Where did those days go?

So here it is Friday.

After I got to the station on Wednesday, December 7, I went through my show, Music in the Morning. I played some Celtic music that looked good. The playlist was:
Artist or Band[Song]Name of CD
Flogging Molly[Queene Anne's Revenge]Within a Mile of Home
Brobdingnagian Bards[The Orange and the Green]Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales
Cherish the Ladies[The Old Maid of Galway]Woman of the House
Serious Kitchen[Open]Tig
John McCusker[Wiseman's]Goodnight Ginger
The Muse[Health to the Company]Tramps and Hawkers
Parthenia XII[Linger]Celtic Chants: The Chants of Sarum
The Celtic Bells[Come Rejoicing]Ladies of Ireland
Claire Hamilton[Flower of Scotland]The Magic of the Celtic Harp: Celtic Women
Emerald Rose[Four Doors to Elfland]Archives of Ages to Come
The Barleyshakes[Regrets]Celtic Heart: Tales of True Love
Maire Breatrach[Inis Sui]Music for the Rest of Us
Orion[Douce Mouis Tomanie]Celtic Legacy: A Global Celtic Journey
Mary Black[Both Sides of the Tweed]Celtic Tides: A Musical Odyssey
Ron Korb[Cuchulain]Celtic Mystery: Volume 2
D'Goya[I Go to Bed]Celtic Angels
Patrick Street[Music of the Found Harmonium]Joyful Noise: Celtic Favorites
Parthenia XII[The Deep and Timeless Sea]Celtic Chants: The Chants of Sarum
Tony McManus[Lady Ann Montgomery's Reel]Celtic Compass
The Bothy Band[Fiohnghvala]Gaelic Voices
Connie Dover[Ubi Caritas]Celtic Spirit
Shelley Phillips[Planxty Burke]Celtic treasure: The Legacy of Turlough

D'Goya's I Go to Bed was probably the most sexually oriented song I have ever heard where the act of sex was not mentioned. It was kind of strange, because most songs are along the lines of "Honey, let's do it!" This one is "I really enjoyed your closeness and warmth and oh, yeah, the sex was great too." from the woman's point of view.

After I got back home, I seem to have vegged out in front of the computer until late.

In Thursday, I caught some type of stomach virus. I felt lousy. I did the monthly report for Kiwanis and submitted it. Then I went by and got air for my bike and dropped off a book on Poor Richard's Almanac that I had been meaning to return to the library. Then I went to bed trying to sleep off the virus. No such luck. I dragged myself up to the station at 4:57pm. Ooops. I was supposed to be there at 3:57pm. I was lucky the guy before me had stayed until 4:30pm. I did the top of the hour legal ID and then dithered as to what to do. The substitute host for the next show at 6pm showed up and I handed off. When I got home, I took a gazillion milligrams of vitamin C and Tylenol type drugs and went to bed at about 8pm. I was unable to get to sleep for very long. I kept drifting in and out of sleep.

I finally gave it up at 6:30am and got up. God, I felt awful this morning, Friday, December 9. I dragged myself up to the station and arrived at 8:30am. I kept wanting to throw up. The first program, Morning Air, went okay. I found some new Jazz and Blues to play. The playlist was:
Artist or Band[Song]Name of CD
Gary Farr[Fresh Brew]Fresh Brew
Ron Fattorusso[Shuffle Bop]Up All Night
Kenny Ellis[Children of the Maccabbees]Hanukkah Swings
Mort Weiss Quintet[East of the Sun]The Four of Us, Live at Streamers
Will Taylor&Strings Attached[Ocean of Tears]Collaborations
Doug Williams[Still Standing Tall]Make a Joyful Noise: Inspirational Jazz
A Little Space[Reason to Call You]Box of Love
Terry Graves[Autumn Air]To Fly Higher
Caroline Drury[Hey You]Loving You, Loving Me
David Gogo[Skeleton Key]Live at Deer Lake
Bobby Rush[Who's Fooling Who]Night Fishin'
Angela Strehli[Love, Don't Move the Mountain]Blue Highway
Johnny Adams[Danger Zone]The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album
Smokin' Joe Kubek Band[Texas Cadillac]Served Up Texas Style
CC Bronson[Lay It On Me]My Soul, My Blues
Wilson Pickett[If You Need Me]60's Soul Favorites
Bill Withers[Everybody's Talkin']Just As I Am
Ismael Reinhart[May One and Only Love]Gypsy Swing II
The Miracles[Love Machine]The Best of 70's Soul Hits
Alvin Youngblood Hart[Stomp Dance]Motivational
Trevor Finlay Band[I'll Come to You]Show Me What U Got
The Neville Brothers[Streets Are Callin']Walkin' in the Shadow of Live

Some woman called wanting to know who had played Ocean of tears. I gave the name on the album, then noticed that he had done it with a woman. The woman on the phone recognized the woman and not Will Taylor. Strange.

I still felt lousy at noon after I put on World Café. I sat there trying to decide what to do. I finally settled on going to Albertsons and buying some sandwiches. I was so unsteady that I decided to walk. Even at noon, it was cold today, but I bundled up and it wasn't too bad. I found some sandwiches and orange drink, then I bought some Pepto Bismal. I also bought some paper towels for the bathroom for the station. Stupid mistake. Sixteen rolls of paper towels to wipe your hands, take up too much space. I had three packages and two hands. Even walking back the two blocks to the station was a hassle. I got there and lunch went okay. There was some mayonnaise and catsup available. I was still not steady, so I just sat there trying to... I don't remember. I had to call the engineer when the power output from the tower dropped below 90%. Some guy called up and wanted to correct something from his credit card payments from the station. I passed that along as well.

For Open Air Live I decided to play some Christmas music. It didn't go real well. I started making stupid mistakes like leaving the microphone open and airing a song that I did not mean to air. The engineer called both times. Weird. The playlist for this one is kind of strange, because I just took it off the shelf and hoped for the best. It was:
Artist or Band[Song]
Y'all[Christmastime in the Trailerpark]
Asylum Street Spankers[You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch]
Jerry Jeff Walker[Mason Dixon's on the Line]
Johnny Mark[Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer]
Dar Williams[The Christians and the Pagans]
Crash Test Dummies[God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen]
Robin and Linda Williams[Old Toy Trains]
Narvel Felts[You Can't Have a White Christmas (When you've Got the Blues)]
Bobby Helms and Johnny Paycheck[Jingle Bell Rock]
Lee Murdock[Silent Night]
Curly Musgrave[Long Canyon Christmas]
Robert Musci[Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas]
Unified Tribes[Sleigh Ride]
Benny Skyn[Decorate a Tree]
Mark Jungers&The Whistling Mules[Fences]
Steven Kalas[The Star]
Martin Audiology&Pauline Reese[I'll Be Home For Christmas]
Mannheim Steamroller[The Holy and the Ivy]
Billy Joe Shaver[Merry Christmas to You]
Suzanne&Jim[Here We Go A' Caroling]
Trans-Siberian Orchestra[An Angel Came Down]
Micky&the Motorcars[Blue Christmas]
Ruben Romero[Angelic Strings]
Mae Robertson[Every December Sky]
El Orbits[Sleigh ride]
Woody Phillips[Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy]
Dusty Wright[Christmas Is Coming Down]
Suzy Bogguss&Delbert McClinton[Baby It's Cold Outside]
Elton John[Step Into Christmas]
Bob August[First Snowfall]
Andy Wilkinson&Barry Corbin[Coffee on a Christmas Eve]

The song, The Christians and the Pagans, brought tears to my eyes. Why can't people of different religions get along? The tag line of the song is that only the pies got burnt when the Christians and the Pagans got together this time. Wicah is kind of a weird religion, no weirder than any other.

The Ops portion of the shift from 4-7pm was kind of tough. The wooziness had about gone away, but I wasn't interested in doing much of anything. I finally dug out the album I was reviewing and played the last few songs. Two had dirty words, so tagged them. The singer/songwriter was strange in that his poetry set to music made no sense. Mostly it was about the fact that the singer had been a prick all his life, bed hopping and treating women badly and he almost, but not quite regretted that. All sung in a whiny self indulgent voice. 7pm came and God was I glad to be out of there.

I got home, I felt almost human. I plopped down in front of the computer and called my voice mail. My sister wanted to come up tomorrow. I have to get up at 6:30am tomorrow to go to the Kiwanis annual fruit loading. We get the fruit in and give it to our members to distribute to their customers. I feel that I should be there as Secretary. Probably a bad idea. I called my sister back and set up 10:30am as their arrival time. It should work out 8-10am at the junk yard to distribute the fruit, then 10:30am-4pm with my sister, then 4:30pm-6:30pm at the station doing another Ops shift. We shall see what happens.

I went to bed and then couldn’t get to sleep. I got up and tried to fill in the last few days in this blog. The morning is not that far off. I need to try again to get some sleep.