Kat & I bought tickets for DZ Like Father, Like Son tour in the late fall (11/29), I read an article that he is using a stripped down band like Frank did at times and is exploring the unique versions of songs that it produced.

It reminds me of how different YCDTOSA Vol.2 compared to Roxy and Elsewhere and other smaller ensembles I have heard in his many live releases verses larger bands.

The Band is DZ Guitar / Scheila Gonzalez – saxophone, flute, keyboards, harmonica, vocals / Kurt Morgan – bass, vocals / Ryan Brown – drums, percussion, vocals / Adam Minkoff – vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, flute, recorder, mandolin.

It's in San Francisco on a Sunday were are going with H-Dog & E and plan on spending the weekend and hitting a museum or 2.

We are getting rooms in Fishermen's Warf so we have to do dinner at Scoma's Restaurant on the pier.

Something to look forward too, we haven't had Ye Ol' Pirate Ship out for a cruise in a while... 🏴‍☠️⛵⚓

Enjoy yourself Plook!

I'm throroughly enjoying the start of the weekend with some great music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0GRWYks8o&list=RDja0GR...

Kat and I are working on setting up the backyard for summer, it is quite the chore we have a lot of stuff need to go get the deck furniture out of storage.

Kat ordered new patio furniture the old set is about 8 years old and is pretty weathered all though it still looks good enough to sell, I would even be willing to give it to someone in need be we will see how it plays out.

Been a bit sickly with the same issues as 2 years ago of which I'll spare you the details - and BF was such a total sweetheart he adopted a seal for me! She's called Bonsai.

https://www.zeehondencentrum.nl/en/how-to-help-2/adopt-a-sea...

https://www.instagram.com/zeehondencentrum/reel/DZHmOR8t2Cd/

Hope you are feeling better soon

Take care of yourself Bonny...

Looks like there's been a major security issue with PHPBB - the forum software Zappa.com used and that is still used widely for whatever forums are sstill left - where anyone can log in as any user without the use of a password. This forum uses XMB, so it's not affected.

Bonny your hack proof...

It's 18 June the weather is hot hot hot. As we are still in mourning over the loss of the finest Dutch artist, Ernie and Very Important Zappa Spreader Wim T. Schippers, I binge watch on some of his less frequently consumed work. Especially now that the Schatkamer is released.

I'm also bingeing on courses, both during low times at work (this week alone First Aid, mindmapping and women's health), and at home with the aid of the Schatkamer.

My oldest daughter, my faux daughter Kel and sister a lot of their research centers on women's health issues, our knucklehead president and his henchmen when cutting last year used primer words to shut down research which in included the words "Women," "Female," "Women's health," "Pregnant person," and "Pregnant people".

Also anything to do with diversity, inclusion, gender, identity, demographics, underrepresented, trauma, transgender, sexual orientation...etc.

Due to that so much research was stopped, many very successful studies, until they realized they stopped critical cancer research and others that were delivering hopeful results for a wide variety of diseases they had to scramble to put everything back which was not completely successful.

It's easy to break stuff but very difficult to fix it...

We've been having a whole slew of annoy all of a sudden. '
It's still very hot. My bedroom is on the south side and has large windows, making it very very hot every summer, because the indows that open are very tiny, cooling down is hardly effective.

Dad had finally, bought a ne washing machine, and as he is no longer in the shape he used to be, he arranged with the company to have the old washing machine on the 2nd floor (3rd for Americans) removed.
It was a lot of work - our staircase is winding and on the 1st floor hallway, we have a rack where we store 500+ vinyls, which had to be moved into my bedroom. Additionally we had to clean and clear everything.

So today they came to deliver the new washing machine. But they refused to pick the old one up. After a call with the customer service (2 calls and in total 1,5 hours of waiting) they've rescheduled for tomorrow.

The old washing machine was picked up, yay, the new one works fine. The weather became insanely hot the past few days - even 39 Celsius on Friday.
I'd decided to go to BF this weekend, which meant that on that very hot day, after work, I had to go home, then back to the city centre to go the train station, then go on the Long Long train ride.

After work I was feeling fresh and coping OK, halfway I stopped at the supermarket for additional cooling and ice creams for DED. When I got home, the heat got to me, I ate some bread as cooking was beyond our capabilities with the heat, then I went. The way to the station was so hot that I had gotten overheated by the time I made it - at least two people asked me if I was OK and if they could get me some water. I declined as I had a bottle with me.

On the way to Utrecht, the first leg, I didnt't manage to cool down enough in the airconditioned but far from cool train. At the station there, again I was asked if I was OK. I bought some water there and somehow made the long trip to Heerenveen - and there it was still hot with 35 degrees.

BF didn't arrive - after ten minutes I checked my phone and saw he had texted me that there were road construction works and that he was going to be late. Anyway, 30 minutes of baking later, he picked me up.

We tried to cool me down with a foot bath, which was fun, but I decided to take a shower.
There the hot water didn't work - so it became a very cold shower.

Had a good night's sleep in the end and went again to my precious baby seals. <3 The people who work there, already recognise us, which is cute. Rafael, one of the volunteers who spoke to us a lot earlier, was there, we had a chat, and he did a livestream. Which has, among others, BF and me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ATgjonyMs

Great video Bonny and and I watched most of it!

On the video, Raphael briefly mentions that there were intakes that day, but he didn't go into it. We did see both intakes - the public massively going awwwww as the baby seal was first taken out of the box said a lot - the second seal was unfortunately too poorly. The poor thing was teensy tiny, and very skinny. At the intake they do the first feeding, a force feeding of salmon porridge where they put a sillicone hose through their oesophagus - we could see the hose in his stomach from the outside. He couldn't even keep his food in. I doubt he'll make it, poor lad.

The rest of the weekend we basically tried to stay cool, and now that we have 20-25 degrees celsius, things are getting better. Hopefully my room's cooled down nicely.

My room was baking hot, but we managed to cool it down sufficiently.

About two weeks ago a green metal garden bench had suddenly appeared on our driveway. We reported it on the Whatsapp group and found a lot of things had gone missing in the neighborhood - one missed a flower pot with a young pine, but got a different flower pot in return - which turned out to be our flower pot which had gone missing (but we hadn't noticed yet).
We had the bench in our front yard for two weeks, ut nobody came to collect it, and nobody responded to the WhatsApp or Dad's Facebook call.

So yesterday DED went into detective mode and found, with the aid of Google Streetview, the house with the bench. I went there twice, nobody answered the door, so I left them a postcard, and later that evening they came to chat and to take it back.

Bonny your a detective now!

Concerning those transposed items Bonny, somebody in your town obviously has a very weird sense of humour.

I haven't been by for a while, I hope everybody's well.

I've been trying to get my music thing back into full swing. I quit the London Zappa Collective, which was perfectly amicable, I'll still be getting some solo gigs through the club where they're based and will probably do a couple of guest spots with them in December in this year’s Zappadan Zappajam in Acton.

I learned a hell of a lot playing with them, but it was reaching the point where my main thing was losing way and it was gong to start holding me back. Nonetheless a very worthwhile experience. I've started being able to compose again and my next album is back on the front burner. One of the other good things about the LZC experience is that I've been coming up with lots of ideas for the Zappa tribute album I've been working on as well.

Also looking forward to our, now annual, summer holiday coming up soon.

Good to hear you're getting your mojo back!

Looking forward to meeting you again!

I'll be visiting BF this weekend, hope he can come to The Hague. There's a direct train line for him but it's a 2hr ride from there. I hope DED can come as well, he basically has The Hague GPS and knows all the best places.

Had a visit to BF, got sic (but got home in time) and ended up with hours of couch time watching Star Trek films.

Wow Geoff, if you remember Julie's question from last year, Den Bosch had 6km of wall circumference back in the middle ages.
I found out by accident when I re-watched the video I made when I went with VJL as blind guide dog to help out at the guided boat tour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHx8GtSUhs
(click on subtitles, then on Settings > Subtitled > Dutch (auto generated) to set to auto translate to English. )