Month: September 2009

Gas. Toys.

I just bought a Korg Kaossilator and with Jeff’s help with cables and one little teeny piece of Garage Band preferences tweaking courtesy of the internet I got it running stuff into Garage Band.

It makes the wildest sounds.  Katie and I went nuts with it on the way back from Victoria on the ferry.

Note to self.  If you feed Katie corned beef hash, scrambled eggs, salsa, shrimp har gaw and coffee for breakfast, don’t be around her after sunset.  She would not have cleared out a courtroom; the whole building would have been shut down while grown men pleaded for mercy.  I have never experienced the like. It was actually pretty funny, once my vision cleared up and I stopped gasping.

Katie and I are off to Victoria

Back tonight.

Last night Mike came over with his Aria 12 string electric and Brian came over with his 45 year old tube amp    Which sounds amazing.  Also his Fender.  We three have never played together before, and man, what took us so long????  Also we ate much food and I picked up a Coop Car so I can reduce transportation craziness on the other side.

I wanted to take Margot but decided against it.

Hope you all have a lovely day!

Music night

Me and Tom and Peggy and Cindy sang and played after the Lunders provided an amazing meal (braised pork chops and many vegetables and garlic cheese bread) and I got to perform my two new tunes, which is always loads of fun.

I made it through both of them without forgetting anything.  As far as I can tell everybody liked them. I love the feeling I have when I’ve written something new.  I’m all shivery with excitement and can’t wait until Jeff’s at work and I can pace up and down the house with the guitar hung around my neck, singing very loud.

Earlier in the day Keith and I hung out with Mike, and that was fun too.  The rest of the day I practiced my two new songs and wrote more lyrics and made sure everything was written down, lyric wise.

Update… re Redskins

I am writing in response to your email to the Redskins concerning the

recent stories in the Washington Post.  The Post’s reporting has been
significantly one-sided, incomplete, and inaccurate.  I would be happy
to discuss the issues in these stories with you any time if you would
like to call me.  I don’t have your number, but my office number is
below.

David P. Donovan

General Counsel

Washington Redskins

21300 Redskin Park Drive

Ashburn, VA  20147

I’m going to put together a list of questions after I talk to Jeff and Loki.  I want to call this guy.

Science roundup

I loves me some cheap mass storage.

I should probably bring the results of this study to Katie’s attention. Hair stylists and social services?

A great idea for cleanup of radioactive areas…. love the picture of the waldo.

I talk to the trees…. and now they’re actually talking back. No, not really, but that’s the way to bet.

Great, a Taser version of an elephant gun.

Brain, brain, go away.  The examination of and debate over male/female brain differences continues.

Creating your way to reproductive success.

Can I pat myself on the back for linking to the metal velcro article two days before boingboing?  I AM a trendspotter, after all.

Joke of the day

A mathematician walks into a bar and asks for ten times the number of drinks anyone else normally has.

“Wow!” says the barkeep, “That’s an order of magnitude.” (Stolen from the front page of reddit).

Okay, so yesterday was a little intense.  I got up thinking “I am a lazy sea cow,” and immediately went to the computer and, start to finish, got “Brew Your Own” done.  Chords, lyrics, da works.  Then I went to the kitchen and cleaned it, including the bottom of the stove where gross stuff had leaked out of the last couple of pies, and putting away everything that had gone ahoo, and taking out the recycling, and cleaning the sinks, and the stove top and the counters.  Then I shined two pairs of shoes, dusted the treadmill, ran a load of laundry, hung pegs in the hallway, hung my guitar hangers, and then Katie came over and got completely caught up with True Blood and showed me her new tattoo (Katie has ONE SIZE IN TATTOOS. LARGE), so Kiss it and a big pair of lips are now tattooed on her butt.  I am very glad Katie is living where she is as she is obviously much mentally healthier than she used to be, but she’s turning into a damned big canvas.  Next tat will be a Tenniel illustration, either the caterpillar or the cat, behind her ears.  Anyway, while Katie was here I wrote two new songs and wrote down the lyrics… I’ll be practicing the songs enough today to be able to transcribe them into Songwriter. At this rate I’ll never catch up, but I’m smiling this morning… and I got enough sleep, too.

I think I should always be taking vitamin D, the change in my mood since I started taking it has been amazing.