I apologize for the lack of updates, but I’ll try and give you the outline of recent events, personally and for the station. Since the apartment fire, life has been… stressful. There have been blessings in the chaos, mind you, but here’s the basics: After the apartment fire, we’ve been living temporary lives in temporary homes while our building was repaired. We have to be out of this current temporary place at the end of May, but when we called the owner of our apartment building to get an ETA on repairs, we were told they were repurposing the building, and we lost our home permanently. It was a real gut-punch, because we were left scrambling to find a new home.

It turns out that it’s darn near impossible to find an affordable rental in the winter in our area, and even more complicated if you have pets. I’m a die-hard animal lover, and we consider our pets to be part of our family, so we’re pretty unwilling to give them up. I won’t go into the miserable details, other than to say the past several months have been one gut-punch after the other. Over and over, my wife & I have had the rug pulled out from under us. My mental-health isn’t all that great at the best of times, and the past several months have been a downward spiral of anxiety and depression. Then the apocalypse happened, and it made our complicated situation infinitely more complex.

There have been blessings in the chaos, though. DylanRadio.com hasn’t changed our singular mission during this global calamity: KEEP BOB’S MUSIC PLAYING! YOU have been AMAZINGLY supportive during all this. In spite of the global economic situation, you’ve been very generous in your regular support of the station, as well as many of you helping my wife & my personal situation via GoFundMe. Among the recent blessings, we’ve also just been offered a new home last week. Papers are signed, and we’re set to move next month, but I’m not celebrating until we’re settled… we’ve just been screwed too many times lately for me to trust that it’s a sure-thing.

Unfortunately, there have also been hiccups here at the station because of COVID-19. DylanRadio is run though three separate systems at three separate locations, and we ran into problems at two of them. Due to to the economic downturn, our broadcast-server hosting company started shuttering a number services last month so we had to relocate that server. Then, last week the website was taken down by some automated monitoring system, and there were no support-staff on-site at the website-hosting company to help me bring it back up, and we were left scrambling for a couple days. I think we have all that sorted out now, and I’m hopeful that there will be no further interruptions.

So that’s a basic update on where we stand right now. I just can’t express how thankful I am for each & every one of you who tune in, spread the word, and support DylanRadio.com. More than that, the support we’ve received through your donations to our personal GoFundMe campaign has been the single greatest source of encouragement during this ongoing nightmare. I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve your constant encouragement, but there just aren’t enough thank-yous in the world to express my appreciation. You have been a lifeline through one of the most difficult periods of our lives, and I’m not ashamed to say you’ve moved me to tears repeatedly over the past number of months. This will pass… and I know we’ll all be stronger for it. Thank you for making my little homemade radio-station a part of your lives, and I hope the music continues to uplift you during this terrible global situation.