Monday, July 17, 2006

It's Dang Hot Out

It's Monday already - back at it!

At 7:00am this morning, it is already 81 degrees outside. The heat keeps on coming and will be hot and stormy all week here in SE Minnesota. Depending on which weather service you use, it varies. Also, depending on which day you read it, it varies. 60% chance of thunderstorms on Wednesday for golf league.... great! We're also playing in a golf tournament Friday - so far it's 80 degree forcast, partly cloudy. That would be just fine for golfing in Pine Island.

Work on Hazel's basement just keeps chugging away! I ran a lot of the electrical cable this weekend which is more work than I could have imagined. Having to drill holes through all of the framing, then run the wire takes time and patience. I have one more outlet in the Rec Room to run (not 100% sure how I'll do it, but I have a plan to try), then I'll have to wait for the master to get home and we'll figure out how she wants to do the lights down there. Our Plan A to have recessed lighting might not work as originally planned since the heating vents/tubes are already in place and they severely limit where we can place the recessed lighting canisters. I'm planning on wiring on all of the sockets and switches this week and hoping to be done with the wiring by the end of next weekend! I've learned a lot of tricks so far for future projects... the main one is that wiring a basement is so much easier to do when you're building the house, not when the rest of the house is already finished!

A few webpages to share on this Monday:

For anyone that thought they were good at Pac-Man (including The Pat), here's a guide on how to "beat the game" or how to make your 25 cents last a couple of hours. There are actually 255 levels to play, but levels 22-255 are actually the same. There is actually a point in the game where eating the power pellets just slows you down! It's interesting to see his patterns and how they change for the different phases of the game. What's pathetic is how he has played it enough to come up with these patterns, and also has enough time to publish this webpage.

And since I continue to say that the mainstream music of 2006 is a joke - full of one-hit wonders, I give you a list of the 50 Greatest One-Hit Wonders! There is no bias towards any one era which makes it even more fun. Unfortunately most of the modern bands haven't "disappeared" for long enough to be considered a One-Hit wonder. My favorite from the list is easily Dee-Lite!!

Stay cool, enjoy the heat.... snow is right around the corner, I can feel it!!

Song of the Day - I really like the new Red Hot Chili Peppers song, Dani California. The song is a tribute to the early death of Dani California who was born a poor girl in Mississippi who chose a fast life of becoming a bank robber instead of staying in her life of being poor. Per Drew's suggestion, I did see the video this weekend that shows the band performing and imitating other different bands. The band themselves say the goal was to imitate eras of rock (Old School, British Invasion, Psychedelia, Funk, Glam, Punk, Goth, Hair Metal, and Grunge) while others have labeled these imitations as Elvis, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix (or Prince), Funkadelic, Gary Glitter, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Motley Crue, Poison, Nirvana, and finally as themselves. The other thing I found interesting was how the song begins EXACTLY like Tom Petty's Mary Jane's Last Dance. The two intros are compared side by side and on top of each other HERE. You be the judge.

Video of the Day - A proper video for this weekend was Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. It was on TV the other night and I don't think I've ever seen the entire movie till now. It's fitting with the 100 degree weather that they experience in the movie (they didn't have the luxury of Air Conditioning though), but also with all of the tension and fighting going on in the world today. The movie helps explain that we're all one in the same, no matter where our ancestors came from. What I didn't like was how at the end of the movie, we read two quotes about "Doing the Right Thing", one from Martin Luther King who says that violence is never justified under any circumstances (which I agree with), but the other one from Malcolm X says that violence is justified when used to counter forces of oppression.

Webpage of the Day
- A photo for you to enjoy with the anticipation of storms (and much needed rain here in Minnesota) for the week.

1 comment:

Jill said...

No props for Carl?!? How disappointing...or at least a jab at Pitzen for Jr's...was that a last place finish Brian?!?