“Are you lonely or horny?”

Normally I just delete my spam immediately, but that subject line… I deleted it immediately too, but I can’t get that subject line out of my mind.

Lonely or horny?

I just can’t decide.

Lonely?

Horny?

I could make a decent case for either one.

My cello teacher is such a geek. I love him so. Yesterday he told me about a band he saw, Jorane. The musicians included a viola player, a guitar, and a cellist who sings. He complained that the cello, being amplified, lost some of its rich sound, which he said was a problem on the recording he bought as well. If you go to that site, the recording in question is the 2003 recording, “Jorane”, which is available only in Germany according to the website.

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Nothing gets a sleepy little kid out of bed quicker than the words, “gee, is that snow?”

OTOH, it also made me wish I had winter tires on my car. My lovely wife generously insisted I take hers instead, as she is home today.

November is often like this in Austria: a nasty cold snap that makes you hope of blizzards and a white Christmas; then it warms up again, Christmas is grey and it doesn’t get good and cold until January.

In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.

PS:
BoingBoing has links to some election-day footage.

So Alpha apparently said, as she left for the movies with Gamma, “you’ll have to make a painting table contraption for Gamma for Christmas, it will be a nice winter project and we can surprise her with it for Christmas.”

What I heard, though, was, “BzzBzz have to make painting table contraption for Gamma bzzZbzzzBzzz, and as soon as they drove off, I leapt into action.

My workshop is a complete mess, but I found enough workbench space and cut a bunch of big pieces with the circular saw, then a bunch of little pieces with the jigsaw, drilled holes into them with the drill and had the table about 80% screwed together by the time they came home. Gamma came into my shop and asked what I was up to and I proudly told her, which got me into trouble and now I have to think up another Christmas surprise for her.

But the table is going to be so cool when it’s finished.

Ohio machine error gives Bush extra votes.

Sorry.
Via Jessica, in my comments. Thanks.