Make Way the Ear Tickler

Friday 18 May 2012 - Filed under music

Happy Friday to you! I made a list of everything I listened to at work today. I thought it was going to be a longer list actually. I had my headphones off for part of the day. I did do quite a bit of work. Anyway whatever. Here’s my lame list:

Andrew Bird “Break It Yourself”. Marvelous morning album. Eases you into your day.

Wilco “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”

Spiritualized “Sweet Heart Sweet Light”. Spiritualized is always dreamy. This is the new one. I’m going to have to listen to it a few more times to decide if I like it or not.

Underworld “Barking”

Then I stopped halfway through and listened to (no. never. watched! wink wink) last night’s episode of Letterman. Conan O’Brian was the guest.

Then I listened to a Louie C.K. HBO special on YouTube. I love that dude.

Underworld “Rez/Cowgirl (Everything, Everything Edit)”. One of my most favorite songs.

I ended the working day starting Modeselektor’s “Monkeytown” but didn’t get very far into it.

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What was that? A Thursday?

Thursday 17 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Hey howdy hey! Word up homies? Yep. Just like that. A Thursday blows on by and in rolls a Friday. Yeah I don’t know what that means. Not too much to report today. Headed into the office. I was a touched with the smudge of ye ole melancholy today. A bit sad. I got to get to doing some good writings one these here days. Break the spell that that evil witch put on me. Kiss the prince and get my magical words flowing again. First I think I’ll relax and watch a little TV tonight. Maybe go to bed early.

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Grandpa Johnny

Wednesday 16 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

My grandpa Johnny passed away last night (Tuesday 15th). Yep. I know I said in the last post that we visited him yesterday. We did. It was to say goodbye though because he had been bedridden and we knew it was about time. He was 91. His birthday was on Monday. He was a good man. 91 is a pretty long life.

I’m sad yes. He had some sort of dementia or alzheimers so it had probably been a few years since he knew who I was. I mention this because it has added a layer of confusion as a mourner.

Our boys always cheered him up in the last few years and that was fun to watch. He often wondered who’s kid G was and who had let him loose in the house.

Grandma Gertrude died in 2005, so what’s the math?… 7 years later he died. 7 years is a long time to be without your soul mate. Surely they are together now again. I don’t think I have any blog posts from back when she died. There were a few holes in the 2005 journal postings.

I am trying to get a picture of what I’ll remember about him. Fond memories of them coming over when we were kids and us going to their house. Thanksgivings in White Salmon. I don’t remember too many one on one conversations with him but I know there were some.

Grandpa Johnny was a hard worker. I hope to take that example. He was in the Navy fighting during WWII. He worked for Cascade Natural Gas as a serviceman when my mom and her sisters were growing up. He was a commercial fisherman in Alaska. He worked repairing boats/ship engines for an Alaskan company until retirement. He built their house in the Columbia gorge.

He really liked pancakes! I will remember that. He called them hot cakes though I think. I made the boys pancakes this morning in Grandpa’s honor.

I’ve got some video from the gorge years. I should dig it up and let it see the light of day again.

Yeah. I don’t know. Words given and words received during these times of deaths in the family are strange.

Sure we all mean well I guess.

Love ya grandpa Johnny! May 14, 1921 – May 15, 2012.

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Nappy Napperson

Tuesday 15 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Yep. We had a nice day of napping the boys and I. Sunny day again today. A little bit cooler than yesterday. We had breakfast outside. We played outside some. Went back inside and watched an episode of Batman and an episode Spiderman. Played some Angry Birds. Had some lunch. Took a 3 and a half hour nap. Mommy came home from work. We went to G Noodle’s swim lesson. Then we drove out to see my grandpa Johnny and visit with my Auntie Punky. Now we are heading back home for bedtime. I’m riding in the car as I type this. It’s gorgeous night out tonight.

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Hardly a minute to spare!

Monday 14 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Well that’s not true. I do have a few spare minutes. Not much to report on this once again lovey weathered day. Very happy to have tomorrow off. We are going to watch the next episode of “the killing” now I do believe.

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Full of Paper Cuts

Sunday 13 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Happy mother’s day to all you lovely sexy mothers out there. Happy Mother’s day to you not so sexy mothers also. Well that’s not possible, all mothers are sexy… wait… not in a weird way. Well okay in a weird way if… oh never mind.

Today has been a fine day. It was fine. I don’t know. A bit of the doldrums were present while I sat inside the darkness of my cubicle eating ramen while everyone else was out playing in the sunshine.

I was cruising around ye ole Noodle Journal here today when I found this nicely written post from May 23, 2006. Yes my friends. 2006 was 6 years ago! Oh and the mentioned in post year of 1999 was 13 years ago. What? Oh jeeze whatever.

I had something to say about the 2006 post but now I have forgotten what it was. Oh well.

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title of which implies sun shining sweetly

Saturday 12 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Hey yeah. Hey yeah. Another lovely sunshiny day. I spent the day working in the office again of course. We went to dinner at some friends house who we haven’t seen in a while. That was nice. More office hours tomorrow and then the next day. Then a day off.

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Ugh

Friday 11 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Oh yes… must write post… so… sleepy eyes closing. It was a lovely day. Now I must sleep. End transmission.

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Sunshine On My Cubicle Makes Me Happy

Thursday 10 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Another sunny day here! Although I couldn’t see the sun directly from my cubicle, I could tell that it was shining on the wall behind me. i went to the White Eagle for lunch and sat outside in the sun then.

The right shift button on this old laptop is no longer working. I must be using it to say I because that i up there is in lowercase. Argh. I need a new computer!!

So yes! Go and check yours truly reading a couple of his stories… wait I’m getting confused… I am reading two of my stories on the WordPlaySound podcast! You should go check it out here. I am very happy that my stories were picked to be included. Way cool. I recorded the readings with the help of my friend Jason in his basement. He did some engineering and mixed the good takes together.

There is another poem of mine waiting in the queue to go up another website but they don’t know when that will be exactly. I keep checking. There is also another website that is sitting on 2 of my good ones and not giving me any signs one way or another of rejection or acceptance… Maybe I should send them an email and ask if I can send the poems elsewhere. They are goodies.

Yep. I’m not sure what the count is up to on accepted writings… I can still count them on two hands. Am I to the second hand yet? I like when people can read my stuff and other people put it on their stuff. It’s exciting.

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Rolling Rolling Rolling

Wednesday 9 May 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Hey yeah. Yep got stuff to report. Pretty sleepy though. Went and worked some hours at the office this evening.

Now we are watching Parenthood again.

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