Fire and Ice - Ad Infinitum (main band of Melissa Bonny, one of my current favourite singers)

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Don’t be dissing Tay Tay!

I think you quoted the wrong part of my post (memory issues? 😀).

Taylor does nothing for me. Lord knows, I've tried. I've listened to two or three of her albums, watched some of her videos. But she just strikes me as rather ordinary, mainstream pop music, hardly the earth-shattering genius you might expect of someone who gets that kind of attention.

Now, she is an amazing business woman and I certainly respect her for that. The whole sidestepping the fight over her masters by simply re-recording the albums thing was f-ing brilliant.

But her music? I can take it or leave it.

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except maybe the halftime show, though I'm still not clear on who it is this year

It's Usher. I'm meh on him so probably take a pass. At least it isn't a certain badly overexposed singer with the initials T.S. Though she might actually get more airtime on TV than Usher does. 🙄😋

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My memory can be shaky

Mine has always been shaky, at least for actually remembering "to do" items and dates and such. I'm good with facts and ideas, just not what I am supposed to do next week.

Cat. I'm very much a cat person.

Paper book or e-book?

The hum of my office's crappy HVAC.

Tomorrow Never Dies

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After listening to the song I can clearly see how this song was a major inspiration for Lord of the Rings

It's actually the other way around. J. R. R. Tolkien's original novels inspired the song.

Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

Dingo

rash - Mash

Good vibes for recovery to both Jim and Cora.

Good morning. Nice day here, esp. given that it is mid-February when we are often buried under a foot or two of the white stuff. Forecasting a high of 14C and only a 30% chance of showers now (was higher earlier in the week).

Putting on some Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee for the coffee crowd. Scottish Breakfast and Cream of Earl Grey for the tea drinkers. Washed and refilled the pitchers of unsweet iced tea and lemonade in the fridge. Hot chocolate and marshmallow stocks are looking good.

I hear there's some kind of sporting event this weekend. Something about expensive commercials and a musical show with a football game squeezed in somewhere. 😋 My Super Bowl party will consist of watching just about anything other than the Super Bowl (except maybe the halftime show, though I'm still not clear on who it is this year).

Have a good one, folks!

Yeah, but Michael Phelps is not exactly a normal human swimmer. He's probably the closest we have to a real-life Aquaman.

No, I wouldn't do something like that. Would rather just observe sharks in the wild. Amazing animals.

WYE participate in an archaeological dig that called for volunteers to help?

Apparently chimps and gorillas don't get along terribly well, but i am hardly a typical gorilla and am a fan of Jane Goodall, so yes.

WYE cook a new dish for the first time for company?

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any female under 50 is a dolly-bird

Hm. So my daughter-in-law (24) is a "dolly-bird"? I think I'll keep that bit of intel to myself.😇

Coffee is on. A nice dark roast from Nicaragua. Teas are English Breakfast and Raspberry Royale.

Nothing much doing. Our temp is supposed to hit 10C today, which is apparently approaching record territory for February. Feels more like April, to be sure.

Base - Case

(Hm. Somehow I missed Y up there. Oh well, next go round)

Bowhead Whale

Battle of Evermore - Led Zeppelin

Zeppelin is not generally considered metal per se but is ancestral to it and highly influential in metal circles. And one of the things metal picked up from them is a fascination with fantasy. This song is full of allusions to Lord of the Rings, which remains popular theme material in metal and rock to this day.

In the wake of her Grammy and with Valentine's Day a week off, Laufey is back with a new live video of her performing her song "Valentine" from her debut album Everything I Know About Love.

In case you can't tell, she is very popular in the Philippines.

Raise the Red Lantern

Erica - Austin

Maybe. It's one of the instruments that interests me and I think my son has been learning it.

WYE take a trip spontaneously with minimal notice or planning?

Lape - Lane

Zebu

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My epilepsy is unique. It was controlled then, now I'm homebound because I used to fall a lot walking from my house and taking trains and going to graduate school. Although the falls have greatly decreased, this morning I had a jerk in my leg which knocked me to the floor. I landed on my head. I popped right up and was okay. Small twitches started to happen and I'm still feeling them now. I took my ER med, I might have to take more to stop the twitches. They aren't worrisome.

That sounds perfectly awful, but I am viewing it from the lens of someone who doesn't have it. I am bad enough at falling without having leg twitches. You seem to have things in hand, though, which is good. Take care.😊

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I notice I write posts in here long enough for a flash fiction quite often. Please DM me if it's annoying and I'll cut stuff down. Or include the, "Cora, I've noticed you really like to write. That's great, but could you please cut it down for the rest of us?" message in your own message here.

No issues here. Yours are actually quite enjoyable to read. Keep going unless someone else complains. Then again, I have a guy on another site who rambles on in incomprehensible gibberish for multiple paragraphs so maybe my bar is low. 😉

Hello, all. I've put some Colombian dark roast in the coffee pot. Red Rose and Earl Grey in the teapots.

Had my car in this morning to have an error code checked. Except the error stopped happening once it was in the garage so who knows? It's a common thing in IT (problems that mysteriously go away when an IT tech shows up) so I guess cars are picking up computers' bad habits.

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Recent events have forced me to give up driving--after months of pleading from my dear lady and advice from my family (all ignored since I haven't had an accident for many years). I had to admit to myself that if what had happened at the breakfast table that morning, had happened when I was driving--WHOOMP!--more people than just myself could have suffered. So in the end it was my own decision.

I think it's good that it was your call. Dad had his license taken away due to his dementia and I think that sent him further downhill. And at least you had a family member to take the car, too.

Oppenheimer

Unfortunately, with my crappy swimming ability, the water would be a bigger threat than the sharks. But assuming I could actually swim, yes. In a shark cage or with a guide who knows what they are doing, of course.

Since it somehow got missed above:

WYE try your hand at writing a song (could be as a lyricist or as composer, too)?

Well, I've had both.😊 Probably go for the pasta.

Tomato sauce or a white/alfredo sauce?

bare - dare

Occurs the unresolved conflict does. (yes, I speak fluent Yoda)