Frozen Echo Plays On October 26th, 2024

Frozen Echo Plays On October 26th, 2024

On October 26th, 2024 Frozen Echo played at the Chapman Mills Community Building in front of invited family and friends. As the regular bass player for the band, I set up several video cameras to capture the event. As I write this, I’ve posted three videos from...

Video from Our New Orleans Trip

Joanne and I went on a trip in our trailer to New Orleans where we met up with our good friends, Kelly and Joe. The full story will appear on masterofleisure.com, but in the meantime I wanted to make available the videos that we took on that trip. Here they are....
Band Lineup Change

Band Lineup Change

Shades of Grey has changed its lineup. Our former lead singer wanted to join a metal band. She stayed on until we were able to find replacements, and we have! Kelly and Joe have joined the band and you can read all about it on my Master of Leisure site.
Shades of Grey Lives On!

Shades of Grey Lives On!

The band, Shades of Grey, finished out its “term” with the League of Rock. Read more about the experience and our future plans at Shades of Grey Lives On! at my Master of Leisure site.
I’ve Joined a Band!

I’ve Joined a Band!

Well, I’ve joined a band! I hadn’t played bass in about thirty years when I started playing again. It was a visit to a colleague who played guitar. When he heard that I used to play bass guitar, he insisted that I bring it with me. We had a blast jamming...

Graduation Crisis

Sometimes, you focus so much on a goal that you don’t think much beyond that goal. For me, I had known for so long that I wanted to be an electrical engineer that I never really thought about what came after graduation. Oh yes, then there’s the story about RIM… High...

Why I Became an Engineer

I knew in Grade 3 that I wanted to be an electrical engineer. My father had introduced me to building balsa-wood model airplanes that you could fly with a model engine. To start those engines, you needed one heck of a big battery. It was essentially a massive D-cell...

Emailified is a Great Email List!

As many of you know, I’ve pretty much just started setting up several web sites, listed on my front page. I was intrigued when Randy Cassingham, author of the hilarious, weekly (and free!) This is True email list, mentioned that he was starting a new email list and...

HP-29C Calculator Returned to Life

Way back in the fall of 1977, I began my studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I decided to upgrade my calculator to the new HP-29C, a second-generation HP calculator with continuous memory. Earlier calculators in the first generation of HP...

We’re Finally Renovating!

For many years now, this site has consisted of a very plain, simple, static web page stating that we’re just getting started on this website. Back in about November of 2015, I boldly stated that I’d make significant progress in early 2016. Well, we’re finally...