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A lot of what I remember about this, I do because I was keeping a quasi-journal at the time. It was in a blue-covered, college-ruled, single subject notebook I'm sure I initially bought for a different purpose. Early morning.  November 19, 2005.  I may have overslept. I remember feeling rushed until I got into the car. Since I packed the night before, I must have overslept.  Ashley West Leonard gave me a ride to Burbank Airport. I was heading to Minneapolis, MN for Thanksgiving at my sister’s house. I was able to visit with them for a full week. Since I was never the wake-up-and-smoke-a-cigarette-before-everything type, I hadn’t had one before the flight. I got to my sister’s and remembered that Beverly (my sister) had quit cigarettes a few years before. I think her husband, Dan did likewise.  I didn’t want to smoke or smell like cigarettes around my nieces, Rebecca Ryweck and Rachel Ryweck. Also, it was November in Minnesota, so, you know…it w

“We are gonna have an awesome country once again. When I get through with it, you won’t believe how great it will be. I’m gonna tell China to go fuck itself, and if they don’t like it, let ‘em try to collect on the debt we owe them. I will negotiate such a deal with China that they will want to give America the reacharound it deserves. As your president, I will make sure that Congress passes only the bills I want them to pass. If they try any of that attaching their bills to other ones, I am gonna grab them by the nuts and squeeze until they scream “UNCLE”! They have no idea what they are up against. I am gonna sign so many executive actions, it’ll make their heads spin. Then I am going to sue all the haters and losers that thought I couldn’t win. We’ll take all of that money and use it to fund all of my research on how to be a president and how to do presidential stuff. Believe me…BELIEVE ME, it’s gonna be a phenomenal eight years. Yeah, I said eight, because my first executive actio

So, here's what happened: I got there around 10:45am. Stood in line and spoke with a nice gentleman in front of me about our previous political experiences. When someone came out and said that people who pre-registered online (I did not know this was an option) could go ahead tot a different line, he left. I got to listen to some older women behind me complain that TV cameras were there and that they should "keep that thing out of my face". [Really though, why would there be cameras at a caucusing site for President. Who's gonna care about or watch something like that on TV. Am I right?]   Anyway, I got up to the table to check in and a man working on a laptop - who looked very much like a gaunt Daniel Patrick Kelly ("Warriors! Come out and play-ee-yay!!!) with horn-rimmed glasses informed me his laptop battery had died. They brought over a power cord for him, but he didn't know where to plug it into the laptop (I showed him it was on the back). He

Hello again! So, I finished hosting trivia around 11pm on Tuesday.  Swung by my friend, Scott's place for a few.  He showed me a really funny episode of "Children's Hospital".  Then, I headed over to Pete & Cate's for a few hours of hanging and good times. I left there around 4am; a bit later than expected.  Heading back to Ventura, here's what the Ipod played for me: 1.  If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out - Cat Stevens A nice mellow opening to an hour on the road.  I liked this song even before I saw Harold & Maude .  Of course, I liked it even more after. 2.  Away When You Were Here - Ben Folds Five From the new (yes, new!) Ben Folds Five, The Sound of the Life of the Mind .  This is the 2nd track I've heard from the new CD.  It seems to be about someone dealing with feelings about their distant, now deceased father.  Good song; depressing topic. 3.  Dirty Blvd. - Lou Reed This is from New York, which is probably my favorite Lou Reed

,,,Hey there!  Here's part 2 of this little experiment.  I left L.A. around 2:30am after a fun night of hosting Trivia and spending some time with my friends. Here's what I got to listen to (via Ipod Shuffle) on the way Home to Emily : 1.  Ain't That a Kick in the Head - Dean Martin This is from the "Cool Then, Cool Now" CD.  I love it when they keep studio banter in songs like this.  This one, however is unusual, in that it "features" Kevin Spacey (which I just found out) from one of those duets-after-they-are-dead collections.  Well, it still works. 2.  Out On the Road (Mondo Version) - Norah Jones Fun - and appropriate - song from her new one, "Little Broken Hearts", produced by Brian Burton AKA Danger Mouse. 3.  Fighting (Instrumental) - Elmer Bernstein 2 weeks in a row, Mr. Bernstein makes the list.  As I said before, I really like the score to Heavy Metal (1981) .  This is from the last story from the Loc-Nar called "Taar

Every Tuesday, I drive down to Los Angeles from Ventura. More specifically, I head to Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood to host Trivia (9pm. Come check it out sometime!). After, I usually head to my good friend's home (that would be Pete & Cate) and enjoy a few hours hanging out with some of my very great, gracious and generous friends. The trip is 60 miles, each way. That gives me about 2 hours each Tuesday to listen to whatever music I have on my ipod. I have an 8GB so I tend to rotate music off and on it frequently. Recently, as suggested by my love, Emily, I listened to the entire ipod, alphabetized by song. That guaranteed I actually hear each song at least once. I highly recommend doing this. The only rules are: 1. No skipping any tracks 2. No repeating any tracks. It took me a few months to get through my ipod, from A to $64,000 (the last song was the theme song to the $64,000 Question). Since then, I have swapped out a lot of songs for new music.