Tonight I get to cross an item off my bucket list: see Paul McCartney in concert.  I have to leave soon, so I’ll update tomorrow with details.

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Tonight continues our Dalcher household summer concert series, with James Taylor and Carole King at the Pepsi Center.  I’m looking forward to this concert, James Taylor is one of my guitar idols.  It should be a pretty laid back night, based on the last James Taylor concert I went to it should be a pretty […]

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As I briefly posted last night, we got the opportunity to see Barenaked Ladies at Red Rocks! A minor aside – Kris Allen: it is generally not a good idea to continually attempt to compel the crowd to sing along with you when three people do so the first time you try it.  It was […]

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BNL at Red Rocks tonight!  Wooooooot!

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I was given the gift of sleeping in a ridiculous amount today.  I woke up after noon (woo!) and then proceeded to enter in all of our grocery receipts from the last three months which had been accumulating in a drawer.  That took me about an hour and a half, and by then Tasha was […]

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Wow, what a great night.  The venue was a very weird/small music school in the middle of a neighborhood in Denver, and there was probably room for 200 people in the place.  Andy McKee came on and played pretty much all of his YouTube hits, including a lot of stuff from his new album “Joyland”.  […]

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Tonight begins the Dalcher Summer Concert Series.  This month we have a plethora of great concerts to see, starting off with the YouTube sensation Andy McKee.  Here he is performing his song “Drifting”, the original recording has received over 31 million views.  He was a late addition to our set of concerts that we will […]

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Tonight I made some mods on my ukulele!  I got my clip-on ukulele tuner, and my new set of Grover tuning machines.  These things are really nice, however I had to drill out the headstock to fit them and one of the tuning pegs I drilled out too far.  I had to secure the bushing […]

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It’s one of the 65 or so days of rain each year here in Colorado.  The temperature dropped a good 15 degrees today, and now the thunder is rolling in.  Tonight is D&D Encounters, the end of a chapter.  It should be a fun time, and I hope my character survives. In other news, I […]

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Karate night tonight, we opened up the class with some basic combinations done in a circle.  Then we moved on to their Shodan test basics, transcribed from a 2006 dan exam: Sanbon tsuki Variations on lin-geri (front kicks, round kicks, side kicks) Inward block, elbow strike, backfist strike, reverse punch Outward block in back stance, […]

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