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Have I mentioned that I love Thinkgeek? Here are five cool things that illustrate what I’m talking about.

1. SurvivalStraps Survival Bracelet – I really want one of these.

2. Bag of Holding – I could use a new messenger bag.

3. DaysAgo Refrigerator Timer – Dead useful.

4. Ultimate Survival Kit in a Water Bottle and Survival Kit in a Sardine Can – Aren’t these cool?

5. Plush Sushi – Too cute!

By Popular Request (mostly from my Mum), here is a list of 13 things that Koshvader would like for Xmas.

1. Dremel Stylus™ / Model: 1100

2. Samsung SyncMaster T260HD Monitor

3. Unabridged Richard Scarry Books

4. Star Trek (Blue Ray)

5. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Blue Ray)

6. Slippers (size 8 1/2)

7. Spice Grinder

8. Dremel Router table

9. X-Files Season 9

10. Remington Steele Season 3

11. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume 2

12. Venture Brothers Season 3

13. Foredom TX300 Flex Shaft System

My Mum has been bugging me for a proper list for Christmas…so here it is.

1. Supernatural – Seasons 2-4
2. Bones Season 2 & 4
3. Doctor Who – The Dalek Invasion of Earth
4. Celtic Wonder Tales by Ella Young
5. A Yoga Ball
6. The Muppet Show Seasons 1-3
7. Converse size 6 Womens/4 mens
8. ipod touch
9. A Mac Mini
10. A Digital Video Camera
11. Supernatural: The Official Companion – Season 1 (and 2 & 3)
12. The Order of Things: Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders
13. Silk long underwear/cuddle duds/thermals (something along these lines.)

Well, it’s my birthday on Sunday and folk have been asking me what the heck I want. So…here’s a quick list of five to answer that question:

1. Clothes:Size 6 Converse (non-high top), Levi’s 501s 32/29, pretty tops
2. iTunes Gift Cards: Any denomination
3. Supernatural Season 2 DVD set
4. A video camera
5. Some spa thingy: manicure, pedicure, facial, etc.

Wow! It has certainly been a while since I looked at my 101 Things in 1001 Days list.

11. Go out drinking with my sister. (done! May ‘09) – We tried out the pub near her place together. It wasn’t too bad, but it was a bit…loud while we were there.

17. Go to church. (done! for a few months in early ‘09) – I need to start that up again, actually…

26. Learn how to Podcast. (done! 4/7/09) – In fact, I should be working on the next one instead of typing this.

43. Get rid of the Health Rider. (done! early ‘09) – And it is so nice to have that corner empty.

47. Put the wall hanging on the wall. (done! early ‘09) – My room looks much better.

48. Replace my missing work shoes. (done! 10/08) – Have I mentioned that it’s been a while since I updated this?

54. Read The Summer of Cotton Candy by Debbie Viguie (done! 2/09) – I’ve actually read it a couple of times by now.

63. Back up watchingdrwho.com (done! 4/09) – Ironically, I did this so that I could quit writing for said blog.

71. Pay off the Alienware computer. (done! early ‘09) – (happy dance!)

72. Pay off my computer. (done! early ‘09) – (happy dance part deux)

87. Try a new craft. (done! Button bracelets are cool.) – Come to think of it, I need to work on my Crafty blog, too.

92. Go to Gallifrey One #20. (done! 2/14/09) – This event included the drive home from hell.

Well, there you go. Actually, I’m pretty sure I’ve completed a few more items, but I need to work on the remembering thing. For example, I know that I’ve tried several new restaurants lately. How are your lists going?

Hello all. I’m back with another mixtape to share with you. This one has a bit of a history behind it. I created Muse-Aid so that I could keep a few of my favorite songs back at a time when I had no money and I needed to sell my CD collection. Strangely, I have never gone back and re-purchased most of these CDs. (Only the Metallica one. I didn’t manage to sell the En Vogue one for some reason.) I need to add the Kate Bush CDs to my want list. I really miss those.

Yes, I’m still home sick. It’s really annoying. I’m home so I want to get things done, but I don’t really feel like moving around too much. Ah well. At least I finished another playlist.

The songs as they appeared on my mixtape: Muse-Aid
1. Layla – Eric Clapton (located)
2. Cloudbusting – Kate Bush (located)
3. Breathing – Kate Bush (located)
4. Experiment IV – Kate Bush (located)
5. Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce (located)
6. Roller Derby Queen – Jim Croce (located)
7. Nothing Else Matters – Metallica (located)
8. Lily – Kate Bush (youtube…if you’re interested.)
9. The Red Shoes – Kate Bush (located)
10. Top of the City – Kate Bush (youtube don’t bother watching, just listen.)
11. Rubberband Girl – Kate Bush (located)
12. My Lovin’ – En Vogue (located)
13. Free Your Mind – En Vogue (located)
14. A Little Fall of Rain – Les Miserables (located…sort of)

The Located Songs Playlist for Muse-Aid:

(image copyright…me)

So, I mentioned mixtapes a while back, and my plans to recreate them in a more modern version, right?

Well…dig this. It’s not all of the songs…but it’s darn close.

The songs as they appeared on my mixtape: Left of Center
1. Crucify – Tori Amos (located)
2. You Didn’t Know Me When – Harry Connick Jr. (located)
3. Killing an Arab – The Cure (located)
4. New Moon on Monday – Duran Duran (located)
5. Broadsword – Jethro Tull (located)
6. From One Jesus to Another – The Mission U.K. (youtube…but you should just listen and not watch)
7. I Wanna Be Free – Monkees (youtube)
8. Left of Center – Suzanne Vega (located)
9. Killer Queen – Queen (located)
10. The Different Story – Peter Schilling (youtube)
11. Something Fast – Sisters of Mercy (located)
12. Naked Rain – This Picture (youtube)
13. Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2 (located)
14. The Gap – Thompson Twins (youtube)
15. Too Sexy – Right Said Fred (located)
16. Cry Wolf – A-ha (youtube)
17. Man of Colors – Icehouse (youtube)
18. Kingdom of Rain – The The (located)
19. Freedom Deep – INXS (youtube)
20. Here I Go – Rein? (I can’t read my handwriting there)
21. Black Mountain Mist – Mission UK (youtube)
22. I Will Be You – Pseudo Echo (youtube)
23. Idaho – Sunscreem (can’t seem to find this one)
24. Suave and Sophis. – N.A.D. (I’m not sure what I meant here) (Edit: Suave and Suffocated by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin! Thanks, Debbie!)
25. Heartbreak Kid – Icehouse (Can’t find it.)

The Playlist (of songs that I found):

Okay. Now, on to something a bit more uplifting.

I’ve been slowly working on my 101 things list. (You can find my list on the Notes page, should you wish to peruse it.) Amazing, no? Let’s see what I’ve managed to do…

2. Go to the Chabot and write it up. (I’ve been to the Chabot. Now I just need to write it up.)
3. Go to the Pez Museum and write it up – done!
15. Do the “Day of C” with my Husband. (done!)
29. Get that gorram test done. (done!)
57. Go through (and type up if needed) 5 notebooks (2 down, three to go.)
62. Finish copying posts from thebookstacks.com (done!)
70. Pay off the camera. (done!)
81. Try 5 new kinds of tea. (3 down, two to go.)
88. See five plays. (3 down, two to go)

And there you go. Apparently I haven’t been the huge slacker I thought I was.

Somewhere on my 101 Things list I have stipulated that I must go through five of my notebooks. This evening, I grabbed one from the middle of the Great Stack of Notebooks ™ and I thought that I’d share some excerpts with you. as you can see in the picture above, this notebook appears to date from some point during or right after my first stint at college. Well, during my time at UCD, in any case. The inside cover actually says “Philosophy 108.” I’m thinking that means The Philosophy of Biology, a class that I took for a random science credit after discovering that something was hinkey with my transfer agreement. (I transferred from a Junior college to UCD. Somehow…things got screwed up.)

For the record, I hated The Philosophy of Biology. It was boring. The prof. had never heard of a Punit Square for Heaven’s sake! I would have been better off taking Botany. That would have at least been interesting and full of Latin words.

No…I’m not still annoyed or anything. Well, all of the class notes seem to be gone, so let’s see what’s there instead.

(Oh, and just in case you don’t believe me on the huge stack of Notebooks, please see Exhibit B below. That doesn’t include the couple of boxes full I have, too. In case you were wondering, that bag is my gaming bag. Role Playing Games. You know. Like D&D. My dice live in the tin on the left hand stack. Hush. You already knew I was a geek.)

Apparently the first three pages are a Want List, just like I have here on the blog.

10 Items on the Want list from the mid-90s:

• L.A. Coroner Beach Towel (teal) (Yes. Seriously. And I still don’t have it. Pout.)
• Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes CD (I’m not sure what happened to that…)
• Green Acrylic Paint (I’ve taken drawing and painting. One semester each in High School. Am I any good? Heck no. I still have that paint somewhere.)
• A Ball Gown (No idea why I wanted one of these back then. I sort of have one now…)
• Back scrubber (Hm…still don’t have one.)
• Doctor Who videotapes (…and now I’m trying to get all of the shiny new DVDs to replace them.)
• Friends of Doctor Who Membership (And now I get paid to blog about Doctor Who.)
• A Metal filing cabinet (Check!)
• 80s Compilation CDs (Well…I have one.)
• The Other Crow Soundtrack CD (My brother has it, but I never did get it.)

It would seem that my tastes haven’t changed too much…

My battle with the audiocassettes continues. I’ve actually managed to get rid of quite a few of them so far, but they were mostly old mix tapes. So, to further my cause, I have decided to set myself a task. That is to post the items I need to replace here (so that you can be amused by my collection) and state why the heck I’m holding on to these until I’ve replaced them. Here is the first part of my challenge response, as it were.

I’ve mentioned that I have eclectic taste in music before, yes?

Right.

Patrick Ball – Celtic Harp 3: Secret Isles I purchased this cassette back in 1987 on my first school trip to Ashland, OR. This is not the reason that I’ve held on to it for…21 years, though. (21 years!!! This tape is now old enough to drink. Egad.) The truth is, I adore Celtic Harp music. Perhaps someday I’ll get myself some harp lessons…and a harp. Now that I think of it…I know a harp maker. Well, I know his son.

The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail I’ve no idea when or where I acquired this one. I do know that I’ve had it quite a while, though. I’ve actually answered a reference question using the information lodged in my brain from the skit with the “Professional Logician.” Someone came to me looking for the definition of a “Universal Affirmative.” It’s true what they say about my profession. Everything you know will come in handy. I’m holding onto this tape because it’s frickin’ hilarious. It’s not just a soundtrack. It also contains skits related to the film. Too fun.

The Beloved – Happiness I remember quite well how I came by this tape. I was borrowing it from a friend back in 1990/91 sometime, and my tape deck tried to eat the tape. I bought him a new copy, and kept the old one as the tape deck behaved itself henceforth. I am keeping this tape for the songs “Hello,” Time After Time,” and “The Sun Rising.” I like the other songs, but these three are my favorites. (To watch the slightly bizarre American version of the music video for “Time After Time” go here. Doesn’t he have interesting eyes?)

The NeverEnding Story Soundtrack It seems to me that I’ve had this soundtrack since the film came out, way back when. No, it’s not just Limahl’s title song or my love of the film itself that makes me hold onto this tape. I do particularly enjoy the “Moonchild” song.

Queen – Classic Queen I’m not sure when or where I picked up this album, but I’m a huge fan of Queen, so its existence in my collection shouldn’t be too surprising. This particular album has a few of the songs from Highlander on it, Bohemian Rhapsody (Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?), and Radio Ga Ga among others. I adore this album. (Witness the glory of Queen! Try the Bohemian Rhapsody video. I will forever be grateful to Wayne’s World for getting this song back on the radio. Also, here’s the video for Radio Ga Ga. The Show Must Go On will now always remind me of Moulin Rouge. Sniffle.)

Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstacy I know that I had this tape the during the Summer I spent working and living in Yosemite, as I listened to it almost constantly. Really, I would be hard-pressed to choose a favorite song off of this album. I’m thinking that “Mary” is my least favorite if that helps at all. Mmmmm… “I looked into your eyes. They told me plenty I already knew…” (Check out the video for Possession. This song will always make me think of Due South.)

Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy This album is best known for “Werewolves of London.” But, have you ever heard “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” or “Nighttime in the Switching Yard”? I know that I’ve had this tape since right after high school sometime. One of my friends introduced me to Warren Zevon using this album, and I had to own a copy of my very own. This tape is, in and of itself, an eclectic mix of song subjects. I guess that Warren is just random that way. (Warren did Roland the Headless Thompson Gunnar on the Dave Letterman Show.)

johnny hates JAZZ – Turn Back the Clock My tape actually has a typo on the paper sleeve thing. “I don’t want to be a hero” becomes “I don’t What to be a hero.” I remember buying this tape at Tower Records in Citrus Heights not that long after it came out, so that would make it ‘88 or ‘89. I can’t read the titles off of the tape without hearing a bit of the songs in my head at this point. I like side one more than side two, come to think of it. (Want to watch some videos from this album? Try Shattered Dreams and Turn Back the Clock.