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Drunken Baptists

My dad, (who wasn’t much of a church goer), used to tease my mom and I, and the rest of the family too, calling us “drunken Baptists.”

I thought perhaps he didn’t like our singing, because he mostly made this comment when we would gather around the piano or my Uncle Arthur’s guitar and unite in chorus.

I had to think of Dad after reading this joke:

Hymn #365

A southern Baptist minister was completing a temperance sermon.

With great emphasis he said, “If I had all the beer in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”With even greater emphasis he said, “And if I had all the wine in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”

And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he said, “And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I’d take it and pour it into the river.”

Sermon complete, he then sat down.

The song leader stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, “For our closing song, let us sing Hymn #365, Shall We Gather at the River.”

American Spirit and Freedom

I might be the last to read this, I get everything after everyone else! But when I read it, it stirred me. Then I thought, “better get your emotions in check and find out if its even true.” I went straight to Snopes.com, and it did check out as true:

A Romanian newspaper ran a stirring pro-American editorial. Apparently, Mr. Cornel Nistorescu, managing director of the daily newspaper Evenimentul Zilei — News of the Day — published this editorial Sept 24, two days after watching a celebrity telethon in New York for victims of the attacks . . .

Why are Americans so united? They don’t resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colours of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: “God Bless America!”.

Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different tv channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American’s solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don’t know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn’t sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren’t able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests. I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to sacrifice for their fellow humans? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.

What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.

Only freedom can work such miracles!

Anyone else ever see this? Not since that Canadian record by Gordon Sinclair, have I heard of anything so nice towards the US from outside our borders.

Colour My World…Chicago Style

Just ripped all my Chicago CD’s.

I saw them in concert a few years ago, along with the Doobie Brothers.

1. Chicago - (I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long (4:31)
2. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4 (4:53)
3. Chicago - A Hit by Varese (4:53)
4. Chicago - A Song for Richard and His Friends (6:25)
5. Chicago - Alive Again (4:07)
6. Chicago - Alma Mater (3:51)
7. Chicago - Along Comes a Woman (4:16)
8. Chicago - Another Rainy Day in New York City (3:03)
9. Chicago - Anxiety’s Moment (0:56)
10. Chicago - Baby, What a Big Surprise.mp3
11. Chicago - Beginnings [Live].mp3
12. Chicago - Beginnings.mp3
13. Chicago - Blues in the Night.mp3
14. Chicago - Brand New Love Affair, Pts. 1 & 2.mp3
15. Chicago - Byblos.mp3
16. Chicago - Call on Me.mp3
17. Chicago - Caravan.mp3
18. Chicago - Chicago.mp3
19. Chicago - Closer to You.mp3
20. Chicago - Colour My World.mp3
21. Chicago - Critics’ Choice.mp3
22. Chicago - Dialogue, Pt. 1.mp3
23. Chicago - Dialogue, Pt. 2.mp3
24. Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is-.mp3
25. Chicago - Doin’ Business.mp3
26. Chicago - Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.mp3
27. Chicago - Fancy Colours.mp3
28. Chicago - Feelin’ Stronger Every Day.mp3
29. Chicago - Flight 602.mp3
30. Chicago - Free.mp3
31. Chicago - Gipsy Kings - Sing, Sing, Sing.mp3
32. Chicago - Gone Long Gone.mp3
33. Chicago - Goody Goody.mp3
34. Chicago - Happy Man.mp3
35. Chicago - Hard Habit to Break.mp3
36. Chicago - Hard to Say I’m Sorry-Get Away.mp3
37. Chicago - Harry Truman.mp3
38. Chicago - Hope for Love.mp3
39. Chicago - I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love.mp3
40. Chicago - I’m a Man.mp3
41. Chicago - If She Would Have Been Faithful….mp3
42. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now.mp3
43. Chicago - In Terms of Two.mp3
44. Chicago - In the Mood.mp3
45. Chicago - Introduction.mp3
46. Chicago - Jade - Paul Shaffer - Dream a Little Dream of Me.mp3
47. Chicago - Just You ‘N’ Me.mp3
48. Chicago - Life Saver.mp3
49. Chicago - Listen.mp3
50. Chicago - Little One.mp3
51. Chicago - Look Away.mp3
52. Chicago - Love Me Tomorrow.mp3
53. Chicago - Lowdown.mp3
54. Chicago - Make Me Smile.mp3
55. Chicago - Mississippi Delta City Blues.mp3
56. Chicago - Moonlight Serenade.mp3
57. Chicago - Mother.mp3
58. Chicago - Must Have Been Crazy.mp3
59. Chicago - Night and Day.mp3
60. Chicago - No Tell Lover.mp3
61. Chicago - Now More Than Ever.mp3
62. Chicago - Old Days.mp3
63. Chicago - Poem 58.mp3
64. Chicago - Prelude (Little One).mp3
65. Chicago - Questions 67 and 68.mp3
66. Chicago - Saturday in the Park.mp3
67. Chicago - Skinny Boy.mp3
68. Chicago - So Much to Say, So Much to Give.mp3
69. Chicago - Something in This City Changes People.mp3
70. Chicago - Song for You.mp3
71. Chicago - Sophisticated Lady.mp3
72. Chicago - Stay the Night.mp3
73. Chicago - Take Me Back to Chicago.mp3
74. Chicago - Take the ‘A’ Train.mp3
75. Chicago - The American Dream.mp3
76. Chicago - Thunder and Lightning.mp3
77. Chicago - To Be Free.mp3
78. Chicago - Together Again.mp3
79. Chicago - We Can Last Forever.mp3
80. Chicago - West Virginia Fantasies.mp3
81. Chicago - What Else Can I Say.mp3
82. Chicago - What Kind of Man Would I Be- [Remix].mp3
83. Chicago - Where Do We Go from Here-.mp3
84. Chicago - Will You Still Love Me-.mp3
85. Chicago - Wishing You Were Here.mp3
86. Chicago - You Are on My Mind (3:22)
87. Chicago - You’re the Inspiration (3:50)

Another “Comcast Moment” (the saga continues)

Comcast Truck in my driveway

Comcast does have a redeemer, his name is Marcus. Now if Marcus says he is going to do something, like show up at your house at 8:30 am on a Saturday morning, that is what Marcus does. If he says he is going to run a dedicated line so it goes directly from the "tap" ( Oh yeah, I am getting all the Comcast lingo down), and goes under the driveway and around the front yard directly to my PC, then that is what he does. Marcus doesn’t insult my intelligence, and he understands my issues. Trouble for Marcus is, he has to deal with the same blunders that Comcast makes as we all do. Hence I have my dedicated line from the ‘tap’, I just have a piss poor tap to begin with, compliments of Comcast not showing up yesterday.

oh well. Stay tuned.

:)

Local Hero

Today I did something so unlike me.

I had to go out to the bank and run some errands, and while I was out, I passed
a video rental shop. The children never seemed to find anything at the one we
usually go to, so, I decided to take a look at this one, to see if it was better.
Also, I was looking for a particular movie, as our regular video shop didn’t
carry it. I went in, and without the children, I suddenly felt so out of my element.
What was I doing here? Was I actually going to sign up and then rent a movie?
If they have "Local Hero " that John recommended, I decided I would. They indeed did have it. John had already suggested a movie that is now one of my top favorites, (The Dish ), so I felt sure I was going to like this one.

I tucked my new rental card into my wallet, my new movie, and proceded to finish
my errands. When I got home today, I was very hungry, so I heated up some lunch,
and put the video into the computer. I like my computer’s sound better than any
of the TV’s in the house, so it was a good place to watch it. I actually sat down and watched a movie.

I did like the film. The characters were charming. The plot, well there wasn’t a lot of action, but that’s ok. The film’s charm and lesson on enjoying the simpler things in life is made it all the more rich.:

Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish villiage to secure the
property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny
and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the
‘Silver Dollar’ and can’t believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach
scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns,
and he’s not selling. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but
is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.


Cute quotes from the film:

Mac: I’d make a great Gordon, Gordon.
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Rev. Macpherson: You want to buy my church?
MacIntyre: Not as a going concern.

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[a fisherman is painting a new name on his boat]
Townsman: Are you sure there are two l’s in dollar, Gideon?
Gideon: [angrily] Yes!… I know there’re two g’s in bugger off!

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[after hitting a rabbit on the road] Oldsen: Why don’t we kill it. Hit it
with something hard?
Mac: You’ve already done that with a two-ton automobile!

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[Approaching Ben Knox's beach shanty]
Mac MacIntyre: Where’s the door here?
Gordon Urquhart: There is no door. Just knock on the window.
Mac MacIntyre: How do you do business with a man who has no door?
Victor: The ethics are just the same.

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Urquhart: [acting as bartender] I want you to try this Scotch. It’s 42 years
old.
MacIntyre: Old enough to be out on it’s own.

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Victor: It’s their place, Mac. They have a right to make of it what they can.
Besides, you CAN’T eat scenery!

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[Mac is buying shampoo]
Mrs. Wyatt: Dry, normal or greasy?
Mac MacIntyre: Normal. Extra normal.

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Mac MacIntyre: Any comets around?
Ben Knox: Do ye want to buy a comet now?
Mac MacIntyre: Maybe.

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Danny: How’s the water? Cold?
Marina: Not as cold as it should be. The North Atlantic drift comes in here.
That’s warmish water from the Caribbean. That’s why it’s special here. There’s
stuff fetching up here all the way from the Bahamas.
Danny: Oh, that’s a long way.
Marina: You swim?
Danny: Not that far.

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Victor: How are things? I heard about the ceilihd.
Gordon Urquhart: Oh, we’ve lots to tell you. We’ve been invaded by America.
We’re all gonna be rich.
Victor: Really?
Gordon Urquhart: We won’t have anywhere to call home, but we’ll be stinkin’
rich.

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Mac: Did you cook my rabbit?

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Happer: Institute for the study sea and sky? I like it!

Oh, and as an added bonus, the movie’s soundtrack is scored by Mark Knopfler
of Dire Straits. (Oh, and you’ll have to watch the movie to know what goes on
in the red phone booth.)

Photos of
places that Local Hero was filmed.

 

Comcast a no show, me here with the sound of the crickets.

I pay my bill on time.
I keep my PC maintained.
I make sure the PC is not filled with malware, that its clean and ready to run.

Frankly, that should make me one of Comcast’s favorite customers. But I am not.
They lied to me today. They said they would send yet another technician between 8-5. He was a no-show. When I called not to happy about it, they hung up on me.
What the heck am I paying for?

Here is what ELSE I get for my $105 a month. Technicians who are obviously unqualified. What am I basing my judgement on? My knowledge of everything that has to go right from the Cable company to the miles that it takes to reach my computer? No. I am basing it on the fact that since OCTOBER 2004, I’ve had CRAPPY intermittantly connected cable and with the few dozen visits to my HOME it is not yet FIXED.

What else am I basing their lack of qualifications on? Well, besides not actually fixing the problem, they show up and rather unprofessional like, complain about the guys that were here first. Or the people that I spoke to on the phone making the appointment for them go come here. Every tech that has EVER showed up at my house, has unprofessionally blamed someone ELSE for things not working properly. Also, invariably, everytime they knock at my door, they take deep breaths like they are in a hurry, and they are sure to inform me, that they have 10 jobs to do after me which lets me know ahead of time, its about quantity, not quality. As they banter between themselves, I hear how more important it is what they are doing ‘tonight’ than anything they is related to MY connection.

The final straw came two technicians ago. Every time his partner would reboot the modem, he turned off and on my external. EXCUSE ME? I told him, that has nothing to do with my connection, leave it ALONE. He decided to argue it. My external hard drive has CRAP to do with the connection, I asked him nicely to STOP, and he refused. I swear, I think he was sure he was rebooting the modem, when in fact it was my external hard drive.

Today was pitiful though, a few dozen techs out here since October, still NO chance of improvement, with each visit the situation gets WORSE, and they had to LIE about coming. Even if then didn’t mean to lie, we had an appointment, they didn’t show, nor did they care. When I called upset, they said I shouldn’t be upset. I told them, "Would you be upset if I didn’t keep my part, dear? If I didn’t pay my bill??" She agreed they would be upset. So I told HER, they are not keeping THEIR PART, and *I* am DEFINATELY UPSET.

I work on the net, I need the net, and my productivity is near nothing. I have spent out a lot of money extra to be able to connect with clients using long distance, and indeed that hurts the wallet after awhile.

With all this, naturally I have looked into alternatives. Particularly, Fiber Optics, only to learn their 15MB download speed is not yet in my area. (I will definately keep checking!), I just don’t know how long I can keep paying money to be insulted.

Has anyone in my vicinity seen the MANY COMCAST commercials and their claims of speed and service? We are bombarded with them on the television practically on the hour, no matter which channel we watch. Their claims are bogus I tell you. Take it from me, one who knows…me and the chirping crickets still waiting their arrival.

Related links:

Marc’s comcast woes
My 3 Cents.com
Washington Post Reports Surge of Comcast Complaints in Maryland
ComcastWatch
Comcast Sucks
Is Comcast too big?
Mega Hurts
I hate Comcast…

Don’t Get Mad, Get Diesel Secret Energy

There are a number of headlines across the country regarding people up in arms with the price of gasoline, some taking it to the point of filling their tanks and then driving off without paying.

Where I agree that the dependency on foreign oil is and always has been crazy, making ourselves vulnerable to these oil rich nations, I always felt I had little knowledge on my own as to what to do about it. What puzzles me though is that even though *I* have little knowledge of cars and how to fuel them, there has to be a few out there with ideas for alternatives. Where the heck are they?

Recently, while speaking with Miranda, I was curious how she and Enric were coping with the prices of gas up there in Wisconsin (which are higher than here in Maryland).

She went on to tell me how there was a certain someone up there fueling his car with the left over french fry oil. Well that got my attention, and I started to do some investigating on the net.

Some of my finds of alternatives out there:

Diesel Secret
Bio Diesel Boards
Make your own biodiesel
Wikipedia on Biodiesel
Biodiesel NOW
Biodiesel Blog

bio diesel and french fries

Gilmore Girl Quotes

I STILL really love this show! Now, here are some Gilmore Girl quotes for those who love it too!

Gilmore Girls Stars Hollow

# SEASON ONE

"It’s my mother’s name, too. She named me after herself. She was lying in the hospital thinking about how men name boys after themselves all the time, you know, so why couldn’t women? She says her feminism just kind of took over. Though personally I think a lot of Demerol also went into that decision. I never talk this much."
- Rory exchanges names with Dean, "The Pilot"

"Every day. After school you come out and you sit under that tree there and you read. Last week it was Madame Bovary. This week it’s Moby Dick."
"But why would you—"
"You’re nice to look at, and because you’ve got unbelievable concentration. Last Friday these two guys were tossing around a ball and one guy nailed the other right in the face. I mean, it was a mess, blood everywhere, the nurse came out, the place was in chaos, his girlfriend was all freaking out, and you just sat there and read. I mean, you never even looked up. I thought, ‘I have never seen anyone read so intensely before in my entire life. I have to meet that girl’."
- Dean, explaining to Rory how he "noticed" her

"Are you my new daddy?"
- Rory, scaring off some unwanted attention for Lorelai, "The Pilot"

"I’m gonna be in a Britney Spears video?"
- Rory, as she sees her Chilton uniform, "The Pilot"

"So tell me about the guy. No, really, are you embarrassed to bring him home?"
"I’m not embarrassed."
"Does he talk at all?"
- Lorelai, teasing Rory for info about Dean, "The Pilot"

"Hi this is a message for Rory. It’s Max Medina calling. I just wanted to say that I talked to Headmaster Charleston or ‘il duce’ as he’s more affectionately know at the Gilmore household, and he’s agreed to let you do some extra credit work to help make up for the missed test today. Now I’m not sure what the extra credit work is yet, but it probably will be time consuming and extremely painful. It will however get you back up to where you rightfully belong Rory, don’t lose heart. Make this work. And if you’re mother is listening, Lorelai it was a pleasure encountering you. I hope it happens again. Anyways, see you in class."
- Max’s message to Rory, "The Deer Hunters"

"You like coffee? Can we drink some together? A sort of pre-date. Very casual, no strings, no obligations. We’ll just see if it’s even worth going down the road of including food in the deal. Just coffee."
"I’m going to be in town tomorrow because I take a class at Hartford State and there’s a coffee shop across the street that I sometimes, almost all the time, go to around 4:00 and usually exactly 4:12. I could not stop a person from entering said establishment around that time, nor would I avoid them if I knew them if they did."
- Max asks Lorelai out, "Cinnamon’s Wake"

"This is a serious problem. These Friday dinners are the only proper food that child eats all week."
"Rory, are you in any way malnourished or in need of some international relief organization to recruit a celebrity to raise money on your account?"
- Emily and Richard are snowed in with Rory, "Love and War and Snow"

"At some point in your life you’re gonna have to decide that some guy is worth opening that front door for. I am just volunteering."
- Max, volunteering to Lorelai, "Love and War and Snow"

"You are like a mythological creature that casts some kind of spell on me and makes me act stupid. I’m not stupid. I don’t act stupid with anyone else."
- Max, trying to keep his distance from Lorelai

"It should be magical. There should be music playing and romantic lighting and a subtle buildup to the popping of the big question. There should be a thousand yellow daisies and candles and a horse and I don’t know what the horse is doing there unless you’re riding it, which seems a little over the top, but it should be more than this."
- Lorelai describes to Max how a marriage proposal should be made

"What’s going on?"
"Am I or am I not the head man in charge of floral deliveries?"
"Yes, and one of the few men I know who would proudly declare that fact."

"Daisies no less. As if I would order these pitiful little things. Foul things, these daisies. And just a notch up from weeds. And look how many. I mean, there must be at least—"
"A thousand of them! A thousand yellow daisies."
- Lorelai and Michel take delivery of a thousand yellow daisies, "Love, Daisies and Troubadours"

# SEASON TWO

"Where you gonna live? …Hartford’s probably good, closer to Rory’s school… Of course, it is a little far from the inn… But who knows how long you’ll work after you’re married… Oh, but you probably already talked about that, right?"
"Uh, no, but I do think he and my father have come to an agreement on how many goats I’m worth."
"Hey, I’m just talking here. It’s great, really. You gonna have more kids?"
- Luke, catching Lorelai off guard when she tells him about Max’s proposal, "Sadie, Sadie"

"Honey, someday when you’re a little older you will be introduced to something that is extremely seductive but fickle. A fair-weather friend who seems benign but packs a wallop like a donkey kick, and that is the Long Island iced tea. The Long Island iced tea makes you do things that you normally wouldn’t do, like lifting your skirt in public or calling someone you normally wouldn’t call at really weird times."
- a hungover Lorelai warns Rory, "Red Light on the Wedding Night"

"It’s a long story. I don’t really wanna go into all the whats and whys and gory details right now… and to figure out exactly what happened, you’d have to dig up Freud himself and have him work on me full time."
- Lorelai, ‘explaining’ the Max situation to Sookie, "The Road Trip to Harvard"

"You’re the most confident person I know. Obnoxiously so. You’re good at what you do and you know it."
"I’m good at doing what I have to do. When I had to get a job, I got it. When I had to find a house for us and a life for us, I got it. When I had to get Rory into Chilton, I did it. But I don’t have to leave the Independence Inn. I don’t have to go into business for myself."
- Luke and Lorelai, "The Ins and Outs of Inns"

"You sure you don’t want some tea? Tea usually makes things like this a little less awkward. There’s things to hold and stir."
- Mia, to Emily, "The Ins and Outs of Inns"

"I hate fighting with friends."
"That’s what enemies are for."
"And God knows we have our share of those."
- Rory and Lorelai, "The Ins and Outs of Inns"

"How often do you get to see teenagers speak iambic pentameter and kill themselves?"
- Lorelai, going to see Chilton’s "Romeo and Juliet" production, "Run Away, Little Boy"

"He has had to watch you go from one guy to another, and then the engagement, and then the engagement was off, and patiently he’s waited. And now in walks this kid and he says, ‘My God, will she date anyone else in the world before she’ll date me?’"
- Sookie, explaining Luke to Lorelai, "Run Away, Little Boy"

"I’m getting a little creeped out here… This is a cold, cold family."
- Rory, as the family discuss future burial arrangements, "Richard in Stars Hollow"

"How can I break up with you? I’ve never been out with you."
"Well yeah, but that’s what today was supposed to be, a date."
"A date where we need a secret plan and a two-honk driveby and a decoy cousin?"
- Henry and Lane, "A Tisket, A Tasket"

"Why are you only nice to me?"
- Rory, to Jess, "A Tisket, A Tasket"

"But my question is, how did that happen? How was it that suddenly everyone in the world was saying ‘music has charms to soothe the savage beast’ when it was written breast."
- Lorelai, to Rory, "It Should’ve Been Lorelai"

"I’m gonna have to drink a lot of coffee to keep up with you two."
- Sherry meets Lorelai and Rory, "It Should’ve Been Lorelai"

"Richard, you didn’t even notice your own granddaughter isn’t here?"
"She’s so quiet she sometimes slips in unnoticed. She should work for the CIA."
- Emily and Richard, as Rory misses dinner night, "It Should’ve Been Lorelai"

"I mean, we’re not good friends but we’re friends. We’re friendly… Friendish might be a better term."
- Rory, describing her friendishship with Jess to Lorelai, "Lost and Found"

"You seem to have a very firm grasp of the English language. You put together several full sentences, even using a couple of words that contain two or more syllables, and then my mother appears and suddenly we need a thought bubble over your head to understand what you’re thinking. Can you tell me why that is?"
"The verbal thing comes and goes."
- Rory and Jess, "Lost and Found"

"I don’t know what anything means anymore. I mean, I can’t even read my own handwriting. What does this say? The person who wrote this should be dressed in a clown suit stuffing bodies under their porch."
- Paris seeking help from Rory for the symptoms of overstudying, "There’s The Rub"

"We have not been waiting forever."
"Godot was just here. He said ‘I ain’t waiting for Richard,’ grabbed a roll, and left. It’s been forever."
- Emily and Lorelai, at the dinner table, "Back in the Saddle Again"

"When we gather as a family, we eat as a family. We don’t eat in shifts."
"You know, you’re bound by the rules of the Geneva Convention, Mother, just like everyone else."
- Emily and Lorelai, "Back in the Saddle Again"

"Someone’s not taking to Elba too kindly."
"What does that mean?"
"Just that Rory’s the leader of this group, Napoleon, and you’re not."
- Louise and Paris, "Back in the Saddle Again"

"I’m gonna need a picture of this Jess so I don’t accidentally rip the head off the wrong kid ’cause that would be bad."
- Christopher to Lorelai, "Teach Me Tonight"

"If we were gazelles, we’d be the first ones eaten at the watering hole."
"Well, be thankful we’re not gazelles. Now go take your shower. You’re starting to look like you’re starring in an independent film."
- Rory and Lorelai, looking the worse for wear, "Help Wanted"

"He’s not much of a morning person… It takes him about an hour to become Jackson."
- Sookie, to Lorelai, "Lorelai’s Graduation Day"

# SEASON THREE

"Why’d you turn the car off?"
"I’m just getting the sense that I shouldn’t be driving a large vehicle when you tell me this."
- Rory breaks some news to Lorelai, "Let The Games Begin"

"You sure you don’t want a soda?"
"Yeah, I’m sure."
"Please let me get you a soda. I gotta do something other than stand here like a moron."
- Jess and Rory, feeling awkward, "Let The Games Begin"

"Are you going to talk to him?"
"I’ll at least match him grunt for grunt."
"Okay. Now, let’s say he’s in the house and there’s a fire, and you can either save him or your shoes – which is it?"
"That depends – did he start the fire?"
- Rory and Lorelai discuss Jess, "Let The Games Begin"

"I’m so tired of fighting. Or not even fighting because he won’t fight. He just gets mad and disappears and then comes back and I don’t like how I feel and I don’t like what I do."
- Rory, about her relationship with Jess

"Dean started it… He sucker punched me and I was just defending myself."
"Oh, apparently you defended yourself all the way through the house and out into the front yard. You defended yourself with a chair that is now broken. You defended yourself with a coffee table."
- Jess and Luke ‘recap’ the fight

"Let me plant this little thought in your head - you do or say anything to upset Jess and make it harder for me to keep him on the right path, I’m gonna put your head through a wall. Any wall, you can pick the wall, but it’s gonna be a wall, okay?"
- Luke, to Jimmy

"You know, when you left home, were the cops after you?"
"No."
"No ’cause they shouldn’t be or no ’cause they haven’t found the head yet?"
- Jimmy and Jess

"Oh my God, it’s Audrey Hepburn. You’re Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina. Just a waif with eyes."
- Miss Celine greets Rory

"I made out a schedule. Every single moment of every single day from now until graduation is accounted for."
- Rory might be pushing herself too hard

"Now, did anyone ever to tell you to picture the audience in their underwear? Well, don’t do it. I did it once and I had nightmares for a week. Bulgarians in Speedos."
- Richard offers some pre-speech advice to Rory

"Rory, honey, do you understand, the Gilmores do nothing altruistically. Strings are attached to everything."
"There are no strings… I just have to pay them back starting five years after I graduate, and I have to start going back for Friday night dinners."
"Um, hello, Pinocchio, those are strings."
- Lorelai and Rory, "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio"

"I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina, and strolled down Swann’s Way. It’s a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything."
- Rory’s valedictorian speech, "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio"

# SEASON FOUR

"I humiliate myself at least six times a year for this town, and just because I’m going to Yale, that’s not going to stop. Now the reason I am not the Ice Cream Queen is because Taylor never asked me. I didn’t know about it, and that’s why I was busy. Now I love this town, I will be back in that ridiculous pilgrim outfit at Thanksgiving, so everybody just get off my back."
- Rory, addressing the town, "Ballrooms and Biscotti"

"Are you listening to me? I can’t leave. She won’t let me leave ever. This is Iran in ‘79 and you are Jimmy Carter. What do we do?"
- Rory, taken hostage by Emily at a friday night dinner, "Ballrooms and Biscotti"

"My mother - she was here. I can feel it. Smell that? The room smells like guilt and Chanel No. 5."
- Lorelai, sensing Emily in Rory’s room, "The Hobbit, the Sofa and Digger Stiles"

"My grandmother broke into our room and furnished it…"
- Rory, updating her roommates on the new decor, "The Hobbit, the Sofa and Digger Stiles"

"Hey, talk to a boy. A boy will be nice to you."
- Sookie, as she and Lorelai search for Michel, "Chicken or Beef"

"I’m in the Navy now, you know. My older cousins did two-year stints. It paid for their college and stuff, so I joined up. Of course, we weren’t fighting international skirmishes on two or three dangerous fronts like we are now…"
- Kyle, ‘designated driver’ at Dean’s bachelor bash, "Chicken or Beef"

"Stop doing that. Looking at me. You’re watching me watch the movie. It’s creepy."
"I enjoy watching people watch certain parts of certain movies."
"But you look over just before something big happens, so I always know something’s coming."
- Luke and Lorelai, at his first ‘movie night’, "The Fundamental Things Apply"

"Dating. It’s a horror."
"It’s the only cure for the singleness thing, barring ordering a spouse off the internet."
"If I had dated a lot, I’d still be single. I’d just have spent a lot of bad nights at Tony Roma’s."
- Luke and Lorelai, "The Fundamental Things Apply"

"Talk to me about Jason."
"There’s nothing to talk about."
"Oh, come on. I’m in a serious romantic dry spell. I need to live vicariously through somebody."
- Rory and Lorelai, "Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out"

"I find nothing exciting before eleven."
- Rory, not thrilled by the big game, "Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out"

"The plural of cul-de-sac is culs-de-sac? That doesn’t even sound like English."
"That’s because it’s French."
- Lorelai and Rory, discussing the finer points of grammar, "The Nanny and the Professor"

"Now I know who Woody Allen’s next leading lady’s gonna be."
- Lorelai finds out who Paris is dating, "The Nanny and the Professor"

"As we speak, I am working on the perfect alibi. I’ve come up with lots of, you know, mid-afternoon and evening alibis, but so far no 1:00 AM alibis… I’ll come up with something. My entire life has been a training session for this very event."
- Lane, preparing an escape plan for a gig, "In the Clamor and the Clangor"

"How about you taking me to that place you’re always talking about. What is it… Duke’s?"
- Jason visits Stars Hollow, "A Family Matter"

"That had all the tact of a Nazi storm trooper."
- Rory, after hearing Paris break up with a boyfriend, "A Family Matter"

"Man, I love e-mail. Every day Rory and I write each other multiple times. It’s great."
"You enjoy typing to people more than talking to them?"
"Wrong perspective. E-mail is a return to the romantic days of letter writing. It’s pure Dickens."
- Lorelai and Luke, "Scene in a Mall"

"I have a gigantic bottle of vodka at my place - the largest bottle of vodka known to man."
"But what will you drink?"
"Gin."
- Jason and Lorelai, fleeing a disastrous family dinner, "Tick, tick, tick, boom!"

"I’m fine. In a weird way, my father trying to destroy me is the first time I’ve ever gotten any real respect out of him."
- Jason, "Tick, tick, tick, boom!"

"I’m officially taking the one hour I have off to go to the driving range to hit golf balls to try to improve my sucky game, thereby redeeming myself in your father’s eyes."
"I like the use of ’sucky’ and ‘thereby’ in the same sentence."
- Jason and Lorelai, "Afterboom"

"So, how’s World War III going?"
"Oh, you know, the first boys off the boat were mowed down, but the next platoon is moving in."
"Which means?"
"Jason’s making the lawsuit go away."
- Rory and Lorelai, "Afterboom"

"I was here to cover the reading for the paper to go along with the review of the book. And then I arrive only to realize that every single available girl at Yale is here, including four of my reporters."
- Doyle, to Rory, as he covers an Asher Fleming reading, "Afterboom"

"I’m just saying that I want to earn all of my grades. No matter how many ‘wise, willful, and wonderful women’ I know."
- Rory, afraid she’s being favoured by Professor Fleming, "Afterboom"

"Rory… right now is the point in the horror movie where the entire audience is yelling, ‘Don’t go in there.’"
- Lorelai, bracing himself for a family dinner, "Afterboom"

The cats — they know that I’ve broken up with Jason and that I’m alone and they’ve decided it’s time for me to become a crazy cat lady… they can see it in my face. ‘She’s single again. She couldn’t make it work again. She picked the wrong guy again.’
- Lorelai, attracting cats, "Luke Can See Her Face"

"Whose phone calls or visits are never unwanted or too long? Do you see her face? Who would you most like to have in your life to ward off moments of loneliness? Do you see her face? When you travel, who would make your travels more enjoyable? Do you see her face?"
- Luke’s self help tape, "Luke Can See Her Face"

"Are you saying that ’sleeping with the zucchini’ means…"
"Jackson’s sleeping with the zucchini… there’s a potential cold front coming in from Canada."

"I’m so sorry, guys… for freaking out about dumb things like zucchini and not realizing that people would respond in very loving and nutty ways. This is not the way to do this."
- Lorelai and Sookie, as the Inn takes over everyone’s lives, "Luke Can See Her Face"

"Rory, you’ve had quite the dry spell this year."
"I have not had a dry spell."
"There’s not one picture of you with a guy."
- Paris and Rory, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"

"Lesson number one - when your mom or your grandmother starts trying to pin down your specific whereabouts at a specific time and place, and she’s smiling kind of weird, begin evasive maneuvers immediately."
- Graham to Rory, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"

"At Lane’s, two boys, one with hair. And the place, broken furniture and dirt and boys and a broken window and boys… and a tiny fridge and guitars and boys. She stood in that room with two boys."
"Mrs. Kim, you know why the boys were there? She was trying to be up front with you, and that’s good. She could have hid them from you, and she didn’t. I’ve met those boys. They’re innocent. As innocent as if she was living with two girls. So think of them that way… as two tall, gawky, caring, sometimes unwashed girls who are watching out for your daughter’s safety."
"Girls. Girls."
- Mrs. Kim and Lorelai, after Mrs. Kim visits Lane, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"

"I’ll see you…before then, but I’ll see you then, too."
"Yeah, I’ll see you both of those thens."
- Luke and Lorelai, looking forward to their ‘date’, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"

"Did I lose?"
"Well, you have no head, so probably."
"So this is what teenage boys are doing instead of watching television? Seems like a lateral move."
- Rory and Lane, playing the boys’ video console, "Raincoats and Recipes"

"You gave me space? We broke up."
"I didn’t look at it that way. I looked at it as a cooling-off period."
"How very revisionist of you."
- Lorelai and Jason, "Raincoats and Recipes"

"What are you doing?"
"Will you just stand still?"
- Lorelai and Luke, on the porch of the Dragonfly, "Raincoats and Recipes"

"He’s not a married guy. He’s Dean — *my* Dean."
"He’s not your Dean. He’s Lindsay’s Dean. You’re the other woman."
"I told you, it’s over."
"It’s not over until he’s out of the house with the ring off."
- Rory and Lorelai, "Raincoats and Recipes"

# LORELAI QUOTES

"I feel so rich and suddenly in complete agreement with everything Bush has to say."
- Lorelai after receiving a check for $75,000

"So, I think I’m in touch with the other side."
"The other side of…"
"The other side."
"With Republicans?"
"No. Lately I’ve been having these dark premonitions."
- Lorelai explains her dark premonitions to Rory

"There are times in your life when you have to do ridiculous things for money."
- Lorelai passes on some wisdom to Rory

"Do not eat chips out of a communal bowl. You might as well stick your hand in a toilet. If you’re desperate, offer to be the person who replenishes them with new bags and grab a handful out of the new bag and dump the rest in the communal bowl."
- Lorelai offers some pre-party advice to Rory

"Rory, my heart. It is Saturday, the day of rest."
"Sunday’s the day of rest."
"No, Saturday is the day of pre-rest."
"Pre-rest?"
"Yeah, so that way when you actually get to Sunday you’re rested enough to enjoy your rest."
- Lorelai, to Rory, trying to stay in bed

"What was with those kids? So curious, so full of questions. Shouldn’t their brains be completely fried on TV and video games by now?"
- Lorelai, exasperated by a Q&A at Stars Hollow High

# THE GILMORE FAMILY

"Is there a problem?"
"Nothing Shakespeare couldn’t turn into a really good play."
- Lorelai, exasperated by her mother

"Rory, your grandfather and I thought it might be nice after dinner for you to go around the house and pick out what you’d like us to leave you in our wills… You should have what you like. So look around and when you see something you like stick a Post-It on it."
- Emily & Richard make plans for the future

"You can’t even let Rory have one piece of our lives, even if it’s her choice."
- Emily to Lorelai, as Lorelai freaks out about Rory applying to Yale

"It’s from my mother."
"What is it?"
"It’s heavy. Must be her hopes and dreams for me."
"I thought she discarded those years ago."
- Lorelai and Rory get a delivery from Emily

"Honestly, Lorelai. It’s not your looks that keep them away. Think about that."
- Emily, as Lorelai doesn’t bring a date to a function

# PARIS QUOTES

"How is my running with you gonna change anything?"
"Because people think you’re nice. You’re quiet, you say excuse me, you look like little birds help you get dressed in the morning. People don’t fear you."
- Rory and Paris, as Paris seeks a vice president, "I Can’t Get Started"

"What do you mean what? He just asked you out on a date."

"He did?"
"Yes."
"Did I accept?"
"Yes."
- Rory fills Paris in on what just happened

"I can’t date. I’m not genetically set up for it."
- Paris gets nervous before her date

"If I go there it’s going to look like I went there just to be with him. Suddenly I’m Felicity without the hair issues and I’m not terribly comfortable with that."
- Paris on why she doesn’t want to follow her boyfriend to Princeton

"By the way, you know I ultimately do all these things for the good of mankind, right? Sometimes I don’t think I come off that way."
- Paris desperately needs some volunteer work for her college application

"You don’t want to go. You don’t, it’s not you."
"I have multiple personalities. It might be one of me."
- Paris attempts to dissuade Rory from some extra credit activities, "Hammers and Veils"

"Marry rich."
- Paris retorts to Louise, "Hammers and Veils"

"I’m sorry, have I ever been mistaken for a patient person?"
- Paris is not one for small talk, "I Can’t Get Started"

"I know I’m not the first one to say it to you, but you’re insane."
"Okay, look, I know you and me, we…"
"Shouldn’t be around each other armed."
- Rory and Paris

"I think she periodically makes a whirring noise and then just shuts down."
- Rory, discussing Paris’s sleeping habits

"We’ve been sitting here for an hour and have sold eight tickets… Unbutton your top. Teenage boys are controlled by one thing. Unbutton your top."
"No.
"Well, me doing it isn’t going to help any."
"Paris, you need to relax. You need to stop worrying. You need to stop obsessing. You need to stop looking at my boobs."
- Paris and Lorelai try to sell some grad night tickets

"Uh, what are you doing?"
"I’m giving you a hug… Just give into it, baby. Come on, you can do it. That a girl. Unclench the fists, Paris. Unclench the fists. Yeah, there you go."
- Paris and Lorelai bond

"How was I supposed to know you were gonna jump out of your seat like a maniac?"
"You know me. You room with me. You should have known."
- Rory and Paris, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doing the Twist"

"This is the kind of cold you read about in a Dickens novel. We should be in a workhouse or shilling for Fagin… It’s been the coldest winter in the history of winter."
- Paris, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doing the Twist"

"Don’t drink. And after you’re done not drinking, drink tons of water and take two aspirin before you go to bed. And take Paris with you everywhere. Not much can happen with that girl along."
- Lorelai’s advice to Rory before spring break, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doing the Twist"

"That was subtle."
"What are you talking about?"
"The Joanie loves Chachi moment."
"He said ‘hey’. I said ‘hey’ back. I was being polite."
"In Burma, you’d be married…or brutally killed."
- Rory makes the mistake of ‘heying’ a cute guy in front of Paris, "Girls in Bikinis…"

"Come on… go. Flirting seems to be a very big part of this spring break ritual, and I’m taken. I can’t flirt. I have to live vicariously through you."
- Paris orders Rory to flirt with the cute guy, "Girls in Bikinis…"

"Look around. Every single person in this place is having a better time than we are. Why? I mean, we’ve been doing everything everybody else is."
- Paris, not getting into spring break, "Girls in Bikinis…"

"When Paris is happy the whole world is happy, but when she’s not happy, the whole world is ‘Deadwood’."
- Rory, describing Paris’s moods to Logan

# IN STARS HOLLOW

"I’m running out of French curse-words that they won’t understand."
- Michel is exasperated by a wedding party

"The one on the left is Matt. The one on the right is Mark… I’m very good at observing people, you know, learning the tics and traits, sound of their voices. It’s a gift."
"That one has a Post-It on its back."
"Oh, well, then that’s Mark. The one on the right is Matt."
- Michel explains how he distinguishes identical twins to Sookie

"After working six hours longer than I usually work and performing tasks I despise and am ashamed of, and now I am going home to wash off the stench of this horrifying day."
- Michel, to Lorelai, "I Can’t Get Started"

"Hey, how is it out there?"
"It is cold and gray like a fat dead pigeon."
- Lorelai makes the mistake of asking Michel about weather, "Love and War and Snow"

"He should’ve just driven it out on a monster truck. He’s shamelessly catering to his demographic."
- Sookie is not impressed Jackson presents his deep fried turkey to the guys

"Oh no! It just figures that the only Korean boy at this party has his Korean girl radar turned on."
- Lane, wishing she was somewhere else

"He’s jealous. Oh my God, he’s jealous, that’s so great! …I’ve never made a guy jealous before. I feel so powerful."
"Just remember, there’s cute jealous and there’s Othello."
- Lane and Rory discuss Lane’s womanly wiles

"That is not Dave Rygalski. I mean, not the one that I’m in a band with. That is Dave Rygalski, local Christian guitar player that my mom and I met very briefly and innocently at the dance marathon, and that I coincidentally ran across again when I found his ad seeking Christian guitar accompaniment gigs up on our church bulletin board. I even put the fake ad up at church and pretended to find it with my mom next to me."
"So, are you guys dating?"
"We’re laying the groundwork."
- Lane and Lorelai, "A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving"

"Watch it. You break it, you buy it. Ten percent off for cousins, twenty percent off for nephews and nieces."
- Mrs. Kim hosts family Thanksgiving, "A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving"

"I know you have very strict rules about dating and boys, but I just want you to know that I’m a good person. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I’ve never gotten a ticket, I’m healthy, I take care of myself, I floss. I never watch more than 30 minutes of television a night partly because I think it’s a waste of time and partly because there’s nothing on. I respect my parents, I do well in school, I never play video games in case they do someday prove that playing them can turn you into a serial killer. I don’t drink coffee. I hate soda because the carbonation freaks me out. I’m happy to give up meat if you feel strongly about it. I don’t mind wearing a tie. I enjoy playing those hymns on my guitar, and I really, really want to take your daughter to the prom."
- Dave, giving his best shot to Mrs. Kim

"How are his friends?"
"Yes. Is there spin-off potential?"
- Madeline and Louise try to get the lowdown on Jamie from Rory

"By the way, I think you might be the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen."
- Kirk, trying to ask Lorelai out

"It’s been four hours. Go home."
"It’s boring at home. My TV’s broken."
"So do something else."
"Like what?"
"Read a book."
"What book?
"Any book."
"I’m gonna need a suggestion."
"Moby Dick.
"That’s about the whale?"
"Yes."
"No. What else?"
"Forget it, just sit there."
"Okay."
- Jess tries and fails to get Kirk to leave the diner

"Ladies, gentlemen, honored guests. Who owns the silver Volvo because you’re blocking me in?"
- Kirk politely tries to escape from Sookie’s wedding rehearsal, "I Can’t Get Started"

"I come to announce to one and all that the day we all thought would never get here has arrived."
"The Day of Reckoning?"
- Taylor and Kirk, being Taylor and Kirk

Google Talk

Ever since someone persuaded me to get ICQ, chat programs has been a large part of my life on the net. Not only did I download and USE chat programs, I then combined them with my love of graphics, and SKINNED them!

Now, after trying ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, Skype, Trillian, iChat, PowWow, Odigo, and MSN, now Google is getting into the act too!

Google Talk

"Google Talk, Google’s long-expected entry into the IM and VoIP market, has arrived. As predicted, Google Talk is a full-fledged IM client based on the open Jabber protocol with VoIP thrown in for good measure."

Learn More HERE and HERE

Download HERE

65 Girls At Area School Pregnant

It might be starting to sound like I am really ‘down’ on the system we have here in the US. I suppose I am. I KNOW that it is one of the many reasons I decided to homeschool.

It seems that in one Ohio school, where they have 490 female students, 65 of them are pregnant! That is an amazingly outrageous ratio. I think when I was in high school, we had ‘one girl who got in trouble’ and chose to finish her school year out, pregnant.

In the city of Canton, where this high school is located, their health department statistics show that 104 of the 586 babies born to Canton residents in Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center had mothers between 11 and 19.

EXCUSE ME? 11 years old ???????????????

That’s nuts.

News story is HERE

Mom said there’d be weeks like this…

“The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can’t step on it. You can’t go around it. You’ve got to get through it.”
-John Evans

“Getting through it” hasn’t been easy this week!

First my usually splendid speed on Comcast (when it works), died on me. It has been next to impossible to be productive. To get answers to my repeating connection issues, is an ordeal I could write a book on. I got my new connection in October, it is now August, and my reported amount of outages (which I didn’t document, but just KNOW they are many). I’ve had three incidents where techs needed to come to my house this month, each time my connections upon them leaving was worse than when they got here .

I finally called Comcast’s billing. I explained that they needed to take some of the funds for their constant advertising (its all the time on the TV), and distribute it to improving their technicians, so that when then make service calls, people aren’t worse off than when they started. They assured me they were staffed with professionals, which I had to disagree, and listed my reasons, which were many. I left the billing person stuttering upon giving my list. Next I told them, that *I* was doing my part of the bargain: I keep my PC maintained, I keep it clean, and I pay my bills on time. I told them THEY weren’t doing THEIR part.

After my presentation, the billing department went back in time and counted all the days with all the outages and granted me a credit over the next two months on my bill.

I honestly would rather pay for the service and get it, but I will take the refund.

Along with my net connection, my email for my Xerraire (at xerraire.com) account has been down for the entire weekend. My host at Ready Hosting is unreachable, but their happy little network status assures me they are aware of the problem and next to the ETA of having it fixed is a big NOTHING. Fun.

Speaking of ReadyHosting, I went to my control panel there telling them to activate my 404 page, which was met with an error.

Finally, last night, my message tag (MSGTAG) service went down, with the most absurd error pop ups.

This was just a portion of my week on the net (or not on it). When I got to church, someone told me I looked tense. I didn’t doubt it.

Oh well, today starts a new week…one can hope.

:)

Outdoor Dance Recital

My daughter Laura is quickly becoming like her mom. She met a friend on the internet, and wanted to meet her in person, and wanted me to meet the little girls mom, too. Katie is the new friend’s name, and Katie who was going to appear in an outdoor dance recital at a local park, invited Laura to watch her.

I grabbed my camera and we went. Its a lovely park, and I am always ready to go to Down’s Park!

The dance recital was adorable, and you can see more pics, which are right now posted on my photo site HERE
Outdoor dance recital at Down's Park

Listening to…Gilmore Girls!

Gilmore Girls

I am nuts about this show. At 5 pm each day, all activity in my home comes to a halt. Miquel teases me as sometimes I insist we squeeze our summer classes between General Hospital and Gilmore Girls.

Like everything else, I missed this show when it first came out, so am watching the reruns in the afternoons. I am not sure which season I am in, but well on my wish list is the DVD’s of all the seasons. The show is hilarious. The dialogue back and forth between the characters in the show, seem too funny and too ‘real’ to be scripted.

Set in a storybook Connecticut town populated with an eclectic mix of everyday folks and lovable lunatics, Gilmore Girls is a humorous multigenerational series about friendship, family and the ties that bind. Along with all the adorable parts that make up this show, is its music. They sure have a mix, and the show’s opening song is Carole King’s, “Where You Lead”

So……listening to: Gilmore Girl Music!

1. Gilmore Girls - The Free Design - I Found Love (2:38)
2. Carole King - Gilmore Girls Theme song - Where you lead (3:19)
3. Gilmore Girls - Grant Lee Phillips - Heavenly (2:21)
4. Gilmore Girls - Claudine Longet - God Only Knows (3:29)
5. Gilmore Girls - Honey Don’t Think (2:44)
6. Gilmore Girls - Mazzy Star -Fade Into You (3:14)
7. Gilmore Girls - John Lennon - Oh My Love (2:42)
8. Gilmore Girls - Sam Phillips - Love Is Everywhere I Go (1:58)
9. Gilmore Girls - Grant Lee Phillips - Truly, Truly (3:58)
10. Gilmore Girls -Jayhawks - I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (3:40)

Sunday School Humor

Quite unrelated to our lesson on the book of Romans, our Sunday School teacher doesn’t mind starting classes with a little levity. I thought it was cute and wanted to share it with my blog visitors.

Moses Fishing
Moses Fishing

Bum-vertising

It happens to all of us with websites…we get an idea, a cause, or a theme and we decide to construct our own little place on the web. We toil, work, and rework the idea until it looks exactly as we want it to. We learn all the things needed in which to do it with. Till one day, there it is, a shiny new web site!

Then what?

What good is it just to have a website and no one see it? Attracting visitors can be a real puzzle sometimes. Well in my own experience, I have used a few methods, but I have to admit, I never thought of the one THIS GUY came up with! ‘Bum-vertising’.

It seems, he has decided a good way to put to work those people you see with signs on the corners of busy intersections. He gets the homeless to hold his signs and when people are stuck in traffic they are looking at this person’s web address.

Now I’ve been told I have a wild and crazy imagination, but I don’t think I would have come up with this idea in a million years!

More on BUM-VERTISING » HERE

Dragostea Din Tei

Dragostea Din Tei + one goofball is proof that sometimes the computer and high speed internet can be dangerous in the hands of children.

The first time I heard this song, well I just almost didn’t hear it, over the giggles of my children watching a silly video with this fellow mouthing the words of this song into his web cam.

I am going to be the first to admit, after hearing it a few times, that this thing is very catchy.

Always cautious, I decided to look up the meaning.

Apparently translation isn’t easy, even in the title:
According to Wikipedia: “Dragostea Din Tei is written in Romanian and the title is not easy to translate efficiently due to the ambiguous translation of Din and lack of context for the phrase. There are several proposed translations of the title, such as Love among the linden trees. The intended translation is possibly shown in the subtitles of the music video by O-Zone, which translates it as Love of the linden tree. It is known that linden trees have strong lyrical associations in Romanian poetry, tied to the work of the Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu. Therefore the expression may be interpreted as romantic, ‘linden-type’ love.”

Want to know what they are saying? Here are the lyrics with translation:

 

 

DRAGOSTEA DIN
TEI
Ma-ia-hii
Ma-ia-huu
Ma-ia-hoo
Ma-ia-haha
Miya-hee
Miya-hoo
Miya-ho
Miya-haha
[These are just sounds.]
Alo,
Salut, sunt eu, un haiduc,
Si te rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea.
Alo, alo, sunt eu Picasso,
Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic,
Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic.
Hello
[on a cellphone], greetings, it’s me, an outlaw,
I ask you, my love, to accept happiness.
Hello, hello, it’s me, Picasso,
I sent you a beep [cellphone signal], and I’m brave [or strong],
But you should know that I’m not asking for anything from you.
Vrei
sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma iei,
Nu ma, nu ma iei, nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei.
Chipul tau si dragostea din tei,
Mi-amintesc de ochii tai.
You
want to leave but you don’t want don’t want to take me, don’t
want don’t want to take me, don’t want don’t want don’t want
to take me.
Your face and the love from the linden trees,
And I remember your eyes.
Te
sun, sa-ti spun, ce simt acum,
Alo, iubirea mea, sunt eu, fericirea.
Alo, alo, sunt iarasi eu, Picasso,
Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic,
Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic.
I
call you [over the phone], to tell you what I feel right now,
Hello, my love, it’s me, your happiness.
Hello, hello, it’s me again, Picasso,
I sent you a beep [cellphone signal] and I’m brave [or strong],
But you should know that I’m not asking for anything from you.

Link to the video that had my children in stitches…

Gigapixel Resolution

Graham Flint and Catherine Aves are not your average photographers. The two are currently traveling across the country creating a photographic record of landscapes using cameras that Flint invented, which take pictures at 1,000-megapixel resolution—many times what a digital camera can snap. The husband-and-wife team has dubbed their effort the Gigapxl Project

Many of the photographs the pair takes are as large as murals. The pictures capture so much detail that looking at them conjures up digital photography’s future.

One camera weighs a 100 pounds

More HERE

Meteor ‘Outburst’ Expected Friday Morning

meteor

Yahoo News reports that this summer’s Perseid shower will be exceptional. The moon is mostly out of the way later in the night, and higher-than-normal activity rates are expected over the United States.

A few Perseid Facts….

Perseid meteoroids (which is what they’re called while in space) are fast. They enter Earth’s atmosphere (and are then called meteors) at roughly 133,200 mph (60 kilometers per second) relative to the planet. Most are the size of sand grains; a few are as big as peas or marbles. Almost none hit the ground, but if one does, it’s called a meteorite.

Comet Swift-Tuttle, whose debris creates the Perseids, is the largest object known to make repeated passes near Earth. Its nucleus is about 6 miles (9.7 kilometers) across, roughly equal to the object that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Back in the early 1990s, astronomer Brian Marsden calculated that Swift-Tuttle might actually hit Earth on a future pass. More observations quickly eliminated all possibility of a collision. Marsden found, however, that the comet and Earth might experience a cosmic near miss (about a million miles) in 3044.

When a Perseid particle enters the atmosphere, it compresses the air in front of it, which heats up. The meteor, in turn, can be heated to more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 Celsius). The intense heat vaporizes most meteors, creating what we call shooting stars. Most become visible at around 60 miles up (97 kilometers). Some large meteors splatter, causing a brighter flash called a fireball, and sometimes an explosion that can often be heard from the ground.

Read More HERE

Recently added to my MP3 library…

1. Audience - I Put A Spell On You (4:09)
2. Audience - You’re Not Smiling (5:14)
3. Bream, Julian - Andaluza (Playera), various guitar & other non-piano arrangements (No.5 of ‘Spanish Dances (12)’) (0:47)
4. Bream, Julian - Andaluza (Playera), various guitar & other non-piano arrangements (No.5 of ‘Spanish Dances (12)’) (2:05)
5. Bream, Julian - Cancion del emperador, for vihuela (2:23)
6. Bream, Julian - Fantasia for guitar (0:39)
7. Bream, Julian - Fantasia for guitar (2:48)
8. Bream, Julian - Introduction and Fandango, various arrangements (from the Quintet for Guitar & strings, G. 448) (4:13)
9. Bream, Julian - Joyne Hands, for consort of instruments (from ‘The First Booke of Consort Lessons’).mp3
10. Bream, Julian - Lute (Chamber) Concerto, for lute (or guitar), 2 violins & continuo in D major, RV 93- Largo.mp3
11. Bream, Julian - Passacaglia for lute (5:08)
12. Bream, Julian - Recuerdos de la Alhambra, for guitar.mp3
13. Bream, Julian - Rondo Brillant for guitar No. 1 in E major, Op. 2/1: Poloniase (3:46)
14. Bream, Julian - Semper Dowland semper dolens, pavan for lute, P 9.mp3
15. Bream, Julian - Song without Words for piano No. 6 in G minor (’Venetianisches Gondellied’), Op. 19b/6 (10:28)
16. Bream, Julian - Suite española No. 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7: Leyenda, arr for guitar (3:54)
17. Bream, Julian - Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Gigue (5:33)
18. Bream, Julian - Ségovia for guitar, Op. 29 (5:58)
19. Eric Clapton - Alberta (3:42)
20. Eric Clapton - Before You Accuse Me (3:44)
21. Eric Clapton - Hey Hey (3:16)
22. Eric Clapton - Layla (4:46)
23. Eric Clapton - Lonely Stranger (5:27)
24. Eric Clapton - Malted Milk (3:36)
25. Eric Clapton - Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.mp3
26. Eric Clapton - Old Love (7:52)
27. Eric Clapton - Rollin’ and Tumblin’ (4:12)
28. Eric Clapton - Running on Faith.mp3
29. Eric Clapton - San Francisco Bay Blues (3:23)
30. Eric Clapton - Signe.mp3
31. Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven.mp3
32. Eric Clapton - Walkin’ Blues.mp3
33. George Benson - Breezin’.mp3
34. George Benson - Give Me the Night.mp3
35. George Benson - Greatest Love of All.mp3
36. George Benson - Here Comes the Sun.mp3
37. George Benson - Last Train to Clarksville.mp3
38. George Benson - Livin’ Inside Your Love.mp3
39. George Benson - Love All the Hurt Away.mp3
40. George Benson - Love Ballad.mp3
41. George Benson - Moody’s Mood.mp3
42. George Benson - Nature Boy.mp3
43. George Benson - Never Give up on a Good Thing.mp3
44. George Benson - On Broadway.mp3
45. George Benson - This Masquerade.mp3
46. George Benson - Turn Your Love Around.mp3
47. George Benson - We Got the Love.mp3
48. George Benson - White Rabbit.mp3
49. The Allman Brothers Band - Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More.mp3
50. The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky.mp3
51. The Allman Brothers Band - Crazy Love.mp3
52. The Allman Brothers Band - Dreams (7:17)
53. The Allman Brothers Band - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (6:55)
54. The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica.mp3
55. The Allman Brothers Band - Little Martha.mp3
56. The Allman Brothers Band - Melissa.mp3
57. The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider.mp3
58. The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out.mp3
59. The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin’ Man.mp3
60. The Allman Brothers Band - Revival.mp3
61. The Allman Brothers Band - Southbound.mp3
62. The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues.mp3
63. The Allman Brothers Band - Wasted Words.mp3
64. The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post (5:19)

Xerraire listents to cds...

How About them O’s?

Orioles

(From my cousin Tanya, again)

How about them O’s (gives me a chance to plug our crazy weather, too!)

A guy from Baltimore dies and is sent to Hell. He had been a horrible man his entire life. The devil puts him to work breaking up rocks with a sledgehammer. To make it worse he cranks up the temperature and the humidity. After a couple of days, the devil checks in on his victim to see if he is suffering adequately. The devil is aghast as the Baltimorean is happily swinging his hammer and whistling a happy tune.

The devil walks up to him and says, “I don’t understand this. I’ve turned the heat way up, it’s humid, you are crushing rocks; why are you so happy?”
The Baltimorean, with a big smile, looks at the devil and replies, “This is great! It reminds me of August in Baltimore. Hot, humid, a good place to work. It reminds me of home. This is fantastic!”

The devil, extremely perplexed, walks away to ponder the Baltimorean’s remarks. Then he decides to drop the temperature, send down a driving rain and torrential wind. Soon, Hell is a wet, muddy mess. Walking in mud up to his knees with dust blowing into his eyes, the Baltimorean is happily slogging through the mud pushing a wheelbarrow full of crushed rocks.

Again, the devil asks how he can be happy in such conditions. The Baltimorean replies, “This is great! Just like April in Baltimore. It reminds me of working out in the yard with spring planting!”

The devil is now completely baffled but more determined to make the Baltimorean suffer. He makes the temperature plummet. Suddenly Hell is blanketed in snow and ice. Confident that this will surely make the Baltimorean unhappy, the devil checks in on him. He is again aghast at what he sees. The Baltimorean is dancing, singing, and twirling his sledgehammer as he cavorts in glee.

“How can you be so happy? Don’t you know its 40 below zero!?” screams the devil.

Jumping up and down the Baltimorean throws a snowball at the devil and yells, “Hell’s frozen over!! This means the Orioles won the World Series!!”

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