My day so far: a brief recap in words, music, and pictures.
My father stopped by for a visit, and helped me try to figure out a problem I've been having with Super Lumina. (Note: Slightly dated photo.)
Wall of Voodoo - Me and My Dad (from Dark Continent, 1981) - I got my copy of the album at a local used record store for two dollars. I've seen people offering the OOP CD version for sale online and asking upwards of fifty or a hundred dollars for it. Still no sign of a reissue in sight, though.
I pruned the suckers and dead branches off the cherry tree on the patio. I didn't unceremoniously crash to the ground this year (or get stuck in the tree, like I did two years ago), so it looks like I'm getting the hang of things.
Pérez Prado - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White (from The Best of Pérez Prado, 2006) - This song spent ten weeks at the top of the charts in 1955. The current #1 on the Billboard Hot 100? "Give It to Me" by Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake & Bea Arthur & Kofi Annan & the Ghost of Catherine the Great, with special guest appearance by Tom Bosley.
Yay, progress....
The wife and I also celebrated Earth Day in our own private way, which involved a lot of raking, shoveling, and other garden-related tasks.
Rare Earth - I Just Want to Celebrate (from One World, 1971, collected on The Millennium Collection, 2001) - Who knew lanthanides could jam so hard? I'll never look at Praseodymium the same way again. No wonder why it has to be kept in a mineral oil solution. (Not the first chemistry-related gag I've used on this blog, and it probably won't be the last. It's a periodic thing I go through.)
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All these years later, and still no visible signs of aging.
Apart from the growing cluster of gray hairs in my forelock?
I celebrated Earth Day by mowing the lawn. Then I wept for all the decapitated blades of grass. Nature is so cruel.
David, ever read that Roald Dahl story about the scientist who finds a way to communicate with plants?
That was sweet, man. Throw the lame ass chemistry jokes right out there, and then just hide the clever one right at the end.
You are teh man. And no, that's not a typing error, but a measure of your internet awesomosity. Did I spell that right? I never know.
Why thank yo---
--wait, "lame"?
I paid Antoine Lavoisier beaucoup francs for that material!
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