It's been a while since we last watched the X-Files.

Originally, we watched the series live, as it was broadcasts, beginning in 1993.  Episodes were broadcast on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern Time for the series' first three seasons; the following six seasons aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.  

This was must-see TV for us during these nine-years.

When JC was old enough, we revisited the series, watching on dvd. This would have begun somewhere about 2005, or slightly later by a year or two (at the most).

Since we completed that second run of viewing, X-Files has only really existed in our memories, with the exception of the two later seasons running January 24, 2016 to February 22, 2016 and January 3, 2018 to March 21, 2018.  These were Season's 10 and 11.

So, with some TV-Time available for the upcoming months, and nothing new really drawing us in, what better opportunity than revisiting old friends Scully, Mulder, Skinner, Cigarette Smoking Man, the Lone Gunman "Byers, Frohike, and Langly", Doggett and Reyes.

I will keep a log of episodes watched and progress, as we journey through over 200 episodes!  

August 3rd thru August 9th:

Overall / Season                    Title                                    Original Release Date                        

• Episode 1.18               Miracle Man                          March 18, 1994
• Episode 1.19               Shapes                           April 1, 1994
• Episode 1.20               Darkness Falls           April 15, 1994
• Episode 1.21               Tooms                           April 22, 1994
• Episode 1.22               Born Again                           April 29, 1994
• Episode 1.23               Roland                                   May 6, 1994
• Episode 1.24               The Erlenmeyer Flask           May 13, 1994
• Episode 2.01 (25)        Little Green Men                   September 16, 1994
• Episode 2.02 (26)        The Host                           September 23, 1994
• Episode 2.03 (27) Blood                                    September 30, 1994

Visit to Pop in Adams and Mom at Williamstown.

Continued with beginning hiking, again at Cowles, 1.8-miles. 

Warm day, 90's, but a nice 1.3-mile walk at Cowles Park. 

"High Points" along trails during November, 2025... 

• Laurel Hill - Wilcox Park, Bloomfield - Tarriffville, CT
• Sodom Mountain, Southwick, CT

Bands and Individual Artists completed discography.

Completed all albums by the following bands between January 2026 and June 30, 2026, with shortened discography exceptions noted:

• Aimee Mann & Til Tuesday

• Bardo Pond, 500 Mg, Hash Jar Tempo & Alumbrados

• Beverly

• Black Mountain

• Blondie

• Blue Orchids

• Blue Oyster Cult (through "Agents of Fortune", 1976)

• Butthole Surfers

• Crocodiles

• Crystal Stilts

• Captain Beefheart

• Canned Heat (through "Vintage", 1970)

• Clinic

• Comets on Fire

• Country Joe and the Fish

• Cramps

• The Damned (through "Anything", 1986)

• Darker My Love

• The Dead Boys

• Dead Meadow

• Dead Moon & Pierced Arrows

• Devo

• Donovan

• Echo and the Bunnymen

• The Fall

• Family

• Felt

• Galaxy 500

• Gang of Four

• Geese

• Graham Parker (through "Deepcut to Nowhere", 2001)

• Grand Funk

• Grant Hart

• House of All

• The Jam

• Jesus and Mary Chain

• Kustomized

• Led Zeppelin

• Lift to Experience

• Lorelle Meets the Obsolete

• Marine Girls

• John Martyn (through "Well Kept Secret", 1982)

• Dave Mason (through "Mariposa de Oro", 1978)

• Mazzy Star

• McCarthy

• Mink DeVille (Willy DeVille)

• Minor Threat

• Mission of Burma

• Moonrises

• Morgan Delt

• Motorhead (through "Orgasmatron", 1986)

• My Bloody Valentine

• Nova Mob

• The Only Ones & Peter Perritt (solo)

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

• The Paper Ornaments

• The Peoples Temple

• Pretenders

• Pretty Things

• Greg Sage

• The Saints (through "Nothing Is Straight in My House", 2005)

• Siouxie and the Banshees

• Six Organs of Admittance

• The Smiths

• The Stranglers (through "Feline", 1983)

• Sun City Girls

• Swell Maps

• Teardrop Explodes

• Thin Lizzy

• Doug Tuttle

• Velvet Underground

• Tom Waits

• Uriah Heep (through "High and Mighty", 1976)

• Van Cougar

• The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

• The Wipers

• Wolf People

• Warren Zevon

ArchaeoEd Podcast

Get ready to embark on a time-traveling adventure with legendary archaeologist, Dr. Ed Barnhart!

Let's unearth the stories of the awe-inspiring civilizations of the Americas. 

These are the tales that only get a fleeting mention in western history books.

ArchaeoEd, S5E2 "El Dorado - Fact or Fantasy?"

Episode 5.2 - "El Dorado - Fact or Fantasy? S5 E2" - ArchaeoEd

When it comes to lost ancient cities that everyone wants to find, El Dorado runs a close 2nd to Atlantis.  Did it really exist?  Join Ed as he tries to unravel 500 years of stories and expedition accounts.

The Marathon Archive

Blast from the Past...

On this day in 1996 I completed my 12th marathon.  

My route took me along the Appalachian Trail, from Salisbury, Connecticut into Massachusetts.  

My turnaround point was at the summit of Mt. Everett.    

My time on the trail was roughly 6:27:53, which included a break for a lunch at Everett.

It's been a while since we last watched the X-Files.

Originally, we watched the series live, as it was broadcasts, beginning in 1993.  Episodes were broadcast on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern Time for the series' first three seasons; the following six seasons aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.  

This was must-see TV for us during these nine-years.

When JC was old enough, we revisited the series, watching on dvd. This would have begun somewhere about 2005, or slightly later by a year or two (at the most).

Since we completed that second run of viewing, X-Files has only really existed in our memories, with the exception of the two later seasons running January 24, 2016 to February 22, 2016 and January 3, 2018 to March 21, 2018.  These were Season's 10 and 11.

So, with some TV-Time available for the upcoming months, and nothing new really drawing us in, what better opportunity than revisiting old friends Scully, Mulder, Skinner, Cigarette Smoking Man, the Lone Gunman "Byers, Frohike, and Langly", Doggett and Reyes.

I will keep a log of episodes watched and progress, as we journey through over 200 episodes!  

July 27th thru August 2nd:

Overall / Season                    Title                                    Original Release Date                        

• Episode 1.7                Ghost in the Machine            October 29, 1993
• Episode 1.8                 Ice                                        November 5, 1993
• Episode 1.9             Space                                   November 12, 1993
• Episode 1.10               Fallen Angel                         November 19, 1993
• Episode 1.11               Eve                                       December 10, 1993
• Episode 1.12             Fire                                       December 17, 1993
• Episode 1.13             Beyond the Sea                    January 7, 1994
• Episode 1.14             Gender Bender                     January 21 1994
• Episode 1.15             Lazarus                                 February 4, 1994
• Episode 1.16             Young at Heart                      February 11, 1994
• Episode 1.17             E.B.E.                                    February 18, 1994

Visit to see the Folks, and a stop at Balanced Rock State Park in Lanesboro on the drive home.

From our old friend Henry....

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, — or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”                        

                                    ― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walking

Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #19 for 2026...

"Comeback", Parker #17, Richard Stark (a/k/a Donald Westlake), published in 1997.

From a GoodReads Review:  "...After Butcher’s Moon (1974), which in a way seemed like a series-ending #16 Parker book, bringing together many characters from previous books, with a slam bang finish, Stark stopped writing Parker novels. His buddy Lawrence Block in his introduction tells us that Stark attempted various novels over the years, and they never worked. But get this: After 23 years he got an idea and it gradually came together, resulting in Comeback (1997)—yup, that’s the only acknowledgement that Parker had gone away at all! And he hasn’t aged a bit. And Stark would write seven more Parker books until his death."

Having been born in 1962, and liking and listening to music from the early sixties onward, I thought it might be fun to attempt a listing of my favorite albums each year since birth.

The initial post for this series of ideas began on December 26th, 2023.  You can look it up....

This time, I present my "Top Albums released in 1969, #41 through #50" 

... from that incredible Year in Music 1969!

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41 Steppenwolf                             At Your Birthday Party

42 King Crimson                             In the Court of the Crimson King

43 The Groundhogs                     Blues Obituary

44 Townes Van Zandt                     Townes Van Zandt

45 Moby Grape                             Moby Grape '69

46 Tim Buckley                             Happy Sad

47 Fairpoint Convention             Unhalfbricking

48 Janis Joplin                             I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!

49 Townes Van Zandt                     Our Mother the Mountain

50 Donovan                                     Barabajagal

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This Day in Marathon History...

Savoy General Store Marathon

July 28th, 2005 - Savoy, Massachusetts

Tippi and I ran the Savoy General Store Marathon.  

It was lengthy, over 29-miles I believe.  

From Haskins Road to the General Store, which brought us all the way over to Windsor Jambs, we had the company of "Max", a friendly dog we picked up at Loop & Haskins intersection. 

Tippi along the trails of Savoy, 2005.

Oddly, each time we came to an intersection on the trail, "Max" knew which way we were planning on turning (even though he lead).  He managed this for 9 - 10 miles.

Total for the day was roughly 29 - 30-miles in 6:17:52.  It was my 29th completed marathon, and Tippi's 3rd.  After finishing, I met Jane Phinney in the Savoy Town Offices;  she is the Savoy Town Clerk and is the author of  "Taking the High Road".

3.3-Miles at Bear Hole, 1-hr.

• Morgan Road
• Rapid Demise and Upper Rapid Demise
• Yogi
• Lyme Tyme
• Birds of Prey
• Wadchu
• Millville Road

It's been a while since we last watched the X-Files.

Originally, we watched the series live, as it was broadcasts, beginning in 1993.  Episodes were broadcast on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern Time for the series' first three seasons; the following six seasons aired on Sundays at 9:00 pm Eastern Time.  

This was must-see TV for us during these nine-years.

When JC was old enough, we revisited the series, watching on dvd. This would have begun somewhere about 2005, or slightly later by a year or two (at the most).

Since we completed that second run of viewing, X-Files has only really existed in our memories, with the exception of the two later seasons running January 24, 2016 to February 22, 2016 and January 3, 2018 to March 21, 2018.  These were Season's 10 and 11.

So, with some TV-Time available for the upcoming months, and nothing new really drawing us in, what better opportunity than revisiting old friends Scully, Mulder, Skinner, Cigarette Smoking Man, the Lone Gunman "Byers, Frohike, and Langly", Doggett and Reyes.

I will keep a log of episodes watched and progress, as we journey through over 200 episodes!  

July 20th thru July 26th:

Overall / Season                    Title                                    Original Release Date                        

• Episode 1.1                 Pilot                                      September 10, 1993
• Episode 1.2                 Deep Throat                         September 17, 1993
• Episode 1.3                 Squeeze                               September 24, 1993
• Episode 1.4                 Conduit                                 October 1, 1993
• Episode 1.5                 The Jersey Devil                   October 8, 1993
• Episode 1.6                 Shadows                               October 22, 1993

Visit with Mom and Pop today as well!