not lost, just not here

On Thursday afternoon I went hunting through my picture trunks (yes, I have two of them...plus assorted other cardboard boxes full of photos) in search of the shots I mentioned in my last post that I would post here at the end of the week. I was excited to see those shots of the private airplane tour over Mount St. Helens in September 1980 again. It has been a long time since I saw them, although the day is like a video in my mind. I had searched through one entire trunk-full of photos when it suddenly dawned on me that the shots taken that day by my then live-in boyfriend were slides! At first I panicked thinking they were lost, then I remembered where they are....in our storage unit, along with the carousel slide projector (hey, that was a state-of-the art gizmo a few decades ago).

Since the pictures are not lost but are in a state that will require the assistance of a photo shop to change them from slides to photos (I hope they can be transferred to a photo cd) I cannot at this time fulfill my promise to show them to you. I have in mind getting this project completed by September, when I will post them on the 30th anniversary of the day four people in a small plane very nearly crashed inside the crater of Mount St. Helens.........


I felt lost, just not all here, for most of what was a difficult week for me. Here is something that lightened things up and made me laugh. Our Sunday paper last week had a feature article about the University of Oregon's all-guy a cappella group, On the Rocks. The Statesman Journal article noted that:

The video someone shot of them three weeks ago at UO's Erb Memorial Union amphitheater, performing what has become their most popular routine, a mocking of pop star Lady Gaga's music video "Bad Romance," has been viewed more than 1.7 million times online. . .

That figure has now surpassed 3 million views, and counting. These guys are great!
[Note that I have also included the Lady Gaga video for comparison.]
I think On the Rocks just might get your weekend off to a good start.


On The Rocks sings Bad Romance by Lady Gaga . (Original Upload). On the Rocks is the University of Oregon's premiere all male a cappella ensemble.

photo via vi.sualize.us

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something i missed

Just terrific. Even with my best intentions to clear clutter, get organized, simplify my life (have you visited my other blog dedicated to that ideal?) I missed a biggie.

Over the weekend while transferring applicable information from last year's bill organizer to the new one I discovered in the 2008 November pocket a notice that my driver's license would expire on my birthday. Which was over two weeks ago. I've been driving illegally during that time, but now that I am aware of the situation I'm landlocked until I remedy the mess.

This wasn't altogether my fault as the folks at Daytimer, where, for years, I've ordered these nifty bill organizers made by Flavia, decided to not carry them in 2009. That caused me to touch base in mid-December last year with a kind Flavia representative who said that, because of the demand, they had run out of their supply and new ones were being published. So at the end of the year when I am usually organizing the thing for the new year I had to resort to a makeshift file for upcoming bills while I waited. The rep then emailed me saying that they'd found a stock of old ones in another warehouse and were selling these at a discount because on the inside flap the three-year calendar ended with 2007. The calendar being incidental, I ordered two!

Upon checking the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles website on Sunday I happily found that they don't make people retake the driving and book tests until a license has been expired for over a year. That worry gone, now all I have to do is gather together about every personal document I have to satisfy the new renewal requirements. At least they don't require a DNA smear. Yet.

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