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Schoolhouse Rock


08 Oct

We need more Schoolhouse Rock. Remember them? The little cartoon shorties that were simple education wrapped in really good music. Here’s one of my favorites:

schoolhouse_rockSeveral of the Schoolhouse Rock songs I remember better than any lesson I learned at school. Not everyone responds to “musical teaching” but I did. I looked forward to the lessons on Saturday morning, and always hoped to see a new one.

I just read the Wikipedia article and never realised that there were a total of 47 3-minute episodes made. I think I missed a few.

If you watched Schoolhouse Rock, what was your favorite? Feel free to include a link if you find a video.

Well, Wasn’t That A Nice Break?


08 Sep

As you can see by the byline of the previous post, it wasn’t me! It was a more coherent, Thesaurus equipped, snarky professor.

I have 23 followers on Twitter. Do any of them realise I’m not twittering for days at a time? Sometimes months. This sort of thing is happening several places that I joined once upon a time and then abandoned.

DO NOT BE A JOINER!!

IT WILL COME BACK AND HAUNT YOU!!!

Are you a fan of PRIBEK? You’re not? Well, remedy that! Jeesh!

I found this interesting interview last night. It could have been done a few days ago, or years. I can’t tell because someone doesn’t date their posts!

From the interview at Jemsite: The Guitar Hero Series

I got interested in the guitar several years before I started playing. I remember seeing B.B. King on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I was maybe 8 or 9 and something about what he did really grabbed me. When I was 14, I saved $50 up from mowing lawns and bought a Supro guitar and Supro amp from a guy who was a couple of years older. I messed around with it on my own and took a few lessons. Eventually, I ran in to Ron Roskowske, who is a great teacher. He was working at a music store in Washington, Missouri. I took lessons from Ron sort of off and on. I would go for a couple months and, see this was a deal, where my Mom had to drive me 30 miles each way so; I’d take a break for a few months and absorb what Ron showed me. It’s a good way to learn really.

How many of you use themes that don’t date your posts?

uh-huh. That many, hm?

Well? Fix it!

Bad taste humor –

Achmed the Dead Terrorist: Wrong on so many levels.

Themes! Themes! Themes!


25 Aug

Say that rapidly a few times and it sounds like you have a demented lithp (lisp).

Yes, I’ve been goofing off with new WordPress Themes, lately. I’ve found some really lovely ones that I’m tweaking here and there. I did find many more than I kept, though. It’s unfortunate that there were so many wonderful theme designs, but the creator of the theme wasn’t as thorough as they should have been. I even found one theme that was all tables and HTML!!

So last couple of years, man.

Other than that, the weather has been decent. Once it dipped below the 90s, it was somewhat tolerable to me. The nights are still rather cool… drifting around the 50s and 60s. It’s quite nice in the evening.

My ER adventures are now culminating in statements, reports, and bills. My first visit to the ER included two MRIs. $3,500 for one, and $1,900 for the other. If I had absolutely NO insurance, that would have put a very serious dent in our savings. It’s frightening. We have no debt. We own our house (no mortgage). We have great credit. We have a bank account that makes us feel, not rich, but comfortably well off. When you see that a bill like the MRIs can so easily threaten what you’ve spent years building up… freakin’ scary.

That scare has had the unfortunate effect of making me think twice about going to the ER again. Not smart, I know, but that’s just the way it is.

Here’s a belated ‘hats off’ to the 40th Anniversary of the NASA moon landing. I thank my dad for always making sure we were aware of the history in the making going on around us. I was just a toddler back when the astronauts were jumping about in the low gravity of the moon. I still remember when I saw Armstrong touch the surface of the moon that it was a full moon night that evening. I went out with mom and dad to look at the moon above us and I felt infinitely closer to the grey rock.

I Have Been Here Before

I am seeking a question.