In which I want things and see things and do things!
Paragraph the first: Apparently none of you like a good voice when you hear one. Which is fine. I guess. (Well, as long as you like my voice, that is.) Even though I expected more from the discerning creatures who (inexplicably) read goblinbox. Perhaps it’s simply that you’re unable to get past the songs themselves – which are cheesy, I admit – to realize that the bitch is a diva? Or maybe you just didn’t study opera like I did.
Paragraph the second: My little brother got hi’self a PSP and is offering to sell me his 5th gen iPod for a hundred bucks. I really want it! (But I’m poor and I owe the vet money and I have to save to see Amma next month and hopefully he’ll be able to hold it for a few weeks because I WANT it.) In celebration of this non-transaction, I deleted a bunch of shit I don’t like out of my iTunes library. Yay!
I think I’ve convinced Bghead to write a book with me. If we actually do it, I bet we could bang it out in six months. Right now we’re in the research phase, which means – hopefully – that Bghead is buying some of the books we discussed last night. I might have to get my library card updated and learn more about intra-library loans.
This notice was in the window at Mi-T-Mart this morning. I have no idea what this is about, but I sure do wanna find out!
What’s Maharishi Vedic City trying to do, steal someone’s land? Or is it just an issue of some townie not wantin’ no roo wiring buried anywhere on his back 40?
Paragraph the sixth: I have vox practice tonight for that bhajans album I’m singing on next month. Tomorrow I’ll be sitting in with the Green Band at the Hickory House. (My music sched is now over there –> in the sidebar!) I told Truck it was his job to know the changes to Stormy Monday and he said he already did. Hell to the yeah!
I made tabouli last night, but I had to use Italian parsley. It tasted just fine. So fine, in fact, that I ate half of it before bed. And AmmZon introduced me to the mohito. OMFGWTFBB!!!!1!1!11!!!!/!1! Damn! So good.
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RE: the notice at Mi-T-Mart – as I understand it, people who don’t like the concept of Vedic City or the people who live there plan to put in a large CAFO (factory hog confinement) either next to or within the city limits of Vedic City. So Vedic City is invoking Emminant Domain to keep the hog confinement out of their city. Should be an interesting case to follow!
Well damn, I should have known you’d know – should have called you first! Thx for the info. -m
Comment the first part: Come on now, tastes just differ. For the record I studied opera and my grandmother was an opera singer.
Tastes, sure, but one can still say something is good even if they don’t like it, no? 😉
Comment the second part: You can owe your vet money? All the vets around here require payment upon appt.
They wanted Bindu to have her rabies booster badly enough to let me carry a balance.
Comment the third – I grow fresh mint and it really makes a mohito extra yum.
Yay! -m
Well, I’d have to fall on the side of keeping the CAFOs out of anywhere. Weird roos or not.
Yeah, no kidding. I could smell one from the house in Batavia: YUCK. -m
I have to post this here for Truck, because it’s too perfect and I don’t think he ever checks his damn blog comments (totally off-topic, sorry):
http://www.truckbrand.com/
The 1st paragraph seems to be truncated. Wahsssup?
Whoops! Fixed. Thx. -m
I think you and BGHead have the talent to come up with something good…
Thanks! -m
The interlibrary loan system, years ago, really helped me when I was looking for volumes I needed. But it usually took 2-3 weeks to get something. But now with computers and all, you might not have to wait too long.
Hello,
I have been reading your blog ever since it was mentioned in the Des Moines Register many years ago.
Really! Well then I *heart* you!
ILL (inter libary loan) is great. There was a link and the Fairfield library site that was supposed to allow your to search the card catalog of every library in Iowa but it seems to give me an error message. I live in Mpls now, but use ILL at least once a week. It can take anywhere from a week to several months to get a requested item (depending on where it is coming from, if the item is check out at the home library when it is requested.) If it is not available in Iowa it is possible to do a national search (at least up here that does cost money though.) Good luck with your book,
Jenny
The FF library site‘s getting quite robust these days, I’ve noticed! My library card is a billion years old; I better walk down there and see if I can borrow things with it. -m
Spell it with me, people: m-o-j-i-t-o.
Gringos chingados de Iowa. 😉
Huh. I’d have spelled it with a j if I’d suspected the word was Spanish. Why would rum and sugar be a Mexican drink? I’m thinkin’, I dunno, maybe the islands? -m
“Gringos chingados de Iowa. ”
Um, Im assuming you are using chingar as in to drink heavily or get high, but in general, chingar is a really..
Well lets put it this way, Biblio almost knocked out the last guy that say chingado to a group of white kids in chicago as it means Mother F***er.
So, um, white mf of iowa huh.
Okies then
In Mexican Spanish, chingar is the verb ‘to fuck,’ isn’t it? So the ‘do’ part means ‘mother’? -m
is AMMA the hugging guru lady?
i *HEART* her.
Yes. And me too. -m
Gracious Lady Wyvern, I am quite aware of the meaning, in all its beautiful and myriad forms, and used it advisedly. 😉
*grin* -m
Okay you are only JUST now learning of mojitos? (I’ll skip the spelling since someone else nailed that one). You really do live in Iowa. bwahwaha
Of course I’ve heard of them, but if you’re not really into rum the recipe sounds like ass in a glass: rum, sugar, mint, and club soda? *gag* So I never bothered to have one until the other night. They taste much better than they sound! -m
Forget the rum. It’s the mint that kills me–can’t STAND mint. It’s why I drink caipirinhas (sp?) instead.
You hate mint? What a strange thing to hate. Oh well, I still *heart* you. What’s a caipirinha? -m
I too dislike mint, and it’s mexican cousin cilantro with the highest level of “dis”. If I had my way, those two herbs along with itunes, would go straight to hell. Speaking of… I’ll prolly just send you the pod anyway so I can be free of the retardedness that is itunes. Why? Because I had that “keep itunes music folder organized” checkbox checked. I was going through my mp3 drive, and noticing that itunes had “managed” to move a shit ton of mp3s from their prefectly functioning folders, to new folders itunes thought would better suit my needs. In doing so, itunes left the original folders, with any album art that they may have contained right were they were. So, after deleting the hundreds of empty folders I ended up gaining another 6 gigs of space. SIX GIGS! I have been collecting and organizing these mp3s ever since they were on things called cassettes (magnetic tape), and I have a system for myself to be able to find any one track out of the tens of thousansands at any moment. Then itunes comes along all mimbly pimbly like moving my tunes around, abandoning folders left and right. Those poor, abandoned, skinny, flies on their faces, “please, won’t you help” folders. Anyway, I forgot where I was going with this so THE END. Oh, yeah… I’ll get the pod in the mail this week somtime. Email me your addy, in case it’s changed.
I did not ‘manage’ my MP3s in any way that could be recognized as ‘organization’ before I began to use iTunes. So when I said to iTunes, “Hey, iTunes, YOU manage my files,” and it said, ‘OK,’ well, I found that my music became MORE organized. And I can find any file pretty damn easily now. But I knew this guy once, he let iTunes organize his stuff – all 60Gb of it – by accident… and then? And then he cried. ‘Cause it was all FUBAR and he was real sad about it. -m