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Time to get  through another labor day weekend!

Happy Labor Day Data Report Info users!,

Labor Day is a public holiday  held in honor of working people,

I'm a masker in public. On a regular basis, I would like to see more safety maskers out there and a world where a lot of people can work from home when possible. I am in support of public masking and taking health precautions against contagious airborne illnesses in this day and age.

Here is a mini concert from the safety of my home to encourage others to try to stay safe  at home and be creative sharing with one another the things they love online...

Here's my Happy Labor Day Weekend mini concert!

Blues Groovin in C
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rcMJqj3YlgJ_M-dMTYCTAyQLlrRom-Fe/view?usp=share_link

Groovin NewOrleans In B Flat:
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qyCcfsSrNWdF1WetDcKEcRmTwUlmnLZT/view?usp=share_link

Groovin Fast Swing In G
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BYh0SBXuU1db13paXbltA_GkqvPTsPm4/view?usp=share_link

Later,
Richard/Masked Man

Hi, I am a masker in public and outdoors and like to dedicate my next couple performances to those that support their loved ones when it comes to masking and taking extra precautions to prevent viruses and living most comfortable because I never get sick and haven't gotten sick in over five years probably because of my masking and precautions.

My loved one and I walked several times masked of course on our street this week for health and then we danced in doors and we played music instruments. I am very fortunate to have a loved one who is of the same mind as me when it comes to staying safe. I am hoping by sharing online my experiences with taking precautions in this forum and some of the loves of my life such as music that those of you who also mask and take precautions against viruses feel as good as I do. I had a great week doing the things I love and being safe having taken precautions such as masking so I celebrate by jamming on my electric guitar for you.

I hope you are able to enjoy the things you love like walking and playing music and etc. and still be safe like me and my loved one as we continue to mask these days.

I like creating, writing, and jamming online in my room or house sharing online rather than in person. To me it just rocks. Its more personal doing things online. I love living this masked way of life sharing music and things I like online rather than face to face or at a mass gathering. To me people are just being socially needy when they have to go out shopping or celebrating in a mass gathering .. I'd rather see them share something online of themself that is creative or makes them individually happy.. I'm not much of a party guy..I like having good time at home playing it safe..  I'm more myself at home anyway...
So here's me enjoying my life ...Here's my latest stay safe at home weekend online music performances...

Groove And Vibe With Some Chicago Blues In F

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c7kXSUrSjkPsosXT3OApzYzpZqLllG9Q/view?usp=sharing

Groove And Vibe With Some Funk In B flat

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EjObzSY42Mj1SjNF6UsMU-dax-9s4h53/view?usp=sharing

I love life,
The Masked Man

Another 'weekend  stay safe  at home/mask in public, play in private concert'! ..an electric guitar blues & Swing festival of sorts...As usual my little concert is to inspire people to stay at home, play it safe, and mask in public.

Try to find happiness and bliss doing things you love. In this day and age its possible to be creative, seek education and arts and music and share ideas online so here are some online bedroom concerts of me having the time of my life doing what I love, living the dream, namely; jamming out on electric guitar!

Telecaster Blues In E
Video LINK::
https://drive.google.com/file/d/109mZRyzzECK93TJ7AGGNG8a4asbiPxQ4/view?usp=sharing

Telecaster Blues In A
Video LINK::
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e8AJlZ39ufzKlp9Y3xVWlH40jPUR8_fs/view?usp=sharing

Rocking T bone Shuffle In G:
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VD3LOzrH_2dL9vj8wH6niGq6HL7bfjmR/view?usp=sharing

Rocking Super Fast Swing In G
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P3KEdlw5eX3gPU3mcxy2fk-UkFAluBta/view?usp=sharing

triple shot of blues that sting
Video LINK(about 20 minutes long):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJxif3HCoeqytTts3qJIOjRYzV28BwLg/view?usp=sharing

Doing Some Fast Swing In G on Strat
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZRdV4ms4zaYQUVn0w4uuaWE6G2fFtfe8/view?usp=sharing

Have a great weekend and hope you enjoy me jamming out for ya.

Stay safe and correspond and share from safety of your home remotely online!

Music soothes the savage beast,
Richard/The Masked Man

So my local sheriff once put an end to some horrible after football game party/raves/drunken riots that were occurring at one house on my otherwise very quiet street and so I became friends with sheriff and he is fan of my music and also knows about my masked way of life.. I send him my little online music concerts every holiday because I know the sheriff plays piano in his spare time to relax.

So Sheriff writes me to warn me of the chaos created by upcoming gatherings and festivals:

"Dear Masked Man
Ready for winter?  Lots of beans in the jar.

Take care - don’t forget this weekend is:

• Final “Art in the Park” - Blowing Rock
• AppState Homecoming - ASU vs. Coastal Carolina
• Valle Crucis “Valle Country Fair”
• Wooly Worm Festival
• X series race in Wilkesboro (Speedway)
• Leaf Lookers

Total traffic nightmare/gridlock.

Play that mean guitar and stay in with plenty of snacks and food (cause you and the rest of us are going nowhere)!

Later, my friend.

**n **g**n, Sheriff
W*tauga County, NC"

Masked Man writes back to sheriff:
"The only time I touch a wooly worm is to place it aside  so I can chop wood as seen in this video!
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z9GttP5Q8vt0uJKQ9Q5RIqPNacnLYtSg/view

The only time I look at leaves is when I have to pull them outta my gutters! lol
Masked Man sings Up On The Roof and Cleans His Gutters Music Video:
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N-q1vg7VRbpkM4KKeNBw5XhXDZ4yk8vZ/view

I tell the sheriff to be careful ..I tell him about an N95 mask that has an exhale valve that might be of benefit to him and his team

Then I write him about how I got started on guitar and give him a little classical guitar concert:

"My electric guitar stuff is actually a relatively new endeavor that really only began when the pandemic first broke out around 2020 ..

Originally I started out as a classical guitarist. I love the classical guitar because it sounds good all by itself.. Beethoven called the classical guitar a miniature orchestra.. I dare say if it weren't for the classical guitar women probably wouldn't take me in and support me like they have...lol.. all walks of life tends to love the classical guitar. In the past Ive tested this out and hands down all people tend to love the sound of classical guitar

Let's see if I can still play classical guitar.. I'm rusty but I'll just play through about 12 minutes or so of mistakes"

Let's try to play some classical guitar
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13RkyB_5C962vTyrKfHbAwwdTGAEhy8Po/view?usp=sharing

Hope Data Report and company enjoys me fumbling through some classical guitar music,
Best Wishes,
Richard/The Masked Man

P.S. its great to be able to reach out to one another and share friendship and music safely online!

Its Saturday night. On Friday, my loved one just returned from a local doctor routine yearly exam/ checkup.
Everything looks good! My loved one and I masked up as usual for this event.
We've been masking publicly since 2020, My loved one is 77 soon to be 78 years old and hasn't had a single airborne illness since 2020.

Nothing spells airborne illness/disease exposure like a visit to the doctor's office and waiting room. Its nasty and stupid. I hear somebody painfully coughing their head off in the waiting room..except for us, everybody is completely maskless in waiting room and receptionists who share writing utensils with undiagnosed patients are exposing themselves. Fortunately our doctor masked for us and I told a nurse or two we preferred them to mask and they did...

...anyway we all know the hypocrisy of maskless healthcare world that takes an oath to protect one another from illnesses.. contagious airborne illnesses... we all know the countless stories about people getting sick from where sick people gather to get diagnosed and treated for various illnesses. The chances of getting exposed to someone with an airborne illness is more than likely in a doctor's office or hospital than most anywhere.

Simply wondering if the very chair you or your loved ones are sitting is was inhabited by a very ill person is terrorizing enough much less listening to their coughing in the waiting room or having to walk through a narrow so-called healthcare hallway with gauntlet of maskless people such as a big bearded delivery guy at the reception window  or to feel the draft of those walk by who have worked hands on with sick people is terrifying to us masked patients seeking a mere doctor checkup. To walk past her old maskless disheveled doctor that had a awkward smile on his ghost -like face in the hallway while in our masks was bizarre and risky. It's no wonder we used a newer doctor that showed more  willingness to mask.  We masked were smarter and safer than them all. It was even weird to see the nurse who just cared for us maskless amongst the maskless in the receptionists area. Very precarious indeed. The maskless are like ghosts..it just feels like the maskless people's days are numbered and eventually, sooner or later, the contagions will whittle them down like long covid has done to this society.

Its not the same as it was when I was growing up as a child nothing rivals the challenges we face today in the present...my habitat my environment is not the same as it was in days of old..new microscopic entities are at play..  Covid and long covid is not finished and has many more victims. Variants still forming still mutating ..covid and its outbreaks simply havent ceased and many airborne illnesses that were almost eradicated have reestablished themselves to our dismay amongst are high speed globe trotting peers and amidst climate change. Even nonhuman animals are affected with these afflictions.. Given these facts and figures I embrace and chose the mask to protect me as it definitely is  a smart day and age not to take chances and definitely smart to mask and chose not to breathe in microscopic entities in this day and age.

I would have expected more for me the Masked Man and a masked 77 year old woman for a mere doctor checkup. I made sure all those who breathed or touched us masked for us but this is shocking the I should have to be their instructor considering the facts and figures available to us all about airborne illnesses including the insidious nature of covid and the reign of long covid.

Anyway my heart goes out to the masked people and masked ones who are my heroes  that have to work or live with people that go maskless in pubic and it's like torture to have to be around anyone who needlessly exposes themselves to viruses given the fact that many virus's carry long term health repercussions that diminish the quality of life for themselves and others later on down the road.

I will celebrate in advance with a little electric guitar music that my loved one and I were masked for the doctor's visit and we probably didn't get  any germs or contract a virus despite obviously a person was having respiratory symptoms in the waiting room and obviously people with covid and other illnesses are asymptomatic for awhile. I am only assuming we are both safe  because we were masked (washed clothes , took off our masks and showered when we got home and had made the doctors and nurses mask before working with us directly). We likely prevented airborne illness that we were needlessly exposed to in the waiting room or from contact with dirty surfaces.

Anyway it would have been a lot more pleasant if everyone took the preventative measures we took as one never knows for sure they haven't gotten an airborne disease from an exposure even though we wore our masks and did our part to protect them.. others didn't even try to protect us...I really resent being exposed to a virus from a bunch of dare I say sick morons coughing and sputtering in a doctor's office that don't have masks on...I really resent the nurse that gives me any signs they might be reluctant to mask for me and my loved one who stand before them already masked... that's sheer terror for me.. it makes sense to be scared of viruses.. and its not fair others don't protect themselves...I certainly don't want to take care of people who don't protect themselves and get sick...  You really have keep that mask snug and secure, carry a lot of disinfectant and defend yourself. It's tough but you can do it!

Time to celebrate the mask that probably saved our life from "Friday's doctor office exposure to illness day"...

Here's some music and here's to those of you that wear a mask to save lives! Keep up the good fight masked crusaders! Those who use and wear the safety mask are my heroes! There's not enough of you! 

Wailing Out Some Zany Dixieland in C Take 2
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rWa87T6ZgejZURABdOui3GC8QDmTxb2H/view?usp=sharing

Here's yet more of me playing in the spur of the moment in front of ya:
When The Saints Go Marching In F
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-bzI2yR2uSjWIN8B4oG_DCfakb-x09ni/view?usp=sharing

Let’s play some more while I am at it.. music soothes the savage beast and I hope you find and get wrapped up in your dreams because a lot of crap and hurt is going on in these hard times… I shall call this
Counterpointlike on Margie... I am not familiar with this jazz melody or at least I can't remember how its main melody goes and don't feel like acquainting myself with its main melody so I'll just make something up and term this improvisational stuff of mine Counterpointlike:

Counterpointlike on Margie
Video LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MOa1E75Qt__LCVZobaktGOEuTeE0eztr/view?usp=sharing

I Can’t go out onto that big stage or play or create some unruly gathering .. that’s not my cup of tea in these hard times for the world .. I’d rather ncoyrage others hang back playing from the safety of home online.. I’d rather play for those who are safe and sound in their homes , dens , and rooms .. I’d rather play for you!  

Here’s an audio mp3 (not a video) of me trying my hand at some

Jazz For A Smoothie in C7

Audio MP3 LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jxCw3rud0N1Xigqszt7xqhSoBkfQMhIX/view?usp=sharing


Be safe, take precautions, Mask in public and still be happy and lead satisfying fulfilling lives like me, & Keep on Rocking' Data Report Users!
Richard/The Masked Man

P.S. Just a note on this endeavor to stay safe.. It ain't easy! Its not a perfect situation whatsoever... The cats just peed upstairs in the wrong place .. I am far from perfect. I get lazy with other things in my life. I have given up many conveniences. I can't just have people over to help fix things I don't really keep up with all maintenance because of the threat and very real possibility of catching covid or another airborne illness. It can be very traumatic attempting to live free from viruses. I definitely make sacrifices to stay safer and many people probably hate me for that and that's okay. There is fear, anger, frustration, and resentment involved in this gamut naturally.  Ya can't have everything all the time you, he, she, and they want it.. Its definitely not an easy task to stay safe... I definitely respect and commend those who are attempting to try to stay safe.



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For Veterans Day


Many years ago I played this on the first classical guitar CD I ever made and dedicated the piece to my grandfather a WW2 Vet when he passed away , I semi-arranged this piece ; that is I stuck some extra' in-between notes' into it .

To honor veterans I perform

Goin' Home from Dvořák's New World Symphony (classical guitar)
LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19IX5Uu6HUpp4QRQHenz20fQMDAhVQKt7/view?usp=sharing


Be safe, if you must go out wear an n95 mask, otherwise stay home brothers and sisters, share what you love, what interests you, and always try to work out problems and even your feelings remotely and creatively online!

The Masked Man

Been a rough week of worrying mostly. Let's just admit it, Holidays can be rough.

Mostly stressed out by things I have to do ..gotta get  X-ray for loved one at hospital soon(we mask but its still stressful worrying others there don't take enough precautions)... car's not up to date with everything.. worried about catching viruses at hospital but we will be masked.. but I tell ya it's just darn scary when others aren't as careful. Just seems like the world is struggling and we sense it.

Today In December I saw a short video of Data Report and I thought he came down with illness today https://youtube.com/shorts/6EZ6tU49D2w?si=5IHHuUk3pd7JXXRX
...Now I realize that was in November but just thinking Data Report was sick today was super hard too and added to my stress! I went through a couple days thinking yet another good soul was ill... Glad he's okay!

I slept all day.. just woke up grumpy and worried about everything and everybody. Wind blew all day gusts up to 50 Mph cold! Brrrrr.. but no trees fell on anything and the shingle I worked on recently up on the roof didn't fly away. whew so I should be grateful!

Masked Woman's Gall bladder stones acted up for awhile but she's okay now and soon she is having operations. It's just scary. I'm worried about her catching something at the hospital. We are doing are best to communicate our needs.

I laid there on bed with loved one until she felt better from gall bladder stone. Whew we all have days and challenges and my troubles are very few compared to others. I got through the day. Fed the cats and dogs..learned I can play checkers online from my phone for relaxation and I rehearsed a little in my mind how surgery trip will go and how I will try to envision myself not so nervous.

Sometimes everyone probably feels like there's never enough time..these are the normal up's and downs I suppose.. Anyway it could be much worse for me..a lot of people face far worse.. I should be thankful and let's pick up that guitar and play! and since I am well, let's try to do a weekend performance just to decompress or reduce stress or whatever... I just want everybody to be safe this holiday..That's all I want for Christmas...

It feels like its been awhile since Ive jammed ...might be rusty...  so here's goes nothing... Let's try a little hopping Blues In A

Hopping Blues In A
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OmsoUOsv0cIrgMc6igjfppZzSk1VFItq/view?usp=sharing



As usual I dedicate my little music video  performances to the caregivers out there and to those seemingly rare individuals that try to stay safe at home and out of the limelight...
Be safe, if you must go out wear an n95 mask, otherwise stay home brothers and sisters.
I stay at home and jam from my bedroom for ya hoping you will share what you love, what interests you, and always try to work out problems and even your feelings remotely and creatively online!

Later my friends,
The Masked Man


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This is my ‘Pandemic’ guitar…

Funk Blues In E flat Hendrixy on 5 dollar First Act Guitar ..
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Mdt-V3dVvCBOz6kOWDkN5PcyOfwgak2/view?usp=sharing

Let's try to keep rockin...
Heavy Blues In A Flat
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SFDn_n9xf_rt6ceqa0XNPx0wsYXynqcL/view?usp=sharing

Then ya got your
Brokenheart Blues In E flat
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ouKsQ8JY46x3ELg2waSHZzMKar-e8DHK/view?usp=sharing

Gotta keep the beat with (Masked Woman Sneaking up at end of my Performance -Masked Woman & I Faithfully Mask in public)
Heavy Funk Blues In E flat
VIDEO LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BTI0RXw1Ei7Y9HCVkBZT8gkk1JNIOy0m/view?usp=sharing

...That guitar in my video reminds me of 2020 and the first time I started masking and why I choose a healthy masked way of life...

…This is my five dollar electric guitar from a second hand store!    Get a load of this.. I Bought a little guitar part for it: a tone control unit/knob for it in 2020 remembering that day we were at some bakery wrapping something up with the business owner because we had a farmers market bakery and were dealing with the bakery...

…I remember the Bakery lady’s kid was sick supposedly with a tic disease but there was something in the back of my mind that simply suspected the lady might be lying..

I don’t know why I thought she might be lying maybe she was behaving oddly and maybe she may have not known herself and maybe her kid had some sort of flu and then across the street was a music store. I remember thinking “I'll just stand far away from the guy in the music store when I buy this little 7 dollar guitar part because covid was just hitting China big time and maybe it was rumored to enter my country in the USA ..

All I know is that day something inside my gut instinct said “F this! I don’t like this feeling of no control .. I wanna take control and I don’t wanna get sick” … I’m gonna wear a Mask! I’m not going to be a submissive victim! I’m not just going to let people make me sick with this new weird disease!

So that day was the last store I ever went inside to buy anything ever in about six years and I’ve been masking for six years ever since.

Something in me said “I just can’t live like that! I can’t live wondering if I’m gonna get sick every time the others are getting sick..I have a loved one who is older than me.. I don’t wanna them to get sick either.. what if this new disease has long term repercussions? I thought to myself.. it just ain’t worth risking” …  and so from that day forward  Ive been a masker.

I used to have asthma/allergies and had to receive treatments as a child.. I don't have amnesia about that experience I had living with a respiratory illness therefore I chose to mask to prevent reliving anything like that asthma & allergies that I used to have. After that childhood ordeal of living with a respiratory problems, seems quite reasonable and natural for a man of my experience to mask up to prevent prospective respiratory viruses such as covid as well as all airborne illness and airborne diseases....

...I actually wear a mask because I am a hedonist that seeks a life of pleasure. You see since the mask actually decreases risks and decreases actual illnesses it also helps negate the  pain, discomfort, and suffering illness (including chronic illness) bring. Since illness and chance of illness is reduced this in turn reduces anxiety which is also important for sense of wellbeing, therefore the mask enhances the pleasures in my life by negating many pains and even worries in life. So I wear a mask because it negates many ills, pains, and anxiety allowing me to live with the most pleasures possible.

I don’t miss public gatherings or standing in lines shopping for things I could simply have delivered to me.. I don’t miss going out at all not one bit. We order everything in advance and in bulk.. it’s a much better life been doing this and masking for six years now and it’s awesome!

… funny how I never forget that last day I was unmasked and how I never wanna be that helpless or weak again ever .. and how I decided to never put myself in that position again.. . For me the day I chose to mask was like taking matter into my own hands..It is my right to defend myself& it was like most of society was a cult mostly maskless members just willing to be complacent about a virus..I didn't like the weakness, the helplessness  and that inability for people to defend themselves that I was seeing in the maskless people...To me it was like maskless people weren't willing to put up fight to even defend themselves.. I'm not like. I'm different. I wanted to rebel and fight with everything possible against catching covid for I knew in my heart it would carry long term repercussions to catch this virus. It was like a a cult that I had to break away and say NO! THIS IS MY BODY I will protect it as I see fit  with a mask even if that's not popular with others! I will not just allow a virus into my life when others are! I'm not going to pretend everything will be okay and I am going to make efforts not to catch the virus.. it was then I decided to mask.  I haven't caught covid and have been masking ever since! I am glad I haven't caught covid and don't have to worry as much about the long term repercussions of catching a novel disease. It feels good to be a masker! Nice ‘n’ safe!

Having gotten into the habit of always publicly masking is like not being an alcoholic or being hooked on drugs in a sense because you aren’t a slave to illness. You wake up knowing you aren’t sick and don’t have to pursue treatments or more drugs… Masking is even like living off the grid in that a masked person doesn't have to deal with the crud a maskless person has to. When covid era hit it was a good incentive to mask and it stuck with me ,,again it really boils down to having discipline and control..The Mask allows me to control whether I get sick or not in this world. 

The Masked Man is off the illness grid! These illnesses, the money , the time and the treatments add up for many of us..it can knock you out financially overnight being sick... we'd don't get paid back for getting sick. Being sick will put you in debt and in the poor house or even onto the streets. Some of us can't afford to miss a week or two of anything.

Not too mention who wants to deal with risks of long term repercussions or deal with an illness on top of preexisting illnesses or problems we already have? You got a little problem and then get covid or pneumonia on top of that you might not even live. It's just easier to mask rather than worry. Then if you have a loved one .. you don't want them infected as I am sure they have enough problems as we all do...I'd never sleep if I didn't mask with all the crud going down nowadays.

Not only do I mask for myself I also am masking for others so I don't make my loved ones sick. I am a caregiver to person who is 77 and I don't think she deserves any contagious illnesses whatsoever..we have everything we need like indoor pets, music, dancing, food, masked walks outdoors... I'm  pretty happy with the health we have.. I just wanna maintain it.

…Masking  makes me stronger and more independent that way.. masking just frees you of perils and troubles .. For me masking is a powerful tool and it’s really helped me dodge a lot of unhealthy problems others have not been so lucky to dodge.

Anyway I am well & I always get a thrill rocking out for ya online!
Keep On Rocking!

The Masked Man

P.S.
Be safe, if you must go out wear an n95 mask, otherwise stay home brothers and sisters.
I prefer to stay at home and jam from my bedroom for ya hoping you will share what you love, what interests you, and always try to work out problems and even your feelings remotely and creatively online!

...and I nominate the Nobel Peace prize go to inventor of N95 mask! photo attached...After all these years you were and you are right ..haven't been sick in six years of N95 masking..thanks brother, for protecting me, my loved ones and my hedonistic lifestyle with your life saving  scientifically proven invention; the mighty empowering apparatus that filters out the particles of the problem... some tools just stand up to the test of time.