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Good riddance 2016, and Happy New Year everyone
Notice to 2016: You were fired months and months ago and yet refused to leave, and kept piling abuse after abuse upon us to boot. Don't let the screen door hit'cha on your way out, as I'd rather avoid damage to the screen door ( Read more... ) -
Snowzilla, and other winter weather
This has been frustrating. I mean, yes there is some point to getting through the worst part of being sick when there's really no point in going outside anyway. But this hung on and hung on, and here it is 40-mumble hours since the snow stopped falling, and I haven't been well enough to get out and shovel. montuos has been a real trooper, doing what she ( Read more... ) -
::sings::
(Tune should be obvious.)
"Mikey's ordered a shipment at the MIL-waukee station
For this afternoon at quarter past two;
And flyin' IN the open window here comes Mikey's cable
As the train goes a-rum-b-lin' through!"
(I *may* provide context upon request. Not sure yet.) -
Forty years ago on this date
Most folks above a certain age (and some below that age) are aware of what happened forty years ago this evening, if only because of the very well-known song that Gordon Lightfoot wrote about it. On 10 November 1975, an early and vicious winter storm hit Lake Superior, and took down the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with all her 29 crew ( Read more... ) -
Silly thought of the day
Titles of actual books that you wouldn't want in series with each other.
"God Is My Co-pilot"
"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" -
Ideas that go around, come around...
(Adult Content: references to computers older than my high school diploma ( Read more... ) -
'cause Uptown Funk gon' give it to ya...
I'd long since fallen out of any habit of listening to "current pop" radio, until a need for Frederick-specific traffic reports got me listening to a local pop station there. For those who didn't know, the biggest hit of the first 4 months of 2015 (according to Billboard) was "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. (Ronson is a guitarist ( Read more... ) -
Because it's Thanksgiving
The "church nearby the restaurant" was later bought by Arlo himself, and forty years after the incident that started at the church, he sang the song there...
Alice's Restaurant Live at Guthrie Center
Which makes this rendition a real-life example of telling band camp stories at band camp. ("This one time, a- here...")
Happy US Thanksgiving -
Signal boost
My friend zephyrofgod ran into some serious trouble with airlines not too long ago and almost didn't get back to the States after her vacation. I'm signal-boosting her post about it, which is unlocked ( Read more... ) -
Requiescas in pace
It was 18 years ago this summer that we got inquiries on the Rialto (Remember the Rialto?) from one who was about to start grad school at Catholic U., and wanted to know if there were heralds in the area. Umm, why yes, there were a few. He came to herald practice pretty regularly once he moved in. We survived the Blizzard of '96 and 12th,er,13th,er ( Read more... )