Illuminatea

Dear iPod, Over the years that I've had you (as your second owner), we've had our rocky times. You've worked well with both my Windows and Mac workstations -- that's a plus. Your battery life is damn near useless (and I understand that's not really your fault), but with the appropriate adapter therapy we've been able to work around that. I hardly ...

Earlier tonight while reading my LiveJournal friends' posts, I saw this video: The Mean Kitty Song This video has been cracking me up for hours now. I've watched it, like, a gazillion times, and I still am laughing my ass off. I'm also madly wanting a cat, but that's partly Ryan's fault, since he just got a new cat and we went over to his place ...

First, I would like it to be known that I am only doing this under protest. I don't usually participate in blog memes, because most of them are damned silly. However, I got tagged on this one by Paul in what looks like a fairly typical spree of spreading the love, so I'll go ahead and do it. So here's the meme, in Paul's words: ...

It's been a bit since I've talked about music and video, so here we go. Mickie's belated birthday presents showed up (thanks, Mickie!) so I now have Explosive: The Best of Bond to listen to (and watch, since the flip side of the CD is a DVD with several of their videos). If you've not heard any of Bond's work, I urge you to give them a ...

I was asked by our priest if I could provide some quiet background guitar music for my church's Maundy Thursday service. I agreed, and when time came to head down to the church tonight, I decided to walk. It's only ten minutes away by foot and I can always use the exercise. My fingers are sore -- with the practice time yesterday and today, plus ...

Stephanie and I were listening to the radio in the car tonight. We had it on our local country station since they were doing their weekly countdown and we both like a lot of the modern country music (although by no means all of it). As we were listening to Brad Paisley's ''Mud on the Tires'' Steph asked a question that demonstrates just how ...