Friday Randomness

Wow, it’s been a month since my last post.  That’s crazy.  Life hasn’t been that crazy lately, so I don’t know what to tell you.  Anyway, no one cares why I’m NOT writing, so instead we’ll try a little Friday Randomness instead, and see if I can come up with something.

I’m reading a really good book right now, which I’ll tell you about when I finish it.  How’s that for unsatisfying?

I have a stupid sinus headache right now that tortured me all night.  Why the heck didn’t I get up and take something for it?  Why try to sleep through it and hope it will go away?  I don’t know.  It’s been pretty hot here for the last day or two, and promises to be for the next day or two.  When it’s hot like that the air quality goes down the toilet, and my head suffers.  I’m probably not the only one.  I have a pool outside, and it opens in about 1/2 hour.  I have a meeting at the same time, but right after the meeting I’ll go for a swim.  Sometimes that helps a sinus headache, believe it or not.  That’s one bonus (among many) to working from home.

I’m taking a week off from work!  Way back in February or March or something, my boss wanted us to plan our vacations, for planning purposes.  I picked this week sort of randomly.  I’m not sure what I’ll even end up doing…Ted’s been out of work since May, so we’re not eager to spend a bunch of money.  BUT he might be starting a contracting job this week, so he might not be available much for day trip kind of things.  We’ll see.  Maya’s going down to Los Angeles for a few days to visit her cousin (I had enough miles that her trip was almost free).  If we can, Ted and I are thinking of going to Santa Cruz next Friday to see The Fixx.  Remember them?  Gah, I loved The Fixx back in the early 80s.  I saw them at Day on the Green in 1983, with Oingo Boingo, Madness, The Thompson Twins, and the headliner, The Police.  What an amazing concert that was!  My favorites were The Fixx and The Police.  Anyway, they have a new album out, which is actually pretty good, and at Santa Cruz, they have free music on the beach on Fridays during the summer.  FUN!

Tomorrow I’m meeting my bloggy friend, Heidi (aka, Curiosity Killer, whose blog is defunct now but I keep the link on my sidebar just in case…).  She’s a musician in Hong Kong, and is here to party at the Outlands Festival.  We’re going to have brunch at The Cliff House, which is always beautiful and tasty.  We’ve never met before, so we’re looking forward to it.

The Olympics have been cool to watch, but I’m mostly over it now.  Poor athletes for the last few days.  Everyone is just too worn out.

I went to Stockton last weekend to see my Grandma and her sister, and my cousin.  Grandma’s feeling better (she hasn’t been doing well the last few months…), looking a little stronger, which is a very good thing.  My cousin lives in Santa Maria, and was up for a few days.  She almost didn’t get to come because her car was having trouble.  Went to the dealer and they told her this and that, and that it would take several days and at least $1,000, probably more.  She felt weird about that, and had it towed to her mechanic, who fixed it in an hour or two.  It was a spark plug wire that was loose and causing some other problem, or something like that.  Cheap and fast.  Stupid dealers.  I swear, if they didn’t act this way, they wouldn’t have the reputation of being crooks.

Ted and I watched John Adams on HBO on Demand (which we get for some reason, though we don’t get HBO).  It was really good…based on the book by David McCullough.  It’s a sweeping story, and I got the feeling that Adams might have preferred to live in less interesting times.  But he was swept into the events of the time, and he influenced the direction of the country in its infancy.  And gosh, he sure loved his wife, huh?  It was pretty satisfying.

Perhaps the most exciting thing going at the moment is that Ted and a friend have a political interview type show on TradioV.com, which is an online TV show.  The station is sort of like a radio station, except they film the DJs or whatever you want to call them.  They put a decent variety of personalities on the station, and they can say things that you wouldn’t get to say if the FCC were watching.  Ted’s show isn’t like that, though.  It’s politics, his second love (after me!).  You can watch his maiden voyage here.  I thought it went REALLY well.  He said he’ll interview fewer people next time, because it seemed they just got started on a subject, and the next thing you knew, it was time for that segment to be over.   The guy in the paper bag is not Ted.  That’s Ted’s friend, who is worried that if he says the wrong thing, he could lose his day job, which he doesn’t want to do.  He works in an industry where that might be true.  Anyway, you can see what you think about a bunch of smart liberals put together in a small room.

Oh, wait, REALLY the most exciting thing is that Cherry had her baby!  Not that you’ll read about it any time soon on her blog…she now has a toddler and an infant.  Gosh, he’s a sweet little guy.  I’m thinking maybe I’ll go see them one day on my week off, if she’s up to it.  Congrats, Cherry and Eric!  And welcome to the work, little Jacob.

OK, that’s it for now.  Happy Friday, everyone! (I hope this headache goes away soon…and I hope to write more on this week off from work.)