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..i got some money 'cause I've just been paid.
Yup, really.
But some of that $$ is gone because when I turned on the PC this morning and launched the application which programs the lights in my apartment, the screen went bananas with all the symptoms of bad video memory.
( Geeky stuff about how I fixed the PC )
Other things I did today:
( Listened to the Big Game )
( Watched my alma mater )
( went trolling for groceries )
And yes, I did finally program the magic box which turns my lights on and off. And installed motion sensors for the livingroom and bedroom, though the latter may have to go, because the cats tend to wander in and out at all hours. They only work after dark, but still...
Went to my favorite Starbuck's for what will be the last time until next year because 2 weeks before effing Thanksgiving they hung Christmas wreaths and started playing nothing but Christmas music. I thought it might have been just an aberration of one shift manager, but tonight they not only were still playing the ugly music, they were wearing Xmas theme T-shirts and the barista was wearing reindeer antlers.
I brought along my walkman because I usually don't like the alleged music there anyway, but even Igor Kipnis playing Bach harpsicord numbers could not completely drown out a Motown version of "Here Comes Santa Claus", or Sinatra moaning "I'll Be Home for Christmas".
I was raised as a Jew, stopped believeing in organized religion and god a long time ago, so Christmas annoys me a lot. I spent a winter in Israel, and anyone with the smallest concept of the weather there knows it rarely snows, and there are no big evergreen trees. If you bother to correlate the story of the birth of Jesus with a Jewish calendar, you'll know he was born in April or May. All this jingle bell crap comes from our friends the Jesuits inventing holiday myths with which to convert the their buddies the Huns.
Anyway, it's disgusting, ignorant, stupid stuff and I just can't listen to it. Usually I don't have to stop listening to radio, TV or in-store muzak until December Fool's Day. I sure hope it's only Starbucks jumping the gun.
Yup, really.
But some of that $$ is gone because when I turned on the PC this morning and launched the application which programs the lights in my apartment, the screen went bananas with all the symptoms of bad video memory.
( Geeky stuff about how I fixed the PC )
Other things I did today:
( Listened to the Big Game )
( Watched my alma mater )
( went trolling for groceries )
And yes, I did finally program the magic box which turns my lights on and off. And installed motion sensors for the livingroom and bedroom, though the latter may have to go, because the cats tend to wander in and out at all hours. They only work after dark, but still...
Went to my favorite Starbuck's for what will be the last time until next year because 2 weeks before effing Thanksgiving they hung Christmas wreaths and started playing nothing but Christmas music. I thought it might have been just an aberration of one shift manager, but tonight they not only were still playing the ugly music, they were wearing Xmas theme T-shirts and the barista was wearing reindeer antlers.
I brought along my walkman because I usually don't like the alleged music there anyway, but even Igor Kipnis playing Bach harpsicord numbers could not completely drown out a Motown version of "Here Comes Santa Claus", or Sinatra moaning "I'll Be Home for Christmas".
I was raised as a Jew, stopped believeing in organized religion and god a long time ago, so Christmas annoys me a lot. I spent a winter in Israel, and anyone with the smallest concept of the weather there knows it rarely snows, and there are no big evergreen trees. If you bother to correlate the story of the birth of Jesus with a Jewish calendar, you'll know he was born in April or May. All this jingle bell crap comes from our friends the Jesuits inventing holiday myths with which to convert the their buddies the Huns.
Anyway, it's disgusting, ignorant, stupid stuff and I just can't listen to it. Usually I don't have to stop listening to radio, TV or in-store muzak until December Fool's Day. I sure hope it's only Starbucks jumping the gun.
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