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May the 4’s be with you
I have a feeling it’ll be a quiet morning. How late did the party last?
Is that you hiding inside that froggybottom disguise?
Yes!! I got confused and didn’t change out of my costume before posting the comment.
Did you see the remains of the night?
[whew, got to correct the mispelled katiebird]
Yeah, I went back and saw how much I missed. I even went all the way back to the Happy Hour Cafe because there were new comments in that one.
The early morning chattiness was just a mere whiff of what was to come: January 27, The Day of Much Talk.
It would be interesting to see the comment statistics for yesterday. With all the FAX updates on the front page there was a lot going on all over.
“I have a feeling it will be a quiet morning”.
I hope Froggybottom doesn’t quit the day job and go into tarot card reading.
Wow, what a bunch of chatty cathies everybody was yesterday. Good thing there isn’t a quota on words or we’d be seriously in debt.
I’m still in the throes of Utah lust from doing my vacation planning so here’s yet another reason why.
Wow — That’s an astonishing scene. Were you standing on something solid when you took this?
Jim took it and it depends on how you define solid 😉 The rock is solid but in a lot of cases, it isn’t exactly attached to terra firma.
I was afraid of that. It looks like the kind of place where I don’t want to get out of the car. But, I suspect you walked there. I’m glad you are so willing to share photographs because I’m probably never going to see anything that, I-don’t-know-what in person
Ya never know – it might get to jumping again like last night.
I got a question. My daughter wants me to sign into Yahoo instant messenger. Have either of you ever used it?
I’ve never used it. I don’t want to talk to people unless I want to. And it seems that IM stuff would be like another phone ringing. I don’t answer the phone (except for parents) and I wouldn’t want to answer IM. Which would defeat the purpose.
And my experience last night juggling 3 fast paced email conversations leads me to believe that’s the right decision for me.
is that you can stop and think about what you want to say but with IM I felt compelled to answer immediately.
I maybe use the phone 2 or 3 times a month. Since I’ve been back on the Internet I only have 2 or 3 people I email, so with my daughter it would be fine.
I used to IM a lot using AIM, but now that I live with the person I formally IMed I rarely do.
But, katiebird, you can “turn off” your availability any time you want to, so that people can’t “see” that you’re online.
Good morning everyone. Coffee is hot and I’m the only one up and the sun is shining. What could be better?
Second Nature — It’d be off all the time!
And I’m always reading about security holes in those things.
You just said the magic words – security holes. I lost a computer over Xmas and had to get a new one. I’m so afraid of worms, viruses, etc that I now check all the time.
We have good virus protection here at home, and AOL has some good stuff built into it’s software so I don’t worry that much. Plus, I NEVER open things from people I don’t know.
No Kama Sutra worm for me….though it sounds fun.
I heard about that one yesterday. I’m not really worried about emails because I don’t open anything for anybody I don’t know. But since I’m still getting used to the Internet and all I’m never sure.
Another question. Is there any way to go back and edit your comments. Sometimes I’ll re-read mine and see obvious errors in sentences.
Nope, you can’t edit comments. But everyone understands typos. And sometimes they lead to funny conversations. I often feel I could have worded something better.
Well I usually try and spellcheck everytime, but I cringe when I read some of the things I’ve typed.
Sorry. Just wanted to say the phrase again. I’m sure the reasons are obvious.
Obviously obvious. I noticed a similar reaction with Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty yesterday. Sometimes you say something and think ‘wow, I never thought those words would come out of my mouth.’
I saw the same thing yesterday. There was a film out in the 60’s called kama sutra. Took my high school steady to the drive in to see it.
Why? Didn’t you want to watch it?
mine blew up on Thanksgiving day. mister rebuilt it twice but we finally had to buy a new one. Luckily we (he) found his exact computer — which is a great one — on eBay for $317 including postage.
And he did some tests — both the memory sticks on my “old” computer were faulty. So he’s sent them back.
I’m still trying to figure out what happened to mine. It will boot up, but won’t recognize Drive C. I check cables and everything, but nothing. I’m usually pretty good about backing up, but I got lazy in the last three months and lost a lot of family pictures.
Have you checked the BIOS to see if it shows up there? You can “lose” the hard drive if your battery dies.
Did you hear any ugly grinding from the drive before you “lost” it?
No I didn’t and I didn’t know that about the battery. That’s going to be the job for today. I love talking to such knowledgeable people ;). Thanks.
I should have asked you about it a month ago. I don’t know why I didn’t. We’ve had that happen to a couple of computers.
which could cause it to be missing, whether or not it’s ‘missing’ in the bios, could be a loose data cable at either the controller/motherboard or the drive end inside, loose power cable to the drive (not likely because they’re very tight fits usually), or a failure of either the drive or the controller.
Mine is off all the time. Mostly because I don’t want people to know how much time I actually spend online. I couled explain it away by saying that with high speed internet I stay on all the time, even when I’m sleeping.
I haven’t used yahoo but before there was wifi and cell phones, my husband and I used aol’s instant messaging as an easy way to talk when I traveled. We liked it because if one of us thought of something to say, then we’d just type in a message but now if that happens we just call on the cell phone (and I don’t travel nearly as much these days thankfully).
mister and I thought about that also. But in those days we worked one cubicle away from each other. And by the time I got the job I have now we had the cell phones too.
There are so many ways for people to find me — I don’t want the distraction of that IM thing going off any time it wants.
As I said up thread I hate to talk on the phone and my daughter know I’d rather e-mail.
I didn’t grow up with a phone for a long time and to me when you are talking with some one and the pause comes where no one is saying anything for a few seconds. Then you’ve said it all and it’s time to hang up.
When my niece was little, she loved to call Jim and me on the phone. The only problem she had was that she didn’t have anything to say and in order to keep us on the phone, she would say “So by the way” followed by a long pause as many times as she needed before she could think of something else to say.
Note: it’s a sure sign of some kind of aging that something that happened 30 years ago feels like yesterday but things that happened last week feel like 30 years ago.
That’s such a nice memory though. I’m there with you on the memory thing. I keep a daily journal on just things I’ve done during the day. If you asked me what I did three days ago I couldn’t tell you. So with my journal ask me about 10 months ago and I’ve got it down.
I answered a phone call when I didn’t recognize the caller ID (a rare thing for me) and there was this tiny little voice that just said “Hi Aunt unintelligible” and since I don’t have any nieces or nephews under the age of 8 I knew it was a wrong number. But she sounded so cute and I didn’t want to hurt her feelings so I asked her all kinds of questions about what she had for lunch and what she was doing today. Finally her mother came on the phone and I told her it was the wrong number and she just hung up on me.
Apparently she’d heard about your secret life as a corrupter of youth.
I just remembered that when my kids were little they would answer the phone and say cute things like ‘mom is pooping’ to the bill collector or salesman that was calling.
I’m getting tired of that pinched-waisted girl on the right sidebar.
I never notice the ads, though.
I guess the answer on talkiness is that at least 4 of us are.
I’ve got to get ready for a big day. My nephew is having an engagement party tonight and my sister wants me to take the pictures. I’m really quite honored, because she very prim and proper and everything has to be done just right, so she’s putting a lot of faith in me on this one. I just wish I could take beautiful pictures like andi.
Talk to ya’ll later.
on the family engagement. It’s hopefully going to be a while before we have another one in our family; don’t think my nephews are serious about anyone, and my youngest niece actually brought her boyfriend du jour to the family Christmas celebration, but she’d better not do anything rash till she gets done with college in a couple of years.
I’ve been up since 3am — couldn’t sleep anyway, so spent a few hours playing Sims 2. 🙂 Going to lay back down for a bit, then get the spouse stirring so we can go out to breakfast and do some assorted errands…
He’s sharing important information at Eat 4 Today: What is Diabetic Neuropathy? (Warning – not for sensitive readers).
It really is quite graphic. But if you are a diabetic, or have a diabetic/pre-diabetic in your life, this is an article you shouldn’t miss.
get with the program, lay off the light carbos and baked goods etc. as your nutritionist told you!
Did I say something wrong?
Sorry for any confusion!!
(laughing with relief) I was wondering if you were worried about my fake Drambuie addiction. And getting ready to reassure you. I took me a full month to finish a tiny bottle.
(I can’t stop explaining, I must have been really worried)
You ain’t got no “pre” no more. Might as well sip a little Drambuie. 😉
pre-diabetics, so they can hang onto that “pre!”
Mornin all! Must be the thought of my grocery delivery, but I’m all chipper and ready to call all the Dem money organizations and threaten their money supply if they don’t pressure the spineless Dems into making a stand.
Kansas around yet? 🙂
Waiting for groceries must be like waiting for the UPS truck when you’ve ordered something cool. Are you already planning what you’re going to eat first? Do you order produce too? Do you trust them to pick out good tomatoes and green peppers?
I didn’t order any produce that I’d want to pick out myself. I did order onions and potatos and presliced mushrooms. How can you go wrong on those? I also didn’t order any meat/chicken.
I just love to multi task. They are supposed to come between 11 and 2 so I can spend that time putting away the remaining christmas crap and doing laundry since I’ll be in the basement. I dont’ usually get so psyched about household chores. Guess its just the newness of the idea.
I never thought I’d be jealous of your basement. There are no basements down South™ and I’m sitting here at the kitchen table with the dryer droning in the background and piles of laundry littering the floor around the kitchen table. WTF do these people have against basements? Where the heck am I supposed to put the litter box? My garage is filled with all the stuff one normally puts in a basement so there is no room for the cars. Grrrr.
Is that because you live near the coast? I can’t imagine not having a basement. They are so handy for storing junk and hiding from tornados.
My basement is 1/2 “finished” — the original people finished it with the knotty pine paneling that was popular in the middle of the last century (I’ve always wanted to write that). But when it rains really hard I sometimes get water in, so I don’t put any good furniture or anything down there. Mostly I use it for storage.
And there is a walk-in cedar closet which is Really nice in the summer for storing the woolens.
I’m in Raleigh, not near the coast. I’m not sure why there are no basements here but suspect that it has something to do with rapid growth and putting up houses on the cheap using duct tape and cardboard.
I meant RELATIVELY near the coast. Maybe it has to do with the water table. If they hit water too soon, they can’t do basements. Or if they are building into solid rock?
Well, I’ve never been envied before for my basement, but I’ll appreciate it more while I’m down there today.
On that note, I need to get outa here and run a few errands before I come back for the exciting basement chores. See ya.
I can’t speak to Raleigh but there are no basements in the city where Jim teaches and the reason is that the water table is only about six feet below ground level which makes it nearly impossible to keep them dry which ends up making the whole house damp.
From speaking to people it sounds like there are very few basements anywhere in the south.
I lived over three (3) basements in Asheville — all exceedingly wet; anything stored down there was sure to grow mushrooms after a single summer season. One actually became a wading pool after any rain whatsoever — very badly constructed in an actual bowl. Very unhealthy, all in all.
SN I thought you would know by now that with a basement we can’t exhibit all our wonderful collectable stuff out in the yard. I have a few friends that are mighty proud of the rusting cars in their front yard ;).
I haven’t seen her.
Is it better to make calls? Or do FAX or both?
I don’t have a home fax and that web link for faxing that’s on the main thread didn’t work for me last night. All my faxes got error messages which was very disheartening.
That said, a fax is probably better because you can say more. The key is to put all the important stuff in the first paragraph because they really won’t read any further when they are tallying.
I saw a link to an Internet Fax service, but I don’t understand how it works.
I think the link came from Manee — maybe he can explain it when he comes in.
I’m going to try it again later today. I don’t know about you, but after a week of working, I find it hard to concentrate on Friday nights. So I just figure I was doing something wrong.
It’s frustrating being at work all day and wanting to do things. I’m on the phone most of the day — so making phone calls from my office is really not possible.
I can e-mail, but that doesn’t get the same attention.
You’re right; I’ve heard they pay almost no attention to emails.
Hi Maryb…I’ve been with Etta since 1987. She’s lost over 200 lbs as of late and no longer uses her scooter. Needless to say -I love her very much. Her oldest son, our drummer was my best man. I actually have two jobs – when I’m not on the road with Etta, I work in consumer protection which is something I enjoy very much, too. I met my wife here in Michigan when I was on tour w/Etta, I moved here from CA in ’96. Most of my work musically has been with the blues. I’ve recorded with BB King, Robert Cray, John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Taj Mahal, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson and numerous others. I’ve had the good fortune of playing on three grammy winning recordings – one with BB and two with Etta. I got the political bug in 2000. Always been a lib and voted but I increased my political involvement considerably since Gore-Bush.
my father was career military, I was born in a US Air Force hospital in Japan, shortly after the Korean War.
One of my highlights was performing w/Etta for Bill Clinton’s first inauguration. On our segment of the bill it was Al Green, Booker T & the MG’s w/the Memphis Horns, McCoy Tyner and Etta. We’re still getting our summer schedule in place, if we come to your to your neighborhood, I’ll let you know. Thank you for the invite and the interest, MaryB.
dabobbo
That is so interesting! I hope Andi and Jim come in and see this.
Here’s the important question. How did she lose 200 lbs? Not a bad health reason I hope.
Second important question — when you play on a grammy winning recording — does everybody get a grammy?
Your post also points to an important political fact — we need a president who appreciates good music. That’s the problem. If shrub just knew the blues, he’d be a better man.
Thanks for stopping by. And come back!
Hi Maryb, 1st Question – Surgery that was recommended to her by Roseann Barr. Over 200lbs, actually. She looks great, is easily hitting all her notes – in the almost twenty years I’ve been playing with her she hasn’t had to lower any keys. She’s shakin’ it in on stage again.
2nd Question – LOL! I was just thinking about it the other day…I didn’t get jack. Oh the woes of a sideman, LOL.
As far as politics – Her manager at the time stated that Etta passed on performing for both Bush I and II inaugs. John Kennedy Jr used to come to the gigs in NY, Etta really loved him and his dad. She has asked for my take on political matters in conversation because she knows I’m a bit of an activist. She has always been supportive of the gay and lesbian community and has done AIDS benefits, particularly for the Chicken Soup Brigade, in Seattle. Etta’s got GREAT first account stories about Dr MLK,
Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and his Cassius Clay days, actually all kinds of stuff and people. She had her first hit in 1954 at the tender age of fifteen and has seen a lot, some if it is like a really seems a real life Forest Gump type scenario. She was friends with all those that went down with Buddy Holly – the Big Bopper and Richie Valens. She was friends with Otis Redding and Stevie Ray Vaughan – she doesn’t like small planes and copters, perhaps with good reason.
The track record for many of her friends and colleagues in small planes is justifies her position, in my opinion.
She’s got a really sweet story about a then unknown Janis Joplin coming backstage to introduce herself to Etta. Really cool stories about Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, BB King, the list goes on.
She’s a great lady, with a big heart . I love her dearly and its an honor to play with her. As far as I go – I’m just a fortunate schmoe who’s at at a great web site having an opportunity to speak with some great people.
Wowie Zowie!
Your resumé must read like a who’s who or a hall of fame. I am sure you mentioned which instrument you played in last night’s talkfest, but I don’t recall it now.
When you get the summer schedule set please let us know.
jf
You forgot your phone.
Rob called while we both still gone.
You guys are so cute.
Trust me, you’re just not spending enough time around the two of us.
You’re right on both counts.
Well if we forgot anything on the grocery list, you can just get it tomorrow.
Hi JF! Thanks for the kind words. Hey, I’m just an old duffer that’s been aroung long enough to have snagged a few gigs. Are you from New Orleans?
I simply had to follow you over here after seeing your post on the Midwest thread.
You play guitar with Etta? Etta James? Jamesetta Hawkins? WOW. She topped the R&B charts in 1955 and she still belts out the blues like there’s no tomorrow! While reading the extensive list of “Royalty” you’ve performed with, I half-expected to see Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson. :^) (That being said, I humbly bow before you, dadobbo.)
Several years back I attended the Bay Front Blues Fest in Duluth, MN for the sole purpose of seeing Ms. Etta. And whenever I’d find myself in an extra foul mood, all I had to do was crank up “Breaking up Somebody’s Home” for a nice big dose of empowerment. Damn, you truly made my day with your mention of Etta’s refusal to play at the right-wing inaugurals. (hee!)
200 pounds – good for her! Although . . . I hope the weight loss didn’t alter her stage presence too dramatically. (I just can’t imagine an Etta James performance without her ever-present cleavage ;^) Wow. Etta James.
Welcome to BooMan Tribune, dabobbo – so nice to have you here! I really look forward to more of your writing.
Good day!
At first I thought you were joking about whether it would be better to FAX or phone me. {{{{SHUDDER}}}
I wonder. There are at least three phone-haters in the Cafe this morning, out of six people. I’ll bet there’s a real high percentage of us in chat rooms and on comment boards.
Count me as a phone hater. I see no reason to answer a ringing phone if I’m not in the mood to talk. I don’t have caller ID — if I’m not in the mood I don’t care who it is. And I have call notes — so they can leave me a message.
NOW you show up. uh huh. If you caught the last of the thread last night, you’ll see that Izzy figured it all out. You go to bed. Dunkie quits posting for the night. Coinkydink? We think not!
I saw you trying to throw Izzy off your track. But let’s get real — we KNOW he only does quickies. Good for a quick visit, but not for spending an evening over there. So my logging off is not indicative of anything.
And I’m slightly allergic to cats. (Although you MAY have noticed that Friday cat blogging disappeared for a while.)
Oh, how you give yourself away! 🙂 Double entendres ALWAYS intended.
56 comments by 9:18 CST a.m. on a Saturday?!!?
Looks like the Cafe has rocked cleared over from last night to today. Hot damn. Now for that coffee I hear doing its last burp. I’ll settle back and read my way back down to this point.
Pass the half ‘n’ half, katiebird?
Dunno but looking at the recent pace of commenting I think we might have run out of spizz. The dogs are giving me the ‘we’re waiting and we don’t like it one bit’ look so I’m off for a long walk. Talk to you later.
Well, pout.
It’s RAINING here! We need it so much. Hope ManE doesn’t see this, because he may think it’s cruel bragging, seeing as how he hasn’t had rain for l00 days or more.
I crawled back into bed and had a lovely rainyday nap.
I’m back already but it looks like the place has thinned out.
Are you still around?
Hey, all — good morning. Just stepping in to say hello from our sunny woodlands. Incredible to see the sunshine after months of chilly gloom Alas, rain due tomorrow into next week — also incredible (it should be snow).
Questions on my mind this morning: anyone heard from Janet? Has Chuckie Schumer ‘come out’?
We have a beautiful sunny day here too- we’re all just bouncing around the cabin full of energy because of it!
It’s a nice feeling after so much gloom lately.
I see that Coulter’s comment about poisoning Justice Stevens has grown legs. It’s on AOL headline news.
Recall the stage announcements at the Woodstock Festival concerning the ‘brown acid’? Coltish Ann clearly got hold of some & never let go.
Frankly, I’ve yet to hear her voice & I’m praying her 15 minutes of usefulness end before I do. The woman’s a nightmare.
Pac NW style.
A distant ship steams towards the open sea as a foreground silhouetted log seems to cradle head on hand as if to ponder what in the world is happening.
That’s a truly lovely image, Gooserock. It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen that much water all in one place, at one time. Such a soothing element.
Frankly, your photos cause me to seriously consider an eventual journey to your corner of the world. It sure looks tempting to me nowadays — I’m getting just a wee bit tired of our icy chill this year!
I think I was meant to live near water (and the Mississippi is NOT enough). That’s beautiful. My youngest sister lived in Olympia for a couple of years and I went out to visit her a couple of times. I knew immediately that I could live in the Pac NW. She loved it and was sorry when she got transferred (to Tallahasee Florida). But eventually they sent her out to Salem Oregon and she loved that too. I went out to visit her and we did the Oregon coast drive. If I ever win the big one, I’m going to have a house on the Oregon or Washington Coast on top of one of those big cliffs looking out over the Pacific, spotting whales.
the ocean coasts.
We get whales about twice a year in Puget Sound, and there are always seals & sea otters.
One of the most gorgeous places on earth in this kind of climate is north of the border, the islands area between the east shore of giant Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, in the Land of the Free.
Puget Sound and especially the Vancouver Island area have much more well-rounded climates; as does the area from Port Angeles to Sequim. The pacific coast can be a lot wetter.
Plenty of places, and you don’t have to win a big one if you can find a place with work. Or you have some combination of a pension & small-time employment or biz.
I’m back for awhile, what been going on?
As you can see, nobody’s had a thing to say. Completely quiet. Nothing going on.
I was wondering for a minute?
We seem to be behaving ourselves — generally 😉
Now that’s not fun.
We’ve been waiting for you. Is it too early to tap the keg?
It’s never to early to tap a keg. The secret is just take little sips until happy hour, and then break out the Beer Steins.
Me, I don’t mind behavin’, FM. I’ve spent an incredible amount of my lifetime engaged in highly naughty behavior (including felonies).
Placid is ok by me 😉
Well I have to agree with you on that. I’m so placid my X used to tell me I’m terminally nice ;).
Far better to be terminally nice than terminally nasty, FM — most especially, I think, now that the latter’s become a virtue.
Thanks, but I do wish I had a temper some times. I’m constantly amazed at people who can get mad and put you in you place with just one sentence. I’ve always been the kind that would think 2 hours later, damn I wish I had said that.
or you could be like me and shoot off your mouth and two hours later damn wish you hadn’t said that.
I think your way is better — there’s a whole lot less to be sorry about.
Yes your right, but I still hate to think up these great lines two hours later and not be able to use them ;).
Save them up. That’s what I do — the same type of circumstances are quite likely to recur. Then you’ll look brilliant for being so fast on your feet.
I think it’s basically a matter of character & temperament. No doubt the folks you mention are the children who bit 😉
Me, I’ll hold to the path that sustains my serenity & strength. That means developing/using my natural abilities & leaving the rest aside. The point, I think, is to use your own abilities effectively & to abide by your own nature in achieving what’s needed.
(This from one who’s twisted herself out of whack so consistently in order to be something ‘other’ that I’ve had to practically ‘clean the whole slate’ mid-life!)
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I was just over at Firedoglake catching up on what’s going on and Jane(I think) points out a reader commenting that Harry Reid should try to convince the Dems to filibuster for at least 24 hours just to rob Bush of his chance to gloat in the SOTU and to make THAT the big media news story during the SOTU.
I don’t normally do this, but I want to point out my comment the other day in which I talked about this. Many of my colleagues are Democrats who don’t get involved except to vote. They listen to traditional media and they are convinced that a filibuster would be the death knell for the Democrats. So this week I carefully led one of them along the path of realizing the terrible timing for all of this for the Dems. By the time I finished he was demanding a filibuster for at least a while. And my thought is, once a filibuster starts, its hard, we can work to keep it going.
Brava, maryb!
It becomes clearer to me all the time that our mainstream media is literally killing us — because the business of our political life has become the business of perception & therefore, it’s possible for a murderously criminal cabal of delusioned elitists to pretend leadership & compel people to believe in it. It’s almost too easy!
Even the most hardcore activists in my acquaintance seem ready to fold to the current ‘wisdom’ concerning the meaning of filibuster, thanks to the overwhelming media tilt. This is not, in my opinion, the weekend to call it a day & fold!
The only way through this, it seems, is personal communication.
I’ve just sent around this Nation piece concerning the duty to filibuster.
New diary coming soon, I’m sorry!!!
I’ve got to go again. Hope to see ya’ll later tonight.
What are you guys doing today?? We’ve exhausted the cleaning crews — you’re a mess!!
Get to the new cafe immediately!
Wow. They showed up 15 minutes ago with everything, a man and his son. Brought it in, put it on the counters. And all I had to do was unpack it all. Which would have taken less than five minutes except that I wanted to check the list to make sure I got everything.
This is soooo exciting. (I really need to get a life, don’t I?)
we’ll work on embellishing the story to the point that even Indy will be shocked.