Happy Easter! Victory over death and sin through Jesus Christ.

| April 1, 2018

Happy Easter brothers and sisters in Christ!         He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed. This past week I’ve been listening to Alistair Begg speak on Life After Death recorded from Parkside Church and shared on the Truth For Life podcast. Ever since Katelyn and Drew gave me the Amazon Echo Dot for Christmas I […]

Huntington Bank and their 24-Hour Grace Overdraft Fee Relief

| March 31, 2018

I’ve been around long see banking change from daily dealing with a local banker that I knew by name … who also knew me (and my business) by name … to just a drive up teller window or ATM to the latest technology of snapping pics of checks and tapping on a smartphone. I sort […]

Tech Friday: A 2nd Amazon Echo – the Dot now streams music

| March 2, 2018

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Music Monday: Sailing by Christopher Cross for obvious reasons

| February 26, 2018

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TechFriday: Loving the SiriusXM streaming app

| February 9, 2018

As a Fox Business addicted viewer, I keep a live-feed running much of the day just as others do for music, talk radio or sports. One of the challenges is that it isn’t convenient or available, especially in a low bandwidth, "just" audio feed … unless I’m in the car and listening on SiriusXM Radio. […]

Music Monday: The Drifters and Under the Boardwalk

| February 5, 2018

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Once in a lifetime event – a supermoon trilogy

| January 31, 2018

  A Supermoon chat with John Rowe & Mike Hasking – 1/31/2018 Tonight is your last chance to witness a once in a lifetime lunar event. A super blue blood moon will be visible in the night’s sky for just over an hour, from 11.50 tonight. It’s the third in a trilogy of large, red […]

Do something for someone this Martin Luther King Jr holiday

| January 15, 2018

Today, January 15, 2018, our nation celebrates the life and accomplishments of one of our greatest Americans on his national holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This past Friday, President Trump signed a proclamation that honors Dr. King by designating his birthplace, church and tomb as a National Historic Park. Along with the president’s respectful […]

Music Monday: A new Bible & the impressive Amazon Echo Dot

| January 8, 2018

Our Amazon Echo Dot Christmas gift is the gift that keeps on giving now that I’m learning new “skills.” There isn’t anything earth-shattering it is currently doing, but the “easy” interface to Amazon’s cloud server for content and function may be limitless … at least looking into the future. It is an impressive device; perhaps […]

Christmas Music Monday: Merry old semi-nautical carol

| December 25, 2017

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Music Monday: Some history to Jackson Browne’s “Stay”

| December 18, 2017

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Music Monday: Jackson Browne and title song from I’m Alive

| November 6, 2017

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Music Monday: Hard not to like Goodbye Girl by David Gates

| October 23, 2017

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Music Monday: Back to the pre-Parrothead Jimmy Buffett days

| October 9, 2017

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Tech Friday: New “used” After Shokz bluetooth headset

| September 29, 2017

After slowly giving up on ever really making my “90% hearing loss” right ear useful again (due to  Ménière’s disease – posts 1 or 2), I had a chance to try out my buddy Jeff’s After Shokz bluetooth headset a couple weeks ago. I’m not saying it was like I was binaural again, BUT the “bone conduction” […]

Answering questions on the Motley Fool Industry Focus podcast

| September 21, 2017

Tuned into Motley Fool’s Industry Focus podcast this week talking about how drugmakers get patents and drug trials through the FDA. The Q & A segment was  helpful for those looking to understand the process and pitfalls before adding shares of these companies to their portfolios.   Motley Fool Industry Focus Podcast (mp3) | 9/20/2017 […]

At least with the ACA we all have affordable healthcare #sarcasm

| September 7, 2017

Obviously the "promises" made by the Obama administration, and the Democrats who passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), have failed us … and the current GOP controlled congress have failed to fix, repeal or replace (their promise if elected). Who in middle class America can afford health insurance at $1000/mo with a $12,900 deductible?  As […]

Music Monday: Lana White, music with a modern Country feel

| September 4, 2017

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Music Monday: Want-to-be politician Kid Rock – Born Free

| August 7, 2017

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Music Monday: “Pacing the Cage” – Bruce Cockburn

| July 24, 2017

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Music Monday: Out of the box adding a Brenda song – Freebird

| July 10, 2017

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Independence Day: Render Unto Caesar, a Mike Rowe Podcast

| July 4, 2017

If you listen and make it to the end of this 10 minute July 4, 2017 Independence Day podcast by Mike Rowe, you’ll get the point of this interesting story. Well worth the Blue Apron advertisement and introduction (definitely a worthwhile podcast to subscribe to or follow on Facebook).  Render Unto Caesar (mp3) | Mike […]

Summer Music Monday with a Jackson Browne Two-fer

| June 26, 2017

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Happy Flag Day – an excellent podcast from Mike Rowe

| June 14, 2017

Flag Day 2017 — “Something To Stand For” by Mike Rowe of MikeRoweWORKS

Music Monday: Wichita Lineman sung by Glen Campbell #vinyl

| June 12, 2017

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Music Monday: The Byrds and Mr Tambourine Man from 1965

| May 22, 2017

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Music Monday: License to Chill, Carolinas and reminiscing

| May 15, 2017

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Mellow Music Monday: Down in Belize with Jerry Jeff Walker

| April 24, 2017

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Music Monday: Another year and more Van Morrison

| April 17, 2017

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Music Monday: Shambala, 1 of the top 10 Three Dog Night tunes

| April 10, 2017

While listening to background music this past weekend (working on taxes), it became an easy decision post something on music. Next … decide which group and song to include without repeating something mentioned before on My Desultory Blog? How about Three Dog Night??? The rock band was not necessarily in my record (or cassette tape) […]

Music Monday: A lesser heard Israel Kamakawiwoʻole recording

| April 3, 2017

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A Music Monday Two-fer – but still out of the 1970s

| March 20, 2017

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Music Monday: Escaping from my 1970s rut with Yo La Tengo

| March 6, 2017

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Music Monday: Ketchup, Anticipation and Carly Simon

| February 27, 2017

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Music Monday: Shocker not to have mentioned American Pie yet?

| February 20, 2017

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Remembering a couple musicians and the song Drift Away

| January 30, 2017

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Music Monday and thankful I can still hear things

| January 9, 2017

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Music Monday: Starting 2017 with a favorite song by The Carpenters

| January 2, 2017

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Testing HTML5 Compact Audio plugin for WordPress

| November 14, 2016

As part of getting a handle on the Amazon S3 costs, it is finally time to move into the 21st century and eliminate the old-school audio player on MyDesultoryBlog. I attempted to go with an HTML5 player a few years ago, but struggled with using it especially with different browsers. A few years later, everything […]

Music: A forgotten (by me) hit from the past – Rock Me Gently

| October 31, 2016

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A little more music from Gregg Allman please …

| October 14, 2016

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Phone scams, Do-not-call lists and IRS fraud

| October 4, 2016

Mail fraud and phone scams are ongoing problems if you live in the U.S. unless you are lucky enough to exist under a rock. Throughout the years I’ve been targeted by shady hoodlums looking to make a quick buck using fraud and deceit as a way to access money or more information. Likely these criminals […]

How loud are Honda and Predator inverter based generators?

| September 19, 2016

Good question: By ear, the slightly smaller and far lighter Honda EU2000i inverter based generator is definitely quieter than the less expensive, but larger in dimension, weight and power Predator 2200. Read on for a few more points. I like both of inverter generators and each will serve a slightly different purpose. The Honda is […]

Hanging on to summer with the band Sugar Ray and Fly

| September 17, 2016

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What will another 51 years do for society?

| August 30, 2016

I mentioned Paul Harvey’s broadcast on the 50th anniversary last year, but his 1965 thoughts are worth hearing again in this election year … not that we’re even talking about social issues. I didn’t post it as an audio MP3 format file — so here it is.     Paul Harvey | If I were the devil … – […]

Relaxing weekend with Mom Howard and music reminiscing

| August 15, 2016

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Sensible economic thinking from business CEO Andy Puzder

| August 11, 2016

There are people who have the ability to communicate and can make "simple-sense" of the usually complicated economic issues facing our country. I’d like to believe that IF enough voters are willing to digest the three minutes of conversation below, that they would be less inclined to "dis" a business oriented pro-growth policy that is […]

The Pretender from 1976 by Jackson Browne never gets old

| August 8, 2016

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Music: Where has all the good harmony gone?

| July 24, 2016

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A naval architect and bagpipe accompanied ruckus music

| July 19, 2016

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Music: Who was Kent LaVoie? Look at that hair!

| July 9, 2016

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Blue Sky from 1972 – an Allman Brother classic for #TBT

| June 30, 2016

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Summer Breeze, makes me feel fine …

| June 29, 2016

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Short montage of songs Jimmy Buffett has not played in 10 years

| June 15, 2016

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A day early … but Happy Birthday to my son Taylor #TBT

| June 9, 2016

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Quirks, Jars and a PC name for Milwaukee Dill Pickles

| June 4, 2016

Talk about “desultory” … who else blogs on Milwaukee Dill pickle “jars???”   Like George Berdes (link), I love Milwaukee Midget Dill Pickles … although I’m not so sure about the corporate conglomerate brand Pinnacle Foods? I add “5” midget dills to my plate at every home lunch and have done this for years with […]

How to get out of a common-cold, runny nose induced funk

| May 17, 2016

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Music, mood, memories … Incommunicado.

| April 26, 2016

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The Bill Envall segment from Dorkfish on African animals

| April 23, 2016

The other day after seeing Bill Engvall on the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing, I tried to remember his comedy bit where he used the line, "Bob, he’s a smoker."  I could remember much more so I mentioned it casually to a friend — a few days later he text me the segment from his […]

Americans are giving up independence for dependence

| April 19, 2016

Recorded a bit of audio off the television this week as the intellectual thinker Charles Krauthammer summarized in about a minute and a half just how and why our country move from its independent founding to the dependent populous we see today. Krauthammer’s best comment in the exchange was “the big debate between left and […]

Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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