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Froggy Bottom Lounge
Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself
Glad you made it!
I’ve been looking for a new mouse…what do you think of this one?
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from yesterday)
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Hah! Got here first.
Run through the Jungle – Creedance Clearwater Revival
Reludio Y Festejo – Inti-Illimani
Don’t Try So Hard – Little Feat
No Long Journey Home – Cowboy Junkies
Devil in the Kitchen – Ashley MacIsaac
Burning Down The House – Talking Heads
Gold Rush Brides – 10,000 Maniacs
Lhiannan Shee – Mediæval Bæbes
Dirty Little Religion – Warren Zevon
Powerhouse – Don Byron
lol, how early did you prep that list?
You know I’m an anal-retentive obsessive with a slight problem with being overly competitive — by how much do you think I cheated?
You’ve had that waiting since last week, haven’t you?
Not that bad — just since Wednesday.
I love Keb Mo (he’s also the only person on your list that I have but then again I haven’t heard of half of them).
That’s a pretty bluegrassy-influenced list I got this week…but then again, maybe they always are.
You have some interesting stuff in your list too. Where’s Jim’s? I have a feeling I’d like to borrow his iPod! 🙂
Jim’s ice skating — which is where his list came from last week not the full library (which we both share) but a playlist for ice skating to.
I definitely like that list.
We are working on separating our library into mom and boys lists, now that mister 13-year-old has a mini pod.
Sorry no list this week. I was listening to geeky podcasts: Quirks and Quarks, and Leo Laporte.
jf
Then yours should be a ‘Wednesday Random 10’, eh? 😉
How about the ‘Planning for Friday Random 10’?
OK, that works too! I’m easy… 🙂
Was gonna give you a “2” for cheatin’…but w/ CCR as a lead off I couldn’t do it…:{)
Good stuff on there!
/Peace?
Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash
Masquerade – Berlin
Never My Love – The Fifth Dimension
Another One Bites The Dust – Queen
I’ve Got The World On A String – Frank Sinatra
Keep It Comin’ Love – KC & The Sunshine Band
Riders On The Storm – The Doors
This Is The Right Time – Lisa Stansfield
Rock Lobster – The B52s
Gods Of War – Def Leppard
We play this game every Friday from mp3 files. If you have them and want to join in, set your player to random play/shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up, no skipping around. And hey, if you see something you like on someone else’s list, support the site and click through from the Booman Tribune on one of the links to iTunes to purchase that song!
Whatchoo guys got?
Eurotrash Girl: Cracker/Leftover Salmon version
Prohibition has done me wrong: Jorma Kaukonen
One more song the radio won’t like: Kathleen Edwards
Another Day: The Heartbeats Rhythm Quartet
Too Soon: eastmountainsouth
Shady Jam: Garcia and Grisman
Always Late: Garcia and Grisman
Excuse Me: Cake
Hand it Over: Keb’ Mo’
Lonestar: Norah Jones
A kiss to build a dream on….Louis Armstrong
x-ray style……………….Joe Strummer/Mescaleros
Brushfire Fairytales……….Jack Johnson
Song for the dumped………..Ben Folds Five
My oh My………………….David Gray
Father and Son…………….Leigh Nash
Glory Bound……………….Martin Sexton
Man on the Moon……………REM
Send me on my Way………….Rusted Root
Moses: Journey…………….Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone
I have Rusted Root, too! Love that song, it’s so happy.
Me too! It brings back memories of my biker guy friends dancing in school buses while making dinner at music festivals…
Joe Strummer/Mescaleros…sigh.
and Martin Sexton…you are too cool, SN!
Only courtesy of my cool teenagers. I’d still be stuck on Dan Fogelberg if it wasn’t for them dragging me into the present music-wise.
I keep thinking we should add Friday random 10 lists to the iTunes link as a playlist you can buy…what do you think?
Being completely ignorant as to how iTunes works (I am on dialup and won’t d/l songs until I switch to high-speed later this year), I will defer to your authority on the matter and do whatever you tell me to do.
with me, since half my stuff is ripped from CDs and never shows up on an iTunes iMix.
I do have a “Boo Too!” playlist ready to put into iMix form, if I can find out how to get an URL for people to click and see (and purchase on the BooLink).
Yikes, I understood roughly half of that. I only know the generic language, like rip, but have no clue what iMix means.
I really think it would be super if someone with a better grip on how the whole thing works could figure a way to use the Friday Random 10 threads as a mechanism of helping us all support the site, though. What was in my head when I posted about it was just clicking through from the site to buy individual tunes that people might like — it’s often easier to get folks to drop a dollar than drop $10 — but admittedly, I don’t know if this is technologically feasible because I lack a complete understanding of the click-through tech, and my iTunes-stupidity is categorical.
I emailed Susan about it.
(iTMS) has a feature called “iMix” — people can submit playlists they’ve come up with on their iTunes, iTMS will run them through and any songs that are available through the iTMS will be listed; people can look at the list and buy any songs that they like. Sort of a word of mouth advertising. Unfortunately you have to install iTunes for it to work, but iTunes is really easy to use so I don’t mind that (and I already had it on the iBook anyway). Not sure how you get a URL (Internet address) for other people to see it though, like Darcy did…
Land of Hope and Dreams (live): Bruce Springsteen
Put on thy Sark on Munday: Ron McFarlane
Little Birdie: Joy Williams
When Your House is not a Home: Patsy Cline
Irish Jig 4 Steps: Stuart Liddell
Last Dance: Donna Summer
Home Again: Carol King
The Entertainer: Billy Joel
Heartbreak Hotel: Elvis Presley
Trouble: Shawn Colvin
Hitchin’ A Ride – Green Day
1000x – Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band
Stop Breaking Down – The White Stripes
Slopes – Strength in Numbers
Ojo – Leo Kottke
Lost Cause – Beck
John Henry – Tommy Jarrell
Paddy Won’t You Drink Some Cider – Bruce Molsky
My Funny Valentine – Miles Davis
Sleight of Hand – Pearl Jam
All men! Boooo.
Leo Kottke! I got the new Leo and Mike Gordon cd for Christmas…I love it.
Jorma, Dawg, Garcia type. I heartily approve. I have this cassette tape labeled “Top of the Tangent” from 1963 in Palo Alto where Jerry and friends play only bluegrass standards, and Jerry plays only three-finger banjo. (No pun intended, heh.)
One stoned weekend at Brown University listening to that thing over and over changed my life.
Bluegrass is my secret musical love…I was just eyeing up the lineup for Merlefest today…first festival of the season!
Never made it to the big one. I have to content myself with Telluride and RockyGrass. There was an amazing old-time (my true musical love) music festival near Paonia, CO two years ago, but sadly it hasn’t resurfaced. Someday I’ll have to endure the NC or WV summer heat to attend a real hoedown.
Merlesfest’s has so many stages, and everyone plays in all these amazing combinations…I wound up pulling out a highlighter to map out the schedule for the weekend!
Telluride is quite the nice festival too. We went in 1994…and my younger boy was born 9 months later!
I’m toying with the idea of Rockygrass (or maybe FolksFestival?) this year, just for something different.
have gotten a lot more popular, but still have a good small-time feel to them. Plus, if it’s hot the kids can spend all day splashing in the St. Vrain river–mine does.
Telluride got too big for its britches a while ago, in my opinion. I went for eight straight years but have lapsed. Forgive me, Bela!
If you do decide to come to Lyons, we and our guest bedroom would welcome the CabinFolk…
My son went to Merlefest last year, it’s just a hop, skip and jump away from here. I went to see Doc Watson at the art museum last summer and he was so cool (and old!)
Now I’m envious! 🙂
I haven’t seen Doc in a while…and he was old then.
then I think you’d like these guys Yonder Mountain String Band
They packed the Fargo Theatre last fall.
And I ain’t seen such a ruckus in Fargo for decades… Crowd was 90% 20-30 yr-olds, I was amazed, didn’t think the whippersnappers had it in’m… that’s when I decided there’s still some hope folks…
They’re good. I haven’t seen them yet, though. Ans that Fargo Theater looks fun…when did you say the BooTrib B&B would be open for visitors? 😉
I was going to show off and mention that the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival was held for years up the road from me and was revived (unlike poor dead Bill) in 2002 but since I hate crowds I’ve never been and thus actually have nothing to show off about.
when did you say the BooTrib B&B would be open for visitors?”
Funny thing, seriously, I was just thinking about the prospect of that earlier today.
The “ND BooTrib B&B” is out in the boonies, some 1-1/2 hr from Fargo. So we’d have to hit the Fargo Theatre
coming or going. (And today you can’t get here from there, due to road conditions.)
We’d probably have to wait until the green grass time of year. Indoor housing accommodations are limited, but camping spots are virtually unlimited. And I think I saw where you were a tenting enthusiast, so we’re set.
If’n it was just a few to several stray BooTribbers, I could probably mix you into the crowd scheduled for June 10.
That group is pretty much die-hard lefties anyway, with a few wingnut/well-meaning R relatives thrown in for entertainment, (you know, sort of like a cat with a mouse, when the cat ain’t hungry enough to chow down immediately.)
Now, should this wild-assed brainstorm turn into some sort of BooTrib “convention”, then we’d have to reassess the whole situation, appoint a tour director (Cabin Girl), who would do the logistical analyses required, and report back with the actual numbers, etc.
BTW, we’d reserve rooms at the Hotel Donaldson for your first night in town. The HoDo lounge is about as cool as Fargo gets.
Oh, you might want to remind me to check all this out with MS NDD… ah…just prior to locking in the final plans…
Hmmm…that sounds like a fun idea…and Hotel Donaldson looks like a wonderful place to stay too!
is a veritable institution here in their hometown. Anything that gets the kids to listen to real instruments is fine with me, and I’m fascinated how they successfully attract the Phish-heads as well as the old-time folks.
Tonight was a tough choice between Yonder’s show in Denver and Rose Hill Drive performing Zeppelin here in Boulder…we chose the latter.
Oooh, have fun! (And I’ll let you know if we decide to do Lyons this year…)
There’s another one for us — Leo. ‘Pamela Brown’ is my favorite (well, actually favorite after his version of Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring).
Pamela Brown will always remind me of my frst boyfriend…
That one is Kottke’s most sublime ever. I’m playing it in cubespace right now. Another good thing about Leo is that–if you avoid his vocal numbers–you can play it pretty loud and your neighbors won’t complain, they’ll just smile.
Since I work at home and have no neighbors, this is one worry that never comes up (unless I play that something that the dogs object to).
From my “Mostly Instrumental” playlist —
Title (Composer if/when known) — Artist/Ensemble (Album)
Falling In The Garden (unknown) — Ray Lynch (Deep Breakfast)
Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein (J.S. Bach) — Peter Hurford (Great Organ Works)
Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1 (Chopin) — Unknown (KDFC Islands of Sanity) [1]
Trio in D (Johan Ludwig Krebs) — Gwen Adams (Organ Works of Johan Ludwig Krebs)[2]
Violin Sonata #5 in F: Spring (Beethoven) — Takako Nishizaki, Jenö Jandó (KDFC Islands of Sanity 3)
Concerto for 2 Horns, Strings and Continuo in F, R. 539: II. Larghetto (Vivaldi) — Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (Vivaldi: Adagios)
Aria (Charles Callahan) — James Welch (Instrument of Peace)
Tuxedo Junction (Julian Dash) — John Williams (Swing, Swing, Swing)
Divertimento, K. 287: III. Menuetto (Mozart) — David Blum & English Chamber Orchestra (Mozart: Serenades and Divertimenti)
Andante from Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64 (Mendelssohn) — Unknown (KDFC Islands of Sanity)
Notes:
[1] Local classical station KDFC puts out a CD of classical pieces every year, with proceeds going to music education in the Bay Area; the first year they didn’t identify the performers, but the past two years they have.
[2] This is a rarity CD — it was a limited edition put out by the former organist of my church, who was a big fan of Johann Ludwig Krebs, who lived from 1713 to 1780 in Germany, was a student of J.S. Bach’s, and wrote piano, organ and choral music.
Well, you DID say you wanted random pieces…
Charles Callahan Aria — mmm. I like Charles Callahan. I didn’t know we could randomly pick from a specific playlist. Next week!
We’re not supposed to use playlists unless there’s a theme going on — Cali cheats. 😉
A woman after my own heart.
That happened to be the playlist that was playing when I logged on…okay, here’s from my “Non-Podcast Library”:
Some Kind of Wonderful — Grand Funk Railroad
Mama Told Me Not to Come — Three Dog Night
Love Her Madly — The Doors
Seasons: Petit Adagio (Glazunov) — Moscow Symphony
The Best of My Love — The Eagles
Real Men — Joe Jackson
Fight Fiercely, Harvard — Tom Lehrer
That’s the Way I Always Heard It Should Be — Carly Simon
Couch Potato — Weird Al Yankovic
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/A Day in the Life — The Beatles
Okay, is that random enough for you, dear? 😉
That’s more like it! All is forgiven. 🙂
AbacusScribe, you know I’m just teasin’ ya, right? I’m not very big on strict adherence to rules. Most of them are merely meant to function as guidelines, in my view, with the spirit being more important than the letter. 🙂
picked out your new puppy yet?
sigh
since it won’t be mine, I don’t get to pick. But fortunately my whole family has the same taste in dogs — big and friendly. (Except my mother who is afraid of dogs “unless they have nice eyes”). It will probably be a pound puppy, might as well save a life. Frankly I’d rather get a dog that was not a puppy. Puppy’s are cute but dogs are really fun when they hit about 1.
All our dogs (six so far) have either been dumped or have been from the humane society. They’ve been puppies, not puppies, big, small, recognizable mixes of breeds, and even the vet won’t guess but the one thing that they’ve all had in common is that they have all been dogs with great personalities — I’m a great believer in rescuing dogs.
But then, that’s sort of the point, isn’t it?
I don’t have an iPod — I move things back and forth to my Palm Pilot, which has a great MP3 playing program called Pocket Tunes — so I wrote a little app that pulls ten files out of my MP3 collection at random:
Bela Fleck — J.S. Bach, Two Part Invention #6
Blind Lemon Jefferson — Hot Dogs
Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters — John Brown’s Dream
Pueri Cantores Children’s Choir — Ihr Kinderlein kommet
Tom Paxton — Ride My Bike
Jelly Roll Morton — Jelly Roll Blues
Da Vinci’s Notebook — Jump In The Line
Brave Combo — Habanera Rock
Lovin’ Spoonful — Summer in the City
Worm Quartet — Eskimo Pie Is Not Pie And Contains Very Little Eskimo
Some explanations are in order. The Bach invention is from Fleck’s album Perpetual Motion, which is a set of transcriptions of classical pieces (Chopin, Scarlatti, Bach, Paganini et al) for the banjo. John Brown’s Dream dates from the late 1920s and is either from Brainstem Radio or Sugar In The Gourd, two great Internet streams. “Ihr Kinderlein kommet” is a Christmas carol known in English as “O Come Little Children.” Yes, that really is the title of the Worm Quartet track. It’s a very odd stream-of-consciousness rant, sort of. Worm Quartet’s stuff is funnier than a busload of indicted Republicans but I can’t explain why I like it so much, since it’s very punk and I’m not a fan of punk. It must be because it’s that funny. And it’s interesting that Summer in the City came up; it was one of my favorite songs in the summer of 1966, when I was 11 years old.
Lots of luck finding some of these on iTunes, but if you’re interested, I can point you toward some of the more obscure stuff.
Thanks for jumping in, the more variation the merrier. I have several cuts by the Lovin’ Spoonful, loved them as a kid. I will be checking out Worm Quartet, they sound a bit like the Dead Milkmen, whom I adore.
And fwiw, not all of us use iPods. I don’t. On my PC I just use Windows Media Player because it’s convenient and I’ve not had the energy to mess around with my other music software apps in a while, and my portable player is by Creative Labs, their Nomad Zen Extra.
because I take transit and it’s the only way I survive…but on the computer I use iTunes which has all the same stuff anyway.
When I’m on Windows I use either Windows Media Player or Winamp, depending. There’s some content (primarily RealAudio) that those two can’t access, but for those I just switch over to Linux, where I use xmms and mplayer.
Away from the computer I use the aforementioned Pocket Tunes. An iPod, while it would be nice and it would be small, would be just one more thing to carry around and worry about losing.
Hi Omir,
From your comments you appear very knowledgable on the subject of players. Maybe you can help on this ‘problem’. I have loaded a lot of my CDs on to iTunes. One of these CDs has a bonus disk with remixes. Some really cool stuff. But when I enter this particular CD, a proprietary player loads and starts playing the songs. Somehow, I cannot import to iTunes (when I try, the only files showing seem to be text files).
There is a link to this website.
The ‘about’ file simply states that it is powered by: Midbar Tech LTD, using portions of MS Windows Media Technologies.
What to do to get these to iTuses?
It’s actually just one guy who does multitrack recording to layer his sounds. Check him out at wormquartet.com, of course. His CD “Faster Than A Speeding Mullet” may be the best $10 you’ll ever spend (and that includes shipping).
I especially recommend the tracks “Eat Here And Die,” “I’m Gonna Procreate,” “Coffee (2003 Grind),” “Strap-On Brain” and “Great Idea For A Song.” Doctor Demento’s listeners voted “Great Idea For A Song” the most popular song of 2004 (or was it 2003? I forget).
Bonus points for such a seminal recording, and because their John Brown’s Dream (on my iPod) is the version I can play on my banjo. And Bela’s amazing. Compare his first recordings as the replacement banjo boy for New Grass Revival to his works today: from good to ridiculously great.
Speaking of New Grass, I was checking out some nice pictures of Johnny and Sam today…
Do tell. They were just little kids in the 1970s!
My wife likes a lot of bluegrass, but can’t stand NGR, and by extension seems to dislike Sam Bush and John Cowan’s bands. So I get to play “Fly Through the Country” and all that good stuff at work only.
Sugar in the Gourd
so I’ll put it up so everyone else can get some o’ that mountain music goodness. 🙂
Link to their audio stream — opens in Windows Media Player or whatever streaming MP3 player you use (probably works in iTunes though I haven’t tried it).
I’m listening to it right now, now that KSER has finished Democracy Now! I occasionally learn a new song (like the Holy Modal Rounders’ version of “I’m Gettin’ Ready To Go”) but mostly I sit back and listen in amazement of how people like Doc Watson and Uncle Dave Macon can make that much music, presumably with the same number of fingers I was born with.
Woot! Another banjo player. Although most of what I play is limited to “bum-ditty-bum-ditty” accompnaying myself while I sing. I need to get serious about learning me some more clawhammer than what I already know, but I have trouble getting myself to practice. (I know I should be able to do three-finger picking and bluegrass, but that seems to elude me for some reason. I just can’t get even a basic forward roll to sound the way I think it should.)
Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
Tuesday Afternoon – Moody Blues
The Whole Night – Ani DiFranco
Club Foot – Kasbian
The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash
Day After Tomorrow – Tom Waits
The Ballad of David Icke – Clem Snide
Begin the Begin – REM
Sara – Fleetwood Mac
Misty Mountain Hop – Led Zeppelin
I love exploring the world of music. How fun. I actually filled up my iPod mini before even getting all my favorite songs from my CD’s on it. Ack! I had to go remove the ones I wasn’t all that familiar with… I’m hoping I can still finish up, I’m in the middle of REM at the moment, and I think it’ll be OK.
For now, I must do some research. I do not know who David Icke is, but I did write down a quote of his just a few days ago. And now he’s in a song title in my list. I guess it’s time to go meet him now…
Is your iPod behaving itself now? You were having problems a few weeks ago…
Bought the spouse a 2GB iPod Nano for Christmas, and by the time I got all the Led Zeppelin and The Doors and a bunch of other stuff on it, the thing was full! Knew I should’ve sprung for the 4GB… 🙁 Ah well… sigh
Yeah, it is must better now Cali, thanks!!
I can’t believe I’m filling it up. I’m at 3.41 GB, with about 40 more CD’s to go through. I should make it. But then what of new music, huh? Oh well, I’ll deal with that when I get to it. 🙂
I think I saw you over at Street Prophets — disney diary? I have to agree with you — having to put your fingers in that machine at the entrance gates is the dumbest thing Disney has EVER introduced.
Hi Mary. Yup, that was me… me being all in disbelief as I entered the parks. I hate that, but they kinda gotcha in a catch-22, so…
Here’s a Wikipedia LINKY on biometrics that includes a photo of a Disney entrance finger thingy. Yuck.
Brand new “Biometrics” feature assures ticket singularity, protecting customers from unlawful usage. That LINKY. I think they tried to sell me a bridge when I was there too…
It is so SLOW — when I was entering the park it regularly took patrons two or three tries to get it to work. I love Disneyworld — but this is just dumb. You shouldn’t enter the happiest place on earth ticked off.
Crap. I just remembered my Lez Zep double disk and my Paste magazine CD’s. Hmmm… Should be interesting. 🙂
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For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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But it’s sunny here! 🙂
Bushview, USA – where the sun never shines.
susking needs to repost the Hen joke at this cafe — LOL.
Suskind — not susking. Although perhaps Suskind is King!
And then he could let me know if the joke was because my answer helped or because it didn’t.
I emailed Susanhu and I’m waiting. On the other print list question I asked you, I had to install a printlist function (not a screenshot) and read it into the scanner Optical Character Reading, from there it became a word doc via the clipboard. A long way to go…. but it works.
mille grazie, AndIf.
Thanks for clearing that up for me — I’m always inclined to worry that my advice will make things worse instead of better.
And I did like the hen story.
Four Stars !!
Once upon a time a hen went into a library.
The librarian said, “Yes, what is it you want?”
“Books, books, books, books,” clucked the hen.
So the librarian gave her a big pile, off went the hen.
The next day the hen came back with the stack of books.
“Back so soon,” said the librarian, “What is it you want this time?”
“Books, books, books, books,” clucked the hen.
So the librarian gave her another big pile, & off went the hen.
Third day, same thing. The librarian wanted to find out what the hen was doing with all the books.
So she followed the hen out of the library, down the path through the bushes, down through the forest, until she saw the hen at the edge of the pond.
There sat a huge bullfrog on a flat rock, and in front of him the stack of books.
One by one the frog went through the books and said,
“Reddit, reddit, reddit.”
Only got 8 and they’re all off the same album…
clik photo for more
Very, very tasty album. Can’t get it off the player it seems…an acquired taste, I’m sure.
Peace
That’s a great album; someone I know uses it in her yoga class.
although they are (were?) rumored to be prima donna a-holes of the highest caliber, they sure make fascinating and compelling world-ish music. iTunes says I listen to Spleen and Ideal and Toward the Within the most.
Did you, by any chance, see them at the Boulder Theatre @ 8 yrs+-. ago? I was downtown, heading for home and walking by, read the marquee and went in…one hell-of-an amazing performance, in front of a very appreciative, if sparse, audience.
They brought it, man…they brought it.
Peace
I will check that album out. DCD is excellent, in my humble opinion.
CDC gets heavy ‘rotation’ here as well.
A good compilation is: A Passage in Time
Pretty much anything released by 4AD in the early/mid 80s can be recommended. (DCD, Cocteau Twins, Colourbox, This Mortal Coil, Modern English, Cindytalk, etc.)
I am soooo proud of myself — had a gentleman call asking for “the lady of the house” regarding attempts to “clean up entertainment” in movies and TV. Now, the “lady of the house” should’ve tipped me off right there…why are WOMEN supposedly the only ones to care about “the welfare of the children” and all that crud? (And I wish I’d said that — what if it was a single father household he’d called?)
Anyway, I simply said that if people do not like what they see on TV, they can use the on/off switch…and did NOT use the “F” word in conjunction with that statement.
I think the spouse owes me a cranberry margarita at Chevy’s tonight… 🙂
Good answer! 🙂
they can use the on/off switch…
Remote controls don’t work well for fundies — no evolution = no opposable thumbs. ;p
not using the f word under those circumstances… we’ll put a gold star up for you, ha!
Hello All:
I posted this at the other lounge before I saw this one was open.
I wanted to thank everyone who tried to help me with my computer problems a couple of days ago. To my sorrow, nothing worked. So I got a new one today and I’m trying to get used to it. I’ve never had a laptop, so this is all going to be a new learning experience for me. I will say the pond looks even better than before.
Laptops are great. When I am home, though, I hook it up to a big LCD monitor and a trackball.
Surgery went well, she has the knee replacement, and is now out of recovery.
Recovery from that can be slow and annoying, katiebird and the rest of the bouquet will have their hands full.
They may even need to call in the brothers! 😀
I would love for you to actually meet my sisters — bouquet! I can’t wait to tell them about you. (have I told you I love you today?)
You should persuade your sisters to become BooFolk!
They’re tougher than they look. If they hang out anywhere, it’s at the orange place.
I can’t even open half the threads on kos.
I send them links her all the time. So they see the really good stuff. And it’s kind of a treat to have friends that are mine, all mine!
from a family of seven would say the same thing!
Hi everyone!
I’ve called all the siblings (mine & mom’s) — 9 people and I’m pooped! Even happy news sounds dull after the 5th or 6th time you tell it. But you can’t let that show in your voice.
Drambuie, anyone?
and the day you’ve had, you deserve a big glass of
Gifiti!
And save some for your mom, when she comes home. She will need it, no rollerblading for her for a while.
I’m very glad to hear it all went well!
great news KB! Been thinking good thoughts and prayers for you today.
I could feel it, I really believe I could feel it.
I told my dad about everyone while we were waiting.
Great news!
Whenever you all want to head that way…here’s a place with clean tables and a well-stocked bar!