I am going to start off to note the passing of Myles Goodwyn, one of the founders of one of my favorite bands, April Wine. The man was undoubtedly a talented songwriter, who covered a wide variety of styles ranging from ballads to hard rock to blues to eclectic. I had the pleasure of meeting him, but only once, and that was back in 1993. Myles retired from touring earlier this year, but wanted the band to continue, which they are. Unfortunately no one down here is booking them, so they play most of their gigs in their native Canada.
Myles was a nice guy when I met him, but I can't describe him as a people person. He was strictly business, but he had a sense of humor. Later on he did interact with the fans on a message board, and answered a lot of our questions.
I hope that the Good Lord is giving his family the peace and strength that they need at this time.
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I have started a new assignment at work this past Monday. It is so far going well, but I am looking forward to our year end holiday break, I'm going to decline comment on my previous assignment other to say that I really wanted out of it. The new assignment will likely have the effect of delaying my retirement. There's part of me that wants to retire right now, but the other part of me is saying that it isn't yet time. But that day is one day closer than it was yesterday.
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From the Department of Corrections: I am NOT descended from John Dudley, the 1st Duke of Northumberland, as I reported a few posts ago. I spotted an error and the web page where I got that from has subsequently been corrected, as that someone else must have spotted that too.
I am descended from a Mary Dudley who was born around 1575, but not from the Lady Mary Dudley. I am still doing some digging into my roots when time permits, which it doesn't a whole lot. I may create some pages about my family history, with the first page being about my Parker roots. There's also the Pilkington and Bonsall lines to research.
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Most of my spare time has been spent with my ham radio hobby. With active sunspots I am able to get out a lot more on the high frequency bands. Country #130 was worked this afternoon, that being Eastern Kiribati.
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I have this craving right now for some New York style pizza, and I think I will now get some of that ordered.
