Self-Duet: “Saw Red”

I played a duet last night with my favorite musician: me!   🙂 I’ve been listening to a lot of Sublime lately, and so decided to learn this song. Then I thought this would be a good tune to try this “self-accompanying” video idea out on (that I’ve been meaning to do for some time now). As evidenced by the mic stands and pop filters in the video, I had big plans to record each…

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Death Star Egg

This egg was from the same batch as that last, yolkless, one.  This would explain the weirdness, perhaps. These eggs weren’t laid by a chicken after all!  They were laid by the DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE.  Or something like that…  (I haven’t seen the new Star Wars films yet, and it’s been a LONG time since I’ve seen the old ones.) For your review: For comparison:

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Rare, but not unusual.

I just ate a hard-boiled egg.  This thing was a real pain to open; I lost most (or so I thought) of the white in the process.  Usually you get a piece off, and then at some point, it all just sorta unwraps from there.  Rinse it off to get rid of the stragglers, and you’re all set.  Not this time.  Didn’t get any traction.  It was pretty pathetic-looking when I was done.  I should…

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more candy machine woes

the last time this happened, i wound up spending $3 on 2 twix bars.  this time it wasn’t as bad, only $2 for 2 packs of twizzlers, but still.  would it kill the candy-machine-stocking people to load the goodies more carefully?  or is it more sinister than that?  perhaps there’s a training class on maximizing vends.  i can see it now… “Okay class, you’ve done well and you’re almost ready to head out into the…

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