I met my daughter, Sarah, for lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, The Manito Tap House. Occasionally, we meet for a meal or coffee to catch up on the latest in her life. Sarah is young and busy so getting time with her is precious.
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Instead of rewriting all the good stuff below, I just blatantly stole it from frankzafiro.com, the website of Frank Zafiro, my writing partner. Not much of a grifter, when I announce to the world I stole it, huh? - Colin
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Over the third weekend of May, I attended Rock on the Range, a three-day rock festival in Columbus, Ohio. It was non-stop, hard rock at MAPFRE stadium, the home of the Columbus Crew, an MLS team. I’d traveled back to the show with a friend of mine who’d been to this annual show several times before.
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A couple years ago, I was working on a house project. The sun was out and the windows were open, letting a summer breeze drift through the room.
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The bar circuit in the late 70’s and early 80’s was something special.
Before the birth of MTV and the internet made music readily accessible and boringly safe, bands rolled into big cities and small towns across America to ply their trade. These musicians lived a fantasy many have only dreamed.
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Earlier this year, I wrote the post You Are What You Read in which I discussed the well-documented argument that successful people read.
I also talked about my reading plan: For every book I read for pleasure, I will read one book for education.
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There’s a famous computer coding concept known as GIGO – Garbage In / Garbage Out. If you put sloppy coding (information) into a computer, you will get equally or greater sloppy results.
The human brain is essentially a computer. It’s an easy concept to understand from there, right?
If we put bad stuff into our brains, then we’re going to get poor results out. Duh.
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