28 May 2009

what to do with that

So I got a new phone and I'm migrating contact information from one to the other, which requires a certain amount of massaging of data, going through and cleaning it up so that it imports cleanly, and as I go through, the entry for my grandmother has to be cleaned up. But you see, that'd be my dead grandmother. So the question becomes... shouldn't I just delete it? I mean, it's not like I'm going to call her or anything.

It's like when I enter people's birthdays in my calendar - I punch it in, then hit the "repeat" feature, which then has a choice of "no end date" or "repeat until..." I my mind, I always run the imaginary dialog of "ok, well they're not immortal, so how long do I think they're going to live?" I never enter an end date, but still, it's like this tiny little bit of mortality entering into the silly virtual world.

15 May 2009

Do it... To it.

Right. So here's the deal... if you didn't know this about me before, it's time you heard about it - I like me some punkrockmusic.

And it was just on a lark, a fluke, a happenstance, that this morning I switched the radio station away from the news and to a music station with annoying drive-time radio, hoping against hope for something new. But I was rewarded with the old. The old and good. And new.

Pennywise is coming to town.

There's a bunch of hardcore punk out there that doesn't grab me. And we won't talk about that. But every now and then, I need some Minor Threat. And Bad Religion goes well most of the time, but if you've heard 3 songs, you've heard 'em all.

Pennywise, they just have that thing.

Goodness. Get me some.