Too much sloth? Maybe.
I spent Thursday morning trying to get some work done. No luck. The data base from China cannot be opened easily. I sent off email to SAS and WRDS. SAS was polite and said that there might be a way, but they did not know exactly. WRDS said get lost. I told the researchers that they had to get the GTA software to work or they could not get the data.
My sister showed up and give me a Christmas gift. I gave her this four part Johnny Cash program I had aired a while back. Or rather a guy up at KEOS got the CD's and I aired two hours of it. He gave me the CD's. I gave them to my sister. My Christmas gift was a set of long sleeved shirts. This is the only time of year in Texas when you can wear long sleeved shirts. Oh, I guess people wearing suits wear long sleeved shirts. Not me. Anyway. The shirts came in handy because the station has lost its heater in the studio, so I wore one of the shirts on Friday.
I had a great lunch over at the Golden Corral. Aht, the food is always good there by my standards. I talked to my sister. My brother-in-law knew two guys on the Maddox who participated in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Vietnam is still a sore point with him after all these years. His opinion is that the South Vietnamese didn't want freedom badly enough to fight for it. Basically they were not worth 58000 American lives. I have no idea yet whether he is right.
I started in on The Deprived Thursday night. I settled on the Ford Taurus as the engine block and electronics under the hood for J.J.'s car, but a different shell. I had Lucy change the arrangement of component and make the car "better". In other words, the car uses Taurus parts, but isn't arranged inside like a Taurus. No, I don't know why I chose that car. Ford has shops all over the country, so could provide logistic support. That was the goal of this device: to show that logistics is everything in conflict. I did not describe the car. J.J. has this weird way of looking at the world so cool cars are not high on his list of priorities because he is convinced that the car will get destroyed by vandals. Why do you have a cool car? To attract chicks. He doesn't have that problem. I don't own a car, so it doesn't matter.
Friday came too early. Another volunteer was there trying to do something. He left me a donut and left for his first day back at "work". He wasn't sure whether he was going to have to do anything, because his the injury to his knee may not have healed according to his employer. I said, "Merry Christmas, ya'll."
There was no traffic log. The printer had run out of ink.
I did the Morning Air show using Blues and Jazz tracks. I told them about the radical fringe group I had joined. We believe in "Say no to The Holidays, say Merry Christmas, ya'll." Silly joke.
The station engineer showed up. He repaired a problem with CD1 that I could not hear. I mean, the left channel was almost off, but I could not detect it. I had found the same problem with Turntable 1. He said that he had fixed Turntable 1 already. I don't use vinyl on Morning Air, so I said I would test the turntable on Open Air Live with a Christmas song on vinyl.
I had him go over how to use the time delay on the signal. He was very, very literal in how he described the operations. Kind of weird.
He puttered around for a while and went off to buy a cartridge to put in the printer. He never returned while I was there.
The programming manager came in and wished me a Merry Christmas. He was taken aback that I used a script for the show, so I did not really need a traffic log.
The tracks for Morning Air were:
Artist or Band[Song]Name of CD
Don Rich[Have I Got Some News for You]Come Back to Me
Rudresh Mahanthappa[Change of Perspective]Mother Tongue
Ponty Bone[Castle Blues]Dig Us on the Road Somewhere
Kenny Garret Quartet[Wayne's Thang]Casino Light '99
Guy Forsyth[Patient's Blues]Love Songs: For&Against
Jessica Williams[Autumn Leaves]Jazz Focus Records 1994/1995
David Holt w/Sam Bush&Doc[Got No Use for Lonely]Let it Slide
Kelly Doze[Since You've Been Gone]Kelly Doze
Jimmie Dale Court[Son of the Daughter]Jimmie's Texas Blues
Michael B. Sutton[Feeling Down]Hopeless Romantic
Hubert Laws[Let Her Go]Heavy Flute
Earl Kieth[Midnight in San Juan]Best of Smooth Jazz
Boney James[Washington Bridge]Seduction
Benji Porecki[Walking With a News]Oasis Jazz Volume 9
Kevin Sterchi[Talk Not to Me]Fred Tomkins-St. Louis Music
Junior Watson[Two Tacos]If I Had a Genie
Kenny Neal&Billy Branch[Billy&Kenny's Stomp]Double Take
Kazzie Jaxen[Shine the Warrior's Heart]Oasis Jazz Volume 10
Big Mamma Thorton[Hound Dog]In Europe
Pappa Joe Grappa[Them Starbucks Blues]Too White to Sing the Blues
Banyan[At the Blowhole]Banyon
Clusome Trio[The Gig]Alternative Currents
Atlanta Bounce[Piano Red]Essential Blues Piano
All during the show, I wished people, "Merry Christmas, ya'll".
I had already cued up World Café, so I went to it at noon. The changeover to the BBC News update went well. The change back to World Café was even better. Luck.
I went over and bought some sandwiches at Albertsons for lunch. They were very good. I would buy them more often, but they do not keep in my refrigerator.
I reviewed some music from the 2004 stack of unreviewed CD's. One of them was really weird by my standards. I mean, normally singer/songwriter have men who have high whiny voices. The one I looked at had a thin reedy voice that was overpowered by his instrumentals.
Open Air Live was strange this time. I did a set (20 minutes) of Native American music. Then I played some music from the experimental music section. The segments on strange national music went okay. Then I played some Christmas music and the show ended. I screwed up once with one of the underwriter advertisements, but recovered from it. Here is the playlist:
Artist or Band[Song]Name of CD
Johnny Mike[Four Songs]Hear Our Prayers
Jerry Alfred&The Medicine Beat[Caribou Stick Gambling Song]Etsi Shon
Rodmilla Cody[Remembering the Taino]Spirit of a Woman
Spirit Sands Singers[Secret Admirer]Eagle Song: Powwows of the Native Americans
Alex E. Smith&Cheevers Toppah[Suave]Intonations
Young Grey Horse[Jingle Press Slide]Thunder Across the Planz
Kind Robot[Did You Know?]The Fragapella EP
Ye-Ye[Bachelor Party]The Beach-St.Topez
Revolution 9[A Better Day]AM/FM
The Jefferson Kaiser OkoDetet[The Stranger's Nose Was No More Heard Of]Themes for a Triskdekaphobe
No Name Given[Zirbaghai Solo]Afghanistan
Tsehaytu Beraki[Medjemerya Fegrey]Ethiopiques: Golden Age Music of Ethiopia
No Name Given[Sunrise Song]Zambia
No Name Given[Babou Cisse]Yan Kuba: Kora Music from Gambia
No Name Given[Kbunse]Uganda&Other African Nations
Tinariwen[Amassakoul 'N' Tenere]Putamayo Presents: Mali
3 Mustaphas 3[Kopanitsa]Fez
No Name Given[Invitation to Shugden]The Music of Tibetan Buddhism
No Name Given[Llarnor]Music from Peru&Ecuador
Rise Stevens[It Came Upon the Midnight Clear]Favorite Christmas Carols
Seamus Kennedy[Think of Someone Out There]Goodwill to Men
Eric Johnson&Van Wilks[What Child Is This?]The Texas Christmas Collection
Kim Gannon[I'll Be Home for Christmas]Greatest Christmas Songs Ever
Slaid Cleaves[Monster In Law]Holiday Sampler
Suzy Buggess[Two Step 'Round the Christmas Tree]Deck the Halls
Woody Phillips[Good King Wenceslas]A Toolbox Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller[Hark! The Herald Angels Sings]A Fresh Aire Christmas
Dusty Wright[Christmas (Is Coming Down)]Holiday Heart
For the next three hours, I put on shows, made announcements and reviewed CD's. God, most of them were awful. I had a canister of tea I brought from home so it wasn't too bad. There were some Christmas cookies as well. About 6pm, I went back in the back and double checked that I had found all the year old music. I mean, the music director puts out these albums and people are supposed to review them. I went through the stack on the shelf and verified that I had found all the albums that had been there for a year. For some reason reviewing albums that everyone else has discarded makes me feel okay about doing the job. The CD's are mostly cruddy singer/songwriter albums. Knowing going in that they are probably awful means that I can feel good when I actually find one that is okay. I was surprised to find one CD from 2001 and another from 2003. I thought I had gotten all those. I stuck the four oldest in my box. I will get to the first this afternoon.
When I got home last night someone had left me some cookies. They did not leave a name, just an apartment number. This morning I downloaded a picture of a Christmas tree and built a Christmas card out of some glossy paper I had bought for another project. It didn't turn out very well. I assume it was a girl, but no way of knowing. Going up and saying thank you to a girl much younger than me seems like a good way to have something unpleasant happen. I tacked the card on her door and let it go at that. Girls probably find me a woeful figure.
I don't know what I am going to spend the rest of the day. I really need to work on the script for Monday and I need to update this blog with the scripts from the other three shows.
Well, the pizza is in the oven. I have to be at the station at 5pm. We shall see.
My sister showed up and give me a Christmas gift. I gave her this four part Johnny Cash program I had aired a while back. Or rather a guy up at KEOS got the CD's and I aired two hours of it. He gave me the CD's. I gave them to my sister. My Christmas gift was a set of long sleeved shirts. This is the only time of year in Texas when you can wear long sleeved shirts. Oh, I guess people wearing suits wear long sleeved shirts. Not me. Anyway. The shirts came in handy because the station has lost its heater in the studio, so I wore one of the shirts on Friday.
I had a great lunch over at the Golden Corral. Aht, the food is always good there by my standards. I talked to my sister. My brother-in-law knew two guys on the Maddox who participated in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Vietnam is still a sore point with him after all these years. His opinion is that the South Vietnamese didn't want freedom badly enough to fight for it. Basically they were not worth 58000 American lives. I have no idea yet whether he is right.
I started in on The Deprived Thursday night. I settled on the Ford Taurus as the engine block and electronics under the hood for J.J.'s car, but a different shell. I had Lucy change the arrangement of component and make the car "better". In other words, the car uses Taurus parts, but isn't arranged inside like a Taurus. No, I don't know why I chose that car. Ford has shops all over the country, so could provide logistic support. That was the goal of this device: to show that logistics is everything in conflict. I did not describe the car. J.J. has this weird way of looking at the world so cool cars are not high on his list of priorities because he is convinced that the car will get destroyed by vandals. Why do you have a cool car? To attract chicks. He doesn't have that problem. I don't own a car, so it doesn't matter.
Friday came too early. Another volunteer was there trying to do something. He left me a donut and left for his first day back at "work". He wasn't sure whether he was going to have to do anything, because his the injury to his knee may not have healed according to his employer. I said, "Merry Christmas, ya'll."
There was no traffic log. The printer had run out of ink.
I did the Morning Air show using Blues and Jazz tracks. I told them about the radical fringe group I had joined. We believe in "Say no to The Holidays, say Merry Christmas, ya'll." Silly joke.
The station engineer showed up. He repaired a problem with CD1 that I could not hear. I mean, the left channel was almost off, but I could not detect it. I had found the same problem with Turntable 1. He said that he had fixed Turntable 1 already. I don't use vinyl on Morning Air, so I said I would test the turntable on Open Air Live with a Christmas song on vinyl.
I had him go over how to use the time delay on the signal. He was very, very literal in how he described the operations. Kind of weird.
He puttered around for a while and went off to buy a cartridge to put in the printer. He never returned while I was there.
The programming manager came in and wished me a Merry Christmas. He was taken aback that I used a script for the show, so I did not really need a traffic log.
The tracks for Morning Air were:
Artist or Band[Song]Name of CD
Don Rich[Have I Got Some News for You]Come Back to Me
Rudresh Mahanthappa[Change of Perspective]Mother Tongue
Ponty Bone[Castle Blues]Dig Us on the Road Somewhere
Kenny Garret Quartet[Wayne's Thang]Casino Light '99
Guy Forsyth[Patient's Blues]Love Songs: For&Against
Jessica Williams[Autumn Leaves]Jazz Focus Records 1994/1995
David Holt w/Sam Bush&Doc[Got No Use for Lonely]Let it Slide
Kelly Doze[Since You've Been Gone]Kelly Doze
Jimmie Dale Court[Son of the Daughter]Jimmie's Texas Blues
Michael B. Sutton[Feeling Down]Hopeless Romantic
Hubert Laws[Let Her Go]Heavy Flute
Earl Kieth[Midnight in San Juan]Best of Smooth Jazz
Boney James[Washington Bridge]Seduction
Benji Porecki[Walking With a News]Oasis Jazz Volume 9
Kevin Sterchi[Talk Not to Me]Fred Tomkins-St. Louis Music
Junior Watson[Two Tacos]If I Had a Genie
Kenny Neal&Billy Branch[Billy&Kenny's Stomp]Double Take
Kazzie Jaxen[Shine the Warrior's Heart]Oasis Jazz Volume 10
Big Mamma Thorton[Hound Dog]In Europe
Pappa Joe Grappa[Them Starbucks Blues]Too White to Sing the Blues
Banyan[At the Blowhole]Banyon
Clusome Trio[The Gig]Alternative Currents
Atlanta Bounce[Piano Red]Essential Blues Piano
All during the show, I wished people, "Merry Christmas, ya'll".
I had already cued up World Café, so I went to it at noon. The changeover to the BBC News update went well. The change back to World Café was even better. Luck.
I went over and bought some sandwiches at Albertsons for lunch. They were very good. I would buy them more often, but they do not keep in my refrigerator.
I reviewed some music from the 2004 stack of unreviewed CD's. One of them was really weird by my standards. I mean, normally singer/songwriter have men who have high whiny voices. The one I looked at had a thin reedy voice that was overpowered by his instrumentals.
Open Air Live was strange this time. I did a set (20 minutes) of Native American music. Then I played some music from the experimental music section. The segments on strange national music went okay. Then I played some Christmas music and the show ended. I screwed up once with one of the underwriter advertisements, but recovered from it. Here is the playlist:
Artist or Band[Song]Name of CD
Johnny Mike[Four Songs]Hear Our Prayers
Jerry Alfred&The Medicine Beat[Caribou Stick Gambling Song]Etsi Shon
Rodmilla Cody[Remembering the Taino]Spirit of a Woman
Spirit Sands Singers[Secret Admirer]Eagle Song: Powwows of the Native Americans
Alex E. Smith&Cheevers Toppah[Suave]Intonations
Young Grey Horse[Jingle Press Slide]Thunder Across the Planz
Kind Robot[Did You Know?]The Fragapella EP
Ye-Ye[Bachelor Party]The Beach-St.Topez
Revolution 9[A Better Day]AM/FM
The Jefferson Kaiser OkoDetet[The Stranger's Nose Was No More Heard Of]Themes for a Triskdekaphobe
No Name Given[Zirbaghai Solo]Afghanistan
Tsehaytu Beraki[Medjemerya Fegrey]Ethiopiques: Golden Age Music of Ethiopia
No Name Given[Sunrise Song]Zambia
No Name Given[Babou Cisse]Yan Kuba: Kora Music from Gambia
No Name Given[Kbunse]Uganda&Other African Nations
Tinariwen[Amassakoul 'N' Tenere]Putamayo Presents: Mali
3 Mustaphas 3[Kopanitsa]Fez
No Name Given[Invitation to Shugden]The Music of Tibetan Buddhism
No Name Given[Llarnor]Music from Peru&Ecuador
Rise Stevens[It Came Upon the Midnight Clear]Favorite Christmas Carols
Seamus Kennedy[Think of Someone Out There]Goodwill to Men
Eric Johnson&Van Wilks[What Child Is This?]The Texas Christmas Collection
Kim Gannon[I'll Be Home for Christmas]Greatest Christmas Songs Ever
Slaid Cleaves[Monster In Law]Holiday Sampler
Suzy Buggess[Two Step 'Round the Christmas Tree]Deck the Halls
Woody Phillips[Good King Wenceslas]A Toolbox Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller[Hark! The Herald Angels Sings]A Fresh Aire Christmas
Dusty Wright[Christmas (Is Coming Down)]Holiday Heart
For the next three hours, I put on shows, made announcements and reviewed CD's. God, most of them were awful. I had a canister of tea I brought from home so it wasn't too bad. There were some Christmas cookies as well. About 6pm, I went back in the back and double checked that I had found all the year old music. I mean, the music director puts out these albums and people are supposed to review them. I went through the stack on the shelf and verified that I had found all the albums that had been there for a year. For some reason reviewing albums that everyone else has discarded makes me feel okay about doing the job. The CD's are mostly cruddy singer/songwriter albums. Knowing going in that they are probably awful means that I can feel good when I actually find one that is okay. I was surprised to find one CD from 2001 and another from 2003. I thought I had gotten all those. I stuck the four oldest in my box. I will get to the first this afternoon.
When I got home last night someone had left me some cookies. They did not leave a name, just an apartment number. This morning I downloaded a picture of a Christmas tree and built a Christmas card out of some glossy paper I had bought for another project. It didn't turn out very well. I assume it was a girl, but no way of knowing. Going up and saying thank you to a girl much younger than me seems like a good way to have something unpleasant happen. I tacked the card on her door and let it go at that. Girls probably find me a woeful figure.
I don't know what I am going to spend the rest of the day. I really need to work on the script for Monday and I need to update this blog with the scripts from the other three shows.
Well, the pizza is in the oven. I have to be at the station at 5pm. We shall see.
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