it’s Indy’s birthday? I always miss the important memos! I guess that’s what I get for disappearing all the time.
Happy damned birthday, Indy!
And many congrats on the end of all exams everywhere, too. I will definitely have to open that beer I’d been saving in the fridge (I’d been too lazy to go to the store, but I’m also out of smokes, so it has to happen in a bit anyhow).
I’m usually too weird and superstitious for wishing, I don’t own a tiara, and would you believe that I have never once been spanked? This may explain a lot about my ‘attitude’.
Actually, come to think of it, I never make the wishes, nobody is allowed to spank me due to a lower back problem that causes ass pain, and I’d have to be very, very drunk to wear a tiara (though much like singing off-key johnny cash songs, it has been known to happen near bottles of whiskey).
So I guess I can’t harrass you too much for these things. Still, I hope you’re having an appropriately fun birthday, in whatever non-spanking, anti-superstitious, and tiara-free ways you think are best.
Here, have a birthday bug. We found this guy camping in the middle of nowhere earlier this week. He hung out with us for the better part of a drunken afternoon.
Unfortunately, the friend I had plans with today got too sick to go, and I’m too sick to drive, so the day has turned out to be kind-of a downer. But on the upside, we have the whole weekend to do things whenever we get to feeling better, and the Cafe people have been wonderful as always. And there’s ice cream cake.
Heh, I suspect the ducks & geese in my pond might take to your bug friend like a pizza roll.
I totally sympathize. My birthday is right at the beginning of January, which coincides perfectly with my yearly winter bout of bronchitis. Of course, being a capricorn (not that I believe in that stuff, mind you), I try to be stoic and practical about these things — birthdays are really kind of arbitrary, in the grand scheme of things — but it still kind of pisses me off every year.
Plus, January is a piss-poor time to have ice cream cake. Which is probably why capricorns are so bloody bitter and cynical or whatever we are.
Also, why the hell do I know so many of you cancers? I swear more than half my girlfriends have been cancers, and many of my closer friends…
OMG – I am another bitter and cynical Capricorn. Not that there’s anything wrong with bitter and cynical. But does my birthday have to be the day after THE BIGGEST HOLIDAY ON EARTH?
had I been born on time, I’d have been born on new year’s day, 1979. Which would’ve made my 21st birthday be new year’s, 2000. Quite a bash, I’d have had.
But noooo, I had to be late to my own birthday. It was an omen, really.
an hour and 40 minutes to go, but I found out that the Powers that Be™ are giving us Monday and Tuesday off for the holiday, so I can’t complain too much. Howz your Friday goin?
Kinda slow and Mr. Nature has Monday and Tuesday off too so I’m trying to figure out how not to strangle him over the next 4 days. We (and by we I mean I) like quality time apart.
Sometimes I feel older than I am, at any rate. Everyone I spent time around growing up was generally way older than me — I was a late-in-life oops — so it’s easy to forget that I’m younger than most of the people with whom I relate the best.
My girlfriend found my first gray hair last fall — I saved it in a ziploc. I’m actually pretty excited about this whole aging thing. I figure, the sooner I get to beat whippersnappers with my cane, the better.
I have the same reaction, BTW, to some of the kids I interact with in my neighborhood. They were all born in the mid to late 90’s, when I was being a hellion driving around being “cool”, hanging out at the pool hall, getting laid a lot. It’s so damned weird.
I honestly seem to be stuck at about 1980, which is really the last time I was out in the world in a major way before staying home with my kids. I forget it’s not the 1980s anymore…well except there aren’t any big shoulder pads and Hammer pants.
they’ll come back. Well, maybe not everything — I don’t think shoulder pads are going to have a comeback — but many 80’s fashion statements are coming back.
I just about pissed myself laughing the first time I saw a young (18ish?) little hipster at school wearing hot pink legwarmers. That was a couple years ago — it’s even progressed since then.
My birthdays the past few years have been disappointing, so I figure I’m due for a good one soon. Every once in a blue moon, fate drops a stellar good time into my lap.
we do have a goaty kind of appeal, so I can totally see why. 😉
Maybe you should just declare it your birthday, next time you’re having a great time. I’m sure the birthday gods won’t mind, and most people never remember birthday dates well enough, anyway, so we’d probably all just be like “huh, I thought Indy just had a birthday. Oh well, I guess I’m imagining things.”.
Cara & I don’t have a real anniversary kind of date, so we joke that we should just pick an arbitrary and totally different day each year to celebrate it, and act as though it’s been consistent. We do have what we call our “fileversary” — the date our domestic partnership paperwork was stamped, in big stampy letters, “FILED” and then mailed back to us (romantic!). But it’s mostly fun to celebrate in a sarcastic kind of a way.
B’gock! – Deep Banana Blackout
Break Down these Walls – The Subdudes
So Are You to Me – eastmountainsouth
Cornflake girl – Tori Amos
Hope – Alien Ant Farm
Just Like You – Keb mo
Friend of the Devil – Grateful Dead
Winding Road – Bonnie Somerville
Someone Else is Steppin’ in – Buckwheat Zydeco
My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now – Buckwheat Zydeco
Baba O’Riley – The Who
It’s A Heartache – Bonnie Tyler
Picturebook – The Kinks
Better Man – Pearl Jam
No Killing – Violent Femmes
Who Loves You – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac
Spanish Dancer – Steve Winwood
Bitchin’ Camaro – The Dead Milkmen
Trouble – Lindsey Buckingham
Cath cEim an Fhla – Peter and Noel Carberry
It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Linda Ronstadt
Time – Cat Stevens
Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Young Man – The Who
Another Day – Bryan Adams
ragus – Ragus
crazy man michael – eillis kennedy
It’s Too Late – Derek & The Dominos
Journey Of The Sorcerer – The Eagles
Lost In The Shadows – Lou Gramm
always called them mangoritas in one of my houses. Yum!
I’d imagine it’ll take a few days worth to really get the idea. I don’t even have a concept of what it would be like to not have school — other than occasional unintentional breaks (due to shitty student-ness), I’ve never not been a student.
Mine:
the space between-dave matthews
times like these-foofighters
fall on me-REM
my own worst enemy-lit
my sacrifice-creed
hold on-wilson phillips
heaven is a place on earth-belinda carlisle
here in your bedroom-goldfinger
losing my religion-REM
little miss can’t be wrong-spin doctors
We Both Reached For The Gun- Chicago O.S.T. Soundtrack
Shock The Monkey-Peter Gabriel
Roll Over-The Thompson Twins
Don’t You (Forget About Me)-Simple Minds
Helter Skelter-The Bobs
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)-Stranglers
That’s What It Takes-George Harriso
Sex (I’m A …)-Berlin
Tough As Nails-Danny Elfman
Dreaming-Blondie
Hey All,
Great day in a great week. 2,200 words today. Maybe 2 more days to rough draft completion. Woo Hoo! Still flying high of the Publishers Weekly starred review, and I got another good one over at Freshfiction.com. Oh and earlier in the week Dr.Mc. got her official notification for teaching in Scotland in 2008 which means two months living in a castle outside Edinburgh in early summer (that’s assuming the program’s still up and running, of course).
Hope life is treating everyone else well, especially Indy on her birthday.
You’re welcome Indy. Did you get your ice cream cake and Moet & Chambord yet?
BTW, I’m one of those timeless people. When Laura’s teaching I can usually tell whether it’s a weekday or weekend, and I get a rough clue as to season and hour by looking at the window, but it’s rare for me to be able to answer time and date questions without consulting an external source.
Yes, I have been into my ice cream cake, but no on the champagne & liqueur cocktails. I’ve been really sick lately so I don’t know if I’ll get into any alcohol.
I often lose track of which day or date it is myself, I’m not particularly well oriented to it. But what I was trying to talk about was my inability to feel like there’s ever enough time; I always feel like there’s not enough and what little there is, is running out too quickly, if that makes sense.
It does make sense, and your blog post made it very clear. I do have the occasional attack of “I’m late, I’m late” or time is running out, but in general I’m just not very firmly rooted in the time stream in the sense of connecting the passing of time to any internal markers.
It has good days and bad ones. I do have a tendency to forget I’m supposed to do things “today.” Though I’m pretty good with soon. That’s one of the reasons I like to stay way out in front of deadlines. If I get something in a month early, then I don’t have to hassle about keeping track of exact dates and the like. Oh, and soaking might not be the best word sense I tend to the hyperkinetic – bouncing off the walls of the experience might be closer to the truth.
Happy birthday, Indy! And congrats on the exam, Cabin Girl! I remember my last law school exam like it was, well, 18 years ago.
Here’s ten for ya:
Get Up, Stand Up–Bob Marley
Airplane–Indigo Girls
Good Person Inside–Jill Sobule
Upward Over the Mountain–Iron & Wine
Food and Creative Love–Rusted Root
Angel in the House–The Story
The Laughing Song–Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Everything’s Not Lost–Coldplay
Limits to Love–‘Til Tuesday
Expecting to Fly–Buffalo Springfield
Six Blade Knife – Dire Straits
Bath House Blues – Ashley’s Melody Men
I Need To Know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Boy Blue – ELO
“Wachet auf, ruft us die Stimme” (Chorale prelude) – Walter Carlos
Blue Money – Van Morrison
It’s All Been Done – Barenaked Ladies
United States – Seize The Day
If Gregg Yeti Doesn’t Rejoin The Flaming Astonishers I’m Going To Kill Myself – Worm Quartet
So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Ya – Woody Guthrie
Lock up Karl Rove and throw away the key.
Put GWB up in front of an international war crimes tribunal.
Send Cheney on a hunting trip with himself.
Give Al Gore his presidency back.
Make John Kerry vice president.
Appoint Bill Clinton Secretary of State.
Outlaw electronic voting.
Finance public education.
Give Iraq back to the Iraqis.
Bring the troops home NOW.
Was let out early so just a few degrees less contention with traffic snarls caused by urban escapees on the eve of a 4-day weekend. Wish I had Monday off, it would be so cool to have 4 days to celebrate the declaration of independence from imperial oppression. But Oh well! How are things in your neck(lace) of the woods?
Little Fugue in G Minor (comp. JS Bach) — Canadian Brass
Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise (comp. Grofe) — Bournemouth Symphony
The Other Side — Aerosmith
Take My Breath Away — Berlin
From the Beginning — Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Great Pumpkin Waltz — Vince Guaraldi
Tragedy — Bee Gees
I Don’t Know How to Love Him — Helen Reddy
Take On Me — a-Ha
Pirate Jenny — Judy Collins
Howdy Folks!!!!! Hope everyone is having a great day!!!!! I had a very busy one as usual and after getting home realized I was supposed to stay in Austin for a fund raiser. Needless to say I missed it. LOL I did do a new podcast that I hope you will give a listen.
It means I went over and had to wait and wait and wait for one program to run. So since it’s starting to be late for me, I told them I would check back tomorrow.
It’s been just a regular day – kind of always fighting off a nap. Went to Home Depot to buy a ceiling fan for one of the bedrooms. Now I have to see if I can manage to put it up. Should be interesting!
I love tools too. When I got divorced I bought myself a set of basic tools and a little toolbox and I learned to do things like change light fixtures and electrical outlets and repair broken stuff around the house. My mistake was letting the kids borrow a screwdriver here, a wrench there – and soon I didn’t know where anything was. It pisses me off so much! I’m about to buy myself another and hide it in my underwear drawer. It makes me feel so empowered!
Well sort of. I’ve been telling them for months I need to do this stuff to thier computer, but they didn’t think it was too important until the computer started grinding down to ultra slow speed.
So now they can’t wait for me to get it done. It’s not mean really, I feel I’m teaching them a valuable lesson. 🙂
Hi O – it was funny on the local news tonight they had a segment on how many Canadians have moved to the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) in the past 10 years. Apparently lots of them.
I’ve heard that the W hotels are posh. Aren’t they pricey?
No hotdogs — for some reason they had a mardi gras/ new orleans theme and they brought in a rice/sausage/bean thing. And then grilled chicken on sticks. It was a little odd for a picnic to tell you the truth.
I just looked up W hotels chicago (can we really bring ourselves to stay at a hotel named W — think about it) and check this out. A “whatever/whenever” service. Hmmmmm.
I’m trying to get caught up on the editing side of life at the moment. In a perfect world I’ll have all that stuff off my plate by the end of tomorrow, the rough draft by Monday, and the bete draft early Thursday. That and a little push on my YA and by next Friday I could have completely clear plate to start a trilogy I’ve been thinking about.
Things have been really crazy for me for most of the past year, and especially the last six months or so, but if all goes well, I’ll be seing the end of a whole lot of projects in July. If I’m very lucky that will include my mom’s divorce circus and I’ll be able to collapse in a little heap along about mid-August after the promotional push on WebMage ends.
We have a lot to celebrate here today. Indy’s B’day and your final, last, absolutely no more exam.
I’ll start with my usual 27 beers and work my way up to the hard stuff in a minute.
Slowing down in your old age, are you?
Yeah I used to do shots with the beer, but in old age I’ve found it better to pace myself. 🙂
How’s life in cubeland today?
Slow. The place is half empty because people are taking a really long holiday.
it’s Indy’s birthday? I always miss the important memos! I guess that’s what I get for disappearing all the time.
Happy damned birthday, Indy!
And many congrats on the end of all exams everywhere, too. I will definitely have to open that beer I’d been saving in the fridge (I’d been too lazy to go to the store, but I’m also out of smokes, so it has to happen in a bit anyhow).
Thanks a damn lot, Spit!
Did you make any good birthday wishes? Get the appropriate number of spankings? Wear a tiara all morning?
I’m usually too weird and superstitious for wishing, I don’t own a tiara, and would you believe that I have never once been spanked? This may explain a lot about my ‘attitude’.
Actually, come to think of it, I never make the wishes, nobody is allowed to spank me due to a lower back problem that causes ass pain, and I’d have to be very, very drunk to wear a tiara (though much like singing off-key johnny cash songs, it has been known to happen near bottles of whiskey).
So I guess I can’t harrass you too much for these things. Still, I hope you’re having an appropriately fun birthday, in whatever non-spanking, anti-superstitious, and tiara-free ways you think are best.
Here, have a birthday bug. We found this guy camping in the middle of nowhere earlier this week. He hung out with us for the better part of a drunken afternoon.
Unfortunately, the friend I had plans with today got too sick to go, and I’m too sick to drive, so the day has turned out to be kind-of a downer. But on the upside, we have the whole weekend to do things whenever we get to feeling better, and the Cafe people have been wonderful as always. And there’s ice cream cake.
Heh, I suspect the ducks & geese in my pond might take to your bug friend like a pizza roll.
I have 5 words for weekend fun. Fun with Dick and Jane.
lol, yes I plan to get into that, thank you.
I totally sympathize. My birthday is right at the beginning of January, which coincides perfectly with my yearly winter bout of bronchitis. Of course, being a capricorn (not that I believe in that stuff, mind you), I try to be stoic and practical about these things — birthdays are really kind of arbitrary, in the grand scheme of things — but it still kind of pisses me off every year.
Plus, January is a piss-poor time to have ice cream cake. Which is probably why capricorns are so bloody bitter and cynical or whatever we are.
Also, why the hell do I know so many of you cancers? I swear more than half my girlfriends have been cancers, and many of my closer friends…
OMG – I am another bitter and cynical Capricorn. Not that there’s anything wrong with bitter and cynical. But does my birthday have to be the day after THE BIGGEST HOLIDAY ON EARTH?
had I been born on time, I’d have been born on new year’s day, 1979. Which would’ve made my 21st birthday be new year’s, 2000. Quite a bash, I’d have had.
But noooo, I had to be late to my own birthday. It was an omen, really.
You were born six months after I graduated from high school. Now I’m really bitter and cynical……and depressed.
My first child was born in 1981. God. I’m. Old.
🙂
Oh yes, I forgot…seasoned. Hey there Manny, you still in the cube?
an hour and 40 minutes to go, but I found out that the Powers that Be™ are giving us Monday and Tuesday off for the holiday, so I can’t complain too much. Howz your Friday goin?
Kinda slow and Mr. Nature has Monday and Tuesday off too so I’m trying to figure out how not to strangle him over the next 4 days. We (and by we I mean I) like quality time apart.
Sometimes I feel older than I am, at any rate. Everyone I spent time around growing up was generally way older than me — I was a late-in-life oops — so it’s easy to forget that I’m younger than most of the people with whom I relate the best.
My girlfriend found my first gray hair last fall — I saved it in a ziploc. I’m actually pretty excited about this whole aging thing. I figure, the sooner I get to beat whippersnappers with my cane, the better.
I have the same reaction, BTW, to some of the kids I interact with in my neighborhood. They were all born in the mid to late 90’s, when I was being a hellion driving around being “cool”, hanging out at the pool hall, getting laid a lot. It’s so damned weird.
I honestly seem to be stuck at about 1980, which is really the last time I was out in the world in a major way before staying home with my kids. I forget it’s not the 1980s anymore…well except there aren’t any big shoulder pads and Hammer pants.
they’ll come back. Well, maybe not everything — I don’t think shoulder pads are going to have a comeback — but many 80’s fashion statements are coming back.
I just about pissed myself laughing the first time I saw a young (18ish?) little hipster at school wearing hot pink legwarmers. That was a couple years ago — it’s even progressed since then.
My birthdays the past few years have been disappointing, so I figure I’m due for a good one soon. Every once in a blue moon, fate drops a stellar good time into my lap.
Heh, my first girlfriend was a Capricorn.
we do have a goaty kind of appeal, so I can totally see why. 😉
Maybe you should just declare it your birthday, next time you’re having a great time. I’m sure the birthday gods won’t mind, and most people never remember birthday dates well enough, anyway, so we’d probably all just be like “huh, I thought Indy just had a birthday. Oh well, I guess I’m imagining things.”.
Cara & I don’t have a real anniversary kind of date, so we joke that we should just pick an arbitrary and totally different day each year to celebrate it, and act as though it’s been consistent. We do have what we call our “fileversary” — the date our domestic partnership paperwork was stamped, in big stampy letters, “FILED” and then mailed back to us (romantic!). But it’s mostly fun to celebrate in a sarcastic kind of a way.
Arbitrary Anniversary would be fun! I will definitely take your advice and have a spontaneous birthday on a whim.
Here’s my FRT:
B’gock! – Deep Banana Blackout
Break Down these Walls – The Subdudes
So Are You to Me – eastmountainsouth
Cornflake girl – Tori Amos
Hope – Alien Ant Farm
Just Like You – Keb mo
Friend of the Devil – Grateful Dead
Winding Road – Bonnie Somerville
Someone Else is Steppin’ in – Buckwheat Zydeco
My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now – Buckwheat Zydeco
What do y’all have?
Baba O’Riley – The Who
It’s A Heartache – Bonnie Tyler
Picturebook – The Kinks
Better Man – Pearl Jam
No Killing – Violent Femmes
Who Loves You – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac
Spanish Dancer – Steve Winwood
Bitchin’ Camaro – The Dead Milkmen
Trouble – Lindsey Buckingham
Congrats CabinGirl!
Here’s my FRT.
Cath cEim an Fhla – Peter and Noel Carberry
It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Linda Ronstadt
Time – Cat Stevens
Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Young Man – The Who
Another Day – Bryan Adams
ragus – Ragus
crazy man michael – eillis kennedy
It’s Too Late – Derek & The Dominos
Journey Of The Sorcerer – The Eagles
Lost In The Shadows – Lou Gramm
Freeeeee Birrrrrrd!!
Woo Hoo!
Thanks! I’m still trying to adjust to the idea…I hope my mango margarita helps with that a little. 🙂
always called them mangoritas in one of my houses. Yum!
I’d imagine it’ll take a few days worth to really get the idea. I don’t even have a concept of what it would be like to not have school — other than occasional unintentional breaks (due to shitty student-ness), I’ve never not been a student.
Congratulations CG and Happy BD Indy! I guess it would be too late to go shopping for gifts.
It’s never too late for gifts! 😉 Thanks for the good wishes, boran2.
Thanks, b2!
(Never too late for presents…especially if there’s chocolate or vodka involved…)
Mine:
the space between-dave matthews
times like these-foofighters
fall on me-REM
my own worst enemy-lit
my sacrifice-creed
hold on-wilson phillips
heaven is a place on earth-belinda carlisle
here in your bedroom-goldfinger
losing my religion-REM
little miss can’t be wrong-spin doctors
We Both Reached For The Gun- Chicago O.S.T. Soundtrack
Shock The Monkey-Peter Gabriel
Roll Over-The Thompson Twins
Don’t You (Forget About Me)-Simple Minds
Helter Skelter-The Bobs
(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)-Stranglers
That’s What It Takes-George Harriso
Sex (I’m A …)-Berlin
Tough As Nails-Danny Elfman
Dreaming-Blondie
Hey All,
Great day in a great week. 2,200 words today. Maybe 2 more days to rough draft completion. Woo Hoo! Still flying high of the Publishers Weekly starred review, and I got another good one over at Freshfiction.com. Oh and earlier in the week Dr.Mc. got her official notification for teaching in Scotland in 2008 which means two months living in a castle outside Edinburgh in early summer (that’s assuming the program’s still up and running, of course).
Hope life is treating everyone else well, especially Indy on her birthday.
Congrats to you & Dr. Mc on all the great news, and thanks so much for the kind good wishes, Kelly. 🙂
You’re welcome Indy. Did you get your ice cream cake and Moet & Chambord yet?
BTW, I’m one of those timeless people. When Laura’s teaching I can usually tell whether it’s a weekday or weekend, and I get a rough clue as to season and hour by looking at the window, but it’s rare for me to be able to answer time and date questions without consulting an external source.
Yes, I have been into my ice cream cake, but no on the champagne & liqueur cocktails. I’ve been really sick lately so I don’t know if I’ll get into any alcohol.
I often lose track of which day or date it is myself, I’m not particularly well oriented to it. But what I was trying to talk about was my inability to feel like there’s ever enough time; I always feel like there’s not enough and what little there is, is running out too quickly, if that makes sense.
It does make sense, and your blog post made it very clear. I do have the occasional attack of “I’m late, I’m late” or time is running out, but in general I’m just not very firmly rooted in the time stream in the sense of connecting the passing of time to any internal markers.
Oh okay, I think I get what you’re saying. Wow, I’m jealous. 🙂 It must be kinda nice just to soak in experience.
It has good days and bad ones. I do have a tendency to forget I’m supposed to do things “today.” Though I’m pretty good with soon. That’s one of the reasons I like to stay way out in front of deadlines. If I get something in a month early, then I don’t have to hassle about keeping track of exact dates and the like. Oh, and soaking might not be the best word sense I tend to the hyperkinetic – bouncing off the walls of the experience might be closer to the truth.
Sigh.
I remember how happy Dr.Mc was after her last exam.
Thanks, it’s still sinking in…
Smarty Pants. 🙂
Heh, just maximizing a minimal effort…
I’m going out – can someone please throw up a froggybottom when this gets too full?
Thanks!
Did you happen to catch that Ann Coulter is a Deadhead too?
Thanks! I’m celebrating by going to see Phil Lesh…since I can’t see the Dead.
Happy birthday, Indy! And congrats on the exam, Cabin Girl! I remember my last law school exam like it was, well, 18 years ago.
Here’s ten for ya:
Get Up, Stand Up–Bob Marley
Airplane–Indigo Girls
Good Person Inside–Jill Sobule
Upward Over the Mountain–Iron & Wine
Food and Creative Love–Rusted Root
Angel in the House–The Story
The Laughing Song–Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
Everything’s Not Lost–Coldplay
Limits to Love–‘Til Tuesday
Expecting to Fly–Buffalo Springfield
It feels great to be finished with studying. Somehow, I think the clinical rotation part will be sort of fun.
Six Blade Knife – Dire Straits
Bath House Blues – Ashley’s Melody Men
I Need To Know – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Boy Blue – ELO
“Wachet auf, ruft us die Stimme” (Chorale prelude) – Walter Carlos
Blue Money – Van Morrison
It’s All Been Done – Barenaked Ladies
United States – Seize The Day
If Gregg Yeti Doesn’t Rejoin The Flaming Astonishers I’m Going To Kill Myself – Worm Quartet
So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Ya – Woody Guthrie
And a special streaming audio bonus:
Antiwar Radio from Live365.com and Seattle’s own Rich Hinrichsen
http://www.live365.com/stations/richhinrichsen
Take a look at the playlist. He has some gooood stuff.
Now you can have the ta-kill-ya
Happy Birthday, Indy!
And congratulations, Cabin Girl!
Lock up Karl Rove and throw away the key.
Put GWB up in front of an international war crimes tribunal.
Send Cheney on a hunting trip with himself.
Give Al Gore his presidency back.
Make John Kerry vice president.
Appoint Bill Clinton Secretary of State.
Outlaw electronic voting.
Finance public education.
Give Iraq back to the Iraqis.
Bring the troops home NOW.
Hi mm! How are you doing tonight?
Was let out early so just a few degrees less contention with traffic snarls caused by urban escapees on the eve of a 4-day weekend. Wish I had Monday off, it would be so cool to have 4 days to celebrate the declaration of independence from imperial oppression. But Oh well! How are things in your neck(lace) of the woods?
My long w/e has begun … ahhhhh. So are you feeling better cold-wise?
First one from me in a few weeks…
Little Fugue in G Minor (comp. JS Bach) — Canadian Brass
Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise (comp. Grofe) — Bournemouth Symphony
The Other Side — Aerosmith
Take My Breath Away — Berlin
From the Beginning — Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Great Pumpkin Waltz — Vince Guaraldi
Tragedy — Bee Gees
I Don’t Know How to Love Him — Helen Reddy
Take On Me — a-Ha
Pirate Jenny — Judy Collins
Howdy Folks!!!!! Hope everyone is having a great day!!!!! I had a very busy one as usual and after getting home realized I was supposed to stay in Austin for a fund raiser. Needless to say I missed it. LOL I did do a new podcast that I hope you will give a listen.
Think Blue
OK whose around?
Do I have a whole happy hour cafe to myself or have ya’ll drank all the beer already.
That was fast!
You starting to get the idea that Andi sort of keeps the cafe going? 🙂
How you doing SN?
Yep.
maybe if you would jump back in the cafe would get going. Hint, hint. 🙂
Nope.
Or that you couldn’t fix it?
It means I went over and had to wait and wait and wait for one program to run. So since it’s starting to be late for me, I told them I would check back tomorrow.
I feel so empowered at the moment. 🙂
I commented and then got involved in something else. Hey Olivia, FM and Kelly.
The family is watching Syriana and got lost in the first ten minutes so I left. Seems good though.
I want to see that movie. I heard it was good.
How’ve you been today? I’ve hardly talked to you today.
It’s been just a regular day – kind of always fighting off a nap. Went to Home Depot to buy a ceiling fan for one of the bedrooms. Now I have to see if I can manage to put it up. Should be interesting!
Electricity, always to remember to cut the electricity off. I’ve put up a few and it not that hard.
I love walking through Home Depot and Lowes. I’m sort of like a kid in a candy store going through them.
Of course most the stuff I would buy I wouldn’t be able to use because I’m a total wash out on home repair. But tools, you can never have enough. 🙂
I love tools too. When I got divorced I bought myself a set of basic tools and a little toolbox and I learned to do things like change light fixtures and electrical outlets and repair broken stuff around the house. My mistake was letting the kids borrow a screwdriver here, a wrench there – and soon I didn’t know where anything was. It pisses me off so much! I’m about to buy myself another and hide it in my underwear drawer. It makes me feel so empowered!
Did you do that on purpose — leave it so late? 🙂
Well sort of. I’ve been telling them for months I need to do this stuff to thier computer, but they didn’t think it was too important until the computer started grinding down to ultra slow speed.
So now they can’t wait for me to get it done. It’s not mean really, I feel I’m teaching them a valuable lesson. 🙂
You’re teaching them that your time is valuable. Good on you!
Yes it’s good to show them I’m the most important person in the world. 😉
Hi O – it was funny on the local news tonight they had a segment on how many Canadians have moved to the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) in the past 10 years. Apparently lots of them.
You know my female doctor is from Canada. She’s lived down here for over 20 years though.
Hi SN, O and FM. I had to go to my company picnic tonight and now I’m packing to go to Chicago tomorrow. What’s everybody else doing?
Hi Mary. It’s been quiet here today.
Company picnic huh. Have fun?
As much fun as anyone can have at a company picnic. I oohed and aaaahed over everyone’s kids. I did my duty.
One day there will be some kid that remembers at a picnic that maryb oohed and aaaahed at them.
Then they’ll think, I was a freaking brat, was she crazy. 🙂
LOL! It seems doubtful that I’ll know any of these kids when they grow up, but I guess you never know.
When one of them is the doctor performing your hip replacement you’ll be glad you were nice to him/her.
You’re looking at it. What’s in Chicago?
My youngest sister lives in Chicago. So my other sister and I are driving up in the morning and coming back on the 4th.
Are we all staying there for the Chicago meetup? Just joshing – I decided I want to stay at the W where Mr. Nature stayed last week. Looks very cool.
How many hotdogs did you eat? Fess up.
I’ve heard that the W hotels are posh. Aren’t they pricey?
No hotdogs — for some reason they had a mardi gras/ new orleans theme and they brought in a rice/sausage/bean thing. And then grilled chicken on sticks. It was a little odd for a picnic to tell you the truth.
That sounds way better than hotdogs, which as you know are made from lips and assholes.
I think his room was $119
That’s a good rate for chicago — I’ll have to check it out.
And now I can never eat hot dogs again.
That’s not a bad thing. I limit myself to one or two a year. And they have to be Hebrew National.
Because apparently I only like kosher lips and assholes.
LOL!
I just looked up W hotels chicago (can we really bring ourselves to stay at a hotel named W — think about it) and check this out. A “whatever/whenever” service. Hmmmmm.
We’ll have to think long and hard (Hmmm…) about what our wish would be.
And I’m thinking that $119 must have been a corporate rate unless I didn’t check out the right page.
Yeah, I just checked availability for the meetup weekend and the lowest rate was $349.
It seems like the margins are busted over here.
There’s a nice roomy clean cafe up now. 😉
Yikes. We’d have to split it 6 ways. 🙂
Is it the different way they’re cleaned.
Checkout the bathtub full of hot chocolate — I think this is the hotel for O to stay at !
See if you were an aged person you could probably get a discount. 😛
I’m trying to get caught up on the editing side of life at the moment. In a perfect world I’ll have all that stuff off my plate by the end of tomorrow, the rough draft by Monday, and the bete draft early Thursday. That and a little push on my YA and by next Friday I could have completely clear plate to start a trilogy I’ve been thinking about.
Hi Kelly.
Though it sounds like I may have missed you for a while with the arrival of guests.
No problem. I’m having the same thing here.
Glad to hear everything is going good for you.
Sounds like a really exciting and productive time you!
Things have been really crazy for me for most of the past year, and especially the last six months or so, but if all goes well, I’ll be seing the end of a whole lot of projects in July. If I’m very lucky that will include my mom’s divorce circus and I’ll be able to collapse in a little heap along about mid-August after the promotional push on WebMage ends.
Geez I didn’t answer right away and now everybody is gone?
Sorry I just had a younger brother and family pull in. 🙂
I’m going to go over and open another cafe real fast.
Back in a second.
Froggy Bottom 24/7 Cafe here