the id, the ego, & the single misfiring brain cell

Wow, Diana! YOU? Skip a class???? lol

I can’t listen to the music, because it takes so-o-o-o long to load on dial-up, but will take your word for it. Sorry!

Guess it’s time to start asking if you think you can make reunion this year. I certainly hope so, but know that school doesn’t take vacations that time of year, as a general rule.

Love you!

Diana,

If you like music (and Hallelujah is a great piece to enjoy - thanks for the links!), do yourself a favor and don’t offer to make a cell phone ringtone for a friend. There’s a seamy underside to electronic music that drives this engineer nuts. Lots of software and electronics, and no documentation beyond “adjust it until it sounds right.” I wonder if I have any Paxil left. (Grin)

I guess I’m not as surprised as Ms. Bann that you skipped a class. Priorities become a little more flexible as you get older. You’re a different you now than you were five years ago.

Dave

Aunt Bann, I’ve learned to not make promises about the reunion, but I’m trying to work it in this semester. I had additional incentive there for a while, since Curtis asked me to come to Keesler and do administer his re-enlistment oath, but it turned out that he has to do it in the next few days, so I had to take a rain check on that. Please know that this semester is wicked compared to last semester, and that I must begin Air Command and Staff College (also known as ACSC) now that I’ve got a line number for major, so now I have FOUR classes to prepare for. I really want to make it to the reunion this year, particularly since I really don’t know where I’ll be this time next year, but…we’ll see how well I juggle. :)

Dave, would you mind making Hallelujah into a ring tone for me? :>

I don’t like skipping classes–I was well trained to be where I’m supposed to be–but there are occasions when going profits nothing, I’ve found. I don’t do it more than one or two classes per semester, at most, though, whether or not I feel classroom discussion is helping me.

d

HI Diana,

Yes, it is all part of our carefully constructed plot to lure you to our frozen land, well not so frozen if you look at what the weather’s doing here for the Olympics. I gather it’s because we really wanted to have the summer Olympics and now we do. (Water skiing is a sport too.)

Oddly enough, many of us would never think of Celine as a draw but to each their own. We were put off her when God’s gift to women, who lives next door with his mom, always has and now that he’s 61 won’t likely change that, made is annual custom CD rich with her music. It’s the CD he would make each time his new internet hotty would come from wherever it is he found her. For two weeks, he would put his stereo speakers in a second story window, blaring the CD over and over and over,all day and well into the night, loud enough to be heard over the giggling and splashing in the pool. (Loud enough to be heard over another neighbour’s outdoor circular saw, as we discovered one year.)

Oddly enough, when we called to ask said neighbour to turn down the music as our then small child needed to go to sleep, God’s gift to women, his golden chains rattling on his hairy chest above the skimpy Speedo, replied with a long sigh, “Lorraine, I put up with all your children loudly playing football.” We have one kid, no football but our then five-year old spent the next week running around the yard saying, “Hut one, hut two’ with gusto.

So Celine, not on our favourites list. Glad to hear that our plan is working though. By the way, Hallelujah is a Leonard Cohen song and like most of his work, always sounds better sung by someone else. He is quite a poet though.

Cheers,
Lorraine

Hi, Lorraine. :)

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been force-fed Celine. That would put me off my feed, too.

I tried to listen to Cohen sing the song, and didn’t get past the first stanza. It was awful (that is, I completely agree with you).

I did discover the Canadian Tenors, though. Life is good. ;)

d

HI Diana,

Then might I also recommend another group of three tenors, Romanza. They are the West Coast Tenors and their version of the theme from “The Mission” is something I find transcendent.

I am so glad that music hath power to soothe you. It plays an important role in our home too though, right now, my son is making the most of an electric guitar distortion pedal he’s been lent. I wonder if this is what it was like for Jimmy Hendrix’s mom. It sometimes feels like being in a bad 60s movie; all we need is the funny lighting. Timothy already has a lava lamp.

Cheers,
Lorraine

Diana,

A ringtone? Be careful what you wish for. Your phone might suddenly switch from Hallelujah to Barbie Girl if you don’t answer it quickly enough.

Dave

Hi Diana,

You never mentioned your abilities with ESP before. Because it is in our home town, we watched the opening of the Olympics last night where KD sang Hallelujah. I hadn’t heard her sing it before. You are right. Amazing performance. (And like you, she’s a vegetarian too. It’s caused some problems as she grew up in cattle country in rural Alberta.)

Cheers,
Lorraine

Thanks for the laugh, Dave. :D

And thanks for the recommendation, Lorraine. I’ll have to look up the West Coast Tenors.

d

Hi Diana,

They go by the group name of “Romanza” which I find a poor choice but it’s their group and they get to name it.

Cheers,
Lorraine