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My Days are now in Song

I’ve been home for too long and apparently have had too few conversations with adults. I’ve been off for a few weeks and have spent the majority of that time with a child who only utters a few simple things… more like breaths with some noises attached. He’s experimenting with passing air over his vocal cords. We’ve had lots of one-sided conversations, most of them in song. It’s like a chess game with myself… again, in song. “Oh, you’re gonna play the knight I see… then I guess my rook it will have to be.” Most of these conversations end with me singing, “No more rhymes… I mean it!” And I wait and wait and wait, but he never answers. So I do and laugh, “Anybody want a peanut!” I laugh and swear that this is the end of that game, but I get slap-happy, and it starts all over again. I’ll trip over a toy and sing about why Daddy is such a klutz. The rhymes never make any sense and often start with, “Take it from me, boy…” […]

Lost and Found – Mixtape in the gutter from “Yo Boy Billy”

Press Play I found this CD in the gutter up the street the other day while out walking the dog. Apparently, Emily has moved on. The disk may have fallen out of her car but I think she frisbee’d it out the window and it bounced off a tree. From what I can gather… she’s with someone else now. These things happen. But, to give Billy some credit. He does have a nice ear for expressing himself through overused popular music. I can’t compliment him on his handwriting though. Or his heart-drawings for that matter. But, what can you do? You can get pissed and let her know it about 4 tracks in! Start off nice and sweet and then! Yeah! Take that. “Don’t touch my girl.” I’m not sure who sings this song – (I am old) – but it really fires me up! If i were a pissed off 16 year old – this would speak to me. But then I’d balance it with a classic. “Hey Dad, what was that song they used for Michelle Obama? The

What’s on my dock

As friends make the jump from windows to mac – I often get asked what mac apps to use? Where are some good places to get software? What’s in your dock? Here is what is currently in my dock… some programs I use often – others I recently downloaded and need them visable so I remember to try them out. Most are free… I left out the standards “I” Programs. Itunes and whatnot. My Dock djay – Uses Itunes tracks with two digital turntables.. not sure what to do with it. But’s it’s fun to play with. Now I really have two turntables and a microphone. quicksilver – A quick app launcher. the precurser to ‘spotlight’. It works much faster than spotlight and has many plugins to make the program dig deeper into your computer. It searches bookmarks and address book entries as well as Ichat logs. appzaper – They had it free one day. It’s a great way to delete apps and makes a cool sound when deleting. Like uninstall for windows in that it deletes many of the

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