This video clip is kinda special for my family. Our daughter, Lydia, really likes it. I’m sure you’ll see why. 
It probably violates copyright of some sort, but for reference sake, it’s The Muppet Show, Season 1, Episode 2.
Enjoy!
Archive for June, 2007
Lydia, Oh, Lydia
Jun 29
Don’t Judge Me
Jun 29
Have you ever been looking through a box of pictures, or in my case a pile of hard drives, and found a picture that you don’t remember? Yeah, me too. Here’s proof.
I have no idea where this is from, but I found it on an old hard drive in my office. Apparently it was from a time that I was so happy to finally have facial hair, I was reluctant to shave it off. And no, that doesn’t mean it was last week. I’ve had to shave at least every other day since I turned 30, thank you very much.
Yay for late bloomers!
No Windows?
Jun 28
I just discovered that my website doesn’t render right under Internet Explorer… How odd!
I’m starting to get enough traffic that perhaps hosting from my home DSL line isn’t really the wisest move anymore. Perhaps I’ll run to blogger or something, now that they have well done domain interaction.
Did you know you can point your domain name to blogger, and they’ll host everything for you? It’s pretty cool. I do love WordPress, though, so I dunno, maybe I’ll just change to a theme that is Windows friendly.
Podcasts?
Jun 26
I Think I’ll start doing podcasts occationally. They were fun.
Keyboards
Jun 26
John Scalzi has some good advice today on his website, and it caused me to look at my own keyboard. My lovely children are the worst offenders, but it still amazes me this keyboard still works without any problems.
Guitar
Jun 25
I play guitar. Well, I want to play guitar. I’ve been learning for probably 20 years, but when it comes to actually playing a song, something doesn’t click in my brain.
Oh, I admit that I haven’t practiced as much lately as I should, but honestly, practice starts to feel futile when you can’t seem to strum out a simple 2 chord song. My problem has to do with rhythm and strumming. For some reason, unless I force myself to mechanically strum the strings “UP DOWN UP DOWN UP DOWN” forever, I lose myself in the rhythm, and awkwardly try to catch up or something. Oh, and if I do just strum up and down, it sounds horribly mechanical and awkward.
To try putting the problem I have into words — it seems like my brain/fingers are attempting to strum every syllable, or at least every word. I know it’s not as hard as I’m making it out to be, but the inability to comfortably play even ONE song does make practice frustrating.
I recently (at Bair Lake) watched the guitar leader play a million songs, and never change his strumming pattern. He changed chords SLOWER than I usually do, and sounded infinitely less awkward in doing so. I’m not sure what I’m doing, or why I’m doing it — but it’s really to the point that practice is not fun, and any singing attempts are usually cause for quitting altogether. We won’t even talk about playing with someone else, much less lead other people in singing.
So anyway, there’s my 2AM, can’t sleep, whining complaint-fest.
Back!!!
Jun 24
Hi everyone! I’m back. I’m tired, but I’m back. I have a terrible headache, but I’m back. My nose is running like a faucet, but I’m back. I miss my wife and oldest daughter (they stayed for another week), but I’m back.
So far, being back kinda sucks…
Hope you are all doing well. I look forward to catching up on blogs, etc. in the next few days.
