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Travel

Wardrobe Malfunction at the Original Texas Roadhouse

A couple of weeks ago, I was travelling back to Tennessee from Indiana.  It was around 5 PM and we decided to stop and eat in Clarksville, Indiana which us just north of the river at Louisville. We hoped to let the rush hour traffic in Louisville clear before we went any further.  We found a Texas Roadhouse restaurant at the Green Tree Mall.  Our server told us that this was the very first Texas Roadhouse restaurant.  We thought it was odd that it didn’t originate in Texas.  After they took our drink order, I went to the restroom.  When I was zipping up my pants, my boxers got caught in the teeth of the zipper.  I could not get the zipper to budge up or down. I was standing at a urinal stall tugging at the zipper, but it was obvious that it wasn’t going to move.  Fortunately, I was alone in the restroom, so no one saw me wrestling with my fly.  I walked over to the mirror to see what it looked like.  The material over the zipper was covering it up. It was not gaping open.  I was confident that my lap would be covered any time that there was a possibility that it might gape open, so I returned to the table.

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Travel

Haunted Hotel Dresser

I recently went on a business trip.  The trip took me to a small town in Indiana where I go often. I stayed in the same hotel that I had been in during the previous trip.  When I opened the door to my hotel room, I noticed that the top drawer of the dresser was open.  I immediately had flashbacks to a trip I had made to the same town but a stay at a different hotel years ago. During that trip when I opened the door to my room, I noticed the ironing board was up.  My first thought was that would be convenient since I usually iron my clothes for my trip when I arrive.  But when I turned on the lights to the room, I found that the room had not been cleaned since the previous guest had departed.  When I went back downstairs, they apologized and said that to make up for it, they would put me in an upgraded room.  I wondered what an upgraded room would be like at a hotel in a small town in Indiana beyond just being clean.  I remember that it had a refrigerator and a jacuzzi tub, neither of which I took advantage of.

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Christmas

Obscure Music from My Christmas Playlist – The Ugly

I listen to a lot of Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I have an iPod Classic that I load with my holiday music playlist.  There are a handful of albums in my collection that should be a requirement for anyone serious about Christmas music.  What Christmas playlist would be complete without Elvis and The Chipmunks?  I have a few Christmas albums in my collection that may not be in yours that I think you should at least know about.  I have put them into 3 categories: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.  This week I focus on The Ugly.

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Christmas

Obscure Music from My Christmas Playlist – The Bad

I listen to a lot of Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I have an iPod Classic that I load with my holiday music playlist.  There are a handful of albums in my collection that should be a requirement for anyone serious about Christmas music.  What Christmas playlist would be complete without Elvis and The Chipmunks?  I have a few Christmas albums in my collection that may not be in yours that I think you should at least know about.  I have put them into 3 categories: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.  This week I focus on The Bad.

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Christmas

Obscure Music from My Christmas Playlist – The Good

I listen to a lot of Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  I have an iPod Classic that I load with my holiday music playlist.  There are a handful of albums in my collection that should be a requirement for anyone serious about Christmas music.  What Christmas playlist would be complete without Elvis and The Chipmunks?  I have a few Christmas albums in my collection that may not be in yours that I think you should at least know about.  I have put them into 3 categories: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.  This week I focus on The Good.

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Funeral True Stories

More Funeral Stories

When my grandmother passed away, our family held a funeral service at our church.  She was to be buried at the cemetery at our church immediately after the service.  Visitation had been at the funeral home earlier that day, so this was where our family gathered.  The family followed the hearse to the church.  When we arrived at the church, the family and pall bearers gathered at the rear of the hearse.  The pall bearers were already in formation before the back door of the hearse was open, standing in two lines so an even number of men would be on each side. About the time the back door of the hearse opened, a friend of the family arriving late pulled into the parking lot of the church. As he rolled into the parking lot, he missed the drive slightly with the back passenger-side tire of the car fell into the ditch.  The pall bears moved from behind the hearse, in formation, and lifted the car out of the ditch. As the family friend parked. The pall bearers returned to their posts at the back of the hearse. Now the funeral procession into the church could begin.

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Restaurants Thanksgiving

Krystal Dressing

One evening early in November of 2014, my kids had some guests at the house, so my wife sent me to get a 24 steamer pack of Krystal burgers. Krystal is a restaurant that sells small hamburgers with thin patties that are sometimes called sliders.  If you are familiar with White Castle burgers, Krystal burgers are almost identical with a thin patty and small bun dressed with pickles, onions and mustard.  You can also get them with cheese and on this night, our order was half and half. 

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True Stories

Lost Keys

I was on my way to work one morning several years ago.  I needed some gas in my Jeep. I stopped at a convenience store on the way to work.  When I stopped at the store, I took the keys out of the ignition like I always do when I get out of the car.  I went into the store to pay for the gas because the pay-at-the-pump feature was not working.  When I got back to my Jeep, I found the door was locked.  I reached into the pocket of my jacket where I always put my keys, but they were not there.  I usually carry two sets of keys. One has the key to my vehicle and the other has the keys to my office.  I found the office keychain but could not find the one for my car.  I must have locked my keys in the car.  I tried looking through the windows of the car, but I couldn’t tell if the keys were in the ignition. If they weren’t there, they must be in the floor, maybe between the console and the seat.   My wife carries a set of keys for my vehicle so I decided to call her as see if she could let me in my car.  She said she was at Walmart, but it shouldn’t take her that long. She would come to let me in my car as soon as she was done.

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Elvis Week Graceland Video

2019 Elvis Week Video

Earlier this fall, I posted about this year’s trip to Graceland for the Candlelight Vigil.  I had several pictures and videos that I wanted to share along with telling some of the stories from the blog post.  Here is a video that I put together from this year’s trip.

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Recording

Recording Studio

People have often asked me about where I record my music. I have a portable recording studio that I have used in my home.  My wife and I recently moved from the house where I did all of my recording.  As we were moving, I decided to create a video of the different “studios” in the house.  This video was made in the middle of preparing for the move and some packing had already taken place. I hope you enjoy this “studio tour”.