I have to say, I am not proud of our President today. While I certainly respect his strong religious beliefs, I think it’s sad and maybe even shameful for him to stand up before the nation and deny equal rights to a significant part of our population. In my opinion, …
If you’re free on Saturday night, Leah and I will be appearing at the Austin Grill in Silver Spring, MD, in the final round of their South by Southwest (SXSW) songwriters contest. A big part of the scoring is on audience response, so we could use some friendly faces in …
Anyone have any idea how you can convince a locally-owned restaurant chain to open up a store where you live? I visited the Austin Grill last night, and not only was the food great, but they support local music too. WIth one of our town’s only local music venues going …
If you’ve tried to send me some e-mail from this page lately and it didn’t get through, try again. I found that I had inadvertently made a small error resetting my e-mail server a few weeks ago, so frields dot org was not accepting mail. It should work fine now. …
This is going to sound a little like an infomercial, but here goes anyway. I am what you would probably call a frustrated programmer. I did extremely well (grades of usually 100% or better) in computer science and programming classes, but I never got into the field formally. It hasn’t …
The trees are lovely today here in Virginia, draped with icicles, but the roads are hazardous. There was a pretty bad accident on the way to work… not on the interstate, where speeds are high, but on the access road to the office, where (supposedly) people are driving more slowly. …
Voice is still not normal, but I suspect it has something to do with the ultra-low relative humidity brought on by this past week’s frigid temperatures. Trying not to talk at work is a lost cause, so I will just have to baby my voice for a couple days before …
Yikes! Ever since I got to work this morning it’s hurting to speak. It’s getting progressively worse, but I don’t feel sick or throat-sore, so I’m guessing it’s a bout of laryngitis. Hopefully I can battle this crud off by Saturday for our gig at Andy’s.
My old buddy and musical brother-in-arms, Steve McWilliams, has a new Web site. You can check out some of his latest music there; take a look.
You can find Leah’s new site online now. There’s nothing real flashy, just pure HTML goodness. Sign up for the e-mail list while you’re at it, whydontcha.