What is all the fuss about?

Of all the stuff I have on my YouTube page, this video gets 3,000+ views??

The Thursday Night Party!!

So I Admit

I like some country music such as..

"Trailer Hood"-Toby Keith
"Hip Hop in a Honky Tonk"-Colt Ford & Kevin Fowler
"Brown Chicken Brown Cow"-Trace Adkins

These are funny tunes and when I have a video that captures my attention, I easily get hooked on the song.

I like trashy TV such as…

Real Housewife's of Atlanta, Jersey and OC

I hate the IRS

That is all I have for now…

Various

This past week I have had my 2^nd surgery in my life to get rid of mrsa that showed up last week and blew up my cheek and jaw like I swallowed a softball.

When I was admitted to the hospital I was told I would be on a 24 hour antibiotic and hopefully would be on my way. I have never had an overnight stay so I was a bit freaked out. On that Sunday and once 24 hours had passed, a doctor came and took a look and said he would talk to another doc about having them "open it up" in a minor surgery on Monday. I of course freaked out but I knew it had to be done.

While in the hospital there are routine blood draws, blood pressure & temperature checks. They show no mercy for time of day so trying to get any solid sleep will not happen. Just when I get nice and comfy, in storm the nurses with the work that had to be done. During these many visits I was told that my blood pressure was high. Well, when you storm in at odd hours to check my vitals and wake me up from a dead sleep and scare the hell out of me, what do you expect? I once told the nurse that if she wanted a normal reading, sneak in while I am sleeping, slowly attach the cuff and get a reading. I bet it would be normal.

There are many reasons anyone would have high blood pressure I suppose. Too many I feel like listing here but I know there are some things I have control over and some that I do not. I have taken a long look at things in my life and much like Michael Jackson once sang, I'm gonna make that change"

My wife was by my side the whole time with visits from my sister In-law and Mother In-law and my boy Myles and his woman. The moral support from my sisters, Dad and Mom and Father In-law was very comforting as well. Mike Stancombe checking in on me while running 3 bars and traveling abroad was thoughtful indeed! Myles, Bill & Royce kept things going at my gigs very smooth. My Facebook friends that paid attention to what was going on showed the love which was nice! Even people I have never met face to face were showing support! It was very touching, all of it.

To say I am surprised not to hear from some people during all this would not be the right word this time. I could say I am "hurt" but that means I would be letting the predictability in peoples self centered bullshit bother me. I have gotten used to it by now and it makes it that much easier to create a further distance from some people or to cut them out of my life all together.

I'm gonna heal from this and say goodbye to being sick and some people also along the way..

New Videos from Peppers Broad Ripple St. Patty's Day

Smarter than I look..

This latest entry will bore many of you so if nothing else, I shall blog about the technical stuff that I do for the Indianapolis OTB and Peppers.

When we closed the lower level at the OTB, we had a few flat screens that we took down and I had to come up with places to put these screens. It's not as easy as one may think as there are a few factors when you just wanna "put up a TV".

1-Is it a "load bearing wall" that we are gonna put the TV on? If not, anchoring a piece of plywood between the existing studs is the way we went and then attaching the TV bracket to that board.

2-Is there sufficient power nearby? Has to be on a 30 amp circuit otherwise you risk popping a breaker when you fire up the TV's all at once. Is the power "isolated"? The last thing you need is a bar neon or any type of heating/cooling unit to kick in and cause interference on the TV.

3-Is the RF signal clean getting to the unit? Too many people will take a feed going into a room and throw a splitter on the end to make another run into a another room. That is the WORSE thing you can do! Here is some free advice, ALWAYS have one point of a splitter (like near where the cable comes into the building) then run EVERY line from every TV back to that one splitter. You will be amazed how better the picture is. You lose 10db of signal every time you interrupt that line running through the building to get a TV going.

Installed a cable box at Peppers so we can get "Tru Tv" for the NCAA hoops. So what do you do if you have ONE cable box and 5 TV's that need that feed? Simple…

1-Took the RGB "component out" & ran it to the projector for high-def 1080.

2-Took the composite video out, ran it into a channel 3 "modulator". Took the RF output of that modulator and tapped in the other TV's that needed that cable box feed, problem solved!

So, if you need any of this deciphered for some video work you may need done, feel free to contact me!

I'm sure this is not as exciting as what I have done on radio and what I am doing in the clubs but it is another part of what I do and I am damn good at it!

This past Saturday at Peppers Greenwood

Is that you?

It's amazing that most people change for the worse when they get a boyfriend/girlfriend and you don't hear a peep out of them until they get dumped or something bad happens. If you find someone that makes ya happy then great! Always stay true to yourself and your friends, don't morph into a phony just so you can say "I found someone" and it makes your life temporarily fit whatever façade you want people to believe.

Also just don't forget about your friends in the meantime or they just may forget about you first…

Why must we

Pay attention to someone like Charlie Sheen that obviously needs help? I guess since he is hanging out with strippers and is able to have some type of composure when he is doing TV interviews and such all of America seems not to worry. Reminds me of how people made fun of Anna Nicole Smith from being the Guess model, to gaining weight, to being fucked up on camera and on her own reality show and we all thought that was comical, until she was found dead in her hotel room. Makes me sick that we as a public are drawn to such spectacles

Why do we seek the self destruction of others I will never know? Michael Jackson pretty much worked himself to death using drugs to keep a schedule and such going to get back on track from being damn near broke. Yet we were glued to the TV when TMZ would catch him in public doing the simplest things cause we were hoping for something to talk about.

I guess that's why Reality TV is such a hit with everyone huh? All to see what happens next. Sad thing is that there are less famous people fighting worse problems and demons that could be right next to us that we would not care about it because we would have no clue it was going on.

Would You

Give me my stuff back if you were available to identify the contents and who it belonged to?

Someone has 2 IPods, Flip Video camera, digital camera and a pair of Headphones. Whoever has them will have no problem turning them back to the rightful owner since everything is pretty obvious who it belongs to. I doubt I will see my stuff again since we in society seem to follow the "finder's keepers" bullshit. And the fact it has been almost 2 weeks I am convinced it is a lost cause.

The things missing are important to my jobs so I wish it was things I could put on the "back burner" and not to have to buy right away. I was able to find used IPods at Disc Replay and the local pawn shop so that saved me a few bucks. I won't buy used headphones since that would be YUK!

Oh well nothing else to say here