My Best Girl (Lucero)

I'm a sucker for some pretty eyes

But they're going home with some other boy tonight

And i guess I'll be fine

Cuz there's one girl that's all mine

She's seen it before, she'll see it again

Cause that other girl's going home with him

And I've come back to her

She don't mind

She's my best girl, she's got six strings

And she knows all about these heart-breaking things

Though her eyes might not shine, she's

Always by my side

Well, she's all mine, for all night

She's my best girl by far

Well, she's all mine, for all night

And she'll never break my heart

She don't care if i come home late

Or if i don't come home for seven long days

She knows that I'm hers

And she knows to wait

She knows those other girls just won't last

She knows I'll always come on back

To her

She's all that I got

She's my best girl, she's got six strings

And she knows all about these heart-breaking things

Though her eyes might not shine, she's

Always by my side

Well, she's all mine, for all night

She's my best girl by far

Well, she's all mine, for all night

The only girl a boy can trust is his guitar

She's my best girl, she's got six strings

And she knows all about these heart-breaking things

Though her eyes might not shine, she's

Always by my side

Though her eyes might not shine, but

At least she's all mine

The Blue Collar Life

I'm in love with where i am, working on the every day life, laughing with people who are sharing the experience. I'm not rich, and i never will be. I'm excited about it. I'd rather hang with the under-dogs in this fight. 

Home

I'm feeling today, more than i have in a long time, that I'm living in exile.

I was born in Colorado. Denver. The capital city. At the time, my parents lived in a bedroom community in the hills called Conifer. My mom grew up a few miles from there in another little town, but it was too close to Denver for them. They had to get away.

Dad worked for the Post Office, and when i was 6, he transferred from Evergreen to Salida. I graduated high school here and came back after a very brief stint in San Antonio, Texas (Go Air Force!) and not completing two years of college in Alamosa, Colorado. Then Denver for 7 years.

I was in Denver making signs for real estate companies when the market crashed, and i decided to move to Alaska. That's home 

I lived in Ketchikan for four amazing years. I met my wife there. I had a great job, lived on a sailboat. I got to watch sunsets that took hours and leave fires on the beach. I got to camp under tarps and see whales.

Then i gave it up. For my kids.

And now I miss it something fierce.

Vehicle Registration

In an actually relevant-to-this-blog post, the BattleWagon OG has registration again. It's been almost a year since it expired, and it's just been sitting, sadly full of junk and wasting away. So much work to be done, but it can be done. It just needs to be done. What better place than here? What better time than now?

The Busy Bee

My 8-year-old daughter is in third grade this year. Since school started, she has committed to a small role in Shrek, The Musical and playing for the kids roller derby team. I officiated a wedding last weekend, and she knew almost as many people as i did, here in this town where i grew up and spent more than half my life.

I hope she's never afraid of what she's building for herself here.

Star Wars as Religion

It's silly to believe in something that's written by people with no religious or spiritual background as fact. It's sillier when those people write for the purpose of gaining power. Still, it's okay to be silly if nobody gets hurt, yes? Enter Star Wars.

I'm not personally a believer in Star Wars. I do believe in The Force, but i believe The Force is like Qi (Chi), an invisible web of positive or negative energy that flows through everything and holds it all together. That's about all i take from it in practice.

In inspiration, however, there are stories of men and women fighting for noble causes, physically, mentally, morally, ethically, emotionally... battles against themselves, their friends, and their sworn enemies. The line between good and evil is much more clear than in, say, The Bible? It's okay to draw inspiration from these places. Whatever gives you the courage to face another day.

Musical Connection

My head does stupid things sometimes. The blockbuster animated film "Frozen" has a song in the soundtrack that sings about the north wind and what not called "All Is Found". Play it and then immediately play "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions. It's going to jack up your whole week.