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Ah, Saturday mornings with Roxy Music and coffee, we hardly knew ye.

So I've been sort of out of the loop on the site but trying to pop in a bit more often. I'll have time over the next two weeks since for the time being my hours at the radio station have been cut down a bit. A little surprising and a bit off-putting,...
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I have been away, yes indeed. Just been too busy perhaps, trying to figure out how I'm going to keep the cash flowing until September when I'm back into my ski reporting audio booth. I'm doing plenty of radio work now but with new ownership coming in who knows what will become of me. For those of you requesting recountings of my baseball PA work,...
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Still alive. Threw my new program director the monetary figure it would take to bring me back full-time as music director-Imus local producer-morning news dood. We'll see if they bite.

Thursday I officially begin my side-gig as a minor-league sports public address announcer. Better look over the roster for pronunciations, then?

All this going on and I find out after a Saturday night of good...
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Win number one for the Bosox moments ago. Things like that make WithoutTheFezOn happy. So does speaking in the third person, apparently.

Anyone ever notice Curt Schilling looks like Dave Coulier, sans mullet? I honestly don't care if he looks like Mike Wallace's ass, if he can get the win, I'm all for it.

The program director of our sister oldies station asked me if...
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So I had the camera crew in at 3am, taping me "waking up" several times. Then they followed me to work at interviewed two co-workers and I while catching shots of us "in action."

It won't air til next season. And funny enough, this is my last week of the season doing ski reports, so as of next Monday I'm off the company gravy trail...
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So while I'm the type that can be a few minutes late to work, I've always showed up at least. I'm a workaholic to a fault. But this morning both of my alarms completely failed me and because this Sunday only one other broadcaster worked (out of his home) nobody was around to call and wake me up. Even the few non-broadcast staffers on hand...
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Home was good this past weekend. Ate, drank, drank some more and had a chance to swing by Newbury Comics. We don't have that store up here and selectionwise it's hard to compare. I bought a Spooky Tooth CD, "Spooky Two" which I'm really getting into. The keyboardist and second lead singer of this band was none other than Gary Wright, long before his Dream...
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Chew on this while I'm away: "Stephen Stills and Manassas" is the ultimate great forgotten album by a Major Artist and the greatest representation of the Stills Groove.

Off to ski Wachusett Fri afternoon and visit the fam all weekend in Worcester. Beers will probably be consumed with certain family members. See you all back here on Sunday evening.

Y'know, I love boobs and I don't even enjoy Foghat all that much, due to my over-exposure to their music working at a classic rock station. I need to get my priorities straight! (I'll hand it to 'em though, that attempt to fuse the words to "Honey Hush" with the melody and riffs to "Train Kept a'Rollin" was a blues summit in itself )

Anyway,...
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I don't know what rocked more about Friday night.

Was it my fucked-up-ness, the most fucked up I've been in this calendar year? Nah.

Was it the AC/DC cover band I saw? Ehh, been there, done that.

Was it the raging drunk new secretary for the company who grabbed my hands, put them on her boobs and said "warm me up?"

Sorry, not even that....
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There's a bit of snow blowing around today but I don't expect it to stick. That's fine by me. As long as the nights are cold enough and there are enough 45 degree days through this month I'll have plenty of perfect ski days, like the one I had at Sunapee on Wednesday. A co-worker and I just kept ripping down the Blast-off trail trying...
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Another week wraps up and what a warm week it was. I squeezed in some bona fide spring skiing at Okemo VT, resplendent in just my usual Hot Chillys layer and fleece vest. And sunburn. I seem to get more sunburns in March skiing than I do anytime in summer doing anything outdoors. I don't consider myself much of a mogul skier but with soft...
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