I am SO ridiculously spoiled. There are two things coming on at 9 pm that I want to tape—Angel and Alias. Only one of the VCRs does the commercial avoidance thing, and I’m annoyed that I’ll have to manually forward…
Mixed News
No Doctor’s Visit Needed
I didn’t go to the doctor. sambear went to his doctor and the fast strep was negative, so there wasn’t really a reason to spend more money for me to get the same verdict. It’s just a really nasty virus…
House & Kid Nattering
I’m thinking of using this banned books list as a shopping list. I’ve read many of the ones on the list, but not all of them. Okay, I have no need to have American Psycho in the house (wasn’t that…
Music!
We enjoyed several hours of singing with friends last night—sambear even got out his guitar. There was also yummy food and great conversation. I have a new (borrowed) Echo’s Children CD to listen to. All the books are arranged neatly…
Cool!
Gosh, look what I would have missed without Jackson—REM on Sesame Street! “Furry, happy monsters feeling glad…” Katie taught Jackson the “towel dance” we taught her as a toddler to encourage her to dry off after a bath. No more…
Books, Babies, Friends
Home again, home again, jiggity jig… We went out to get Katie’s new history book at Borders—she whipped through the last one. And on the way, got a call from rasilio saying that _starrgirl_ is having contractions. So we turned…
Sounds
sambear brought home this cool switch thing. It can take four audio video/inputs to two outputs. I grabbed the first thing that came to hand to test the phono input—Daddy’s Sounds of Marine Corps Boot Camp. Now there’s a new…
Musical Memories
Oh wow. I’m listening to the B-52s Wild Planet album. The actual album. Like, on vinyl. One of the things unearthed in my parents’ basement this weekend was the first stereo I had when I was about 11. I bought…
More Music
Yeah, I’m talking too much today. I almost forgot that one of the things that was found at Mom’s house was a set of record albums—actual LPs. They went with the textbook for my music appreciation class in college. And…