Tee hee. I had to get to work this morning, too; which implies I actually made it back to the place where I pay rent. I must have forgotten the routine of running around loose, as I locked my keys in the car at the gas station. I couldn't break a window, as I had to chauffeur the frail elderly today. I ran inside and asked for help. "Hmm," said the attendant before burying her head in her paperwork. Plan C: I ran home to pick up the spare. My roomie had left, and the landlady, fortunately, caught me trying to break in. I was 40 minutes late, but boy do I feel good after jogging in the cold - well, after I stopped choking and all.

Notes on music: I'll take a D and an F#. (I, too, prefer writing by chord progressions.)

I would have written sooner, but one of those teachers landed on my head.

Come to think of it, isn't a note on music akin to a hypercube, only note-shaped? Or maybe it is like that D that had a mind of its own after I spilled my drink on my keyboard. I loved that keyboard until I couldn't play anything without the D-DD-D-DDD . . .

Why is everybody talking about L. Ron Hubbard's engrams? Is it because my brain finds the prospect of the word being plural astounding?

I finally listened to Blue-Phoenix-from-the-Onyx' post from Quicksilver. The piano would go well on a Chicago song behind the horns. I like how guys play piano. My fingers are kind of flippy, but they play with more intent. I never wanted to develop those huge wrist muscles, though.

Anyway, listening to Rush the other day, I realized that Quicksilver did "Have Another Hit," which was an excellent song. Rushypoo said it was "otherwise excellent" as its meaning was, well, we can't get there from here, can we?

It is very quiet here.

Rush should host a party the night of the Moodies' AARP event, and he and Catherine should invite the Moodies to play for money only Rush can pay. Rush is rich enough, he could even pay the band to select only those fans they want in the audience. I'd be left out, but it would be for a very good cause. How would a scene play out with a little white, winged Rush on one shoulder and an Underwood Spam guy on the other?

Unless I miss something, force is the universal evil, and so bucking it is not political so much as helpful. What do I know.

1. I didn't do it.
2. You don't believe that. You just want to start a conversation.

Well, communists are just people trying to socially engineer the world so everyone is happy. If I were king of the world, I have plenty of ideas about how I'd like to social engineer stuff too. However, the key word is "social engineering" which means some clown somewhere is telling me what to do with my resources which I worked hard for... ie tyranny.

So I'm not pro communism or socialism, because they want to socially engineer me out of my hard earned resources.

I do like the idea of people being happy. Also when the Communist party got legs under it in this country (Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger led the brigade) people were starving and roaming the country homeless looking for work. Give people hope and a bad social engineering plan to go with it, and you can fill in the blanks yourself.

Thus we have the "bread and circus" approach to government today. Nothing new here. But thankfully children no longer starve in this country because we give them free food at school. Takes the burden off their poor unemployed parents so they can sleep in late and enjoy life.

The key to everything, is figure out where those you oppose are coming from. If their purpose is evil, expose it. If their purpose is noble, WHY???

Someone somewhere would undoubtedly disapprove. And no need, if your cause is noble.

However, it's all good with me.

I feel so manipulated.

"I figure the Universe is really like a big machine, and things happen the way they should, for a reason" -- Leo Valdez, aka Rick Riordan

Egg ZACK ly what I was looking for. Only I so wish Justin would do something like that with HIS riffs ........... he'd sell the video. Thank you Sphinx, you're a wizard! One day I've got to get an amp, that sort of things sounds much better with some volume behind it. Dig my Strat out from under the bed and use it.

I'm reading Robert Gates memoir right now, *Duty* (which I think is a very funny double entendre) war indeed sucks and it's expensive. If we can keep nut jobs from coming to America and driving planes into our buildings, all will be well maybe. I feel sorry for Syria, but those people need to get up on their hind legs and solve their own problems (like my ancestors did on this continent). Gates is very intelligent, he's giving all the back story on the workings of a war machine like the US, and how to shut it down.