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5 down, 8,010 to go
2008-08-22 15:20:00
It's Friday morning. I have an easy day ahead of me. The price of gas dropped. Any day now, they'll start running new episodes of "Battlestar Galactica." And, Mr F has stopped throwing cactus at me.That's the way to end the week. The only thing that could make it better is this song:"Speak To The Sky," By Rick Springfield. Have a great weekend!Down... To Go...is my way of killing time in between longer pieces -- I'm going to eventually list every song on my iPod. Why am I so short on time? Because of my awesome parenting skills -- as recounted in The Egg Salad Incident. Balding: Hope by brianefp Get this custom shirt at ZazzleMy first book of essays is out! Click here to buy Thinking The Lions, And 117* Other Ways To Look At Life (*Give Or Take)Or, click here to find out how you can win a free copy!Do you like stuff? Do you think things are The Best? Then you should be reading The Best Of Everything! Why? Because Our Opinions Are Righter Than Yours! The Best Ols...

He also does a couple of numbers from "Cats."
2008-08-22 03:52:00
A few years back, we took the kids on a brief trip to Chicago. We saw some sights, looked around at things like Soldier Field and the Sears Tower, went to the Art Institute, and finished off the trip with a family trip to watch the touring company of "The Producers."Coming out of it, we all agreed, except The Boy, that it was a great show. The Boy held fast and said that he didn't like those musicals."You liked it," I told him, and he said no, he didn't care for those songs."You'll be singing one of those songs before you even know it," he said. We all walked on and looked for a place to get dinner, but before we'd even reached the end of the block, I heard from off to my left The Boy, softly singing "Springtime... for Hitler, and Germany," and when we called him on it, he was embarrassed.Embarrassing The Boy is pretty much the perfect way to end a really good vacation. Still, like most vacations, it could have been an even greater one. With only a limited time in Chicago, ...
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Thinking The... People Who Move Places From Alaska Ought To Re-Register The
2008-08-21 00:10:00
When I was a kid, we'd go on vacations and play "The Alphabet Game," where you had to find letters of the alphabet, in order, on signs and license plates, and "The License Plate Game," the goal of which was to find all 50 states' licenses on the trip.I know what you're thinking, too, and the answer is, yes, those were the most creative names we could come up with. If we had invented "Monopoly," it would have been called "The Buying Properties Game."There were always two licenses that were the hardest plates to find: Alaska and Hawaii. They were the hardest because, in the case of Hawaii, who drives a car here from Hawaii? Only those people in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, I presume. Or Speed Buggy.In the case of Alaska, the licenses were hard to find because nobody actually has ever lived in Alaska, or if they did, they were eaten by polar bears.Now, though, Alaska plates are not hard to find; I see them all the time driving around town here in Wisconsin, and not the same car, e...
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You are smart about reading my stuff, but not about money.
2008-08-21 00:09:00
You're not smart about money. Face it. I know I'm not smart about money. I thought I was. I mean, I'm a lawyer and I help people who owe money and help save their houses and sue debt collectors and everything. But I'm not. I'm not smart about money. I know I'm not smart about money because I found out what my Bills IQ was from, appropriately enough, BillsIQ. A "BillsIQ" is a measure of what you really know about money, as opposed to what you think you know. And what I found out is I don't know nearly enough about it.But I'm getting better, and smarter, because of BillsIQ. Thanks to their help and advice and programs, about everything from Debt consolidation to Debt relief-- all kinds of Debt help, really -- I know more now than I ever did about things like Credit card debt and the good and bad ways to Consolidate debt.BillsIQ is good with that stuff, and stuff like Credit counseling or even information about Bankruptcy.Thanks to BillsIQ, I'm more knowledgeable than e...
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Thinking The Lions, and 117* Other Ways To Look At Life (*Give Or Take)
2008-08-18 16:49:00
My first collection of essays,Thinking The Lions , and 117* Other Ways To Look At Life (*Give Or Take)Is available for purchase through Lulu.com; get to it right away by clicking here.To celebrate, and to shamelessly promote it, I'm having a contest. Click that link (or this one), to see the picture on the front cover of the book, and then come up with a caption for the cover photo (Note: The photo on this entry is not the cover photo, so don't try to take the easy way out!)The winner will have their caption promoted on each and every one of my blogs, plus will win a free copy of the book!To submit your caption, leave it as a comment here, or email it to me at"thetroublewithroy[at]yahoo.com"(You know the drill -- put in "@" for the bracketed stuff!)Contest ends August 31!

Has anyone ever stopped to consider that I might be pro-Oxidant?
2008-08-16 05:07:00
As science gets less scientific, food gets moreso. Why? Why does food have to be so... enhanced? And not good enhancements, either.Sweetie and I went grocery shopping last night. On a week like this, that qualified as a high point for us. Sweetie's had an especially rough week of it, beginning with Mr F trying to get out of going for his nap by head-butting her so hard that she almost had to go for stitches. She called me at work to tell me about it, and this is what I heard:"I may neev to vo vor svives."She turned out to be okay, and didn't need to go to the emervenvy room. Having to onlyput ife on her lif was probably the high point of her day, given how the week went. The news was so bad this week that at one point I told Sweetie, quite seriously, that I might have to stop calling home from "work", and then told her, too, also seriously, that I was going to have to have her stop calling me.I wasn't going to stop the calls because I was "busy." Reading Wonderella, blog...

Bottomnotch is a good thing in some circumstances.
2008-08-16 05:00:00
My usual method of getting around these days is on foot, pushing Mr F and Mr Bunches in their stroller; this mode of transportation has all kinds of benefits like... getting to stop to pick up whatever it is they've thrown (like sandals, or their sippy cups, or my cell phone) and like... being really really slow and inefficient.When I'm out pushing them around, trying to make it up the hill without having a stroke, I like to imagine other possible methods of transportation, like maybe driving around in a supercharged hotrod car.I could do that pretty easily -- all I'd have to do is stop by Superchargerpros.com and order the parts I need, like a Nissan Supercharger or any other supercharger for any other make of car I might want. While I'm on the site, I could pick up the other parts I need, since I couldn't find a better source than Superchargerpros.com, what with their topnotch customer service and bottomnotch prices. Yes, I said "bottomnotch." You don't want TOP prices, y...
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Thinking the... Nephew Could Have Come Up With A Better Name Than This.
2008-08-14 18:30:00
Our brother-in-law, who I look up to because as a carpenter, he actually works, whereas I "work," comes from a family of farmers. His family recently bought some new cattle and as a special treat, each of the kids was allowed to name a cow.Their middle kid, who I'll call "The Riddler" because I introduced him to riddles last year and he took to them like a duck to water (or like a Batman villain to Batman villain-ry), promptly named his cow after... Sweetie.We've all tried to convince her that it's probably a compliment -- but at the same time, we've all told her at least it wasn't me, which sort of undercuts our persuasiveness.She may not like how that sounds, but Sweetie may like "How The Day Sounds" Why do you do things? If you want to know the best reason for doing anything ever, read "Now That's A Reason." Punk Rock Pickle:Take That, Salad!bybrianefpGet this custom shirtat ZazzleDo you like sports? Do you like Gisele Bundchen? Do you hate sports blogs, though? Then re...
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If I'd won the $25, and invested it at a good interest rate, I wouldn't hav
2008-08-14 16:59:00
As kids, we used to go about one time a month to Bingo night at the Church. Churches don't do Bingo anymore; it's all been taken over, I think, by casinos and online gambling and stuff.We loved Bingo night, though. It was a fun time to spend with not just mom and dad, but also aunts and uncles and cousins that came. We could play our own cards, and while the stakes weren't all that high, they were high enough for 10 year olds -- winning $25 as a kid is a lot of money.The final game of the night was always "Blackout," where you had to cover every number on your card. I loved "Blackout," because it was so tense. I'd be 1 or 2 or 3 numbers away from covering the card, and each number that was called out, I could feel everyone in the bingo hall hold their breath, waiting to hear someone yell "Bingo!"Bingo night at church may be a thing of the past, but there's something that's keeping it alive: Disney Bingo on DVD. The Disney ScreenLife DVD Bingo game uses clips from Disney...
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4 down, 8,000 to go.
2008-08-14 16:45:00
I've figured it out. I'm counting through songs at the rate of about 1 per week, so I'll finish this in just 15.3 years! Except I keep adding songs to my iPod, too.Today's song is "Off the Ground" by Paul McCartney. I've got this song on my mind today because The Beatles came up in conversation the other day. We were joking about Ringo Starr's appearance on Larry King Live because Ringo was all cranky. (I saw it the "The Soup" -- I'm not old enough to watch Larry King). The Boy said that Ringo shouldn't be so cranky since he's the only living Beatle.I was going to remind The Boy that Paul McCartney is still alive, but then I remembered... Paul is dead! In the whole world, only The Boy was not fooled by the massive publicity campaign put on by the Fake Paul Society.Sometimes I forego the music and spend quality time with the family -- like I did when I went for Sundaes In The Park With Sweetie!Important Mug Important by brianefp Get this custom mug at ZazzleRach...

I still know most of the words to all the songs in "Pete's Dragon."
2008-08-14 16:32:00
One great thing about having little kids again is it gives me a chance to revisit all the great old Disney classics -- and some of the newer Disney classics. I've always loved Disney cartoons and movies, but without little kids, I don't get much of a chance to watch them. Now, though, with the Babies! it's pretty much all Disney, all the time.Which is excellent, because I get to introduce them to my favorites characters and songs, which are, in no particular order:1. The dragon in "Pete's Dragon ."2. Hercules3. Apu the Monkey in Aladdin.4. Song: "Kiss The Girl" from The Little Mermaid.5. Song: "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid.6. Emperor Cuzco7. Kronk.8. Song: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins.9. Wart from The Sword and The Stone.10. Merlin from The Sword and the Stone.and let's not forget the Pixar ones:11. Buzz Lightyear.12. Song "You've Got A Friend In Me" from Toy Story.13. Nemo.14. Hopper from "A Bug's Life." (He's the only vil...
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Thinking The... Science May Be Over, But Lisa Loeb's Still Got It.
2008-08-12 14:55:00
Was it only six short months ago that "scientists" got bored and decided to just start making stuff up again to try to fill the lonely days between research grants? We all remember those heady days when "scientists" got tired of pretending that velociraptors actually existed and instead pretended that planets didn't exist, or did exist, or existed in another dimension, or something. Frankly, I'm still confused by it all. But at least some good came out of all that "science," and that good is that Lisa Loeb really did write that song about how to remember all 417 planets, planetary-sized objects, objectary-sized planets, sizedary-objectified-planets and the rest of the crazy mishmash we call "the solar system" and "scientists" call "that thing we hope they never pay attention to as long as they keep giving us money."The song is called "11 Planets" for some reason; why it's called that is not clear, since there are according to "science" 12 planets and according to "fact" only 9 pl...
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The Papaya Personality.
2008-08-11 15:36:00
It's hard to cook for a family; everyone has their likes and dislikes, some of which appear to be entirely random. I've many times wondered if the kids decided one day that they needed a personality of some sort, and that the best way to have a personality would be to like or dislike a kind of food.It's easy to create a personality, after all. I've done it lots of times. I invented a new signature for myself when I was 19. I read an article about how people with flourishes and flashy signatures are optimistic, energetic people. I wanted to be optimistic and energetic, too, but that's a lot of work, always being upbeat and doing stuff. So instead of becoming optimistic and energetic and hoping my signature followed suit, I sat down for about a half-hour and worked out a new signature with flourishes and doohickeys and things, and once I had that down, I assumed that the optimism and energy would ultimately result.I also made myself a fidgeter because a long long time ago, I read...
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3 down, 7,949 to go.
2008-08-10 17:27:00
A task more daunting than what it takes to become a monk... posting and talking about every song on my iPod...Last night, for about an hour, I played "Box" with Mr F. using the box leftover from a tv we bought to replace their old TV, which broke. When we went out to get the new TV, I mentioned to Sweetie just how different things were now, since when I was a kid, we didn't have our own TV and if we had, our TV breaking would certainly not have been deemed an emergency requiring people to try to go replace it that same night."Box" is a pretty easy game; Mr F stands in the box, and I put things in it, like a beach ball or a plastic firefighter, and he throws them back out because he wants to be the only thing in the box. Then, periodically, I shake the box and yell "Earthquake."I'm saying all that because there's nothing else I've got to associate with today's song, which is "Bobby's Spacesuit" by Cloud Cult. This is also the newest song on my iPod.I can/We CanBuy this shirt he...

Thinking the... cereals stay crispy in milk, but not in your pants.
2008-08-08 15:49:00
This morning, I let Mr Bunches play in our room while I finished getting ready for work. I brought with him the last of his breakfast, a handful of mixed cereals - the really healthy kind, like "S'Mores Cereal" and "Marshmallow Mateys."When it was time to head out, I had to bring him back downstairs, and I've been trying to be a better husband lately; my theory of being a better husband is to try to do the little things (because it's easier than the big things, and less expensive than flowers.) So I made sure that I picked up what was left of his handful of cereals, but then I had no place to put it while I carried him downstairs.So I put it in my pants pocket, and then forgot about it until I got to work and realized that it was all crushed up in there, so now I'm nicely dressed but I smell like Cocoa Puffs.Thinking the... appears in between longer entries. In the past, I've been Thinking The ... The Hold Steady's Citrus, and it made me all angsty but hopeful; when I've had ...
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A lot of living but not much of a life.
2008-08-08 15:39:00
Mindful Living TV has arrived and is ready to help you experience your life, not just get through it.Lives today are hectic: we drive, we email, we talk on cell phones, we grocery shop garden give the babies a bath help with homework fill up the gas tank call our mortgage lender brush our teeth set up the new DVD player shop for birthday presents stop off for water softener salt make a few phone calls before leaving the office... your life is probably a lot like mine; the details may differ but the gist is the same. With all that going on, we do a lot of living but have very little life.Mindful Living TV is going to change that. Life style expert Dr. Kathleen Hall created the Mindful Living Network to teach people how top ay attention to their life, and has set up a website to promote that approach and features innovative, creative shows that will teach anyone who wants to know how to live happily and healthily and balance all the competing factors in their life.They've got inform...

TV Shows I'll Write Someday (#2)
2008-08-06 17:02:00
This is going to be a colossal hit: Judge Mommy: A stern but loving judge presides over a real courtroom where real disputes between real children are presented by the kids themselves. Who really had the skateboard first? Who called shotgun just before they got into the car? Who's a giant stinkwad? Let Judge Mommy Decide!Will "Judge Mommy" be bigger than Celebrity Court? We'll see. The Boy sings instrumentals in the shower? Really?Great Mistakes:Great Mistakes In History: Letting Favre Go.bybrianefpDesign Customized Shirts At zazzle.comDo you like sports? Do you like Gisele Bundchen? Do you hate sports blogs, though? Then read Nonsportsmanlike Conduct! -- the sports blog for people who love sports but hate sports blogs.
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Two Down, 7,939 To Go.
2008-08-04 16:42:00
Part two of my continuing series to countdown every song on my iPod, a task as Sisyphean as, well, Sisyphus'. Or Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged's job. Today, it's "Bittersweet Samba," by Herb Alpert & His Tijuana Brass. I like to put this on while I cook dinner on Saturdays, and pretend it's the 60s again and we're all going to sit down to a hearty dinner eaten off plates that, although we don't know it, are radioactive. Plus, shag carpet!Here's the thing, too: I like Herb Alpert because my dad used to listen to his Herb Alpert records on our old hi-fi. So, kids, be careful: You never know what aspects of your parents are going to sink in. I missed out on "hard working" and "good with tools," but I got "likes Herb Alpert."I pass on my own skills to my own kids -- like gambling; read about that here. Jim FallsJim Falls, WIbybrianefpGet this custom shirtat Zazzle Rachel's not sure where she came from or what she's supposed to do, unless she really is trying to take ...

Still, if you do have a van, just call me.
2008-08-03 19:27:00
I'm moving a couple of my blogs to custom domain names. But don't worry, it's not like I'm going to ask you to come and carry some of my stuff up and down steps (unless you have a van. Do you have a van? Never mind.) But, you should update your bookmarks & links & stuff. So here's the scoop:Thinking The Lions, the blog where you can find out why I'm like a superhero and be privy to how I solved The Monty Hall Problem when so-called smart people couldn't, and how hard it is to buy a refrigerator, will be located at http://www.thinkingthelions.com/.Nonsport smanlike Conduct! -- the sports blog for people who love sports but hate sports blogs -- will continue The Boy's Power Ranking Countdown To Football Season, and adding to The Hall Of Whiny Brats Who Insult Humanity, at http://www.nonsportsman.blogspot.com/.And the website that proves that the scariest things, you can't imagine -- AfterDark-- will keep telling you about creatures like Temporary Anne, the woman who es...
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Now, I can list "Superhero" on my resume, too.
2008-07-31 15:36:00
I'm sitting here today, ready to start "working," and I am as cool as a cucumber. Looking at me, you would not know that I was personally involved in a bomb scare the other day, a bomb scare that showed my calm, brave, heroic side to good effect.I am, in short, like Batman, if Batman fought crime by not noticing it until he's on his way home from work, and only then learning about the crime because he was slow in plugging in his iPod to listen to the song "Convoy" because that's the kind of mood Batman was in that day.It all took place on Tuesday. I, according to my resume, "work" as a lawyer during the day. That meant that on Tuesday, I was (heroically) forced to stop blogging, reading celebrity gossip, and trying to fix Sweetie's cell phone in order to go to court for a case.I was (heroically) fixing Sweetie's cell phone while at "work" because I never have time to fix it at home, where most of my time is taken up, these day, with picking up pink Post-It notes. On Sweetie's ...
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Thinking The... The Archies' Lawyer Should Have A Word With Those Def Leppa
2008-07-30 17:32:00
Want to know a fun way to irritate people who like music? Refer to every single music group or singer as "The... [insert name][s]." Like when you're talking to your kids, make sure you say things like "I like that group, 'The Fall Out Boys'." It works with parents, too: "You know who was good? The Elvis Presleys."I'm thinking about that because I noticed this weekend, while listening to my iPod during grocery shopping that The Def Leppards may have borrowed a bit from The The Archies:"Pour your sugar on me, baby!" Sing it, The The Archies. Now, here's your slightly-harder rocking version:If you're wondering what kind of music collection includes both The The Archies and The Def Leppards, it's the kind of music collection I have, one that also includes the complete CD of Baby Einstein music.Thinking The... is a short entry to kill time between larger entries. Got a little time? Read when I was Thinking The... Sandwich I Wanted Really Would Have Been Better. Got a little more t...
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Thinking The... Entertainment Weekly editors should just acknowledge they a
2008-07-28 15:20:00
I am the most earth-shatteringly popular cultural force in America, or at least one of the top 10 such cultural forces; I probably have to share the limelight with Stephen Colbert and that one guy who breakdances in that Dirty Vegas Video.No matter who's up there with me, I am still a man to be reckoned with when it comes to pop culture, because 8 days ago, while I was sitting around mooning over my would-be spaghetti sandwich, I posted this video for Why Do You Let Me Stay Here by "She & Him."Then, this past weekend, I was trying to read what was left of my Entertainment Weekly after Mr F and Mr Bunches got hold of it and ripped out most of the pages I was intending to read, and I see that the video for Why Do You Let Me Stay Here has made "The Must List," the list of things you "must" do.It doesn't stop there: Obviously, "She & Him" are also fans of mine, judging by their gratuitous use of the ampersand, which I first popularized on this t-shirt:Ampersand(and which you c...
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You can have my recipe for genius, but I will never give up my recipe for m
2008-07-26 20:05:00
Thomas Edison, I think, said that genius is 99% inspiration and 1% perspiration. Or he said it was exactly the opposite, maybe, that it was 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Or maybe it was Thomas Jefferson that said it.Either way, he was wrong, or both of them were wrong. Genius is 99% inspiration, and 1% perspiration, and roughly 20% lack of sleep, and then another 17% or so wet Babies!, and also genius is a willingness to simply ignore math rules like "there's only 100% of something."I know what genius is, because I am one, and I know the prescription for genius because I realized that I had all those ingredients when I yet again this week proved to myself that I am a genius by solving The Monty Hall problem while also giving the boys a bath. Now, that is multitasking.If you are not some sort of uber-nerd, you don't know what the "Monty Hall" problem is, so I'll take a moment to explain. Monty Hall was a game-show host in the 70s, when everything was funny to Will Ferr...
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Progressive, open, and free. Free! FREE!
2008-07-26 15:01:00
The internet continues to expand and become more democratic; when I was a kid, computers had 8 kb of memory and had to be programmed in "basic," which meant it took 3 1/2 years to get your computer to say "hi" and which meant, too, that "Wargames" was a lot of crap.Now, computers can be 'programmed' with point-and-click technology, as the underlying programs do the work for you to set up your own sites and forums. And Forumity.com has taken it even further by providing you with 100% FREE phpBB Forums!Forumity's hosting service has fast servers. It has high bandwidth. It allows you to create your own Forum without installing phpBB; instead, just a couple of clicks and you're forum hosting to your heart's content. The Free Forum Hosting at Forumity.com proves just how far we've come and how much more open and free and great our society is. I like all that. Especially the free part.
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Thinking The... revelation of this detail will probably make people hate me
2008-07-25 00:16:00
The other night, at about 2:30, Sweetie woke me up because she had a kidney stone. She knows when she's got one. The last time she had one, she woke me up and said, simply "I've got a kidney stone; I'm going to drive myself to the hospital," and then doubled over in pain. I made sure I got up and drove her then, just like I made sure I got up and drove her this time.We were sitting in the ER waiting for them to do whatever scan they do to determine if she is right that she has a kidney stone, and periodically, over the public address system, an announcement would come: Ambulance in, they would say.Each time, I thought this exact sequence of thoughts:First: Oh, man, that's probably going to make us sit here longer.Then: That was a terrible thing to think. What if that person's really hurt?Then: I hope they're not really badly hurt.That last thought seems to be a good one, but it was a mixture of actually hoping the person was okay because I don't want people to be hurt, and al...
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But then there will be another TV show, and another...
2008-07-25 00:11:00
If you're me and you just can't seem to lose weight, if you're me and your pants are always, apparently, shrinking in the wash (even when they haven't been washed), and if you're me and you break into a sweat just exercising your options (ha ha!) then there's a simple cure: Put down the peanut-butter cheese & cracker packets (my newest weakness) and get up and start exercising.But there are people whose weight problems are caused by something more than what might actually be a clinical addiction to peanut butter. Some people have genetic dispositions to weight gain, or health reasons that keep them from exercising as vigorously as they might want, or even thyroid problems. For them, the obesity surgery offered by JourneyLite is the answer. JourneyLite's comprehensive program guides those people through every step of the process. They'll evaluate whether the LAP-Band system will work on the person, then find an experienced surgeon to do the job, get insurance approval if ...
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One Down, 7,904 to go.
2008-07-21 23:14:00
Who Needs You, by Queen... My older brother had this album on vinyl. I don't remember ever hearing this song before it came up on my drive into work today. What I do remember is that I had a large collection of cassette tapes, and shared a room with that older brother. One day, I came home to find that he'd thrown out all of the little album-cover inserts from the cassettes, leaving maybe 40 cassettes on the shelf, all identical and with no way to tell which was which unless you pulled it out and looked at the cassette itself. He said he did it because it "looked neater that way." Down... To Go... is a new feature to kill time between longer entries. I have 7,904 songs on my iPod and will eventually count them all down here.

Start a Memory Walk Team.
2008-07-21 23:06:00
Everyone has parents and grandparents and they, like everyone of us (hopefully) will grow old. It would be great if we could all grow old with our dignity, our intellect, and our memories intact. My grandmother right now is suffering from more and more confusion and memory losses, not remembering visits and details like that.The best way to help achieve that is to fight Alzheimer's disease, and unless you've got a medical degree and a research lab, the best way for you to help fight is to take part in an Alzheimer's Memory Walk . The Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk® is the single largest Alzheimer event, raising both awareness and funds for care, support and research. The walks are in the fall and go for 2-3 miles, and are held in more than 600 communities.The walks need team captains, and that's how you can help. Sign up to be a team captain, or at least to take part. It's not that much work, but it's a lot of help for people suffering from Alzheimer's.
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Thinking The... Sandwich That I Really Wanted Would Have Been Better.
2008-07-20 18:57:00
It's Sunday, it's noon, I'm at my office, and I'm about to dig into my deep-fried chicken & mozzarella cheese sandwich -- of which the chicken was made by hand using my own deep frier, but what I really wanted today was a spaghetti sandwich, only we were out of leftover spaghetti. It's impressive, though, that I manage to soldier on despite these kind of setbacks and regrets.Bumblebeez:BumblebeezbybrianefpGe t this custom shirtat Zazzle
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Thinking The... Need To Stick It Out.
2008-07-18 15:13:00
David Knopfler formed the band "Dire Straits" with his brother, Mark. The version of the story that I heard was that after the band made Making Movies, David quit and told Mark that the band would never amount to anything.Then they released Brothers In Arms, which featured "Money for Nothing," a song that made, at last count, one mocha-zillion dollars.That's why, no matter what I'm doing -- writing, "working," or imagining that instead of driving to work in heavy traffic while pretending that really there was a nuclear war and now the squirrels have taken over and I am humanity's last hope, I never quit. That spirit is lucky for me and lucky for humanity. Unlucky for the squirrels, though.Thinking The... is a semi-daily feature to fill time between larger entries.Click here to read all my rules for living, including why six-minute milk is bad. Balding:HopebybrianefpGet this custom shirtat ZazzleLike horror stories? AfterDark: The Scariest Things, You CAN?T imagine.
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