Author: Andy

Send Immediately?

When you mash down the control-R & E keys simultaneously in Eudora, you are in effect hitting reply and send immediately to whatever message is highlighted. This doesn’t work well when you’re still groggy from lack of coffee and coming in early. Did not the folks at Qualcomm consider the danger in this? The statistics in the program show that most of my email activity occurs in the morning. They should put the Send Immediately shortcut on a separate part of the keyboard in the same way that large weapons have separate switches to prevent accidental launching. Well, it was just a blank reply, neutron bomb.

Eudora Usage is morning heavy

Chapstick

I don’t put chapstick on until my lips are chapped. And when I do put it on, they just taste good, so I unconsciously chew the flavor off, which just makes my lips hurt more. Why does it have to taste so good? The stick I have now is cocoa flavored. mmm…

Final Yard Work (right…)

Raking off the roof
Since my nose was plugged, the sun was out, and the walnut leaves down, Michelle and I decided to finish up the leaves. You can’t compost walnut leaves because they contain the toxin juglone, otherwise we’d have shredded them up like the others.

Barley somehow found a paintbrush in one of the piles, and was quite pleased with himself.

My parents gave me their old leaf shredder, and it wasn’t happy with the dampness of the leaves, so I ended up mowing over the piles several times before covering the beds. Its a good thing I didn’t mow over the paintbrush.

Finally, I raked the leaves off the roof and cleaned the gutters. Barley caught the leaves as they came off the roof. He was fascinated by the maple helicopters.

Sickly

Conversation with Boss #2 on Friday:

John: I hear you’re sick
Me: Yup.
John: Do you have stuff you need to do today?
Me: Not specifically
John: Where’s your boss?
Me: (shrug)
John: Who’s your boss when your boss is gone?
Me: (shrug)
John: I am. Go home.
Me: (shrug)

Naturally, I couldn’t just rest. I had to do yard work because it was dry and nice out. It didn’t help the cold any. But all the walnut leaves are up.

Ropeadope New Music Seminar

Last night Chris drove down from Tacoma to see the ropeadope new music seminar. huh? Seminar?

Well, its not so much a seminar as a flashy name for big show. Several artists recording with the ropeadope label were there and wandered on and off stage to play with each other. Charlie Hunter, The Duo, Lyrics Born, Critters Buggin’, and Sex Mob (the horns) all had their time on stage, though it blended between them at times.

Its the first show I’ve seen in quite some time, so the 4 hours of live music was quite a treat. I really enjoyed The Duo, and was surprised to actually see many of these artists for the first time. Lyrics Born for example looked a lot like Ben Walz John Belushi, and Skerik seemed a saxamaphone playing Tom Green.

Chris felt the show was severely under-whelming, having seen many of the artists before, often several times. Having not seen any, I was simply pleased to be there. The sound did suck in the Aladdin though. Especially with 4 percussionists playing at the same time.

Like most shows with any amount of jamming at them, there were lots of hippie-dancers. You can really tell who actually has an internal sense of time when Critters Buggin’ started playing and all but 1 woman either stopped dancing or looked like they were punch-drunk (seemed the appropriate analogy for a ropeadope show). The woman with the butterfly tatoo… no, not that one, the other…no, in for you… yeah.. her.

Proposed Off-Leash Rules

The rules at Portland’s city parks and off-leash areas are easy to find, read, and abide by. Sadly, the scoop law gets ignored quite frequently. Its a big issue, but the following are not, which I propose as additional guidelines for off-leash area use:

  • Try to keep your dog from barking constantly unless your own attempts to quiet it become more annoying than the barking.
  • Don’t point out my dog’s frailty.
  • Hump something else
  • Don’t lock your knees
  • If you have to laugh, don’t point and laugh
  • Even though you get cell phone reception, that doesn’t mean you have to use it.
  • Don’t take your dog to the off leash area if you aren’t going to take the dog off leash. – From soctt Scott

I’m sure there are more. Any glaring omissions? I’ll add ’em.

RIP ODB

Wow – first Wesley Willis, now O.D.B has died. At 35 (almost 36) years of age. Wow.

I can understand people’s revulsion by the artist. But he was an artist. And he was capable of some really unique, really amazing stuff. I don’t know what the details of his recent life is, but surely what led up to this point can’t have made for a healthy lifestyle. So kids, stay away from drugs. Seriously.

Oh, Chris, I accidently deleted all my Wesley Willis. Do you still have any?