note to self

Dear self: In re our monolog in the shower this morning. I do believe I have hit upon the proper epithet for Mr. G.W. Bush, thanks to the pioneering work of Dan "Ugly John" Carver. As I will recall, U.J. succinctly defined it in talking about cowboys, years ago in AZAPA. Basically, real cowboys wear boots for their work, which tends to get excrement on them. Your drugstore cowboy, on the other hand, has to look around in the street to find some excrement to get on his boots before going to his destination.

It's perfect. It seems a bit underutilized, too, with 1830 hits on Google for Bush "drugstore cowboy," and a lot of those have to do with the movie Drugstore Cowboy. What better term for a fake poseur like Bush? It's nice and Rovian too, in that it strikes at a supposed 'strength' and highlights the difference between him and the people he uses -- people who mistakenly believe he's "one of us." Sorry, folks, you've been lied to.

Drugstore Cowboy. All hat and no cattle. Someone offer him a ride on a horse and watch what he does.

the cute things my daughter says;, continued

We were taking our morning constitutional on the scraped roadbed out front of our house. The six-inch wide hole Sarah liked to hop over is now history. I looked at my watch and saw it was time. "Sarah, we have to go back to the house now. We don't want to make Mommy late."

"I do EVERY TIME!" she replied, with gusto.

is there no decency? at long last?

Now I'm getting spams that seem to promise pornography, but they turn out to be crap solicitations for worthless products and bogus loans. What a world, what a world.

aha!

Two problems solved today, in the mp3 arena (sound of both readers switching to something else): My mp3s of "Forbidden Zone," as you may recall, not only wouldn't play in order in the "all files" view, but it wouldn't play one track at all in the "Album" view. See, the unit has its own playlists, based on Album, Artist, Title, Album/Artist, and Genre. Genre is kind of wacky -- it thinks most classical music falls under "blues." Some recordings don't show up at all in these lists, for reasons I don't comprehend yet. That's Track 7, which is the one I added of "Pico and Sepulveda" off the Dr. Demento show. Not with him talking over it, but just the song. Okay. Breathe.

Today I moved on to plan F, more or less. I copied the whole folder onto my laptop and erased it from the player, and then I copied the tracks back into a new folder (I don't know if the new folder was essential, but it was quick enough to do and it seemed like it couldn't hurt) one by one, in order. Success! It plays in order in All Files view. Double success! It plays all the tracks (in order) in Album view as well. Happy day.

While I was at it, I also took some things out of folders. When setting up the system, I was putting many multi-movement pieces into their own folders. This let me give the whole piece a fairly detailed name and still give the movements their individual titles. The Rio player would go through them folder by folder, but the Lyra will play one folder and then stop and turn itself off if I don't get to it within a half a minute or so and tell it what to do next. So, I've been dumping more things into common folders lately, so I can listen to an album instead of two or three short tracks.

The stuff you learn. What a world.