For those of you who aren't NPR junkies yet, this site is a fabulous source for great music. So far, I've been turned on to bands I hadn't heard like The Holmes Brothers, Jim White, South San Gabriel, and more.
Be sure to check out the archives and listen to the shows in their entirety.
So I'm late to the Limewire hype. I know this. I've actually known about Limewire for over three years (and Kazaa - which my husband refuses to pronounce as CUH-zaah (rhymes with "how bizzah") and instead says "cah-zah" like the Gaza Strip.)
Why haven't I become a Limewire junky earlier? Two reasons:
1. I have ethical issues about downloading music. I had a (hurl) dial-up connection.
2. ...
Haven't posted in a while, not much going on! Josh is glued to the tv most nights watching the NBA playoffs, screaming loudly whenever Steve Nash makes some crazy last second 3 pointer.
Work is going well. I've made new friends, laughed a lot and generally had a good time. I want to buy some cool lamps from Crate & Barrel for my office, ...
I'm thinking it probably has something to do with staying up until like THREE THIRTY this morning for Star Wars and then still having to be at work at 9am for a huge client meeting... I shall sleep like a wee skywalker tonight.
UPDATE! I fell asleep for what I thought would be a nap at around 7pm - woke up at 7AM!!!
I got a cold call today from SBC, our DSL provider, telling us we needed to re-register our user name b/c there was some discrepency. The caller couldn't verify for me in any way that he was an SBC employee - so obviously I was hesitant to go to a web site he gave me and enter my password!!
Turns out that this "discrepancy" was due ...
I've been freelancing this week for a small marketing company called OnMessage. And while I try to make a policy of not chatting too much about work in this blog, I am proud to announce that they offered me a fulltime position, which I accepted. I'll have a paid-for membership to DSVC, every other year trips to the How conferences, my own office with a door, ...
you look in your rearview mirror and there's an enormous pick up truck with a man in an even more enormous cowboy hat. i've GOT to get a camera phone...
One hundred and eighty-five boxes went into the attic, and for the first time, I see that we have lovely hardwood floors!
Other than that, it's been a lazy day.