I picked up a wireless mouse for my laptop this week. I tried to play the “I got this for both of us, honey” card. A lame attempt, but Mrs. Shoo hits up Panera quite frequently to work outside the house. I was just trying offer her equal time with the mouse. I always get all the cool tech toys, just trying to share. Needless to say, it did not work at all. Rejected like one of those E-Harmony competitor commercials.
It’s a pretty sweet traveling mouse though. It’s wireless and wired, the USB dongle fits under the bottom, and the orange top pops off and reveals the batteries and USB cable for wired control if the batteries die.
The inside of the card says, “Another birthday? How Exciting!”
A coworker bought a bunch of cards and wants random people/dogs to wish their sister a happy 40th. I think it’s hilarious, so I am sending a card from Buddy and Clancy. I am including the photo below in the card. I figure why not go all out on the dirty dog humor.
It’s not a federal offense for a dog to send a birthday card!?
I got this keyboard for Christmas. And actually, I got two of them for Xmas. Took one back.
It ranks pretty high on the list of keyboards I’ve owned. The mouse and keyboard are both wireless. Haven’t had any troubles connecting them to the computer. Probably the best feature has to be the next track keys on the right side. They’re in the perfect position so that I don’t have to look down to change a track. I don’t really use any of the other accessory keys, but they’re nice to have. Oh except the volume keys and mute button, always great when Mrs. Shoo yells down in the basement, “Hooooooonnnnnneeeeeyyyy!”
A totally cool kids show that has awesome indie rock bands, say what? I am still investigating this show, but if anyone out there has kids, I believe you should be showing this to your kids.
Well, the batteries are recharged from the weekend, but I still didn’t feel like snapping any photos. So instead, here’s an oldie but goodie all the way from 2003. The car above was my buddy’s Ed’s. It was his birthday a few days ago and I thought I’d throw it up as the daily photo in tribute to his belated birthday.
This car was Ed’s baby. Seriously. He got it back in high school and was one of the last friends I knew that still was driving the car they drove in high school. It was retired a few years ago after the mechanical repair costs were going to cost more than the car itself. If you ever rode with Ed you were sure to get schooled in rap from the early 90’s, especially Tu Pac, and possbily some country music.
Ed and I took his baby to a 311 - The Roots concert in St. Louis. It was the best car for concert going because it was a convertible and with the top down and going about 65 mph two guys who were tone deaf could sing as loud as possibly and still sound good.
Shoo has been Claritin D all week and enjoying it, but hating all the nasty weather.
I’ve been draggin’ butt and almost gave up on the daily photo for the week, but I think this weekend I’ll be able to recharge the batteries. I hope so because it’s snot funny anymore.
The Mrs. and I were talking at lunch about how she played ‘Name that tune’ with her high school students the other day, and they couldn’t name the “Sweater Song” by Weezer. The holiest of holy 90’s anthems… ranking slightly under Nirvana’s “Teen Spirit.” Then she went into horrific detail about how no one knew about Micro-Machines and the Micro-Machine man. I threw my Chili’s Honey Chipolte Chicken Strips to the ground, and demanded she take back the false truths… Okay, I’d never throw away perfectly good food, but I still demanded she take back the false truths.
Doing the math they were born around 90-93. I was born in 81′, yet I know about U2, The Cars, Devo, Stripper, and Bon Jovi. How can they not have a grasp of a decade of Seattle music? Has VH1 not made enough episodes of Behind The Music? Yet, they know Sir Mix A-Lot’s butt anthem. Trust me, I’ve chaperoned a dance.
I like lists, so I’ve been thinking of 5 ULTIMATE 90’s 92′-96′ Rock songs that represent my decade of coming of age that I would introduce to gen-I[nternet]. Feel free to compose your own list using a decade of your choice. I feel like this could be another one of those music memes.
1. Weezer - The Sweater Song (1994): Before Emo was Emo, there was Rivers Cuomo and the Blue Album. Not to be confused by Nada Surf’s “Popular” (1996), “The Sweater Song” predated Nada Surf with all the teen angst and featured dialog during the song. Revolutionary at the time. It was required to have at least one copy of Weezer’s Blue album.
2. Pearl Jam - Jeremy (1992): Pearl Jam was the sh!t of the 90’s. Well, before Eddie Vedder became all Mr. Environment. Jeremy was based on a school suicide shooting. Vedder belts the song with emotion in a range that every dude with long hair could sing “OOOOhhh ooooohhh, Jeremy spoken.”
3. Soundgarden - “Blow Up the Outside World” (1996): Check out the drummers haircut in this video. It was kind of the mullet of the 90’s. Long, but still short enough not to look like your mom. A lot of dudes sported this haircut.
4. The Toadies - Possum Kingdom (1995): At the heart of my 90’s rock out songs… I rocked out to this song many different times. Throw in a hard bass guitar and a nasty lead singer and you’ve got Korn.
5. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline(1994): This says it all, a comment from the YouTube Video: “another hidden treasure of 90’s music kids today should get to know. art. - wojtek0000.” I don’t know how to describe STP, but it was a staple of my 90’s rock diet.
So, did I miss any truly great 90’s rock songs? By chance, has anyone picked a new band? I’m curious to hear back on this one.
Mrs. Shoo got new glasses today. Doesn’t she look smartty (smart + pretty). I talked her out of some totally 80’s wide rim glasses -totally had to twist her arm to say no on the 80’s glasses. It’s good to have her seeing again. She was legally blind for the last six months. I just showed her the DVD of the wedding - she didn’t even know we were outside.
Buddy has a new thing for ducks. We’re putting him in duck detox next week…
We had some friends over this weekend and they commented on all the ducks in our living room. Five total. The back story is that Mrs. Shoo is dangerous with a gun, a gun that scans items to a wedding registry. She though she’d be sneaky and scan a random green duck. I saw her do it, but thought ‘whatever.. like anyone is going to buy a random green duck.’
Needless to say, Mrs. Shoo’s friends heard the story about the green duck and we ended up with five.
It’s a pretty sweet traveling mouse though. It’s wireless and wired, the USB dongle fits under the bottom, and the orange top pops off and reveals the batteries and USB cable for wired control if the batteries die.
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