Category: Personal Projects
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Show #3 – River Trip at Mercury Chophouse
Downtown Fort Worth, on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday night allows for a little serendipity with patios, restaurants and horse drawn carriages. After two botched attempts to find live music, this combination led me to the Mercury Chophouse patio. My first attempt to check out live music in the evening resulted in a total fail: […]
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Show #2 – Overseas and Monahans at Live Oak
[Note: this is part of my “concert a day” challenge] Knowing I’d be busy early Friday evening at a scotch tasting, I needed a local show I could get to quickly. Thank goodness for living five blocks from Live Oak. I showed up still a little buzzy from sipping on 18 year old scotch for […]
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Show #1 – Terry Rasor and Michael Hearne at Chubby’s
[Note: This is part of my “concert a day challenge“] For my first show, I scanned the listings on fortlive.com searching for something free. In the West Fort Worth section, I spotted a gig at Chubby’s Burger Shack. A little Googling checked out that Terry Rasor is a veteran Texas singer song writer with a […]
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A concert a day in August
Sometimes we need projects to challenge us. Make a thing a day. Learn a word a day. Appreciate an aspect of life a day. The point is to do something and be persistent. For the month of August, I’m going to see a concert a day. That’s 31 live music experiences during summer’s hottest month. […]
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30 days of ties
Through the month of September, I designed a tie a day. A day early, below are the results. Click to enlarge and check out some of the details. I prefer minimalist designs, solid colors and a contemporary look. Some designs could have any sort of color variation, so I only did a few and then […]
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Miniature Sky
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31 flavors of ice cream in 30 days
For the month of June, I gave myself the silly challenge of doing a Baskin Robbins: eating 31 flavors of ice cream. To count, I had to eat at least three spoonfuls of the flavor. I couldn’t cheat by standing at a counter in an ice cream shop and ask for a taste test. Plus, […]
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Google and Duck Duck Go search results comparison
I couldn’t remember what Apple’s pricing was for their print on demand publishing for books. Â So, I googled. That’s… not helpful. Â Let’s try Duck Duck Go. Helpful, easy to see what I need, and answers my question. (Note: screenshots are same size.) Just for fun, I blocked out all the non-search result content for the […]
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Keep calm and rock out
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How to have a whiskey tasting
How to host a whiskey tasting 1. Know the difference between the types of whiskey. 2. Decide which whiskies you wish to share. 3. Be able to talk about a) whiskey in general, b) each individual whiskey. 4. Serve food. Recently, I held a whiskey tasting for a small group of friends. Over the past […]