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We're starting a week earlier this year so everyone has a week to listen to the Best Filk/Classic Filk songs, rather than two days. The Wednesday of OVFF we will play songs from albums coming out at the con, and that have come out recently.

If you have music being released that weekend, please let me know.

October 1 - Hero Songs - Villain Songs
October 8 - Writer/Composer - Best Performer
October 15 - Best Classic Filk Song - Best Filk Song
October 22 - New Releases

Bryan Baker, Dandelion Wine, Roberta Rogow, Linda Short, Gary McGath, Boogie Knights, Duras Sisters, Bedlam Bards, Summer Russell, Technical Difficulties, Heather Dale, Three Weird Sisters, Nathaniel Johnstone, The Scrap Merchants

Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.

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Actually pretty good. The last couple of months I have had back problems which are almost entirely resolved. I had to sleep semi-sitting up on the recliner for a month or so. Laying down caused a lot of pain.

I am slowly coming back to playing guitar. My hands are doing very well. I don't have my speed up, nor my calluses where I want them yet, but I'm getting there.

My lungs are good, I mean really good. I am not as worried this winter about them. Doesn't mean that I am taking too many chances, but less stress is good.

And of course there is the whole thing with us asking for some help, and our friends taking that as a dare. The response helped us immensely and gave us a piece of mind that we have not had in a couple of years. I can never be able to properly express my thanks.

The Shifting City project keeps, well, shifting. I am still looking for the point of view for the lyrics. I am on story line #4 now. Three of them are connected and the direction I am going seems promising. I have all this music, I need words.

FilkCast is done for the year. We put together a month of just music shows and they are already uploaded and scheduled so we have 5 weeks off. Our intention is to get a lot more done with our music in that time.

My weight is a problem, I am the heaviest I have ever been. I still can't get around well, but now that the holidays are over a lot of the temptation is gone. Back to no soda, no chocolate, no fast food, a lot less sugar and simpler snacky things.

Having the trike at the end of the summer helped a lot, but I need something with a more powerful engine. I can still only do so much of the pedaling myself, and not having pedal assist means that even the slightest inclines become difficult if not impossible. We do have a place nearby where I can go several miles with no real struggle. I want spring to get here so I can get back to that.

The new car is ridiculous. We're slowly digging into what that screen does. It came with a few months of Sirius radio, so Lizzie has been listening to nothing but Christmas music since we got it. We were listening to the pop Xmas channel and became the musical MST3K. We've spent several evenings wandering around town looking at Christmas lights. It's our favorite thing to do this time of year.

It gets amazing gas mileage, we can't wait to take it on the road to see what it gets there. Once again, we would not have had the means to be able to do this if it wasn't for the help from our friends.

Our passports expired in 2019, not too long after we got back from England. We sent off the renewals yesterday. That means that FKO is a definite possibility. We need to see our friends.

We're still not dealing with people well. 14 months of isolation did both of us a lot of damage, physically and mentally. Hopefully there will be a couple of road trips and a couple more cons in 2024.

Speaking of which, who will be in Indianapolis for the eclipse? Talk has gone around about there being filk happening somewhere. There are a lot of filkers in the area, and since Lizzie's family lives there, it's where we're going to see the eclipse.

This ended up a lot longer than I thought. If you got this far, say hi, I need to hear from people. I do feel isolated sometimes. Not as badly as I did, but we really don't go much of anywhere, especially with it being so hard for me to get around. We are heading to Winter SACC in a few hours, see some local friends, play some music. We intend to drop in on the 24 Hour New Years Filk tomorrow.

This year has been hard, but it is ending well. Now to make next year better.

We hit a milestone this morning. 50,000 DLs on FilkCast.

I didn’t expect this to fly. I figured there would be a few episodes, and then gone. I did not expect 215 episodes, 50k DLs, and that does not include SciFi.Radio listens.

We’re coming up on 5 years. The November 8th show will be fun, our celebration of that time.

Thank you everyone for your continuing support.

The Microphone Misfitz, Adam Stemple, Random Fractions, Beth Kinderman And The Player Characters, Dave Stagner, Orckes And Trolles, Cheshire Moon, CW Smith, Bryan Baker, Michael Nixon

Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.

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I got the phone call from the cardiologist’s office late last week. They wanted to get me set up for the stress test. The woman on the phone was very funny. She said that the doctor may decided to do something else, but they wanted to get me in as early as possible just in case. If the doctor decides to go another direction, they can cancel it.

Another reason why I like my current health system better than the last. My last doctor would have waited for me to have the heart attack, and then done something. Never anything preventative.

The bad side of this is that the stress test isn’t until mid May. So I have a month and a half to worry.

The first bill from the ER visit hit last week. Hit is the right word, it’s a lot. I called yesterday to see about starting a payment plan, and the very nice person I talked to said that I should wait. There was still a smaller part of the bill out to insurance, and the bill for the follow up with my doctor. Neither of those will be much, but it is so unusual to hear anyone say “hang on and do this later” when it comes to bills.

Music continues, slowly. My calluses are nonexistent. I have a month to do something about that. We’re playing more, and feeling better about it.

We have been rearranging gear. Lizzie’s pedalboard had become too small, so she grabbed my old board and is using that. The sounds she can get out of the fiddle are amazing. I have a small acoustic board, just a volume pedal, a tuner, a reverb and my usual preamp/DI. I’m also putting together an electric board. I want to get back to using the effects. There is so much gear in our house.

My voice is almost back to normal, I may actually be on FilkCast this week.

I’m tired today. I took yesterday off, had a mental health day. It helped a lot.

We have shenanigans planned this weekend. Rehearsal for some stuff at Demicon. Then a few quiet weekends, then Demicon. Oh, and we’re hosting a Steve Goodie house concert near the end of the month. That is always fun.

So better, but still dodgy.

Red sand between my toes!

Carolyn Brown, Julia Ecklar, Stan Clardy, Stone Dragons, Dr Stephen M Baird, The Birdwatchers, Mary Ellen Wessels, Gunnar Madsen, Sunnie Larsen, Anne & Mike Whitaker, Daniel Kelly, Roberta Rogow, Dandelion Wine, Moldy Filters, Karen Linsley And Lloyd Landa, and 19 Action News

Available on iTunes, Google Play and most other places you can get podcasts. We can be heard Wednesday at 6am and 9pm Central on scifi.radio.

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It was looking for awhile like I was losing listeners. I have a target number that I like to reach, 100, and I had been below that for quite a few weeks. Being the pessimist that I am inclined to be, that was a little disheartening.

A few episodes ago, I had a whopping 254 total listens, 126 the week before that, 171 the week before that. Listeners were catching up.

In the last 90 days, I have had about a third of all my listens. It’s kinda amazing.

I hit 100 for the most recent show in a week, it usually takes two. The numbers keep creeping up on past shows.

Filk is not a huge community, I was hoping for 25-50 on the first show. 274 people have listened to it.

I had someone tell me the other day that they bought music because they heard it on the show. That is what I wanted. I wanted to support the community that has been so good to me.

Thank you for the support. Thank you to everyone who has commented, left a review on iTunes (you can do that ya’know) and otherwise kept me going through this.

Thank you to the amazing Lizzie Crowe for laughing at me while I record. No one else will ever hear the outtakes. Trust me, it gets grim (in a wildly silly way)

Two more episodes of Pegasus Awards songs, then a New To Me This Year show … then the First Anniversary show. I’m coming up on a year. I really didn’t know if it was going to last. I didn’t know if I would do more than the first show. Instead, this seems to be working. Thank you so much for listening.

It will feature Via Bella, Beth Kinderman and the Player Characters, Night Watch Paradox, Metricula, Blake Hodgetts, The Boogie Knights, and Heather Dale.

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