dulcet tones
Jul. 20th, 2006 10:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI am not a music person. I rarely have any music playing here at home or even in the car. If the radio is on it's on NPR. But, I do enjoy the old stuff - 1955-1975 - those are my two decades. I have a little MP3 collection (built mainly from the generous contributions of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
estis), but bconn just upped the ante with a link to Pandora Internet Radio (http://www.pandora.com/). You plug in an artist or song and it builds you a radio station of that kind of music!!! I just built 5 radio stations: Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Kingston Trio, The Everly Brothers, Abba and Buddy Holly. It's amazing. Really. It didn't know who Dory Previn was (tried to give me Andre - Dory would be so pissed) and it never heard of Gretchen Cryer or Nancy Ford but heck, few people have.
It's now playing something by The Millineium on my CS&N station - I've never heard of them before but the song's nice. This is excellent.
I kind of have a little bit of a day off here. Not really, but there is nothing that must be done right now or even really today so I plan to get caught up with me. I want to tidy up here and there and make some cheese straws. Keiran and Allen are coming over this evening and I need go get organized for that. Plus, both computers need cleaning and tidying and backing up and organizing. This looks like it might be a good day for that.
Front Door TV is now featuring someone getting major plantings and planters and dirt... Must be one of the 5th floor people. The units on the 5th floor have giant terraces - all uncovered. They have already brought in more stuff than would even fit on the terraces for floors 2-5. Someone's going to be planting shit on one of the hottest days of the year? Is that tempura gardening?
Ok, one memory lane and then I need to get to work.
I could do (and probably will) several entries on road trips because we took a lot of them. Most of the trips were before we got a station wagon so it was Mom and Dad and three of us in a sedan. No air conditioning. No interstate highways. No drive through restaurants. Think Ward Bond and Wagon Train and you are almost there. (Actually, if you 'get' that reference, you probably were there!)
We lived in North Carolina and all our relatives lived in Oklahoma and Texas. There were lots of cross country trips. In the Summer. Did I mention no air conditioning? Did I mention I had to share the back seat with my little brother and sister?
Daddy built a bench thing to fit on the floor in the back so that the backseat was actually a platform. We could crawl around and lie down completely. I think maybe some cars - not ours - had lap seat belts in the front seat but they were pretty much regarded as an affectation. (I do remember a friend of Daddy's cut his out of his car because it made the front seats look sloppy.)
So we had kind of a play pen thing going in the back. We had coloring books and crayons and puzzles and books to read and dolls and toys. Oh and we were allowed to take our shoes off. Mom was not big on going barefoot so going without shoes was a big treat anytime.
In my family children were not allowed in the front seat if there were two adults in the car. If there was only one adult in the car and you called dibs first and the adult was feeling happy about children (which was not a given by any stretch of the imagination) you could sometimes ride shotgun. But it was pretty rare. The backseat was for kids.
estis), but bconn just upped the ante with a link to Pandora Internet Radio (http://www.pandora.com/). You plug in an artist or song and it builds you a radio station of that kind of music!!! I just built 5 radio stations: Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Kingston Trio, The Everly Brothers, Abba and Buddy Holly. It's amazing. Really. It didn't know who Dory Previn was (tried to give me Andre - Dory would be so pissed) and it never heard of Gretchen Cryer or Nancy Ford but heck, few people have.It's now playing something by The Millineium on my CS&N station - I've never heard of them before but the song's nice. This is excellent.
I kind of have a little bit of a day off here. Not really, but there is nothing that must be done right now or even really today so I plan to get caught up with me. I want to tidy up here and there and make some cheese straws. Keiran and Allen are coming over this evening and I need go get organized for that. Plus, both computers need cleaning and tidying and backing up and organizing. This looks like it might be a good day for that.
Front Door TV is now featuring someone getting major plantings and planters and dirt... Must be one of the 5th floor people. The units on the 5th floor have giant terraces - all uncovered. They have already brought in more stuff than would even fit on the terraces for floors 2-5. Someone's going to be planting shit on one of the hottest days of the year? Is that tempura gardening?
Ok, one memory lane and then I need to get to work.
I could do (and probably will) several entries on road trips because we took a lot of them. Most of the trips were before we got a station wagon so it was Mom and Dad and three of us in a sedan. No air conditioning. No interstate highways. No drive through restaurants. Think Ward Bond and Wagon Train and you are almost there. (Actually, if you 'get' that reference, you probably were there!)
We lived in North Carolina and all our relatives lived in Oklahoma and Texas. There were lots of cross country trips. In the Summer. Did I mention no air conditioning? Did I mention I had to share the back seat with my little brother and sister?
Daddy built a bench thing to fit on the floor in the back so that the backseat was actually a platform. We could crawl around and lie down completely. I think maybe some cars - not ours - had lap seat belts in the front seat but they were pretty much regarded as an affectation. (I do remember a friend of Daddy's cut his out of his car because it made the front seats look sloppy.)
So we had kind of a play pen thing going in the back. We had coloring books and crayons and puzzles and books to read and dolls and toys. Oh and we were allowed to take our shoes off. Mom was not big on going barefoot so going without shoes was a big treat anytime.
In my family children were not allowed in the front seat if there were two adults in the car. If there was only one adult in the car and you called dibs first and the adult was feeling happy about children (which was not a given by any stretch of the imagination) you could sometimes ride shotgun. But it was pretty rare. The backseat was for kids.
