You're stuck with this for a while...

It may not look good to *some* but posting by e-mail works and is darn easy.
holyoutlaw might try to show me a few things when I see him next
weekend, though I expect computers and LJ will be the last thing either of
us want to think about! Barring that, both panfer and rdkeir have offered help that I may take them up on at some point.
(Thanks guys!) But not this week. I have other things going on this week.

Last night around 8 or so, I started to hear loud booming noises outside.
Sounded like a car backfiring, but far too often. Suspiciously similar to
fireworks, but I dismissed that notion because it was, well, October 2nd fer
cryin' out loud! What possible occasion could there be for fireworks today?
I went upstairs and sure enough, I could see fireworks! Full-on professional
4th-of-July-grade fireworks were being shot up maybe a mile north of here,
and I had a fantastic view of them. I opened the windows to hear them
better. No idea what the occasion was or where they were originating- any
locals know? Doesn't matter, they were beautiful!

I spent nearly the whole weekend completely immersed in something. In front
of the computer, reading, learning, absorbing, laughing, crying. I hardly
slept, didn't eat, left the TV off for 36 whole hours. I come out the other
side with new insights, some self-doubt, but new reassurances.

Am I being all cryptic? Yeah.
Is anyone going to care? Doubt it.

Running the musical gauntlet...

I always have music in my head. Always. At the office though, it's a
continuing struggle to keep GOOD music in my head. We are forced to listen
to the radio- "Madison's Favorite Lite Rock" piped through the speakers at
all times. The only thing that has kept me from blowing my brains out at
work, is the fact that there is no overhead speaker in the file room where I
spend most of my day. I am spared Lite Rock Hell. But only if I stay in my
room. I'm at the end of the hall, to get anywhere else in the building, I
must venture underneath the speaker in the hallway, I must run the musical
gauntlet: Billy Joel. Celine Dion. Journey. Sheryl Crow. The Eagles. Nora
Goddammed Jones.

Now, don't get me wrong, Nora Jones does some nice, pleasant, mellow stuff,
and maybe she's a perfectly nice lady and all, but I hear that ONE goddammed
song of hers at least FIVE times a day- every single day! Makes me want to
scream... The radio station plays well known, familiar songs from the 70's,
80's, and 90's, that sneak in and stay, whether I want them in my brain or
not. Songs that drown out the GOOD music I was listening to in my car as I
drove up just moments ago. My car stereo is nothing special, just the tape
deck it came with when we bought it, but it's my salvation when I walk out
that door.
Every day, there is a vicious musical battle in my head as I sit working at
my desk. The good stuff I had on in the car- vs- whatever was coming through
the speaker in the hall that I just walked underneath. I try to force the
bad music out, then I'll be distracted by a phone call. I must take
something upstairs, running the gauntlet yet again. Now I've got Huey Lewis
in my head!

*KILL ME!*