I'm going to post YouTube link to two songs that he released on his 1978 solo album Survivor. The first song is the leadoff track, "Just a Kid", where he is reminiscing about his then 34 years on the planet. The second song is "One Hand Clapping", with a guest appearance on piano by Burton Cummings of Guess Who fame.
These are the best two tracks on the album, and I think, way ahead of the others on that album.
Here ya go! You'll have to hit the "back" button if you want to come back to this blog........!
Just A Kid
One Hand Clapping
I hope you enjoy these songs as much as I do!
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OK, so where have I been? What have I been up to?
I've been a busy guy too. I have seen some long hours on the job these past few weeks as I am split between two different projects that reside within the same product line. One project is going to take me until January to complete, as that I am responsible for three tasks within it, and I may have to take on two additional tasks.
Another project has short term tasks, and there are a lot of those kinds of fires to put out. I frequently think that these are two full time jobs that I am doing, but as it is I have to be innovative in keeping the "Must Get Done" list down to a manageable level. That assignment came close to having me in Amsterdam this week but someone else got drafted to put out that fire, and I am here in Tucson putting one of his fires that he couldn't get to.
It's frantic, it's busy, it's a snake ranch, but I'm having fun. With that and the classes I am taking on Thursday nights I don't have very much in the way of spare time.
Eventually I will have to figure out how to get my social life going again, but that's on hold for the time being.
I think I'm also going to have to call up Todd and go rabbit hunting before long, now that the monsoon season is showing signs of winding down.
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Yep, monsoon season is winding down. Or is it? We're usually done by mid-September, but we had some sprinkles this afternoon.
Two Thursdays ago we really had a pounding in the afternoon. Session Number One started around 1:00 PM, and brought us half inch size hail along with the bullet rain. I've seen quarter inch hail before on occasion here, but this one, well we got some bigger stones. Then it ended and I thought we were done.
Session Number Two then kicked up around 2:00. We had bullet rain like we did with the first round, but we got hail again! This time they were quarter-inchers. It was something, but we weren't done yet.
Session Number Three kicked in around 3:15. More bullet rain, and more hail! Three hailstorms in one afternoon! These were quarter-inchers as well.
I had never seen hail twice in one day before here, let alone three times. I ended up leaving work at 4:00 when it subsided but had trouble getting home as that half the roads near where I work were closed due to flooding.
After that I thought it was the season finale, but as I said, we had sprinkles today, and we may have a few more of those before we're all said and done.
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I think I'm done here for tonight. Just two more thoughts.
One.....don't forget to pet a dog or a cat. It will do you more good than it does the dog or cat, although the dog or cat will think otherwise.
Two.....don't do anything to make the fire department come after you.
Good night!
