When you take down the AP news server at a news and talk radio station, there is no stopping once you start a project like that. Something like that is pretty important. What gets even harder to handle is the process of making ten year old technology to work with what is current. Suddenly things don’t go the way you had planned, and you’re left to make guesses and assumptions about where to go next. Once that fails, you fall back to your back up plan. What if you don’t have a back up plan? You make it up as you go. As long as it works, you get the job done and walk away. Just never forget to come back and make sure you get everything the way it should be at a later point in time.
This past weekend, I have been listening to a lot of Ray LaMontagne. I picked up on the guy from my good friend Adam. He bought the CD after I made a dash into a record store down in Lawrence, Kansas over the new year holiday only to have the whole group follow me in. I listened to it and instantly liked it. I kind of forgot that I had it in my library until last Friday. Now I’m in love with it. For a guy who woke up one morning with the craving of just being able to sing and quitting his job on the same day, I respect this guy so much for his talent. Let’s not forget to mention that his voice has captured me like no other in a long time.