Plum Island Lighthouse
Author: robertjames1971
I'm wicked tall.
Daily (stupid) Haiku for You #14
Today’s dumb haiku for you is brought to you by my little Nikon point and shoot camera that broke recently and how I want to replace it but probably won’t be any time soon. (hint: $$$$$$$)
Compact cameras,
I want to grab a new one.
Why so expensive?
Guitar Playing Avalanche
Eight songs. I put lead guitars on eight songs this morning and it was all before 8:15am. My finger tips are a burning agony right now. I saved the song I am playing my step son’s guitar on for last. The strings are probably 7-8 years old and feel like barbed wire. I was hurting before I played that puppy, and I am hurting more now. Ouch babie, ouch.
Internet Search
Daily writing prompt
What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
This one is going to be uber exciting.
Yesterday was this week’s day in the office. Usually that means one of our two or three buildings in Westwood, MA but this time it was Foxborough. That’s the second farthest commute possible without traveling to a building outside of New England. My GPS app took me on the fastest route which was also the long way around. It was 73 miles.
I spent the morning in Foxborough but was able to move up to Westwood for the afternoon. That’s the building closest to home, about 40 miles away. I did not have enough gas left in the car to get me from Foxborough to Westwood, and finally Robert gets to the point.
The last thing I searched for online was, “gas stations near <insert the Foxborough building’s address here>” in Google Maps.
What an animal I am, eh?
Stomach Fail
Why?
I’ve found that if I make a mistake while eating instant mashed potatoes and some of the instant mashed potatoes get stuck outside of my redesigned stomach, after 15-20 minutes those ‘taters will come back up in mildly spectacular fashion. It’s unpleasant and gross, but it’s also my stomach literally fixing the mistake and within minutes I’m back to 100% normal and all is well.
I’ve also found that if I make a similar mistake while eating quinoa it will last for hours, yes hours plural as in multiple hours before it clears up. It isn’t painful, I can just tell that there is something subtly off about my digestive situation. After a couple of hours I’ll convince myself that I’m imagining it and try to eat something small. That will get stuck behind the quinoa that I wasn’t imagining was stuck and that will be painful and cause foamies and nausea. Unlike the potatoes though they never come back up. I just have to continue to wait for it all to pass on its own, even though I’ve already waited multiple hours and no other food ever gets stuck for more than an hour, or an hour and a half tops.
Jen made quinoa tonight and it was magical. It also got a little stuck and two hours later I thought I was okay until I had a bite of a protein snack. Now my stomach hurts and I’m nauseous and spitting up foamy saliva and just waiting for the damn stuff to pass, damnit.
Why is the reaction so different when the diagnosis is exactly the same?
I finished mixing three songs and I’m part way through two more. I paused so I could watch episode three of Ahsoka but I had to pause that while I deal with my stomach issues. I still hope to finish the episode and the two songs (and the protein snack) before I turn in for the night, but it’s already 10:00 so maybe I won’t get to it all.
After typing up all of this on my iPad while leaning over a bucket in the bathroom, some of the protein snack came back up and I feel a lot better. Okay, so the snack and the instant mashed potatoes have something in common, but what’s the deal with the quinoa? Why no improvement after two hours plus? We may never know.
Okay, back to Ahsoka. May episode three be as good as episodes one and two.
Speed Mixing
I am speed mixing 50/90 songs tonight. I hope to crank out five before the new episode of Ahsoka comes out (in half an hour). I probably won’t finish quite that quickly, but one down and four to go.
Scenic Drives
I stumbled across this article today while perusing Google News on my lunch break:
10 Most Scenic Road Trips To Take In Massachusetts
So many good ideas on this list. The drives on the Cape and the Islands, and probably the one in Plymouth which is almost on the Cape, are not really doable because the traffic getting to them would be nightmarish. Maybe in the mid-late fall, but certainly not now at the end of the summer. The central and western MA drives could be interesting, but the ones that stood out to me were the two on the North Shore near the water.
I could go for either of those. In fact, I think a couple of my early morning photo-trips have actually touched on one of them. We have Labor Day weekend coming up in a few days and the weather forecast looks kinda decent. I doubt Jen and I would have the time for something like this, but maybe as we move out of summer into the fall some of these might be worth a look. Mohawk Trail is the only one we’ve done, I think, but that was years ago.
We’ll see what happens. We’re pretty busy people, you know? Also, if we’re going to road trip we should road trip up to Vermont to visit the kids. They are the biggest draw, you know what I mean?
Two Days Left
I started my photo a day challenge on September 1st. There are only two days left in this year’s running. Tomorrow and the day after and that will be it for my fourth consecutive photo a day.
I took this picture this morning before I left for the office because I wanted to have something shot with my Z5 rather than my little point and shoot, or my iPhone. This is number 363 of 365. Crazy, right?
Daily (stupid) Haiku for You #13
Today’s dumb haiku for you is brought to you by the morning commute on a work-from-the-office day.
From home to office
70 miles, all highway.
Why are we stopping?
Kids TV
I watched a lot of TV as a kid. So much that I am sure I forget more of the regulars than I actually remember.
After school it was channel 56 in Boston. They aired cartoons in the afternoon and then sitcoms in the evening. We sort of put it on and just let it run.
Cartoons included the Hanna-Barbera stuff mostly. Flintstones, Jetsons, stuff like that. They aired various incarnations of Tom and Jerry and Loony Toons too. Bugs Bunny was my favorite of all of those, but the Loony Toons stuff was so much better than Merry Melodies.
The sitcoms got increasingly more adult focused as the evening rolled on. Happy Days and Lavern and Shirley were on earlier than Three’s Company or Good Times or All in the Family. I much preferred Happy Days. That was right up my ally when I was a kid in the late ’70’s.
Saturday mornings were all about cartoons too. The Super Friends were and still are the best. I am having a tough time remembering anything else. For a while we used to get Land of the Lost, which wasn’t a cartoon but was awesome.
I’m sure there are 10 or 20 thousand more shows that we all watched regularly but I can’t recall much more than these at the moment. Also, it’s a work in the office day and it’s 6:39am and I have to get a move on so…
…Rob clicks publish (without proof reading, sorry).
Inside the Red Head's Head 