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Thunks Redux: Sunday Stealing

dermatology

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

Once again, we return to  Thursday Thunks, which is giving us more questions. Alas, the thunking stopped back in 2011.

Thursday Thunks Redux

1. It’s the middle of the night. There isn’t another car in sight. You’re stuck at a red light that just won’t change. How long do you wait until you run it?

I know that on my bicycle, it’s been about 90 seconds. There are some intersections where the bike will not trip the signal. BTW, that’s true in the daytime as well.

2. What’s your favorite recipe?

There’s only one, and it’s for lasagna, which I wrote about six years ago.  

3. When did you last ask yourself, “What the hell was I thinking?”

Oh, about now. We at the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library need to put together the postcard for the May/June book reviews and author talks. I have all the information about the book, the author, and the speaker. But I didn’t notice until Friday that I didn’t have any biographical information about the speaker, and the deadline to get that to the library is the same day. I sent out an email, but no response. If I had noticed this earlier, it would have made my life easier.

Excise

4. Have you ever had a mole removed? If yes, where on your body was it?

Not a mole, but what my dermatologist, whom I see annually because of my vitiligo, removed were some skin tags. She uses cryotherapy, which stings quite a bit for about 15 seconds. 

5. What website do you faithfully check (other than email)?

fillyjonk

AmeriNZ

Coverville

Vlogbrothers

Forgotten Stars

News From ME

I get feeds from a slew of news sites. Some I only get to see the first paragraph or two (WaPo, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, e.g.). But I subscribe to the New York Times, the (Albany) Times Union, and GroundNews. 

Lydster: LS’s 0th birthday redux

Carnival

Now that my daughter is almost post-teen, I had this splendid idea to take a Mixed CD I made called LS’s 0th Birthday and post it here. I found links and wrote a narrative. Then, I searched my blog for completeness’s sake and discovered I had already written it. So, I scrapped the post.

I wish I had not dumped it because almost none of the links worked. Oh well. As I noted, “Three months before our child was born, I made a mixed CD for the child. We didn’t know whether we were having a boy or a girl, so she was called Little Soul. Or, more accurately, my wife’s friend Alison, who was in our wedding, dubbed her as such.”

So this is a repost from 14 years ago, sort of. I found new links for all the pop tunes and have a workaround for the other. And I changed some of the descriptions. I may do this again in 2035, so I don’t want any complaints.

Part the first

1. Mr. Sandman – the Chorettes. I suppose it’s an odd choice if one listens to the lyrics, but it was based on my desire for her to sleep well, which did not happen early on.
2. Lullabye (Good Night, My Angel) – Billy Joel. In the mid-1990s, there was an NY SBDC state conference in Binghamton. An a capella group from the university sang this for us, which was great and sufficiently melancholy.
3. Dreamland – Mary Chapin Carpenter. Initially from a 1992 compilation album called ‘Til Their Eyes Shine. I have on her 1999 greatest hits album, Party Doll.
4. Good Night – the Beatles. It’s the last song on the white album, a Lennon tune sung by Ringo. I often sang it to my daughter before she went to bed
5. Lullaby for Sophia – the Beverwyck String Band. A lovely tune by our friend, violinist/vocalist Britney, and a couple of her friends, which does not appear to exist on YouTube or Spotify, though the album is for sale on Amazon and here. My friend Tim jerry-rigged it so that you can hear the song:

Part the 2nd

6. Alright For Now – Tom Petty. It’s from his first solo album, Full Moon Fever.
7. Sweet and Low – Bette Midler.
8. All Through The Night – Shawn Colvin. While I remember this song exceedingly well growing up, I am fascinated that my wife never heard it until I sang it to her.  The last two cuts are from a 1997 benefit album for the rain forest called Carnival, which also features Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals.
9. Common Threads – Bobby McFerrin. It is a song from the great Medicine Man album, which I gave to a half dozen people for Christmas in 1990. This song without words is a transition to the instrumental portion of the album.

Part the 3rd

The ones below may not be the exact ones from the CD except the Moonlight Sonata.

10. Brandenburg Concerto #5 Affettuoso – Bach. The English Chamber Orchestra. This is similar to the mixed CD.
11. Pachelbel Canon –  the English Chamber Music Orchestra.
12. Four Seasons: Autumn, Adagio – Vivaldi.
13. Four Seasons: Winter, Largo – Vivaldi.
14. Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven. Evelyne Dubourg.
15. Fur Elise -Beethoven.

Ramblin' with Roger
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