What happens AFTER Dark Side of the Moon

This was written Wednesday morning and for some reason never got published 

I woke up this morning with dozens of these tiny hawks at my bird feeder - so weird! 

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I was in SUNNY and warm Madison yesterday (remember sun?) visiting MadCity Music and came across a remastered Pink Floyd album I had never seen before . . WHAT?  

I'm looking at it and it's Wish You Were Here   Well . I've seen Wish You Were Here and that is not the cover.  Is this a boot leg? What's up??   

THIS is the cover of Wish You Were Here. 

  WELL - I was mistaken.  

I purchased the album and the outside is black plastic covering the album cover.  Highly controversial  for Columbia Records (cuts into profits) which is fitting as the album is about how record companies screw artists!   

The two people on the cover were stuntmen.  The dude on fire is wearing protective stuff . . . .  HOWEVER - The first photo attempt was actually reversed as the dude on fire did not account for wind and the flames burned off his moustache.   

This is the first album AFTER Dark side and the entire problem with creating this album, which was the band favorite album, was that it was . . . . .  the first album after Dark Side.  

The drummer Nick Mason was going through divorce, they had no real ideas and here they were, 4 guys with the largest selling album in the world,  now rich beyond their wildest dreams and more woman than you can count.   It was what Olympic gold medalists go through.  They have achieved their lifelong dream . . . now what. 

After a few weeks in the studio of drinking, smoking and playing word games things started to coalesce and out popped their second #1 album and the largest pre-sales of a record in history. It was the #1 album for 20 weeks.   

So large was the demand that retailers were told they would only get 50% of their orders. 

The entire album was written by Roger Waters (we still have tickets for a Roger Waters concert next August hopefully) and the band said it was torture creating this amazing work of art.

Pink Floyd went from being a band that had 4 albums that were in the 60sh range in sales to 8 albums being #3 at worst and four  #1. 

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Speaking of albums  

HEY -  you know what is hard to find?  Peter Gabriel albums!  We watched a concert a few nights ago and I had forgotten how awesome his music is. 

A little ditty from the band 

https://youtu.be/evN6DIGPIJM

Nuff said

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So - there was some sort of voting last night and the result was never really in question. I had my 2 calculators out and was crunching numbers watching TV (Like I did when I was 6 . . I still do it it seems) and while the talking heads could not say anything you can really tell the story behind the stories by body language.

You know that during commercial breaks the heads are asking real questions and getting answers they can't tell you yet.  Every person was sitting up straight and cheery but not saying anything. 

Meanwhile my calculator is telling me that here are 200,000 votes and 80% of those are blue votes which means 160,000 blue and 40,000 red . . . . add those to the totals and . . . blue wins.   

I went to bed about 11:30 and "we" were behind but I knew with 99% positivity that I would wake up and "we" would be at least 5000 to 7000 ahead. 

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remember what Lindsey Graham tweeted in 2016

"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed . . . . . and we will deserve it."  

Yup - when Trump entered office Republicans owned the House, Senate AND White House - now they don't own a thing.  I said Trump would be the death of the "Republican" Party.  Took a little longer than I expected but . . . .   

So we saw what happened but I did not think about my cannabis stocks which are up 12-17% today. And of course my newest toy, Bitcoin, is still climbing.  I'm waiting for my Bitcoin debit card ( a real thing with 4% back on all purchases).  

JPMorgan said "long-term"  a Bitcoin could be in the 146,000 range.  LONG TERM!!  meaning more than a year!  Bitcoin is taking the place of gold it seems as the sure thing . . . I have no clue how THAT works.   

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and yes - I am attempting fanduel golf!  In case you were going to ask!      
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SAGBRAW is coming to Columbus -a really fun bike adventure where hundreds of REALLY hungry riders eat an entire town. 

• Wed. Aug. 11th - Green Lake to Columbus
• Thu. Aug. 12th - Layover day in Columbus
  • This day's ride features an optional tour of the Trek bicycle factory in Waterloo!
• Fri. Aug. 13th - Columbus to Wisconsin Dells

 I've been on this ride a few times - probably staying at Fireman's Park. Will they be allowed to shower at the High School?  

SAGBRAW
The Spectacular Annual Great Bike Ride Around Wisconsin

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