it’s aliiiiiiive!!!

as of some time yesterday afternoon, cragcoolsprings.com has been launched. we’ve still got a few things to add, but the site is up, functional, and pretty flippin’ cool.

go check it out!

RIP Phantom Dan

i just read the news about danny federici, first & only keyboard player in the E Street Band, passing away yesterday. danny had been fighting melanoma for a few years, eventually taking a leave of absence from the E Street Band last fall.

chances are that you couldn’t pick him out of a lineup, but you’d recognize his work on keys and accordion on songs such as, “4th of july (asbury park)”, “prove it all night”, “working on the highway” (currently playing in the gym as i type this), “you’re missing”, and “hungry heart”.

i feel lucky to have seen danny play in pittsburgh this year at my first-ever E Street show. it was only a few weeks later that they announced he was leaving the tour due to the illness.

my condolences and prayers go out to danny’s family, friends and fans. you’ll be missed.

a good day for rain.

sorry i haven’t posted in a little bit. i mostly haven’t had anything resmbling time or energy with which to post. not that i do now, but i feel a little bit confessional, and a little bit freaked out about a few things.

first, in case i haven’t mentioned it, i’m being told that i have mild sleep apnea and possibly mild narcolepsy. while that might explain a lot of things, it is aggravating to have something else be wrong with me. because i really want to take another pill every day and sleep with something else in or around my head or mouth. i go in for my cpap study on sunday. i’m being told that cpaps are life changing devices, but i’m sorta hung up on the dorkiness of sleeping with a stupid machine hooked up to my nose.

i noticed this week that i’ve lost a little bit of focus on my plan for the gym, and it makes me angry. i plan on spending next week bunkering down and getting myself back on track. looking at it from outside myself, i can give me a little bit of a pass on some of the things i’ve delayed or sped up, but still…i made a plan, and i need to work harder at sticking to it. or if i’m not going to stick to the plan i made i at least need to (have to) make a new plan before i go off course.

i’m also really struggling, i guess i should say learning through trial and error, how i’m supposed to manage employees. i’ve managed people, but never with rules that i was allowed to invent. so i’m trying to make rules that make sense and are fair, that provide structure and guidance without snuffing out fun and creativity. thus far i think i’m missing the mark. gotta work on that.

in a nutshell, and in the name of keeping private things private, i haven’t been of a single mind lately, and that bothers, concerns, and frustrates me. keep me, my gym, and this silly little brain of mine in your prayers. the adhd side of me is trying to take over and i can’t let it!!!

speaking of prayers, i guess i should just be thankful that a drunk homeless guy didn’t steal a car and try to run it through my house. keep the brocks in your prayers. i can’t imagine having a business to run, a kid to take care of, another on the way shortly, and then have things turn all topsy turvy because of some crazy freak accident.

oh, please. no, not this.

first, the clash’s version of pressure drop gets put in a nissan commercial. and ryan adams’ is gonna love you more if you use at&t or t-mobile or someone. i can handle both of those with clenched teeth.

but this?

http://www.comcast.net/music/articles/2008/03/30/People.Nelly/

according to the ap, nelly wants to collaborate with the boss. what’s worse, apparently the boss is interested back.

vomit.