Martinis are in the shaker, chilled and ready to pour.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be well chilled
Froggy Bottom Lounge Closed ~ New One Opened
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Friday Random 10 — Left Coast Dinner Hour Edition
Priests — Judy Collins
Underture — The Who
Home — Pat Metheny
She’s A Rainbow — The Rolling Stones
Sing Lullaby (comp. Howells) — The Cambridge Singers
I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) — The Electric Prunes
Goldberg Variations: Variation 27 (comp. JS Bach) — Garrick Ohlsson
12 Etudes, Op. 25: No. 1 in A-flat (comp. Chopin) — Tamas Vasary
Wild Night — Van Morrison
Misery — The Beatles
Hey, I was justing helping you practice that patience-is-a-virtue thingy.
Any 10 with Pat Metheny and Bach is okay by me.
I read your earlier comment when you got back from the game last night! I was watching and knowing that you were both there yelling and screaming in that crowd! Yay Sharks! {{{{Cali}}}}
Happy Anniversary, Cali!
I hope everyone had a great day!!!! I decided to drink the chardonay instead of going out for mixers. LOL I already have the car in the garage as we are expecting bad storms tonight.
I just got ya some r69 …
LOL I will enjoy that next week or maybe even tomorrow night LOL
you have to remember to look for updates on the missing head story and keep me informed about any new development.
and what head?????? is missing LOL
Until I read what it was about … 🙂
But, I will let you know if I hear/read anything more.
the other night to take and upload more pictures while I had wifi and I didn’t get that so I thought I’d try for one that required less time away from the hockey playoffs.
You and Jim should be proud of me — I’ve been playing w/ it every night this week (I’ve probably taken about 700 photos of flowers lol!) The uploading takes time! And I have to resize them smaller b/c of the dialup thing. (Yes, I’m looking into switching.) And deciding which one or two look the best out of 100 … 🙂
Here’s one I just uploaded that I took tonight. This is w/ the 105mm.
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Very nice!
It’s mostly still all a mystery … 🙂
The sense of mystery comes through in the photo! Very cool pic! I love the depth in the center.
Hi mm!! How’s things? I saw your beautiful tulips earlier while I was lurking at work!
Hi olivia, glad to see you are having fun and finding your way around your lovely new camera! I’m looking forward to lots more great shots as you find your stride.
Things are going well, I just got back from my son’s girlfriend’s vocal recital. He accompanies her on piano and they are really quite an amazing team!
How did you know my next questions was going to be “how complicated is the new camera?” 🙂
Yes, there are sub-sub-menus upon sub-menus upon menus that I haven’t even discovered yet b/c I haven’t figure out how to access them LOL!
Oh no…do you have to RTFM, and it’s the size of War and Peace??
that it is just beautiful. The edges and the depth are exquisite.
I feel fortunate that the person who gave me flowers in my bday choose these, since they are still alive and blooming so many days later.
I’m finding the 105mm to be very fickle … 🙂
Fickle but fun and challenging or fickle and frustrating?
Fun 40%, challenging 40%, frustrating 20% … 🙂
Are you using autofocus or manual on the 105?
I have played w/ it, but I don’t like the way the auto focuses — I want to do it all myself lol … 🙂 I think it’s the same w/ driving a standard vs automatic. Feel like you have more control etc.
What do you do?
When I am shooting macro, I almost always shoot with manual focus.
That is exquisite. The shadows dray your eye into the photo.
Are you shooting hand held or are your on a tripod?
I imagine I’ll look tomorrow — I’m going back to try out another lens or two. I’ve noticed that holding the camera steady is considerably harder when it weighs 50lbs … 😉
Do you or have you used a monopod? I’m thinking that might work better for me.
And I’m still trying to figure out the lighting… Do you use any speedlights?
I know what you mean. The 105 on the D70 is not exactly a balanced pair. If you want a real arm builder, try the 35-70 on anything.
I tried using a monopod (actually a hiking pole with a screw) and was not happy with it.
I have the SB800 but under-utilize it greatly. I only use it as a fill flash for portraits. I prefer natural light.
Hey, JimF. Just wanted to thank you for all the cool math links. I fell asleep but then checked them out when i woke up in the middle of the night. Funny how it was just discovered that the Da Vinci Code judge hid a message using that Fabinocci thing or whatever (just made up a spelling since I can’t remember). Sychronistic or what?
You’re welcome.
I tell my sixth graders that the first semester of math could be last time the will have to study ugly arithmetic: long division with decimals, addition and subtraction of mixed numbers with unlike denominators, simplifying every fraction.
Once they are beyond that, it’s all rock & roll. I guess that’s why I linked to math sites after looking at a flower. I’m glad you enjoyed the links.
Can’t Pin Yo’ Spin On Me – Maria Muldaur
Temptasyon – Mediaeval Baebes
Southern California Wants To Be Western New York – Dar Williams
Cry On My Shoulder – Bonnie Raitt
Louise’s Church – Laura Nyro
Dancing In The Dark – Dave McKenna
Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) – Bill Evans
Octoroon – Laura Love
Fortunate – Darol Anger & Barbara Higbie
Bargain – The Who
It’s very green …
and I agree it is very green — unlike Montreal (and Ottowa?)
It’s like a green explosion … Wonderful. Yes, I noticed today that the buds on the trees have popped open. It’s getting greener by the day.
Green (It’s Not Easy Being Green) / Shirley Horn / Light Out Of Darkness
Green Book / Steely Dan / Everything Must Go
Green Flower Street / Donald Fagen / The Nightfly
On The Greener Side / Michelle Shocked / Captain Swing
Green River / Creedence Clearwater Revival / Chronicle,
Green Onions / Booker T And The MGs / Atlantic Soul Classics
Little Green / Joni Mitchell / Blue
Green Green Rocky Road / Kate & Anna McGarrigle / The McGarrigle Hour
Blue in Green / Miles Davis / Kind of Blue
Green Gorilla / Spirit / Time Circle
Even though it is green season in Indiana, some of us have already gone to seed.
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That is so delicate and lovely!
Great landscape portrait, AndiF! I was just reading my camera book trying to figure out why my landscape pics involving forest are dull and drab and don’t pick up the colors.
That’s surprising given the quality of both your ocean and flower photos. About the only thing I’ve found that really negatively affects forest photos is light that is too bright or too direct.
Thanks, AndiF. I will post a photo one day soon so you can see what I mean. The forest all looks like mush. There must be a different setting on my camera or something, or maybe I just need a new camera!! A Nikon D70s, I maybe think. LOL. But now I am off to see my son’s girlfriend’s vocal recital at CalArts, he will accompany her on piano.
Heart of Glass – Blondie
I’ve Been Thinking About You – Londonbeat
Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
Here Comes My Girl – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
One Fine Day – The Chiffons
Check It Out – John Cougar Mellencamp
Sing A Song – Earth, Wind & Fire
Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails
Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) – US3
It’s All Over Now – The Rolling Stones
And how is that strep throat? Did you follow the doctor’s orders and pamper yourself?
I’m so miserable. I can’t pamper. Not enough energy. Am resting. Also making myself a ham & cheese omelet for dinner and that should help.
Roomie is back tomorrow so she can pamper you in a style to which you deserve to be accustomed?
She’s flying in tomorrow AM, which will make things somewhat easier. (Long story saved for some other time on why my response is hedgy.)
Good. Long-distance mother henning has way too many limitations.
Well, I’m not in the ER, so a big hooray to that. :}
But big hugs {{{{{{Indy}}}}} and sending you LOVEbug …
Heh, that totally made me laugh, which really hurt. (But that’s okay, I have a bit of a masochistic side.)
Thanks for the good wishes, everyone. Much appreciated.
Hope you feel better soon!!!!!
Hope you feel better, and I’m glad roomie is coming home tomorrow.
John Mellencamp is practically a neighbor or ours. Andi drives by his house ever couple weeks when she goes to the library in Bloomington.
You guys couldn’t wait for me to get off the phone to put the happy hour up? sigh…
Happy Hour Waits for Noone!!!! LOL
I figured you were off having — oh what is that phrase — oh yeah I vaguely remember it — a social life.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
And here I was being such an attentive host today…who knew?
I’ll put up my random 10 as soon as I pry my laptop (with all the music on it) out of CBtY’s death grip.
You have been fabulous Darling!!!! But there is a time for everything and happy hour was here. LOL
You don’t want me to think you have a social life? What fun can I have if I can’t imagine that you and Booman went off together to find the perfect cheesesteak and martini joint.
like the big kids but I can’t make it.
Good night everybody.
G’night!
Anybody awake?
Hey there FM… I just stepped in and thought everyone had taken off… how’s life down your way tonight? Have you and George locked yourselves away from the guests again?
Hi IVG. I’m still trying to decide if it’s friday or saturday. If it’s firday, what the hell am I doing up?
I left earlier to watch KO, then had dinner and a bit of a nap in the recliner before Bill Maher. Thought I’d stop in and see if anyone was around… astounded to see you pop in. You must have gotten your requisite naps in today in between all the other stuff you were doing, I guess.
Is George snoring yet? Pepa’s whistling away here on the futon couch 🙂
OMG I think I lost a day somewhere. So how’re ya doing? I’m not really sure at the moment how I am. I think I’m up 5 hours early. Man talk about confused at the moment.
So are we the only ones up?
Sounded earlier like you had quite the day of stuff to do with the yard and the wedding and all. Maybe that nap addled your brain a bit. I’ve had that happen many times… wake up and wonder what day it is, when it’s still the same day, lol.
Just a rainy night here and tons more on the radar for tonight and the rest of the weekend, so I guess if I had to bring work home, this was the weekend to do it. But, I’ve decided that as revenge for so many of these working weekends, that I am going to either take next Fri off, or I’ll be “sick.”
Looks like we’re the lone loungers tonight, unless we can stir up some trouble. Hey, did you see my new pic of the freaky Dragon Arum I posted in the Happy Hour thread?
No I didn’t. I’ll have to find it.
Well this is cool. The only time I get to talk to you is hit and run from work, or saying good night when you’re just getting on at night.
So all the other late nighters have called it a night huh.
Wait until I talk to them again.
It looks like everyone had a pretty long and rough week. I sure know I did. Finished one report for work(snacks) and the same day went straight into analysis of another project (diarrhea) and am now trying to finish the report on that one. LOL. Such is the nature of my strange job in market research. Before you tell me that sounds interesting, let me say that I hate it. I enjoyed teaching much more, until FL and politics became unbearable and I bailed back up North here.
Btw, been checking out your new blog, and I like it a lot! The home page is beautifully done and very soothing to my tired eyes. Was just about to write a comment about your road trip…
Thanks IVG. It’s like the title implies, Mundane. But I wanted to write and I’m still a little hesitant about writing here. Not because I don’t think it would be accepted, but because most of my stuff isn’t political enough.
I figure just some ordinary things that are going on with me is a good start.
I’m still trying to adjust to it’s the middle of the freaking night and I’m wide awake.
celebrating the mundane does have its charms and definitely has its place. I damn near split a gut when I saw the pics of the farmhouse, then the “Indoor outhouse” (that one cracked me up!) I have you bookmarked now, so I’ll be back. I posted a small comment about dogs in the one entry about the road trip … I definitely have the mind and spirit of a dog (or wolf even), so I think I can try to understand them better than most.
I have to admit, I’ve not done any diaries yet either, for similar reasons. Though I have plenty to say about politics, I just don’t have the time to go into the depth that the many great writers here do. That’s why I’m going to start with gardening diaries (something I know well and love writing about) and try to inject the political viewpoint into them as appropriate. I hope to start the 1st one this weekend, and have tentatively titled it “Spring Cleaning.” I do have a political angle for it, hehe.
When you do get it started I want to link it to my page if you don’t mined. I’ve got this think of wanting to ask before I just link.
I wouldn’t mind at all… I’m going to post here, and then when I get my website re-vamped and updated, I’ll post them there as well. I’ve been considering starting up at blogspot too… is it easy to get going there? That would be a solution to not having too many going to my earthlink site, because if I blow through the bandwidth there, they’ll start charging me. Any thoughts on how to proceed?
I’m still kind of foggy, but if you’re taling about an account at blogger, it’s nothing to it. I had on set up in 5 minutes. I know Manny, Ductape, Duke and Olivia have helped me out tremulously. I’m still code challenged, so their help has been super.
And I’m still code challenged too, so that’s good to know that Olivia and Manny might help out a bit. I catch on quickly, but just don’t seem to find the time to sit down and really learn the code. And with growing season going full steam now, everything else seems to get pushed aside in favor of the plants. Odd how that happens, huh?
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Was wondering if you were still out there somewhere. Good to see you! May I ask your take on the May 1 action day? Do you think it will really be as big as people are claiming? I hope so… because after all, May 1 is Labor Day for the rest of the world! Personally, I hope it’s a big big thing that will make people sit up and take notice!
for Monday. I was afraid that it was dying out, but it has been energized big-time over the past couple of days by a number of factors 1)increasing hostility towards latinos in general, 2)support by the Green Party, CodePink and the California Senate, and 3)spanish media. Check out Duke’s diary for more info, I posted a few links in the comments to developments.
I checked out some links and saw there is one in Alabama. Across the state from me and I have a Dr’s appointment on that day, but I’m looking forward to marching in my first rally.
to rally with people who have the look of ‘Hope’ in their eyes. Sure there’s anger and demands for justice, but underneath it all is an inspiring form of solidarity that is indescribable. Make sure to tell us all about your experience when you get the chance to go!
Hey I would love to go the metting in May at Memphis, but can’t. I’ve got to win the damn lottery to get all this stuff going. Would be cool the have a worldwide Boo meet for everyone, somewhere with all expenses paid.
Once I wind the lottery, all is taken care of.
Heeeey Manny. Where’s the beer funnel? I haven’t tried that in awhile, but I’m getting my second wind.
I can see one problem is taken of. Now to hook a key up to it.
one of these
That looks good for starters. Of course, I think cheese cake would bring me wide awake, but i’m not pushig. (hint, hint)
but it sure is harmless enough! What does that say about me that I’m so averse to dessert type things? Well, I’m not going to worry about it, because that leaves that much more for my friends, and it would be way to costly to go into therapy to figure that one out!
as in cheessecake…well then
Kinda quiet tonight, the Av’s choked and didn’t close out Dallas…bummer
hey dada… and I thought FM was making a sly reference to a “church key,” something I haven’t heard about in years, but it was almost a naughty remark when I was a kid. I never quite understood why, but I guess it had something to do with the scandalous activity of drinking beer in the days before pop top cans. 🙂
The proberbial churck key. It was SOP to have one on your key chain. Ah, the good old days.
Ye Olde Church Key…before Beer Bongs and pop-tops you did shooters by punching a hole in the bottom and the top of the can…:{)
Shirley you remember
dada you keep bringing back fond memories. 🙂
Now I really do feel old, but at least I’m in great company! Too bad I never got to have one of those on a key ring. By the time I was old enough to drink (and actually wanted to), the pop tops had conquered the world (as we once knew it).
took all the sport out of it.
I’m going to try and pup up a 24/7. It might take a minute, so bear with me.
New Café here