I like this song.

Aimee Mann and Michael Penn's cover of Bruce Springsteen's Reason to Believe

These are a few of my favorite things

(Photo made by Steve)

Anti-tribute to Ben Harper

When I am sitting in my office, I like to listen to a little internet radio. Now I don't have the luxury of listening to Pandora, because they only let you listen from the United States. I'm over it.
Last year, Yahoo Music had a lot of the same features, you could rate the music, and it would remember what kind of music to play and suggest based on your ratings. Then suddenly they stopped that, apparently it was too likeable and easy to use. So now Yahoo music is only mediocre to listen to. You can rate songs, but it is pretty meaningless. They don't even ask me to sign in. So they don't remember any playlists or anything like that.

Oh well. It is instinctual for me to try to find a loophole, so lately I've been typing in a particular artist, and they will play similar sounding music. And you can still skip songs that you don't want to listen to. So it's ok, I guess.

Anyway, I've been noticing that every single time I feel compelled to stop what I am doing and skip a song, lately, it is a song by Ben Harper. I don't know what it is. Just can't listen to it. Just can't tune it out. Must. Skip.

And the weird thing is, there isn't one particular song that gets me. It is every song. By him. That Yahoo music will play.

Anyway, here is a nice picture of him. I am sorry that I skip you all the time Mr. Harper. I can't really describe why I can't make it through one of your songs.

Does anyone know of a song by him that is tolerable? I would like to develop a taste...or at least a tolerance (so as to be able to tune it out without having to stop everything and hit skip). I need this skill, because Yahoo music plays him a. lot.

Psalm 19

The place where the sun sets in the winter. This picture was taken at about 2pm or so.

oh man oh man oh man. procrastination at its finest.

My final paper is due in 6.5 hours.

It needs to be 3000-4000 words.

Instead of writing the paper I sit here and blog about writing the paper.

It is technically due "Friday at midnight" which is Saturday at 8am my time.

And I'm milking it for all its worth.

Not too old for an all-nighter...yet.

Ask me how I'm doing tomorrow though.

If I survive, I will post a picture of the sky that I took on Thursday. It was amazing. The sky. The sun made an appearance. My letters worked!