{"id":35337,"date":"2026-06-11T07:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35337"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:52:48","slug":"dont-tell-me-ive-nothing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/dont-tell-me-ive-nothing-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Tell Me I&#8217;ve Nothing To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother just &#8220;retired&#8221; with veteran&#8217;s benefits and disability, so I asked him on the third day of his retirement if he was making tick marks on his wall.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned counting flowers on the wall, and I asked him &#8220;Gatlin brothers or that other guy who is twenty or thirty years ago now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking of Eric Heatherly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M9f7uhZcbfQ?si=o9fFpU8B202G8jS7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, gentle reader: Before you ACKSHUALLY me (the semi-modern PDWL!), I have remembered via researching this post that it was the Statler Brothers who did it first.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6DmeR9a6ig?si=AUt4f72usyNG9BQ0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ai, they were both old when I was young (Eric Heatherly notwithstanding).<\/p>\n<p>But when Sue F. came to visit us in our trailer in 1985&#8230;.  I am pretty sure she said the bass Statler brother looked like an alcoholic, and I said he just looked fat.  And then I swallowed the echo of my words, because she was overweight.  Forty years later, I might be one, I might be both, or I might be neither.  <\/p>\n<p>But, no, the Gatlin brothers did not do that song.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re keeping track: Note that in 2000, I was listening to country and oldies.  It would be decades before I got into metal, but a little less before I got into jazz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother just &#8220;retired&#8221; with veteran&#8217;s benefits and disability, so I asked him on the third day of his retirement if he was making tick marks on his wall. He mentioned counting flowers on the wall, and I asked him &#8220;Gatlin brothers or that other guy who is twenty or thirty years ago now?&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35340,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337\/revisions\/35340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}