Random Thoughts...

The ol' RV is gonna smell good in about an hour, it's already on the way. That pot of navy beans I was talking about here is simmering away right now; they'll be ready to eat around 6:00 or so. I finally got off the dime yesterday, drove over to Clovis, ran the Green Hornet through the car wash to wash off two weeks worth of accumulated dust, and went to Albertson's. Sho nuff, they had enough smoked ham hocks to feed a brigade. And a beautiful Chocolate Decadence layer cake in the bakery that kept whispering "Buck...over here...take me home...take me home." So I did. Mmmm, mmmm, mmm...

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One of the better things about having a desktop (as opposed to a laptop) as my main box is I can listen to internet radio again. Not that I couldn't listen on the laptop, but those tiny lil speakers, coupled with a very anemic audio amp, made listening to anything very frustrating. It's all better now.

Now playing: KPFT, Pacifica Radio's Houston affiliate.

Upside: great blues, "deep" album tracks, Texas music, and no commercials. Examples this morning: Dylan's "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat," Neil Young's "Pocahontas" Joni Mitchell's "River," and new tunes I hadn't heard from Omar and the Howlers and Joe Ely.

Downside: Serious moonbat political rants. And boy-howdy, I DO mean serious! Gotta hit mute a lot, but the music's worth it. Example: So many snarky comments about being spied on by the CIA/NSA this morning. Yeah, right. I'm sure the NSA is listening right now; black helicopters to follow...

It's a fact of life: Liberals do music a whole better than conservatives, the classical genre excepted. And it's not an age thing, either. There's a lot of old hippies on KPFT, not so many young uns. If you want to argue that, I'm all ears.

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More Fun with Site Meter, Great Disappointments Dept: I'm Number 10 on a search for " 'hillary andrews' AND 'naked' "; Number One on a search for " 'women porn nm' near Portales, New Mexico" And they clicked through!

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I heard on KPFT that Dubya admitted to authorizing the NSA to monitor US-originating communications during his weekly Saturday radio broadcast. I watched The Prez on The News Hour last night and he resisted Jim Lehrer's questioning on the subject, and Mr. Lehrer was persistent! I may or may not check this out. One tires of politics, or at least I do, all the time. We all need a break from time to time.

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Is your Christmas shopping done? Mine is; made my final purchase Thursday. For the seventh straight year I did all my shopping on-line. I hate malls. I hate to shop. I don't shop, I buy. I know what I want, I know where it is (usually), I'm the ultimate "get in, get out" kind of guy.

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And that's it...for a while!