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Feb. 3rd, 2004 02:21 amTom was asleep when I got home and hasn't gotten up since, so I was able to lie down on the couch in the livingroom and finish my book on the life of a Geisha. Quite interesting.
And... nothing else of interest to add. Next up for reading material would be the rest of The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and maybe Tales from Earthsea.
Last week after I downloaded all of those "Howard Dean Primal Scream Remix" songs I assembled a cd full of them. I made two copies. I couldn't fit all of the songs onto one cd so I removed some of the longer ones... probably took out ten or twelve. The resulting cd still had 55 tracks on it. I gave one copy to Laura at work, and after listening to the other about 2 1/2 times, gave it to Gloriah. I didn't need to listen to it any more than that. ^_^
Anyway I lent it to Debi (Debbie? Debbi? I'm going with Debi) so she could hear it before giving it to Gloriah. Debi said that she didn't know what Howard Dean's primal scream was. Hadn't heard of it. In fact, she didn't know who Howard Dean was. Or any of the Democratic Presidential hopefuls. This is someone who spends all kinds of time on the internet, mostly chatting or composing e-mails or messages or downloading music I guess. (And actually she knows where my livejournal is, so hi Debi! ^_^ )
But it surprised me that someone who listens to the radio a lot and is on the internet a lot manages to avoid any news. When I get online, I always check the news, either Seattle Times or the Seattle P-I. When I listen to radio, it's usually NPR, and if not that then it's KIRO or KJR... and even KJR, a sports talk station, mentions the big news stories. During the week I'll usually listen to NPR radio for several hours every night. (Although they've made a lot of changes to their lineup recently and most of them I'm not happy with).
It's not that I think Debi is that unusual... actually I'm probably the one that's not normal. I mean, withinin my own circle of friends it's not strange to listen to NPR or otherwise keep up with the news on a daily basis. But we're an unusual group.
Anyway... where was I going? Oh, yes, news. NPR. The primaries. Super Tuesday. I heard one report on NPR that made me laugh... John Kerry was leading in the polls in Arizona, but General Clark was hoping for a strong showing. Currently he was in third place, right behind "Undecided".
( well we're rambling now so must insert a cut tag! )
And... nothing else of interest to add. Next up for reading material would be the rest of The Salt Sorcerer of Oz and maybe Tales from Earthsea.
Last week after I downloaded all of those "Howard Dean Primal Scream Remix" songs I assembled a cd full of them. I made two copies. I couldn't fit all of the songs onto one cd so I removed some of the longer ones... probably took out ten or twelve. The resulting cd still had 55 tracks on it. I gave one copy to Laura at work, and after listening to the other about 2 1/2 times, gave it to Gloriah. I didn't need to listen to it any more than that. ^_^
Anyway I lent it to Debi (Debbie? Debbi? I'm going with Debi) so she could hear it before giving it to Gloriah. Debi said that she didn't know what Howard Dean's primal scream was. Hadn't heard of it. In fact, she didn't know who Howard Dean was. Or any of the Democratic Presidential hopefuls. This is someone who spends all kinds of time on the internet, mostly chatting or composing e-mails or messages or downloading music I guess. (And actually she knows where my livejournal is, so hi Debi! ^_^ )
But it surprised me that someone who listens to the radio a lot and is on the internet a lot manages to avoid any news. When I get online, I always check the news, either Seattle Times or the Seattle P-I. When I listen to radio, it's usually NPR, and if not that then it's KIRO or KJR... and even KJR, a sports talk station, mentions the big news stories. During the week I'll usually listen to NPR radio for several hours every night. (Although they've made a lot of changes to their lineup recently and most of them I'm not happy with).
It's not that I think Debi is that unusual... actually I'm probably the one that's not normal. I mean, withinin my own circle of friends it's not strange to listen to NPR or otherwise keep up with the news on a daily basis. But we're an unusual group.
Anyway... where was I going? Oh, yes, news. NPR. The primaries. Super Tuesday. I heard one report on NPR that made me laugh... John Kerry was leading in the polls in Arizona, but General Clark was hoping for a strong showing. Currently he was in third place, right behind "Undecided".
( well we're rambling now so must insert a cut tag! )
