(Another post that’s been in my drafts for over a year!) Over a year ago, I bought a two CD set of the best of Simon & Garfunkel. I really enjoy their music and some of their songs have really interesting messages. I meant to blog about several of them, but alas I have a feeling this is the only post that will get written at this point. :-) For those of you who are familiar with Simon & Garfunkel’s…
Below is a music video from the one and only exposure I had to Michael Jackson as a child: Does anyone else remember this awesome movie, Free Willy? It always inspired me – especially the part at the end when Willy jumps over the rocks. I always really liked that song, too. I was born slightly too late to really know Michael Jackson’s music (and my parents didn’t play any of it for us), though we definitely knew who he…
When I first was on my own, I immediately wanted to buy all the DVDs of Christmas movies I grew up watching. I forced myself to buy only two DVDs a year, and I’ve stuck to that for the most part. I really love Christmas movies – I have SUCH fond memories of watching them with my family, and it’s comforting having something that’s repeated every year – a tradition of sorts. So, here are the Christmas movies I currently…
I hate our cable company, DirecPath. We’ve had them for a little over a year now, and they’ve given us a lot of problems during that time. Our internet has gone out frequently, and it usually takes them a week to get someone out to fix it. In the meantime, they give us the runaround on the phone, making it very difficult to get any answers. Oh, and the strangest thing of all. Sometime last fall/winter, our IP address somehow…
So something kinda crazy and cool happened last weekend. First, we had a horrible thunderstorm last Saturday. It knocked out our power and our cable for a few hours due to downed power lines. (I think Google manufactured the storm to force us to celebrate Earth Day.) When the cable finally came back on that night, I had to set up the TV channels again. We have cable internet and that includes the basic local channels – CBS, NBC, ABC,…