Street Racer

Watch out for this bad boy buzzing around Anchorage.

Freddie jamming with Tom!

2008 Christmas at Neders

Veronica Page Band

At Blues Central tonight.


This big city life is fun.

The blues are alive and well in Anchorage.

Sweet Freddie

Since I'm living in Anchorage I get to see my grand-nephew Freddie more often. He's the little guy on the right. On Christmas I took a video of him jamming on the piano with Tom, a great jazz piano player. Turns out its too big to upload to YouTube or blogger. If anyone knows of good down sizer of a 259 MB AVI Video Format thats 2:31 long please let me know. I would love to show it to you. The kids got talent!

Pot Test

1973 Air Force recruiter: Have you smoked pot more than 4 times?

FishTaxi answers: A day?

While job hunting I pass over jobs that require a drug test.

Troll Art

Thank-you DeeDee, from the Gig Harbor Scene blog, for pointing out Ray Troll's art (on the menu cover at Humpy's). See more at Trollart: About Ray Troll.

Downtown Anchorage Only Minutes Away

On the freeeeway!

Cool FishTaxi purse.

Sunday Night Out

Ventured to downtown Anchorage tonight to the Pacific Arts Center to see the James Cotton Blues Band.

Humpy's is right across the street. Perfect spot for a burger & brew before the concert.



The front band was the Gordon Tentree Trio minus the big bass player. This was their last show before heading home to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory after a 25 US city tour.




Outside, smoking, I met the Gordon Tentree Trio (-1 ) and got my picture taken with them.



Great live music in Anchortown tonight!

Circa 1955 House

Perfect house for sale by basement dwellers.


New construction in St. Louis, circa 1955: One-owner home that's never been lived in. Via J-Walk Blog. Click here to view more photos

Whoof Arted

The busts are random bronze statues.

Whoof Arted tells what Anchorage has been like lately.

I haven't left the house except for essentials. Beer, pot and cigs.

The Seth Freeman Band

Thanks to Seth I was able to get online wireless with his franklin til I got my own today. He is an awesome guitar player, songwriter and teacher. He gives guitar lessons on the side. Check out his myspace.















Getting settled into my new life in Anchorage. Thanks to good friends and good music.





Here is Seth's myspace link:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=97280434

My Dream Job

Australia offers dream job: Lounge on a beach and blog about it. Australia offers up "best job in the world" as part of tourism-promotion campaign: Lounge on a beach near Great Barrier Reef and blog about it http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2008627464_webdreamjob14.html

thanks for the tip, Nik!

Last Phone Booth in Alaska

Bubble Fever

Tried the frozen bubble trick tonight. Too bad it warmed up to above zero.

Freezing bubbles,,,Thanks Jonco.

Loose in the City

Freezing cold. The minus kind that makes your clothes feel like paper.

How moose survive I do not know.

Sliver of a Moon

New Years Eve moon out the front door of my cabin apartment. I plan on checking out of here tomorrow. My landlord was kind enough to let me stay over a couple of days. The place is clean and I'm leaving it better than I found it so I should get my deposit back.


North to Alaska!

December is moving right along...

photo by Fran Durner from the Anchorage Daily News' December snow gallery.

I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for moving. A friend stopped by on the way to Anch today and took my desktop and a duffel bag of clothes to where I'll be staying. That was a big help.

I'd say I'm ready to go tomorrow!

my Sky

Mine all mine.

Happy Winter Solstice!

Thanks for all the well wishes and support. Found a room to rent for a week in Houston at a lodge with a restaurant and bar.

Ready to leave Valdez just in time for the next snowstorm.

Happy Holidays to all!

Old trunk

Consolidating my whole life into 4 totes and this old trunk. Contains journals of boats, planes, trains, greyhound busses, hitchhiking and numerous road trips.

Theres a book in there somewhere.

noth[ng to lose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nHwILs8bdo&feature=related

Keeping My Head Above the Waves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3o1Zct5TIc&feature=related

Pindrop Band 2002

Love Letters in the Snowbank

Fisherman's Blues

by the Waterboys

My newest find from Radio Paradise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKouBHarIo

Things Change

Well, I got fired from my new job in Houston today. So it doesn't look like I will be moving there. I was just getting ready to leave when I received an email informing me of my status. I needed to take care of some business here Monday before I left and missed work today. She said I hope it was important business because it cost you your job.


Now I still have stuff in Houston I have to move. And my stuff packed up here in Valdez. I think I will still have my friends bring my big stuff to Wasilla. Store it some place til I figure out where I'm going. I can stay with a friend in Anchorage and rent a storage unit there. It will be easier to get my stuff from Wasilla than Valdez.


I'm dissappointed about getting fired. After the shock wore off I am okay being jobless and almost homeless.

pretty cool

gonna miss valdez

all my bags are packed and i'm ready to go.

starting a new life in houston.

alaska.

I travelled the mountains all over

and down to the valleys I go.

To live like a pig in the clover.

In sight of huge mountains of snow.

Good Combo

Plain m&ms and skittles in a ziplock bag. They are about the same size and shape so you never know what you are going to get.

Early Sunset

Took these pictures around 3pm today. Nice clear day in Houston hovering around 20 degrees.

Meanwhile, Valdez goes big with 24 " of new snow and goes over a 100" for the season with 116" as of late Wed night. Talked to a friend in Valdez tonight and she said it was still snowing.

Hope they get it all neatly piled up by Saturday...

Early Moon Rise

Blogging from Houston

Its been hectic the last few days as they wanted me to start my new job right away. The weather for traveling back turned really crappy anyway. Valdez only got a foot and a half of snow last night.


I have weekends off so I'm driving back to Valdez Saturday for another load coming bach Sunday. Weather permiting. Good news is some friends are coming up to Wasilla for Christmas with an empty truck as they want to bring a load of good, dry spruce back. So they'll have room for my desk!


Houston was 23 degrees and lightly snowing. Quite pleasant.

Roads are good to go

My bags are packed and I'm ready to go by first daylight Monday. Watching the current Alaska Road Conditions at http://511.alaska.gov/ and it looks like its good to go to Houston. First trip anyway. Its so much fun to move in the winter.

BIG WAKE in Yakutat

Surf's up in Yakutat

Catch a wave off the North Gulf coast of Alaska.

[.... Pictures and story here....]

Moon Walking

Going for the Gusto

Big changes in the makings.....

Moving to Houston, Alaska!!!!

The Day Scrabble Died

On-Line that is. Merry Christmas from Hasbro.

http://www.lexulous.com/personal.php

Welcome to the Wake Zone

Swimming, the only sport with no half times, no subs, no timeouts and you only get 1 shot at your goal.

The calender on the right with puppy dog faces represents days we jumped in the pool the month of November.

The hardest part about swimming is the 5 minutes before.

Then its Welcome to the Wake Zone.

KitKat Cone

And I thought there was only one flavor of KitKat. “A massive collection, mostly from Japan, of every single wacky KitKat flavor every created. Includes banana!