12.31.2018

Happy New Year (Someplace)

Right about now (as my fingers do the typing) it's almost New Year's in China for the most part. Hope they all have a good one! As all of you do as well!

Nothing special in the House of SoulSlam for the ball-dropping...if I stay awake that is. Mr. and Mrs. SoulSlam will take their annual sojourn to NYC in the AM tomorrow and see what there is to see.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

12.28.2018

Holy Cow It's Raining Again!

Gotta be the wettest December on record. We (meaning the area) had some flooding the weekend before Christmas...now it's pouring rain and we're expecting more flooding around the area. Tough one. My sump pumps have been a-pumping all month!

Holiday Party at the House of SoulSlam on Saturday evening. Can't end soon enough.

12.20.2018

Year in Review Laziness

That time again for the "Year in Review"...or "I'm too lazy to think up any original content so here's my take on what you already know!".

LOSERS.

12.17.2018

Old Rock Stars

The plain and simple fact is some age more gracefully than others. Saw this article this weekend and what David Lee Roth has become. Wow. He's not the only one of course. At some point the long hair starts to get less healthy looking (and thin) but these guys still keep on livin' the dream.

SoulSlam wears his hair high and tight pretty much. A little creative combing. Whatever. Only so much I can do about the inevitable days of age. Figured that much out.

12.14.2018

Shopping For The Holidays

Shopping in earnest began a week or so ago, with a day off yesterday for additional consumerism. In this day and age of Amazon and the like, on-line purchasing takes a commanding role. But with that also comes the inevitable "will it arrive in time" jitters. So far so good. We gonna be tight on an item or two but I think all will be swell.

12.10.2018

Ghostly Business

So I'm not sure if it's ever come up in our impromptu conversations, but over the years there's been some activity of a ghostly type at Rose Manor, aka the House of SoulSlam. Weird things mostly.

Anyway, Friday, your amiable host arrived home a bit early and found a giant mirror on the couch. It usually hangs on the opposite wall. So I test the BWSS and ask. She responds that the YSSS heard a "thump", came into living room to see what's what and found this mirror "hanging" by one anchor (a screw). There's a small table underneath that supported it.

So I take a look at mirror, expecting to see clasps on back damaged. Nope. Check the anchors aka screws. Still in the wall. The one it came off of (jumped?) had a little play but seemed fine. So we re-mount mirror and all's good.

Now what I can't seem to figure out is how a clasp made it over the side of a fairly large machine screw that has a pretty big profile. Nobody in the LR at the time. It hadn't been taken down for well over a year (BWSS painted the wall a lovely plum color). So what happened?

Ghost?

12.03.2018

Common Courtesy

If you're gonna send me an e-mail and I have zero idea who you are, please introduce yourself and state the reason you are contact me. When I inquire about additional information (since I have no idea who you are), don't, I repeat don't answer in a short way that tells me why it's important to you.

Right to the trash.