We’re Not Getting Any Younger

Another gem Pandora brought me. What a great pop song.

We’re Not Getting Any Younger (free mp3 from ReverbNation)
Color Theory

I say I should take you home but you want to stay here
On the beach all alone with our blankets and beer
In the dark how we ache to fulfill this hunger
Cherish it now cause we’re not getting any younger

Ashes in fire pits and fires in our hearts as we move
Crashing waves in an urgent and quickening groove
Consummating the end of a perfect summer
Cherish it now cause we’re not getting any younger
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Bill-ding suspense

Tropical_Storm_Bill-20090816This upcoming weekend could be an interesting if tropical storm Bill tracks the way it is now. Of course, there’s lots of ocean to cross and plenty of time between now and then but keep an eye out (no pun intended).

I was just wondering when our tropical storm season might heat up and it looks like that time is now.

Update Aug 17 9:30 PM: Looks like Hurricane Bill will veer away from the mainland.

Chevrolet Hills now ready for paving

We drove up to our friends the Naylor’s Lake Gaston lakehouse this morning. It had been a while since I drove up that part of Capital Boulevard and I was dismayed to see the old Cheviot Hills Golf Course now completely cleared, with few, if any, remaining trees. I’ve known it was coming, as it was bought by car dealers and car dealers do what car dealers do: they build car lots. But do they have to plow over every damn tree to build their lots?

I don’t know why it bothers me so, as I never set foot on that golf course, and the jackass who ran it pissed me off with his late night, drunken hunting. I suppose it’s trading a unique community resource for yet another faceless car dealership.
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Cable TV

Cable TV (YouTube)
Fol Chen

Now you’ve been working so hard
Running in circles
Like a robot shorting circuits
Like it’s set to blow

I’ve gotta make an appointment
Just to kiss you
Baby I’m not complaining
But I’ve got to know
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Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood (Youtube)
Gorillaz

Ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I’m useless but not for long
The future is coming on

Ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad
I got sunshine in a bag
I’m useless but not for long
The future is coming on

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Healthcare hits home

Stethoscope-2
I once worked at a great small business. One day, one of my coworkers abruptly announced she was leaving the company. This woman was one of the original employees and knew the company as well (or better) than the founders. How could she possibly be leaving? I had to find out her reason, so I stepped outside with her.

“What’s the scoop?” I asked.
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Cardholder services: 916-219-8193

Got a call on my pay-per-use mobile phone from number 916-219-8193, claiming to be from “cardholder services” and saying I was eligible for a program to lower my interest rate.

The scamming scumbags are back in full effect.

North Carolina telephone solicitation law

Article 4.
Telephone Solicitations.

§ 75-100. Findings.

The General Assembly finds all of the following:

(1) The use of the telephone to market goods and services to the home is now pervasive due to the increased use of cost?effective telephone solicitation technologies and techniques.

(2) While some consumers enjoy and benefit from telephone solicitations from legitimate telephone solicitors, many others object to these telephone solicitations as an intrusive invasion of their privacy in the home.

(3) In addition, the proliferation of telephone solicitations, especially during the evening hours, creates a nuisance and a disturbance upon the home and family life of telephone subscribers during a time of day used by many families for traditional family activities.

(4) North Carolina residents should have the freedom to choose whether or not to permit telephone solicitors to contact them.
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