Not that much going on...

[susandennis]

Yesterday turned out to be a fairly substantial work day which is a nice change. Today could still go either way. I had a good hour and a half of work earlier but am caught up for the moment.

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I need about 2 things at Costco, 2 things at Trader Joes,2 things at the Japanese market, 2 things at ye old generic supermarket, 2 things at ye old generic drug store. None of these are geographically near the other. Oh and I have holds waiting for me at the library (which is near a small grocery store but not so near a supermarket). I could devote my day to running around town.

But, likely I will not. Likely I will change that need to want and just shelve it until it turns into 3 or 4 things and/or I'm near one of the places.

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I do need to do laundry and I will. Next time I get up. I promise.

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I have finally started on my computer organization project. Every Public folder on every computer is now shared out and accessible by the others. Next is to organize the external drives and the backups. I'm waiting for one external drive to come back from Western Digital. But I am getting very close.

Microsoft has a new thingie they are working on called Mesh that could take my project to the next level. I signed up for it. If they let me in, I might give it a go.

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The parking lot out my terrace is full of massive trucks with the names of car/motor things on the side. The Qwest Field calendar reveals that on Saturday will be having a motor cross event in the stadium. That sounds like some fun people watching. I figure I have one week, maybe two left of unobstructed views before The Tree That I Hate gets fuller leaves.

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Our local Public TV station aired a bunch of music stuff at their last pledge drive - it was all music from the 60's and 70's - different variations. I TiVo'd it all and am only now getting around to watching it. I watched one show last night that was just a train wreck. It was awful but compellingly so. They had various groups - they would show small clips from their original times and then cut to them today doing those same songs. In many cases, the groups only had some members still living. The dead ones fared better.

Some people age well. Some people do not. Rock and folk stars, for the most part fall into bucket #2. Plus, the 60's sound needs to be the sound that was in the 60's. Not the sound that is recreated today with voices that have smoked for the past 40 years and forgotten the nuances of the instrumentals.

Plus, I think for me, the music of then was part of the then. So much of it just does not translate.

Although I guess I do wonder if Sloopy hung on.

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Ok, now I am getting up off my ass and putting dirty clothes into the washer.

Comments

[shanynrose.livejournal.com]

I finally watched one of those shows all the way through. Lesley Gore sang "It's My Party" and was all over the map embellishing it. I said something to my husband about her taking a lot of artistic liberties, then realized it was HER song and so she could do whatever she wanted.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

Good point. That's certainly a lot better than some of those unfortunate bands that signed away everything including the right to use their own names. Once they tried to get better terms on their contracts, the publishers told them to get lost, hired new musicians, and sold their stuff under the names of the people they had fired. And the ones who got fired can't even use their own names when they perform. I seem to remember that the Andrews Sisters were one example of that.