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Me too?! Things got busy. Happy Happy Birthday!!!!! <-----and I am sure the guys (if they all could at once) would also wish you well

A bit late in the game but I thought of you recently and wondered how it was going. I am glad to see things are on the mend.

Years ago I tried a film version with Helen Mirren. It was even more weird! Edit: When I logged in NoahLutz was the last entry here and it was weeks ago, so I replied regarding the Tempest. After I posted, the column of posts was longer.

BastillePark - my reaction may have come across as loud and opposing. I think I was going for a double speak thing, like somebody taking the time to post a sign about Hillbillies but being concerned about a condition they could not spell properly. So, how could anybody dare mock what they don't even know to be true. My humour is generally kept to myself, but I do make outbursts. Hope I didn't offend you.

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. I know, it's a children's book, but I was between books and looked through our shared Kindle library. Once I started I was completely drawn in to the absolute "niceness" and civility of the characters against hardship. And it came out around the time our house was built so it has a timely feel to it. Only a third way through - no spoilers please!

Up, up and away!

How dare you mock other folk!

I really like this. So many bands duplicate the RUSH sound and that's great. But simplifying down to a certain sound and still paying homage to a song, brilliant. It reminds me of when Neil passed away and Pershing's Own of the US Army band put out their version of Time Stand Still. It gets personal? Lovely, thank you JohnRogers

This looks toxic. What is happening?

I see folks commenting on politics and taxes and moving around the country to better suit them. Perhaps here is a place where I can comment: Canada, in all its ups and downs, is so reliant on the US that it's a bit embarrassing and you probably already knew that. But, reminder: our entire national population is similar to the state of California. We live in this vast expanse of land, fight forest fires, maintain roads and very long highways and subsidise communities all across a vast region, while hugging the border the entire way because we need that business. How much does snow clearing cost? Millions spent in each and every town and city just to pile it up somewhere else so the streets and sidewalks are somewhat manageable. And that's only because of our latitude. I won't get into national health care or dental plans now, but servicing this huge country with not a lot of people, yes, taxes are very high up here. Maybe that notion pissed me off today.

What a project that is! A few years back I attempted to scrape and re-paint our very old wood sided house. Built my own scaffolding for the two stories, heat gun with water hose close by, canister mask and gloves, heavy bags of leaded paint scrapings, it took weeks to do two sides until the wood became so bad it was mostly marine epoxy filling before priming. I gave up. We went with vinyl siding (but it's high end!) even though I always mocked it. It was a sad decision but we chose nice colours and had the window trim, roof fascias, vertical corner "posts" with aluminum (spell check wants me to type aluminium) and it turned out pretty good. Kept the soffit brackets even though a few estimates said it's not possible - but when the company that agreed with us said it could be done, we were very happy. It surprised me that using thick "contractor grade" bags, after shovelling in paint scrapings to about a third of the volume of the bag it was very, very heavy. What caught my attention here, goose, was your comment about being glad it wasn't your full time job (still teaching?). I so very much agree. Being a side project is well enough, but to have to contort and crawl and twist limbs to get into corners and such every day for a paycheck, yup, would not be a fun job. Could not pay me enough to do that on house after house. And the weather was such a big factor. Rain? Maybe for a few days? How long to let it dry? Is the fresh coat of primer or paint in full sun by the time you get going? Not a fun experience. I am sure it looks great now, are you happy with the results? Cheers :)

Just seeing this tonight and was away for a few weeks. I hope you are feeling better and comfortable. Maybe even kicked the darn thing?

Not sure if people are joking or not but I just went to my CDs and I have one. Cardboard wrap, middle fold is a plastic tray, CD is green with swirly-slinky artwork.

Six hundred thousand dollars? I assume that's a joke, I don't watch Conan but is that a typical exaggeration in his style of podcasting? And I really enjoyed hearing all the other bits about Jordan's knowledge of the band. We got an advanced hint of "there is a show in 1997 in Toronto...that we have yet to release..."

Listened to My Effin' Life on a recent road trip and Geddy had great things to say (Chapter 19). I thought about the changes in producers, the many albums the band made, how difficult some albums were to make. Sad to hear he has passed away. And reminded of what a huge family the RUSH Family was, and is.