I called home on Sunday to wish Mom a happy Mother's Day, but instead of waiting anxiously by the phone, she was away visiting one of her sisters. Well! The very idea of her having a life! Anyway, I talked to Dad instead and learned that they had ordered a satellite dish! They live out in the country, where getting cable isn't an option. As a result, they have their choice of maybe seven TV stations. However, after a few years of spending time in RV parks with cable hookups, they began to think that perhaps getting a mini dish sounded like a good idea. They had thought about it in the past, but they live surrounded on nearly all sides by trees. Dad finally talked to a dealer and determined that they could get a clear shot at a satellite through a break in the trees, so he's placed an order. See what happens when you give your parents your old TV?
I received an e-mail broadcast from CZ recently, who said that she, Dayna, Rob, and Lou were going to be driving down to Texas to visit my brother and were in need of road trip tapes. As a result, I spent about three hours Tuesday night putting together an hour-long tape that I call:
The One With the Smothers Brothers
Side A
- Smothers Brothers - Pretoria
- Art of Noise - Peter Gunn
- Elastica - Connection
- Celastial Navigations - The Janitor
- Veruca Salt - Shutterbug
- Trio - Ja Ja Ja
- Trio - Da Da Da...
- Tim Lyons - Humours of Whiskey
- Yello - Oh Yeah
Side B
- Smothers Brothers - Laredo
- Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
- New Order - True Faith
- Melanie - Animal Crackers
- Björk - Hyperballad
- Breeders - Divine Hammer
- Aimee Mann - Just What You Are
- 2001 - Transfiguration
- A Clockwork Orange - William Tell Overture
Frankly, I think you have to hear it to get the full effect. Actually, I would like to re-do it, with a few of the tracks in a different order, but I think three hours is plenty of time to spend on a joke. :-)
While I was working to making the tape, the storm warning sirens went off (or would that be "came on"?). I turned on the radio and learned there was a tornado warning. So what else is new? It looked mighty ominous outside, but nothing showed up in my area.
Last month I said that very few people showed up at the ILGIC Emergency Response Subcommittee meeting, because it was held the day after a bunch of tornadoes came through. Remember that? Well, guess what. Yep, Wednesday was the ER Subcommittee meeting. I'm beginning to suspect a cause-and-effect relationship exists here.
Wednesday night was gaming night. We finally had everyone in town at the same time, so we played a session of the Star Wars RPG that Adam is running. It was a bit of an odd night, consisting primarily of all of us convinced that there was nothing we could do and then escaping because Bob decided to try something that had virtually no chance of working. We're not sure what the moral of the story is. I prefer to think that there isn't one.
At the LAN Administrators meeting today, I took notes on my PalmPilot, which attracted plenty of attention from people wanting to learn about it. Fifteen seconds of minor fame.
Tonight, of course, was the final episode of "Seinfeld." I think it kinda sucked. I think the main problem was that they stuffed 30 minutes of material into a 75-minute show.
My Life by the Numbers
Tuesday: 238 pounds. Walked 2 miles in 29:45.
Wednesday: 237 pounds. Didn't walk, 'cuz I was up late Tuesday night.
Today: 236 pounds. (I'm not taking that weight too seriously. I just put a new battery in the scale and I suspect that's the primary cause for the change.) Didn't walk, 'cuz I was up late Wednesday night. (See a pattern here?)
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