Time for Friday Random 10…
What are you drinking?
With this weather, it’s defnitely a TWO orange blossom martini Friday…
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The iPod’s loaded and ready to play
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
I thought the work day would never end…
What’s shakin’?
I got NOTHING done today because it was all baseball, all day.
But I DID get tickets to Game 4. woo hoo!
Excellent! So, you bought one for me, right?
I wanted to but after the SeaHawks beat the Rams … St. Louis isn’t feeling too nice to you Seattle people. It’s safer for you to stay home and watch it on TV. 🙂
I’m excited about a midwestern World Series and hoping for some frosty weather.
I was hoping for a snow day so that our rotation could be put right.
Snow day, Snow day, we don’t need no stinkin’ snow days. The Tigers are rested and ready.
How about I pretend I’m from BC?
It’s the “World Series,” so only Americans are invited. OK, Toronto citizens are included, but we’ll be checking passports and three other accepted forms of ID.
You should go to a Mariners game when the Blue Jays are playing. Seems like half of BC shows up for the game. Gotta do something when hockey isn’t in season, I guess.
YOu know, I’ve always loved the midwest. Mabe I should come visit and go to the game with you. 😉
Cool. When is game 4?
There’s nothing like a playoff game. In 2001 my wife’s boss had tickets to (I think) game 2 of the ALDS, Mariners vs. Indians at Safeco Field. He couldn’t use them so he sold them to her and we played hooky to go on a baseball date. The tickets were in the lower bowl, right out at the corner of right field, so if Ichiro had to go to the wall for ball we wouldn’t be able to see him. The Mariners hit two home runs in the first four at-bats to put themselves up 4-0 and the game was basically over at that point.
Too bad we couldn’t do that well against the Yankees in the ALCS, but that’s another story.
This World Series puts me in an awkward position. In 2000 I was wishing both teams could lose. This year I wish both teams could win. I’m going to have a hard time rooting against either side.
Omir’s up too late last night, tired today, wanting to go home and get the weekend started by going to bed at 8 PM except that the granddaughter is coming by so he wants to play with her too version of the Pseudo Random 10!
Stand By Me – Doc Watson
Haleiwa Farewell – Arlo Guthrie
This Song Has No Title – Elton John
Body and Soul – Lester Young and Nat “King” Cole
The Waiting – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Silver Swan Rag – Joshua Rifkin
Me, My Guitar and the Blues – Chris Thomas King
Lonely Weekends – Charlie Rich
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean – Blind Lemon Jefferson
Mary, Mary – The Monkees
I always liked that last one 🙂
Can’t imagine why. 🙂
I think the Monkees were underrated. They were pretty talented in their own right and they had some dynamite writers and producers working for them. They weren’t the Beatles by any stretch of the imagination and the Beatles vs. Monkees petition drive the local radio station started looks silly in retrospect now, but I still like listening to their stuff — plus, when I can find it, Mike Nesmith’s post-Monkees work on his own and with groups like the First National Band.
I loved the monkeys!!!!
I have to run out for a bit…see you all a little later.
Thank GFSM! The bar is open. I’ll have three. Whatever you got, I’ll have three.
Limit one drink to a customer!
(booooooooooo)
Served in BUCKETS!
(Yaaaaaaaaaaay!)
I know I have a 33-gallon bucket around here somewhere.
I probably should have said, “Combined Random 10. “Kidspeak is still miserable with a truly lousy cold, and I am wiped out, so I’m proposing that she & I combine our lists. I see if she’s up for. Be right back.
I like the “joint” Random 10 better. 🙂
There’s got to be plenty of songs that would qualify. Don’t Bogart That Joint, Take A Whiff On Me, When You’re A Viper, Coming Into Los Angeles, Easy Skankin’ . . . that’s half a list right there.
Hope the two of you get to feeling better.
Thanks for the well wishes. Good luck with the spammers. Speaking as one not knowledgeable in these matters, I depend on the kindness of those who do to battle those who abuse the pond. (What a painfully odd sentence. I really must go get some sleep.)
The First Kidspeak & Teach313 Combined Random 10.
Kidspeak opens.
“Every Breath You Take,” The Police (She can barely do so.)
Teach313 responds: “Golden Slumbers,” McCartney/Lennon
KS: “What? Are you nuts?”
T: “It’s my choice, that’s what I popped in my head.”
KS: shakes head in disbelief. “Golden Slippers” a 1870’s gospel song that became a frontier standard.
T: “Honey, how much medicine did you take?”
KS: inaudible glare
T: “Radar Love,” Golden Earring, the Dutch rockers.
KS: “Who? That doesn’t remind me of anything?”
T: “So you are free to choose, unfettered by my suggestions.”
KS: That doesn’t make me think of anything. Wait.
“I’ll Do Anything” from Oliver.
T: “I’m Reviewing the situation,” from Oliver.
KS: Do we have ten yet?
T: No, only six.
KS has hit the wall. I’ll finish it up.
“The Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger),” (in honor of KS’ Cardinals making the Series.)
“Slow Song” Joe Jackson
“I’m So Tired”
“Slipping into Darkness.”
Take care, must get KS to bed, clean up a bit, then crash.
Heh. Most excellent. Have a good evening, you two.
My life gets stranger by the minute. I guess I will lead a simpler life from now until thursday of this coming week. LOL My lights are off and the soonest I will have the cash to start them again will be thursday. Let’s just say things have been tough financially for the last 3 or 4 months and the balancing of bills finally caught up with me. LOL Luckily the temp has dropped and I still have water and gas.
I am using the laptop and luckily ha it at work and charged the battery. I will do the same tomorrow but I expect it to doe some time sunday till I cna recharge monday. LOL
I gave my second speech at Toastmasters today and got rave reviews again. I also got some good hints for improving it.
Sorry about your troubles, RF69. My kids and lived without electricity and phone several times after they got cut off. It sucks. You can only tell so many scary stories by candlelight before someone really really wants to watch tv and can’t. Hope things get better for you!
Thanks!!!!
For a while after we moved to Texas we voluntarily didn’t have a phone. I wanted to see how much we could get away with not having and how long we could get away with it. After about the sixth time someone had to drive out to the apartment to ask one of us a question my boss made us change our mind.
Can’t live without electricity, though. Internet runs on electricity.
Good luck, both with Toastmasters and with the electricity.
Soon after we moved to our fancy new house in Texas (the last one we had there before we moved to Seattle) there was a knock on the door. I was home sick with strep throat so I wasn’t too happy about answering the door to start with. A relatively polite young man was there to collect the arrears on our electric bill. Trouble is, we didn’t have an arrears on our electric bill. The people who had lived at our house before we did had one, but not us. He was polite, but he was insistent, and he wouldn’t take no for an answer. About the time he was heading around the corner of the house to shut off the electricity for non-payment I had to croak “WAIT!!” at the top of my aching throat and hand him a check that drained our bank account. (It was no doubt un-Christian of me, but at the time I hoped I was contagious.) We got it straightened out later that day but I was not a happy camper.
I hope your situation ends as well as that one did.
The lights I will get back as soon as I get paid. If the current owner wants anything done on the place as they are trying to seel it he will have to pay the bill and let me pay him back, I have told them several times something was wrong with the ac when my bill kept coming in at 300 to 400 each month once hot weather hit. It is only a two bedroom duplex with one room shut off. I will survive between going into work early and trying to keep the ;aptop charged but the batteries on this only last a short time. LOL
I will have to throw out all the food in my fridge and start all over on the next paycheck. I guess it will be raman noodles for a while or oatmeal. LOL
I am having a blast at toastmasters and I think every political candidate should join before they run for office.
Spouse is at the desktop — I’m on the laptop; since I can’t look up composer info for my classical selections, I’ll limit this list to selections from my “General Music” (non-classical) playlist:
Something’s Burning — Kenny Rogers
Enjoy the Silence — Depeche Mode
Wonderful Tonight — Eric Clapton
Advice for the Young At Heart — Tears for Fears
Centerfield — John Fogerty (sending this one out to Maryb 😉 )
Sooner or Later — Michael Tolcher
Sixteen Tons — The Weavers
Don’t You Feel Small — Moody Blues
Rockin’ In The Free World — Neil Young
California Girls — The Beach Boys
Have a great evening…