Frankenfoot

Plug in, tune in, turn up, enjoy!

Well, two days after a very productive counseling session, and I must say I am definitely feeling better. Mood swings have stopped, I'm dealing with the bumps in the road appropriately, and I'm sleeping much better. So. What's next? ;) I've been noodling on the new recorder a little, realizing how much I've forgotten in thirteen years. I'm also on the verge of buying a new pennywhistle. I'm kind of shocked at how much they (as everything else) have gone up in price in the last thirteen years. For example, about 15 years ago I bought a low-D whistle for thirty-five bucks. They're now running around $200. Yikes. Even the cheap plastic ones are near $100. Well as for today I'm waiting for South Street Strings to open, so I can get a set of strings for the poor neglected unused guitar in the shelter's office. Nobody else wants to buy strings, and I want to play, so what the heck. Yeah, I'm just going to wander around today. No plans other tha...

Allow me to introduce Ur-Vertible. Look it up :) It ain't much, but it's mine. Now to remember how to play it... Click on "read more" to see the whole picture

A day or two after cleaning out my Backpack Of Doom, and removing my spare phone charger, my trusty dual charger from Five Below has died. It has joined the choir invisible. It is an ex charger. Hey, five bucks. And something told me to stop by Five Below on the way here to my favorite coffee shop, Cafe Ole. The Jewish Coffee Shop. No shit. For real. On another somewhat similar Philadelphia note, I had THE BEST Reuben sandwich I've ever had in Philly today in the Reading Terminal Market, at The Dutch Eating Place. Yup, Pennsylvania Dutch. It was absolutely superb.