Elvis - The new Suspicious Minds video

On November 9th there was a "new" release of Elvis music. 12 of Elvis' greatest hit songs have been "remixed" with more modern instrumentation, giving a feel for how they might sound had the King been performing them today.

Here's the new video of my favorite Elvis song, Suspicious Minds. Take a look and listen and let me know what you think. I love it.

NOTE: There's a 10 second commercial at the beginning you have to listen to first.

Stax o' Wax

I hooked up my newly acquired ION USB turntable to the pc this a.m., broke out all my old vinyl albums and started recording them to mp3 files so I can play them on my pc or IPOD or record them to cd.

Happy Thanksgiving!

To my family and friends (including my blog readers from around the world), here in the good ol' U.S.A. we celebrate Thanksgiving day on Thursday (11/25 this year).

This is a time to reflect on all of the people and things in your life for which you are thankful and grateful.

So a Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Travel safely to your destination and God bless you!

The Messenger

This is an excellent video of Mark, Don and Mel. Mark was playing the Messenger guitar at this time. Fantastic stuff!




The original Messenger guitar was developed 40 years ago in California by a small company named Musicraft and is now best known as the guitar of choice by Mark Farner (Grand Funk Railroad) in the early 1970′s. Messenger guitars were built in San Francisco and then Astoria, OR from 1967-1968. Features an aluminum alloy tuning fork neck extending through the thin-line hollowbody. This model is a stereo guitar. Messenger also made a guitar with a built-in fuzztone called a Tone-Messer, a bass guitar, and a line of large amplifiers.

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First snow of the season

LEAF me alone

I have a massive old tree in the front yard. It drops leaves like they are going out of style. Yet it still seems like there are a million leaves on it.

So this a.m. was the first round of raking. Here are a few pics.

Out for a romp in the Hills

This afternoon I met up with some of my riding friends and headed over the Iowa's Loess Hills for a nice little ride. The weather could not have been better...low 70's, sunny and a light breeze.

Motorcycles were out in abundance and we had 7 bikes in our group. Terry and his wife Chris were on his Honda Shadow, Scott was on his HD Ultra Glide, Ryan was on his new (to him) Kawasaki GPZ 1100, Karen was on her BMW (GS650?), Jerry was on his Triumph Tiger, Robert was on his Guzzi California EV with me along on the Guzzi Lemans of course.

The roads were as usual a lot of fun and a good time was had by all. Below are a few pics. CLICK TO ENLARGE THEM.

Chef Aidan's Turkey Day recipe

Wanna know how to make a turkey just right? Take some advice from my lil nephew Aidan. CLICK the PICS to ENLARGE!

FALL

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Gettin' out

I am looking forward to the weekend. Sure feels like it has been a long week thus far. Friday night I am heading to downtown Omaha to a place called the Rock Bottom Brewery to hoist a mug or two with some of my pals. They have really great beer there and a neat atmosphere.

Anyone who wants to hoist some ale with us we should be there around 5:00.

Saturday the Cornhuskers take on Iowa State in football. Should be a fun game to watch. Iowa State beat Texas and Texas beat Nebraska so who knows what might happen!

Hopefully I will get out on my Lemans at some point to enjoy riding in the cooler fall weather. Maybe a Sunday ride in the Loess Hills of Iowa is in order. It's been a while.

The Good Ol' Days #4

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My Keurig n Me

Lately at work I have been able to enjoy cup after cup of a variety of delicious coffee blends, thanks to my new Keurig K-Cup coffee maker.

There are LOADS of varieties of coffees available in little single serving "K-cups". Plop a K-cup in the machine, push a button and one minute later you have a piping hot cup of coffee.

My pal Bruce the Spruce Goose saw a massive display of K-cups at some place called Bed, Bath and Beyond the other day so he picked up some Kahlua coffee, some hot chocolate and even some English Breakfast Tea!

Here's a pic of my most excellent coffee making setup at work. Mere inches away from tasty coffee!