August 2007 | The 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, and Randomness

August 31, 2007 • Uncategorized •

iPod Random 10 8-31-07

“The Laws Have Changed” – New Pornographers
“Red Dragon Tattoo” – Fountains of Wayne
“River of Love” – Pat Benatar
“Soulful Shade of Blue” – Neko Case
“Probably” – Lisa Loeb
“I Hate Myself for Losing You” – Kelly Clarkson
“I Me Mine” – The Beatles
“Last Goodbye” – Jeff Buckley
“Little Too Late” – Pat Benatar
“Sweet Baby James” – James Taylor

Looks like it was a woman’s world today, but sometimes I wonder about how that “shuffle” thing on the iPod actually works. I know there are some very well-represented musicians on mine, but two Pat Benatars and two Neko Cases (counting the New Pornographers here) in a “random” ten tracks? Hmmm….

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August 30, 2007 Uncategorized

Weather report

This southern girl felt right at home when she stepped outside at 5:45 this morning to walk the dog. It was already 73 degrees, and the humidity was thick. When we got downstairs to the open sidewalk, we discovered it was actually drizzling – rain has been rare this year anyway, but in the summer it’s especially unusual. Unfortunately, this is one of the three things I miss least about the South. Southern Cal is […]

August 30, 2007 randomness, reading

Booking Through Thursday – “Statistics”

There was a widely bruited-about statistic reported last week, stating that 1 in 4 Americans did not read a single book last year. Clearly, we don’t fall into that category, but . . . how many of our friends do? Do you have friends/family who read as much as you do? Or are you the only person you know who has a serious reading habit? I posted about that report here last week, and also […]

August 30, 2007 Uncategorized

Rules of the road

Stolen (with permission) from A Daily Dose of Zen Sarcasm: Yield ≠ mergeLeft Turn Only lane ≠ your personal merging laneNo turn signal = No letting your rude-person butt inFlashing RED light = Stop, then proceed with cautionFlashing RED light ≠ “Let’s see who can get faster to the intersection!”Flashing YELLOW light = Proceed with caution.Flashing YELLOW light ≠ “The road is mine, bitches”Flashing YELLOW light ≠ Stop. Go. Gooo….ssttttooopp! GO!Pedestrians ≠ Bumper fodder (unless […]

August 29, 2007 Uncategorized

Wiki Wednesday 8-29-07

It’s the first day of school, and time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! (I forgot to include the instructions last week…oops!) Traveling back in time and down under to see what was notable about 1948 in Australia: Events January 23 – De Havilland Australia conducts the first flight of its 3 engined Drover transport aircraft at Bankstown Airport May 8 – Margaret […]

August 29, 2007 Uncategorized

A little “liking your job” followup

Lifehacker points to a post on the Life Learning Today blog that offers “25 Tips to Become More Productive and Happy at Work.” I think I may have mentioned that this has been a challenge for me of late. Like many lists of this type, some of the “tips” are a little redundant, and they won’t all work for everyone all the time, but there are a few that caught my attention: Choose Happiness, Humor, […]

August 28, 2007 'riting, randomness

The gutless wonder(?)

I tend to think of myself as being on the shy and timid side, especially in person. I’m not unfriendly, but I don’t often make the first move. I’m also a conflict avoider with known passive-aggressive tendencies. And as I’ve mentioned here before, I’m an introvert. I seem to be much less of one in writing and online, but the computer provides a “screen” in more ways than one, and while it may help me […]

August 28, 2007 Uncategorized

Ten on Tuesday: 10 Things You DO Like About Your Job

Since I appended five things I liked about my job to last week’s list, I’m going to tweak this assignment just a little bit, and make my list “10 Things I Like About Having a Job.” As usual, these are in no particular order (except for the first one): The ability to support myself financially The ability to contribute to my family’s financial support (this would really be more like 1a, but I couldn’t get […]

August 27, 2007 Uncategorized

Today’s “Gratitude 5”

Post-weekend, Monday-morning, quickie edition Family time this weekend – bowling, board gamesKitchen time with The Girl – preparing Saturday evening dinner together (a new pasta salad recipe, fried chicken from Safeway, and chocolate mousse for dessert)Little morning chats with The Boy – some days I’m not the first one up, and he’s looking to be sociableLearning there’s a very good after-hours Pediatric Urgent Care clinic in Thousand Oaks (unfortunately, having to learn about it the […]

August 24, 2007 Uncategorized

iPod Random 10 8-24-07

Karen’s Random Tens are usually much more interesting than mine, so check that out. (Her blog has inspired both this meme and “Wiki Wednesday.”) I’m not sure what’s happened in the last couple of weeks, but the interference with my car iPod adapter, which goes through my FM tuner, seems to have disappeared. This is what I listened to on the way to work this morning, with comments: “Stupid Girls,” Pink (she doesn’t want to […]

August 24, 2007 randomness, reading

They probably won’t read THIS, either

I know there are bigger things to get wound up over, but my head-shaker of the day comes via Lisa at Books. Lists. Life – an AP poll finding that 1 in 4 adults didn’t read a single book last year. Not one. I know that some people aren’t readers, but I can’t grasp that concept any more than I can understand people who don’t like chocolate. Granted, this survey only concerned reading books, not […]

August 23, 2007 Uncategorized

Tuesday, Part Two…

Following up on posts from a couple of days ago: Tall Paul read my list of “10 Things You Don’t Like About Your Job,” and since I’m usually no more than ten feet away when he reads my posts, he makes his comments in person.He told me that if you take out the commute (lucky so-and-so – he goes against the traffic flow and skips the freeways), and replace “pervasive low-level anxiety” with “pervasive medium-level […]

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