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This is currently Rory’s favorite book.  Personally, I don’t get it.  Read an in-depth review at retroCRUSH.

Love You Forever

As read by the author:

Once again I’m taken with an overwhelming urge to listen to this song over and over and over again.

Fountains of Wayne, best known for their hit Stacy’s Mom have been one of my favorite bands for quite a while. Specifically, since the first time I heard their first album and songs like Radiation Vibe and Leave the Biker dug their hooks into me. They’re really an under appreciated band.

Hey Julie might just be the perfect song. The narrator is an average guy trying to make a living and missing his special lady friend who makes all the crap melt away. That’s it. There’s really no deeper meaning and the music is just as simple - mostly just acoustic guitar over a mellow beat. It gets in my head and I can’t help but hit the back button every time it ends. While FoW write their songs as stories told by or about different characters (one of their strengths that keep them from getting old), they’re always heart-felt and honest.

Please listen and enjoy.

	Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie
	Found at skreemr.com

With accounts at sites like Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Digg, etc, etc, etc, a lot of us post information all over the place. FriendFeed collects your feeds from all these places and posts them on one page. So, I’ll give it a go. I’ve been trying to get into the social aspects of some of these sites more, but to be honest, I rarely get the time to do more than read a quick article here or there. We’ll see what happens.

I’ve also installed a couple of Firefox extensions that I’m hoping will help me keep up to date with everything (including my own website). These are:

ScribeFire - An in-browser blog client. I happen to be writing this post with it. Maybe if I don’t have to visit my own site, I’ll post to it more often.

Shareaholic - Adds a multi-use button to Firefox that allows you to quickly post to many social sites.

Feedly - This one adds a really nice magazine-like homepage to Firefox. It still seems to have some bugs (I sometimes have trouble getting it to add pages, and many changes seem to require a browser restart without telling you), but it makes for a really spiffy RSS reader.

So please, add me as a friend on any sites you might belong to. I can be found under the names voteninjaparty, sandpaperback, or speeb most of the time. And give FriendFeed a shot.

Once again, time has passed and I have not updated.  Let’s play catch up.

In the past week, I’ve acquired two splendid new items:  Rock Band and Quigley.

Rock Band is awesome — even the stripped down PS2 version.  Drums are harder than I expected, vocals are easier.  Both are tons of fun.  Gimme a call and we can rock.

Quigley is our new dog.  He’s a 3 year old Australian Cattle Dog (Blue Heeler).  He’s a very sweet and already loyal boy.  He doesn’t always like to listen, but we’re getting there.  Right now we’re all adjusting.

Later today I have to get some insect and weed killer for my yard.  I was just going to let the little ants be, but they’re starting to really take over the yard.  And so they must die.