If anyone happened to catch my post on Facebook the other day, I'm starting an at-home recording project. Everything was drastically reduced in price from the summer, so for the amount I got my original mixer, I got a larger mixer with effects built in, a mic and xlr cable, and a good pair of headphones. Nice thing is it can all be used at church on Sunday. I need one more cable to plug my iPod into the mixer and I'll have what I need. Not to do some research on the reading materials for my project.

The polish fest will start on Thursday and last through Sunday. Here are the pieces going into place.

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Then you see that the main rain has again gone by to the north and the south. This is also the case of Boyne Falls, where I am typing this morning. I know many will say, “But Jeff, look at that mass of rain to the west of you. Surely that will bring some relief?” Well as I have been watching it on the radar the heavier rain has been heading south and the weaker area is beginning to open up.

To see how we got into our drought, watch this video below put together by Nick Schwartz (aka Shaggy), a meteorological intern at our office.

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Walloon Lake and the boys

Enjoy!

Most times after midnights, I have trouble sleeping. I can feel tired by 10 pm, but by 330 am or 400 am. I’ll wake up and can’t get back to sleep. I often have to leave bed and find things to do around the house that won’t wake up the rest of the house, like type goofy blog posts about cold pizza.

So this round of mids was no different. The last two nights, I have awoken at 330am and can’t back to sleep. Tonight, I walked downstairs, wrote some in my journal, and got a piece of cold pizza.

I love cold pizza. I love a lot of left overs cold, but there is something about a good piece of cold pizza for the morning. Upon thinking about this, I have come up with the main reason for a great piece. I think it has to do with the quantity of the sauce.

To me, a great pizza has a balance of cheese, sauce, and other toppings, but for a great slice of cold pizza, the sauce must be there in sufficent force to give that slimy, wet, cold texture that my mouth craves in the wee hours of the morning. If there isn’t enough sauce, then the cheese and crust will make for a dry experience that will do no one  less than a stellar performance. So far, this BC Pizza Extra Large Extra Pepporoni we got with a coupon is one of the best. The cold sauce squishes out from beneath the cheese when you bite into it, unleashing the lubricant that allows your mouth to chew on it.

That’s one of the problems with cold pizza, the crust is cold and almost dry. I have been known to get a jar of Ragu Pizza Quick sauce, refirgerated of course, and dump it on the offending dry piece. While the cheese helps a bit, it is the sauce that makes the experience. I like BC’s seasoning in the sauce, so that is never an issue. The issue is always the quantity. I have had others, store bought self rising, too dry. Pizza Hut does a great job at quantity of sauce. Jet’s has had some good pieces too. However, nothing beats the one I’m having right now…

Here are the pictures of the Mothers from the Lutz and Watton families.

 

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Which brings me to why I was writing this post. I got on a web site called Radio Time that looks for local radio stations that stream and links to the streams. The great thing is that they have an app so that you can listen to the streams on your phone. So I now have presets to all sorts of radio stations from my past available to me. I have them from Grand Rapids, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and locally. Wow!