came home and agonized over the Orioles game and painted more shells and put together some display boxes.........oh yeah........I did manage to get an hour or two of sleep in between all of that. As I write this, me and Supernurse are just about to leave for the airport..........hehehehe..........oh yeah.........we are off to Mexico again for some rest and relaxation........same place as usual. I shall return to Baltimore  on the 19th. Not bad eh?

For those readers who ain't particularly interested in such goings on.....and only here to find out about some painted crab shells, feel free to search around the older posts. My sons will be handling the flea market biz for me until I get back.

See you soon!

This One Made Me Smile

Music For Dinner

We decided to go out to dinner last night. We went to a new place nearby called the Silver Moon Diner. While the service was a bit questionable, I gotta tell you that the food was fantastic. I ordered broiled flounder stuffed with crab and there was so much of it that I could not eat it all. Everything tasted great. While we were eating, we fed a dollar into the game/music jukebox that was located in our booth. To my surprise, the musical options were staggering..........and lo and behold......I saw a list of my favorites. It is really unusual to find complete Todd Rundgren & Utopia albums on a jukebox in a diner. I selected the Utopia "Ra" album and the very long song entitled "Singring & The Glass Guitar". Imagine that............I was in heaven. Fantastic music to go with fantastic food makes for a fantastic dinner. Hats off to the folks at the Silver Moon Diner.


Here is a photo of Utopia back in the day................if you have never heard them, you have missed much. Chances are.........you most likely have heard these guys and never knew it. They were the musicians on the Meat Loaf album "Bat Out Of Hell". Also, Todd Rundgren was the producer of that album.

I ran across this picture on the internet. I swear I saw this same guy at the grocery store the other day.

Oh well, it is snowing here again...............this is where, as a Baltimoreon, I am supposed to go immediately to the grocery store and buy up all of the toilet paper, milk, and bread.

Until next time.........