{"id":573897068,"date":"2024-07-02T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T00:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573897068"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T21:45:17","slug":"what-a-big-screen-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/07\/02\/what-a-big-screen-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"What a big screen we have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, the only problem is that I&#8217;m tired. I&#8217;ve had a mild cause of symptoms of most everything that you&#8217;ll find listed with sinusitis. Oddly, each comes and goes. What troubled me last night was fine this morning. And something else comes along to be the day&#8217;s first mild ache or pain &#8212; always underlined with a cough, which is, usually, italicized by the gentlest sniffle I&#8217;ve ever encountered. <\/p>\n<p>Always, when my sinus decide to bother me it&#8217;s days of not being able to breathe. This time, thankfully, that&#8217;s not been an issue, which is odd. And oddly welcome. <\/p>\n<p>The biggest thing is just the fatigue. Nothing like a bit of seasonal doldrums in the middle of the summer. <\/p>\n<p>The weather is nice. Nice and warm. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july24\/july01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Meaning it was a good evening to try our new setup. Projector, screen, sports.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july24\/july02.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for the Tour, the Olympics and maybe some late night old movies, too.<\/p>\n<p>Set up was easy. We&#8217;ll improve our storing technique in time. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of bike riding, here&#8217;s my little chart of miles through the first half of the year. Really flattened out the last two weeks, huh?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july24\/graphic01.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the next few days I&#8217;ll have a lot of riding to do to make up for it, whatever that means. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerscuba.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick clip from our dive in Cozumel a couple of weeks ago. I&#8217;ve got five more clips to put here after this ray, which you can see up close. The trick is to be behind the group you&#8217;re diving with, watching which way the critter is going and take a good angle to arrive at the same place.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x91gwi6\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" allowfullscreen title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" > <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In our next video we&#8217;ll see a flounder! It&#8217;ll be great!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannermusic.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It is time to return to 2005 and the Re-Listening project. You&#8217;ll recall that I&#8217;ve been listening to all of my old CDs in the order of their acquisition. You get to read all about it, because I&#8217;m padding the site with some music and, usually, stir up a memory or two. Though there are no strong memories attached to these records, which were library pickups for me. <\/p>\n<p>The first one was the BoDeans debut &#8220;Love &#038; Hope &#038; Sex &#038; Dreams,&#8221; which T-Bone Burnett produced. It was simple and big, the start of something big for the roots rockers from Wisconsin. Most of us learned about them from the later &#8220;Closer to Free&#8221; or &#8220;Good Things,&#8221; but this is where it started. And if you put this on, in 1986, it would have been a stylistic revelation. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdfxMUbUL74?si=ggU5kI9-sF0Cve9E\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The third track has always been one of my favorites. The interplay between Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas works so well. And it&#8217;d do so for a long time, until suddenly it didn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3emZmuTBhDQ?si=97Jec4EvnGWFHZZX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One more quick one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gtoo3ALijag?si=JjKCV7_6gLPYwvkq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OK, one more and, remember, this is 1986. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mGpfMaiLWRE?si=CCrIPzkRtAoQZPEm\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the good news is, there&#8217;s a sweaty bottle out there with your name on it. <a href=\"https:\/\/bodeans.com\/tour-dates\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The BoDeans are touring the U.S. right now<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The next addition was also a library grab &#8212; probably I got it on the same day. It was Sister Hazel&#8217;s fifth album, &#8220;Lift,&#8221; from 2004. Consistent sound from the band, though I think I&#8217;d generally had my fill by then. I found a few tracks on here I liked, but mostly I was pleased it was a library find. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rUlQJCe3hKc?si=x9uU5ircjrOAA9ua\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a small, smoky venue of nuevo Florida Keys, as heard in Gainseville, for the rest of us. There&#8217;s nothing at all wrong with that, if it is for you. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g3ZASGNYbd0?si=jUpFnOhkBA07SPp_\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But for their terrific earlier success, they could be the best cover band in America. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MD5ybKQbidY?si=caiqT2hfpnHRfxtq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sisterhazelmerch.com\/pages\/tour\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And Sister Hazel is on tour right now<\/a>, as well. And the next time I make you sit through my old music, we&#8217;ll be playing a few standards and classics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, the only problem is that I&#8217;m tired. I&#8217;ve had a mild cause of symptoms of most everything that you&#8217;ll find listed with sinusitis. Oddly, each comes and goes. What troubled me last night was fine this morning. 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