Playing Catch Up

Well besides this damn job always taking up my time I have been a bit busy lately. I have company coming from Las Vegas in two weeks and we're having a party in my backyard. So this leaves me with much preparation and very little time. This is why you shouldn't put things off. Now every thing I've planned to make things presentable have to happen rather quickly. To date I have already completed a patio in preparation for this. Before we had part of a walkway and then you went around a giant bush and then another part of a walkway. Well I have formidably annihilated the giant bush which left me now with a big patch of dirt and that I can say with complete relief is now a full patio. Mind you, it's nothing fancy, some pavers and some sand, but one job down. I bought a vanity for the guest bathroom yesterday and a new light fixture so bathroom remodel is next. This is in addition to all the landscape work I'm doing and of course the daily chore of keeping an extremely irresponsible garden alive in the desert. My water use is obscene. I'm a bad person destroying the planet, I know that, but isn't admitting the problem half the battle?

I do have a small list of subjects to cover as I catch up though. I'll start with this little place I just found: playlist.com. I'm a little slow to these things but stumbled across it on some web page and was fascinated because this is perfect to play on my work computer as I work! Here's what I have started and I'll link to the nifty player here once it's complete, it's currently just about 30 songs and they allow 99. Again, it's something that takes time and I'm finding little. Now, the problem is that my favorite song to play 50 times fast is not there, Sorry Cloud (the A-Sides). I'm not sure how a list I'm supposed to listen to over and over cannot contain this track. It's in my top ten ever list of songs to listen to repeatedly. They did however have Running Away (the Polyphonic Spree) which I also have a habit of listening to over and over and over again. And they have the Michelle Kwan song: Baby Goes to 11 (Superdrag), so that's an added bonus. And unfortunately the only version available of Little Eyes (Yo La Tengo) is spelled Yo La Tenog and sounds the same of course but these little things bother me a lot. Now, they have nifty little links to go find songs that aren't there but upon trying them all what I couldn't find on playlist, I couldn't find at these links either. The other trouble is I already find myself not listening to the list but playing the same songs. I'm currently, as I am writing, on about the fifth play of Roscoe (Midlake), but how am I to tire of this? It just doesn't seem to happen. It's like high school, when you went out on a Friday night in my ride, you had a choice of about 6 Smiths' cassettes (what did you expect? CDs? I did graduate high school in 1985), I just never found it repetitious, it was as sublime at the end of the night as it was when the night began. It was exciting to find a few selections so far on the site from my high school days but I cannot end this diatribe without expressing my extreme remorse for the most glaring omission on this site of all! It is sans my theme song: Divine Hammer (the Breeders). (I'll add that while I'm not especially fond of reunion tours and seeing some of my favorite bands try again in their new, geriatric bodies, that the Breeders rocked when the Jeno and I caught them here in the ABQ a few years back, it was quite enjoyable for the both us but then the bitch moved and all, that's another story.)

Next, since I work virtually and now from my home, while I do have teammates, though only a handful, they are all in other states including my boss. We meet together each Monday as a team and we begin the sessions with what my boss calls "Team Trivia" which was intended to help us to get to know one another (I don't even know what some people I've worked with for years look like) but has quickly moved to a more traditional form of trivia. This week the person who led the "Team Trivia" (we take turns) asked us to do the following Google search on ourselves: was arrested and see what you find. Of course I discovered that I'm a murderer, sex offender, etc. I also discovered that there are many of these types of little searches going around. So try it damn it, it's fun. For example, "Jennifer was arrested" might return "Jennifer was arrested for carrying marijuana in her luggage."

Okay, there's more, but I have to keep going back to the damn playlist as I just don't see a repeat function and I'm not done with Roscoe yet, haven't been for a few years now obviously. The Jeno sent this to me this week:

Which beyond being entertaining, provides me with my favorite new vocabulary word: Pshyeah. I actually tried to work it into the title of this post and failed.

Next, I was completely fascinated by this. If you click on nothing else in this post, click this damn it so you can see just what can be done with some fuckin' lemons, it's grand.

Now, it's been a while so I have a bit of commentary on the race between the Chosen One and the old white man he finds as his competitor and all the related shenanigans. Let's begin:

When you are a leader, you write shit like this, because you won't turn your back on a woman's reproductive rights, like some others I won't mention. But it is ironic that the so-called progressive savior finds Republican talking points handy when speaking on the subject. The good news is if we further oppress women in these United States like both our presumptive nominees appear to endorse, we can have more people than China and India!

Of course someone like the person I mention above still finds themselves more competitive against the old white man I've also mentioned, as seen here.

And we know the Chosen One plays hardball, the hardest, while maintaining the image that he's above it, so they better shut these people up. The brand has been created if not perfected so don't look behind the curtain and if you have a problem with it, shut up, he needs money.

I won't say much about what I consider a non-issue of a recent New Yorker cover but did enjoy this diddy on the subject. If you want to see offensive magazine covers - talk to Hillary Clinton.

Now I'm sure the ego of the Chosen One, which is barely able to fit on the planet, had a bit of trouble with this. I mean this ego is touring Europe like he's already the President, all these elections are really just a burdensome formality, can't someone just make him the President like they made him the nominee? Voters, schmoters. Oh, and by the way, don't disagree with him. But of course I will be schooled. So effective. I forget, it's not supposed to be about principles, it's about people, not.

Do I display a bad attitude? No worries, I'm not needed to win. Those pesky progressive values just keep preventing me from joining the latest fad, get it together Dave and suck it up, he needs your money. Now, this is where your money should go, right? Not here.

And the Denver Group, previously mentioned on this blog, has a new ad since I last wrote, but they were way off the mark, it has freakin' FDR in it, remember, learn your Obama lessons: FDR=BAD, Ronald Reagan=GOOD. It's not like he plans to hold the current administration accountable. Check out this comment at the same article, of course the left blogs will now think it's a good thing to let Bush off the hook and they'll justify it with a big "Obama said so!". And it gets worse.

I know, get over it, I could say the same for MSNBC. But they are getting paid. So while clamoring over such important topics as Hillary's hair, the NYT did briefly take a break from their love affair to tell us he's new but not improved. But I could have told you that last year.

Whew, that was a mouthful and I'm still listening to the same song. I'll end with some humor. (Well kind of humorous but not as much since now we have 2 anti-healthcare candidates to choose from).