Wow…..

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This show rocked….even though the night started out a little shaky with Henry and I missing the train we wanted to catch so we missed the opening band…

Warren was hot as was the rest of the band…..They did a lot of things you don’t normally hear but they are at the Beacon for 3 nights and I am sure are saving a lot of old favorites for New Year’s Eve. Henry’s got tickets for the next 2 nights and I am sure he will have a great time.

Setlist is here enjoy. I am going to try to get the 3 night set of shows soon on CD.

1st Set
Time: 1 hour 10 min

John The Revelator
Rockin Horse
Don’t Step On The Grass Sam
Painted Silver Light
Banks Of The Deep End
Patchwork Quilt
Fools Moon
Out Of The Rain, w/ Sonny Landreth can’t wait to hear this one.
32 20 Blues w/Sonny Landreth & Brian Mitchell on keys

2nd Set
Time: 2 hours +

Bad Little Doggie
How Many More Years
Wand Dang Doodle about 5 minutes worth
How Many More Years
On Your Way Down w/ Sonny Landreth & Deep Banana Black Out horns
Spanish Moon w/ Sonny Landreth & horns + Cyrus on keys
I’ve Been Loving You
Down And Out In New York City w/horns
drums
keys
bass
WDC >Beautifully Broken> WDC

Encore
Blind Man In The Dark (Warren kept teasing jungle boogie before the start of the song.)

Just a lazy day

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Spent most of the day just lazing around the house yesterday. Carolyn was out with her sister dealing with there fathers affairs. Did get the digital camera talking with the laptop yesterday.

Spending the morning today at work loading Fedora on the laptop, needed to take a look at it to see if it will be able to be used at work. The install seems pretty good. They have gotten it to do a graphical install over FTP instead of just a text one.

Now for my cousin Alice non-technical stuff:

I got a great supply of spices from her and her husband John. Now I will have to start cooking allot more just to use them. I also blame John for getting me hooked on micro brew and higher class beers again.

well that’s it for now…

Oh yea…Gov’t Mule starts there 3 night run at the Beacon in NYC. I will be there tonight with Henry. I don’t know where our seats are but keep and eye out for us and stop to say hi.

Visiting family rocks….

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Spent the day on the road. The car as full with parents and children for the quick hop to Baltimore, MD area to see my cousin Alice. Of course with traffic it took a little longer then the normal 2 hours but it was ok.

We got there to the warm imbrase of Family. Most of the Merchent clan was there which always is a great thing.

Alice’s husband John had a great selection of beer…I deffinently trid to help put a dent into it. He also showed me his Big Green Egg. I am going to look into getting one of these smokers….

Dinner was a soul food delight. Colard greens, Blackeyed peas, Ham, a good great spinache and rice dish, a cabbage and peas salad the Beth made, and an Oyster cassarole. Dessert was a carrot cake, pecan pie that Al made.

It was great to see Alice and John who I hadn’t seen since a few family events back in the 90’s. It is always great to Al and his wife Cindy and family. I was also happy to see Beth before she went back to Moldovia….

Mom took some pictures and they are in the gallery.

Merry Christmas

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Well the day is here and I am the only one up. I am sure this will be the last bit of quiet and alone time I will have today. My parents will be here soon to open gifts with us. Then it will be time to go to my Aunt and Uncles for brunch. Then I am back here to put together a great Christmas dinner.

I am sitting by the Christmas tree and it seems that the room has exploded with gifts. Carolyn and I have a few suprises for everyone this year. I can say that Carolyn got a great kitchen table and chair set that she wanted and she let me off the hook for getting her anything else.

Well I hear Avery up and moving up stairs so I know that soon the fun will begin.

SO MERRY CHRISTMAS from my family to you and yours

Scrambled eggs and fried pepper sandwich

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I woke up this morning after only 5 hours sleep craving one of my grand-mom’s scrambled egg and fried pepper sandwich. See you take 2 slices (thick slices mind you) of Lou Bilancio’s homemade wheat bread. Then you take 2 bell peppers and 1 hot pepper cut them up and put them in a skillet to fry up. As they are frying break 4 large eggs in a bowl and beat add a little salt and ground black pepper to the egg mixture. When the peppers are soft and fried down, pour the egg mixture into the skillet with the peppers. Cook till eggs are done. Now remember those 2 slices of Lou’s bread? Put them on a plate right next to each other. Scoop the cooked egg and pepper mixture onto one piece of the bread. Cover with the other piece. Now Eat.

If you are making this for little children you can hold off on the hot pepper.

Another variant is to use slices of Italian Bread From Peoples Italian Bakery in the Burg and spoon little amounts onto the slices and eat it slowly and savor it…

My grandmother used to make this for us grandkids when we stayed over. She also used to send this sandwich with Henry and Tim for lunch at school. But that’s another story…

If you ever stop over my house bring some peppers and bread and I will make some up for ya…

Call first we may need eggs.

Mother State

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Spent Thursday and Friday in my mother state Virginia. Unfortunately it was to go to a funeral of a great man and relative. My cousin Alice’s dad A. Ray Merchent passed away suddenly on Wed. So again my condolences goes out to the Merchent family. I got to see some relatives that I hadn’t seen in a real long time. The bummer was we were all supposed to get together after Christmas.

I got back this morning and went right out to get our Christmas tree. We will be decorating it tomorrow while the storm rages outside.

More later……

Water feature in “the Big Cube”

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Came in this morning to find a big leak right over the desk I use for a workbench. This is just what I need. The kicker was I was in last night to do some quick things. So this happened after 6:30 pm when I left. I had to wait till someone with the digital camera came in. By then I had gotten all the wet stuff off the desk and had started putting out buckets. It’s funny now they will have to replace the carpet tiles in that area. I will make sure of that because there is nothing worse than the smell of wet dog and wet carpet.

 

Will keep you updated…..

Christmas List

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Ok boys and girls mom and dad here is a list of some things that would make me happy to get at christmas….and for those who missed gettting me a birthday present (and you know who you are) I’ll take anything on the list….