I have to admit, I do enjoy standing out on my deck in a t-shirt and slippers on December 2nd, and not freezing my ass off... and not finding myself knee deep in snow. In fact, there is no snow. This isn't unprecedented; I remember some years ago video taping (yes, video taping) our yard on Christmas Eve, and not a single flake of snow to be seen.
As I've said before, each day that passes with no snow means winter is one day shorter. It could be way worse:
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| My backyard on this day in 2019. |
Better news still, in three weeks the days will start getting longer again. I think my vitamin regimen is helping, probably especially vitamin D, which makes me encouraged.
I've waited to go on my "health kick" until I got my lab results back. I got my blood drawn yesterday and things are exactly as I thought they'd be. High cholesterol, really high triglycerides. My fasting glucose is high, which has been the case for several years. So I've earned "pre-diabetic" to my list of titles. Not one I want... but like I said in my last post, I can do something about all of it.
Tonight we are kicking off the Christmas season by attending the Madrigal Dinner, produced by the high school choir. We attended last year and it was fun. It is a multi-course dinner with singing and a play, all Christmas-themed.
This is also a historic night in the music world. Tonight is KISS's final performance on their "End of the Road" tour. This tour saw 250 performances on five continents. We will get to a point in time when this kind of tour will be a thing of the past. Most bands today will only tour during the summer and they call a 20-date run of shows a "tour." They just don't make bands like KISS anymore.
KISS has been one of my favorite bands for about 49 years. I discovered them when I was five years old and I was obsessed from the beginning (around 1975). KISS's Destroyer was the first album I ever owned (my mother bought it for me) and I was Peter Criss for nearly every Halloween during my youth. There has been no other band like KISS and their live show remains unmatched by anyone.
I've been fortunate enough to see the band three times, twice with the original line-up and once with my kids nearly four years ago. The show was absolutely amazing.
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| We saw KISS's "End of the Road" tour in Grand Forks, ND, Feb 22, 2020. |
Now, do I think KISS will actually not perform live again? I'd say there's absolutely no chance they will hang it up for good. Even though this is a big "to do," and they are ending their careers where it all began (New York City), and this weekend has been a "KISS take-over" of the Big Apple, KISS has done this before. They went on a "Farewell Tour" way back in 2000. They swore that tour was it.
And they were back on the road a year later.
Performing live is a drug to these guys. They won't be able to stay away from the stage. The only thing that can keep them away is age and health.
But for tonight, I will pretend along with everyone else that their long, fantastic run is over.
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