HMS bows to CNR

Thought I'd do something different this morning. Along with his direct parodies and great original material, Weird Al Yankovic also does style parodies; he writes an original song using the readily identifiable style of an existing band.

Today we have CNR, a style parody of The White Stripes. Lyrics are about superhuman feats that Charles Nelson Reilly could accomplish, similar to Chuck Norris facts found all over the net. One of my favorite Weird Al songs, especially for the shout out to Jim Croce's You Don't Mess Around with Jim.

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A couple of good days.

Yesterday we went out with two main goals: pick up my meds and get me a trekking pole at REI. The cane I had been using was too short and heavy. The therapists suggest a lighter trekking pole and had me work with with one. Much better feel. At REI, a very helpful young lady showed us the options and I ended up with a Leki Wanderfreund AS.



Made in the Czech Republic. Cool!

What made this fun was the guy checking us out used to work at Lord & Sons as a machinist. There was a line, so we didn't really have a chance to chat, but I'd love to learn why he left a good position at a skilled trade to work retail.

The plan was to hit Pizza My Heart so Kiri could have lunch. Alas, it was still a while before they opened and I could feel myself fading, so we went to RiteAid, got my pills, and headed home. The only other big thing was making a big order from Safeway and clearing out all the things in the fridge that had died in the past month.

After a night that led to us calling to cops on our normally quiet-if-not-gone neighbor, I felt the need to do something. I took out some garbage, straightened up around my desk and the back of the futon, vacuumed, cleaned out Vera the Vacuum, did some dishes, and was then order by Kirsten to stop now so I wouldn't burn out.

I obey those kind of orders now.

Just waiting for the Safeway order to arrive, and then the Niners' game tonight. Tomorrow I have OT.

Next weekend we're going to try to make the Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival for as long as I can hold out. Any locals who want to meet up there, just let us know!

The reaping.

Just did a big cut of my friends page on LJ. Mostly journals and communities that haven't been updated in a long time, people who are also on Dreamwidth and I follow there, and a huge number of feeds that I either follow on Facebook or Twitter or ones I no longer have interest in.

In the next few weeks I'm going to disable commenting on my LJ posts and direct all comments to my Dreamwidth account. I'm gridlore on DW as well. I strongly encourage every one still using LJ to come to DW. Much better, in my opinion.

Frankly, LJ has gone to shit since the Russians took over. Terrible support, constant DDOS attacks by government hackers, not enforcing their own rules, and let's face it; most of the once vibrant communities are like Rome in the 5th Century CE: isolated survivors squatting in the ruins.

Livejournal had a good run; but I feel that its time has passed.

Woot x2!

San Francisco Giants: 3
Arizona Diamondbacks: 2 (11)

and 6.2 miles to the south...

San Francisco 49ers: 34
Green Bay Packers: 28

Icing on the cake? The Raiders lost.

I need a user icon that has the 49ers' logo morphing into the Giants' logo with "San Francisco - All We Do Is Win!"

Make this happen, talented people!