Ryan

My little dog looks dead, but she is a only sleeping. She just doesn’t have any teeth on that side of her mouth to hold her tongue in.

In what has been a rough week, here is something that made me laugh out loud

I never know what to do on a Monday holiday other than long-delayed chores.

Behind every large fortune is an equally large crime.

This is William after a long day

I need an MRI. The cost here is $3500 (a strangely round number). A round-trip flight to London, a couple of hotel nights, and paying cash at a private clinic there would cost less than half of that. Anyone who doesn't think our system is broken isn't paying attention.

Tomorrow I will be playing bass for a full show for the first time in over ten years. Since guitar has been my only regular stringed instrument since then, I found a short scale bass (30") just so the fret spacing would feel more familiar. Another great thing is that it fits in a case I have already

Recently, every time I go somewhere to grab a sandwich, everyone is rushing to prepare a bunch of to-go orders that are pilled onto a counter…yet I never see anyone coming in to pick them up.

For the last seven weeks, my band has played a show every weekend. This weekend, no show; and I have forgotten how to be home all weekend with ‘nothing to do’.

I love having a seasonal job. Today we start our summer service schedule, so I only work half-days on Sundays until Labor Day!

I live in South Carolina which recently passed an open carry law, and I have seen a few people open carrying. Don’t they know that if someone entered a public place wishing to do actual harm, the first thing they would do is shoot the guy with a gun on his hip?

I have received so many emails from businesses in the last week suggesting things to get/do for my mother on Mothers' Day. I have been sorely tempted to reply to all of them: "My mother is dead." To be fair, I never thought I would be saying that at 42 years old.😑 Happy Mothers' day everyone!

I am not a medical professional, but how can a single person (like one of faux patients in annoying pharmaceutical commercials) have “moderate to severe” anything? Isn’t an individual’s condition either moderate or severe?

Set up and ready to go at OMB LOSO in Charlotte, NC!

This is William. He is always up to one of these two things.

This is Squirrely. She is the only cat of the three that refuses to face me.

Ely wanted to say hello to the world.

Rehearsal setup today.

All set up and ready to go.

Busy weekend. Show with the band tonight, rehearsals with the viol consort tomorrow, and concert of English Baroque verse anthems Sunday.

Happy May Day!

BTW, the 'Invalid Handle' is due to the fact that I migrated my account to my own server. It's just a bug that will hopefully soon be fixed

If anyone happens to be in the Charlotte, NC area this Friday, my band, The Knights of Flannel, is playing a Sycamore Brewing 2151 Hawkins St from 8-11pm

This is my first social media post since I was in college.