I just went to get some lightbulbs for work.  What's on the radio?  Aerosmith's cover of "Come Together."  Steven Tyler should not do anything, ever. Why he thinks every verse should end in a squeal I'll never know.

Anyway, we've moved some plans around and maybe even though we're not gonna be in Henderson for the full New Years' Weekend, we might manage the Eve and Day.

On that note: Justin, Rob, when are you going up?  We could carpool for xtreme savings.

P.S.
[15:19] Leah Shull: so we wouldn't have to do this
[15:19] allen.shull@gmail.com/Meebo: yeah
[15:19] Leah Shull: *growl growl grumble*
[15:19] allen.shull@gmail.com/Meebo: grr grr grr
[15:19] allen.shull@gmail.com/Meebo: lol
[15:19] Leah Shull:
[15:19] allen.shull@gmail.com/Meebo: we're so cute together
[15:19] Leah Shull: indeed

A few days ago I went Xmas shopping and had to endure both Disturb's cover of Genesis' "Land of Confusion" and Guns 'n Roses' cover of "Live and Let Die."  Both are horrible covers of horrible original songs. Both are tired and worn and bothersome. Both are stuck in my head.  Seriously, the mind is mean sometimes.

I downloaded the complete audiobook for John Hodgman's Areas of My Expertise recently, because it was free on iTunes.  It still may be, and if it is, is worth the download.  I haven't listened to it yet, but judging by everything else I've heard by him, and from leafing through the book at the store, I can say that it will be 6+ hours of mirth.

Leah and I had fun talking with Jeremy Marshall last night.  Message to Jeremy: You are indeed cool. (The "indeed" makes you cooler)

Also, I'm afraid we're not going to the Montague's New Years Bash And Stuff.  It's sad, but plans that were dependencies on our attendance have changed, and subsequently so has our attendance status.  Wow did that sound like a legal form or what?

SIGH

Okay, simultaneously it seems--but only because I'm realizing it all at once, not because it happens this way for others--I'm adding people to my LJ friends and I'm moving away from LJ in one of the things I've always praised it for, RSS reading. Please don't get me wrong--I still love LJ and find it the best way to read what my real actual people friends have written.  But I also read a lot of news, and LJ has been great at putting that news right there alongside/inbetween/whateverpreposition my friends' posts. But now I'm really digging on Google Reader, which productivity blog Lifehacker has recommended. It is really great at RSS reading, and I'm replacing both my LJ RSS news feeds and my home-computer Sage Firefox extension with Google Reader now. It works across computers, it lets me know which stories I've already read, and it integrates incredibly easily thru a Firefox extension.

And today, immediately after I switched--actually while I'm switching because I haven't yet implemented all this at home--I find by logging into LJ to remove some news feeds that New People Have Added Me!  Excitement abounds. Hello, libbieteach, layrenelement, crazedmonkeybot, fhujray, and timecrash (I don't know who you are, but may I say based on your Likes, "I like the cut of your jib"). To those people I didn't add: Do you still update/check/notice your LJs? Leave me a note and I'll add you.

But in essence these two things happening at once is inevitable because I do a) a lot of stuff online, and keep an online presence, and b) am really lazy about updating everything constantly because let's face it it's boring.  Yes.

But that's my post for the day. I'll try and keep it up.

Leah and I are going to the theater tonight to see Nightmare Before Christmas 3D and I'm really jazzed about it.  Maybe I'll see JT and Rob there afterwards, when they're heading in to see Bat Out of Hell 3 for the one show it's playing.

Nathanael: I am also jazzed about you being here in HSV. We need to get together and do something.  Do you know Rob and JT?  They're cool guys and we should all hang out. I hung out with Spike last trip to Henderson and my decision: hanging out with good friends you haven't seen in a while ROX.

I think sometime I will list my past favorite Beatles songs, because the top favorite changes so often. Just today, in fact, "Long, Long, Long" bumped out "Mother Nature's Son." Isn't "Long, Long, Long" the exact predecessor to all indie rock? Just a thought.

I finally got caught up on Narbonic. Eric Burns is right, it is flabbergastingly amazing. Everybody on my friends list: You should read it. It's cute and epic, it's heartwarming and heartwrenching, it's smart and silly, it's hilarious and sad. It's...  well, it's the story of a mad scientist and her underlings, experiments, underling/experiments, and a lot of maniacal laughter and nigh-world domination. And gerbils.  Trust me on this one.

Theater job's up and going well. My first full real work day was yesterday 1-8, and it went amazingly fast.  I didn't even take a real break, aside from watching the last 10 minutes of United 93 (aka the Real Interesting Part) between starts.  The job just went really really fast; measuring time in five minute increments means that there are only twelve increments per hour, and then there are a lot of times that I've got ten or fifteen minutes between starts so there's two or three increments right there. Too bad my shift ended after my alotted Free Movie time, which is from Sunday 6pm to Friday 6pm, or else I would have seen--I dunno--MI3 or something.  There's nothing I really want to see out right now.  Maybe American Haunting, because it's about the Bell Witch, which makes me recall my friend Clifton's wonderful The Bell's Witch Project from High School.

It's funny that I call him "my friend Clifton" instead of "Clifton". That's because, even though he has a livejournal, he never checks it. His last post is December 12, 2004.  Yeah.  I would complain about him never being on AIM, either, but neither am I now.  Of course, I'm never on because I'm only on the internet twice a week or so, and when I am I'm on a sloooow computer that could use the RAM required for IM somewhere else and he's on a broadband connection all the time.

Anyway.  I'm sure this will coax him out.  I hung out with Rylan and his wife whose name I can't spell (Sheree?), and he asked me how Clifton was doing.  "I have no idea," I said. "I haven't talked to him for a couple of months."  Oh well. Clifton, if you read this, how are you?  What's going on?  Post once and a while!  I'm not posting like I used to, but I still do.  And don't worry about summing up lost time.  Just jump in to it.

[04/06::09:35] Akhenaten: SECRET PLAN X
[04/06::09:35] Akhenaten: help me get will more interested in medieval history
[04/06::09:36] troglodyteroi: hehe
[04/06::09:36] troglodyteroi: Uhm . . . yes, this is a worthy goal . . . but how?
[04/06::09:37] Akhenaten: yeah...
[04/06::09:37] Akhenaten: first, i guess, is subtly getting him more into rome and less into greece
[04/06::09:37] Akhenaten: and then to focus on how much in medieval europe depended on rome
[04/06::09:38] Akhenaten: ooooooooooooooooor
[04/06::09:38] Akhenaten: he could keep greece
[04/06::09:38] Akhenaten: and focus on medieval arabia (!)
[04/06::09:38] troglodyteroi: Ooh, right.
[04/06::09:38] Akhenaten: 'cuz they never lost plato and aristotle
[04/06::09:38] troglodyteroi: *nods*
[04/06::09:38] troglodyteroi: Well, and then there are the scholastics and their love of The Philosopher.
[04/06::09:39] Akhenaten: yup
[04/06::09:39] Akhenaten: ooh and alchemy!
[04/06::09:39] troglodyteroi: Ooh, right!
[04/06::09:40] Akhenaten: maybe judaic/arabic mysticism
[04/06::09:40] troglodyteroi: And of course, Greece could lead into the late Byzantine stuff.
[04/06::09:40] Akhenaten: yup
[04/06::09:41] Akhenaten: hooray for the church of the east!
[04/06::09:41] troglodyteroi: *nods*
[04/06::09:42] troglodyteroi: And you could get him back to Rome and the West with the conflicts between the Byzantines and the Popes - the attempts to reconquer the west, the bringing in of barbarian tribes, the mutual excommunications . . .
[04/06::09:42] Akhenaten: maybe i'll just post this chatlog to LJ
[04/06::09:42] troglodyteroi: hehe
[04/06::09:42] troglodyteroi: Do.