Happy Easter

Yeah, i've decided to write a bit. Its quiet, the clan headed off to Mass at the gym. And by gym i should say High School Auditorium, but it still feels like a gym. The priest is one of those super enthusiastic kinda guys with more on the sales side than the reverance side of things, cause the fun sales like approach brings in more cash and fills the seats better than the reverent stuff.

That's what kinda made the whole churchy thing not so much fun for me anymore.

I had to move the car out of the driveway so the 'SUV' (volvo XC90) could be loaded up with 7 people (i'll grant em this - they use that thrid row seat quite a bit), and i couldn't help but enjoy the BioDiesel aroma. Distinctive, and extremely pleasant. And the oder from the volvo was ripe toxic smellin. Listening to a bit of Tuck Andress. Who ever he is.

The Magical Strings concert yesterday at the Kennedy Center was great. If you click over there you can watch the hour long concert. Specifically April 15th. Or here, the direct link. I was back doing CD Sales. The concert was actually pretty amazingly well attended. The sound mix was great. There were well over 500 people crowded into that end of the millennium stage before the opera started loading the hall at 6:45. Sold a few CDs, not a bad deal. A great show, a rather eclectic group of people. Tourists to Opera goers...

This Tuck guy is good - song right now kinda bugs me but its not bad. "If i only had a brain"

Can i complain about coffee and not be seen as a kook? This coffee here does have the caffine requirement, but its a light light roast. The beans aren't even oily one bit. The grinder is a pile of crap, and the water tastes funny. BUT. Its coffee. First pot i made i did the same mistake i always do when making coffee with light roasted stuff, use too many grounds and get bitter coffee. So i had to make a second pot. Gonna make a second pot in a bit. Now if the damn computer would leave me alone and stop asking me to restart it'd be nice.

I miss my bike, and my coffee. Heck i've even been doing work emails and all that. And yeah, i like my job. And since the same-sex parent groups targeted the Egg-roll at the Whitehouse (and i assume the anti-same-sex parents groups as well) no tickets were procured and we are likely headed back up earlier... Might actually make the first BLVD ride afterall. Cause if we left Tues AM there's no way we'd get there in time for a ride, much less that one.

car note: the oilguard bypass filter i installed at about 50k miles and last changed the element at 150k miles is still flowing (meaning almost 100k miles without element changes and its still flowing and filtering). The car's at 247.5k miles +/- 100 miles. And to think there at people wasting filters by changing em every 10k miles or 20k. INSANE. Don't people know how filters work? Esp barrier types? Those that get their oil changed at spiffy lube get a shitty cheap badly made filter element and cheap oil. and that filter only gets better as the age, assuming it has anything in it. The longer the pleated type filter elements are in place the better they work. The down side is at some point they become too restrictive. And finding that balance is important. 3,000 miles is stupid and a waste of resources. Even if you are driving stop and go city traffic. Oh well its america and the classic resource wasting frontier mentality. "When we run out of ____ we'll just find something else."

Okay anyone... i'm outa here and happy. VERY much happier without having my day ruined by some overly commercial materialistic holiday service at some HS auditorium.

Peace out... spread the peace and the conservatism (the natural resource and fiscal kind).... that's rather redundant, because peace is conservative. War is radical and unsound, too wasteful. Conflict is the same. the spit and vinegar conflict in some blogs (i never should have been suckered into that yesterday) don't help acheive peace.

smile - its contagious!
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