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Monday, July 2, 2007
Joining the iPod nation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There are two things that stood out about this weekend. One is that I joined the iPod nation. I had yard work to do so I loaded up with everything from Styx to a little Jethro Tull with some Jimmy Buffett in the middle.
When you load up the music you like, you probably know the words to most of them. “I really do—appreciate, the fact you’re sitting here…..”
You’ve heard these songs hundreds of times so it’s just second nature to sing. “Your voice sounds so wonderful but you face don’t look too clear…”
I’m new to the iPod so I had a period of infatuation with it and I began to sing along. “Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew…”
I was singing and digging along my little mulch area (so often inspected by little O.C.D. homeowner’s board) and I guess I should have looked up but I never gave it a thought until I blurted it out. “Honey why don’t we get drunk— and screwwwwww.”
Well, it was about the time that I said to myself that I might be singing a little loud to those in my immediate area so I looked up to make sure there was no one in my immediate area and it was there that I saw, in my immediate area, one of our fine neighbor ladies and her daughter who looked to be about five years old. It was awkward.
Sunday is Lake Day. We take the “Who-Cares II” out and about and then spend some serious cove time getting some rays. That’s the routine. The most annoying part of going onto the lake now days is the getting in and getting out. Not the boat, the one who parks the truck and trailer and the one who goes and gets it at the end of the day.
For those of you with boats and especially those who spend time at Lake Lanier, you’ll probably agree with this. We can put a man on the moon, or at least in a hidden secret television studio somewhere in Nevada acting like he’s on the moon, why can’t the Army Corps of Engineers make a dock extendable out to where the water is? The docks have been in the water only a month out of the last three years. During that time you would think they could figure out how to get the docks to the water.
