A Random Wednesday With More Than It's Fair Share of MusicDay Thirty-seven

Some random thoughts that came to me over the day. Or days. Or this minute. Some with explanation, some not.

Actually, there may only be a thought or two.

• Nineteen is old enough to know better.
• Are people driving like crazed monsters lately?
• I'm not even a slow driver, but if one more person tried to get intimate with my back side with his or her car I may have to take drastic action.
• Then there are the people who cross the street in the dark, while it is raining, without looking, in heavy traffic.
• Sorry, if you get hit I will feel badly for you, but still think you might have gotten what you deserved.
• And this was in the middle of a block that actually had a street light about 50 yards away.
• I didn't see this guy until I was right on top of him.
• No, I didn't hit him.
• It did cross my mind.
• I just occurred to me that this post might be used against me if I accidentally do hit someone.
• I promise, it will be an accident.
• I hope, anyway.
• And you know what really bugs me?
• People in big cars, SUVs, trucks.
• Say you are in a sedan and you are taking a right hand turn onto a road. You pull up to the intersection and have to wait, but in the meantime a big, honking vehicle pulls on your left intending to go straight across or make a left turn. Well. Now you can't see a single thing, and they aren't going anywhere because there is plenty of traffic in the far lane preventing them from turning, but you aren't going anywhere either because even though no traffic seems to be going in the right hand direction, you can't see and won't dare pull out.
• I used to have van and I tried to be aware of that and let the person making that right see and then pull up.
• Driving is stressful.
• I rarely check my blog stats.
• I did earlier this week and saw that I had more hits than usual and found that Margene had linked to me in her post.
• I checked again today and someone must have linked to me again yesterday because I had a BUNCH more hits and I was too late to check my browsing history to find out who it was.
• Was it you?
• I get really irritated when I see an ad for some gorgeously dyed fiber or yarn or ravelry and race to click over to etsy.com or wherever that click takes me only to find out that there is nothing there to buy.
• Then I get really happy that there was nothing there for me to buy.
• Whew!
• Mostly I am irritated, though.
• Back to those hits to my blog.
• No comments.
• Just wondering......
• That's okay, I hardly ever comment on a blog anymore.
• Not that I don't have plenty to say, but if you could see how I type.
• How POORLY I type.
• You might wonder why I write a blog where I have to type.
• I wonder, too.
• I love Mark O'Connor.
• The other day as I was removing music from my iPod to make room for Christmas music I felt sad to temporarily delete his and wondered why he didn't have a Christmas album.
• I've seen him in a small venue acoustic concert and he was fabulous.
• I have this album.
• And this one.
• They are both available to listen to on Spotify.
• This one is not.
• I KNOW IT!!!
• I just discovered it tonight and
• I don't have it.
• Yet.
• It might just make a great birthday present to myself.
• Here is a sample for your enjoyment.
• I love Alison Krauss, too.
• And I love when a new Christmas album mixes traditional Christmas music with not-so-traditional songs.

James Taylor!!!

Here is a Christmasy song from the album with Jane Monheit.

2011. Sixty. $2.41. I have a lot of thoughts. And there are a lot of numbers in my posts. AND! I start sentences with the word and. AND! I know that is a no-no, but I'll be I keep doing it. AND, I probably should have saved some of the music sharing for different days, but I'll bet I can find plenty more.

Comments

[Carole]

I have to just say that I love that you are still posting so frequently. AND keep it up!

[margene]

I had a lot of hits the other day for no reason...I didn't even post and my stats didn't show anything or anyone link. Confusing, but good! I just don't have time to pull together a post a day any more.
Young boys are the most aggressive driversand people who drive SUVs (the expensive kinds) just feel entitled. I hate driving. It brings out the worst in me.

[maryse]

i had a boost of hits and i don't know why either. oh well.

if you think it's bad when you drive a sedan, try driving a mini. people think they can just intimidate you into submission. if my car wasn't bright red, i would never get noticed.

also, pedestrians that don't look both ways irk me. what if i had a heart attack? or dropped dead behind the wheel. what then?

[Lorette]

I simply adore Mark O'Connor. I've been listening to him since way back when he was part of the "house band" for American Music Shop, sheesh, twenty years ago.