Category: General

Spent most of the day Saturday moving my dad out of our family house which he just sold… therefore, was slightly sore today. ? But, after a quick but refreshing shower after returning home, I had an acoustic rehearsal (of sorts) with Leah at my house, in preparation for some …

I think I’m getting old… last night I couldn’t make it more than halfway through Robert Altman’s big-city epic Nashville. I was really interested but just couldn’t keep my eyes open. I refuse to be one of those people who drinks coffee after dinner to stay awake, so it was …

Trying to set up some of our servers at our new office… many annoyances today, mostly caused by a lethargic RAID. I’ll get it whipped into shape shortly. Couldn’t muster the energy to post anything yesterday due to a late night watching the Oscars on Sunday night. I was overjoyed …

I had a great time yesterday hitting the various parts of the town with Leah. We performed first at the Warehouse Cafe in D.C., and then followed that up with a bout of shopping at Guitar Center. If you knew Leah, you would realize this is a Big Deal and …

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. …