Adriana, Danny and Gracie - Thank you for taking the time to stop by and read my first feeble attempt at blogging.
As I mentioned to a few friends in a Skype message yesterday, I need to start eating a frog every morning http://www.eatthatfrogmovie.com if I'm going to stick with this. But I also need to decide how to garner some followers in order to feel like I've accomplished something here. Any suggestions?
Oh, I guess I could go out on Twitter and Skype and Facebook and MySpace and Me2everyone and post a link back to this blog, but isn't that a bit like begging? Wait, that's right, I remember my Mom telling me that "beggars can't be choosers", so maybe a little begging could go a long way. Okay, so let's see......I'll need to put together some catchy phrases to entice folks to make the time to visit. Sounds a bit contrived to me. I mean after all, I'm not selling anything on here, so why do I need to be cute? Why not just tell folks what I'm up to and let them make up their own minds? Yeah, that might work.
I had another one of those "Random Thoughts" today. Do the jerks that drive around with their boom boxes blasting that really low, loud booming sound actually hear it inside their car the way we do on the outside? A few months back, I was sitting in our car waiting for Suzanne to come back out from our local Walgreens when one of those jerks pulled in next to me, got out and left his engine and his boom machine running while he went into the store. I thought "what if I went over and turned off his noise-making machine" wondering if he'd be really pissed or just curious when he came out. So I did.
Only one problem, I couldn't find an "off switch", so I just turned off the motor, and slid the keys up under the driver's seat. Suzanne came out and we left before he came back out. In retrospect, I should have waited around to see what his reaction was, but discretion being the better part of valor, we left. I hope maybe he got the message, thus saving some other old fart from getting his blood pressure up over such a silly thing.
Here's another not so "Random Thought": Do you enjoy music while you're working (or playing) on your PC? I do. Each morning when I boot up the old desktop PC, I am greeted by music of my choice and it plays all day until I shut down for the night (which I need to do here in a minute). About a year ago, I stumbled on something called Pandora Radio. If you haven't heard of it or tried it yet, you really should. It's really cool. You select an artist you like and Pandora establishes a station just for you which plays that artist's music and the music of other artists of the same genre. For instance, I like the acoustic guitar music played by a fellow named Andy McKee. Pandora plays selections of his works and those of other acoustic guitar players I've never heard of before. It's really a neat application.
Okay, I'm outa here for tonight. That first frog went down easier than I thought it would. I'll be back again after it passes (the frog, that is) and if there are no lingering side affects, I'll try next time to ramble less and perhaps you'll be enticed to come back again.
"Today will soon enough become tomorrow, and spent wisely, will then become a yesterday to remember."
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