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Christmas is over but we have the New Year to look forward to. I love the new year because it gives everyone a chance to “start over” when the reality is that life just keeps going! Life will continue here at HMA as I already have an eye on 2009. I’ve got some new albums [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted: November 27, 2008 in Uncategorized
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I like Thanksgiving because it’s a time to get together with family without all the gift giving and fanfare. You can just kick back and relax with people you enjoy being with and then eat some great food. It’s also a day that reminds you of what is important in life and what you have [...]

I’m back!

Posted: November 9, 2008 in Uncategorized

After two weeks of computer problems, I am finally back online and firing on all cylinders! As you know, I got hit with a trojan horse virus that shut down my main computer. My laptop was also infected because it somehow snuch through the wireless connection and got there. Lucky for me I installed a [...]

On hold due to virus attack…..

Posted: October 26, 2008 in Uncategorized

Everything here at HMA is on hold due to a trojan virus attack that has infected my entire home network. My main terminal is out and my laptop just went too. I have a tech guy coming on Wednesday because my anti-virus software (which is up to date) didn’t catch it. When the tech guy [...]

I hope everyone liked Live Album Week last week, I know I did. Unfortunately I was behind on publishing the posts because I was having trouble with my laptop. Actually, it’s my wife’s laptop. It was given to her at a previous job 6 years ago and she took it with her when she was [...]

On vacation

Posted: September 3, 2008 in Uncategorized

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am on vacation and that regular posts will resume Sunday, September 7. Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned…..

Here we go again, I’m on another vacation! Being in a Union is very nice, my 14 years of service to my company affords me 4 weeks vacation a year. So what do I have planned this week?  OLYMPICS! I have always been a fan of the Olympics and I devour as much TV time [...]

Yes! It is finally here…..a week’s vacation from work! I’m a very lucky guy because I get 4 weeks paid vacation every year and every year I take July 4th week, the 2nd week of August, and the week of Halloween for vacation. (The 4th vacation week I use as individual vacation days for things [...]

If you’ve visited in the last 24 hours, you’ll have noticed that I posted 3 new album reviews almost right away: the new Kataklysm, Ihsahn, and Shannon. Unfortunately, a computer issue crept up and I had a spotty connection all week so I had to cram everything into one day. Things have been fixed and [...]

As usual, I’m way behind listening to CDs. Right now I have a pile of 40 CDs that are either new releases I bought or albums I’ve received from bands/labels to review. There’s a lot of different styles and a ton of new music so things are going to get very review intensive around here. [...]

All the momentum gained with Whitesnake Week was lost last week when my laptop died and went in for service. Of course there was always the home terminal in the music room but my ISP (Cox Communications) decided it was time to have a service outage. With barely any connection to the Net & email, [...]

I had fun doing Whitesnake Week last week. I thought I put up some decent reviews, and I’ve gotten more than a few emails regarding some of my choices, so at least I generated some discussion. I’m hoping to do another Band Week soon, not sure when, but it won’t take a year like this [...]