Dorie’s Different Reality

Another technological leap! Netflix offers a “Watch Now” service and I finally used it. Watched the first two episodes of the “new” Doctor Who on the computer. I sat in the computer desk chair working on the sock I just started. Pretty cool. Our monitor is about five years old, and it’s probably obsolete. But it’s the one we have for now even if I do hope we’ll get one of those big flat screen jobbies someday! For Internetting and now video watching apparently.
I see the day coming when “The TV” will be gone. We’ll just have a big screen that will do all sorts of things- movies, computing, video games, etc. Lots of the networks stream programs online these days. So do a lot of the radio stations. (I really enjoy that-no more crappy radio reception!) Just as long as those communication satellites are up there blinking away to beam the signals down to us.

Speaking of satellites, Did you know that there is an Engineer’s Hymn? It’s called “God of Concrete, God of Steel” I learned about it from one of our Scottish ministers years ago. I bring it up because I can’t think of another song that mentions satellites, (unless you count “Telstar” which was instrumental anyhow) If you’d like to hear it, here’s a link to an mp3 of it: http://www.godofconcrete.org/god-of-concrete.mp3

Hillary Clinton Has Found a Signature Color: I’m just observing.Nancy Reagan had her vivid red. Barbara Bush wore her royal blue. Laura Bush seems to wear earth tones a lot. A couple of months ago, a journalist observed that Hillary’s people needed to find ways to soften her image- black, navy & charcoal power suits being so 80’s! Lately she’s wearing turquoise fairly often. Not a bad choice at that. It’s vivid, but not considered a girly color. Suits her coloring. I noticed she was wearing it again last night.

Passing of Al Wilson. I heard about this yesterday. He was 68. * His sound was soulful and big band at the same time; kind of like Blood, Sweat & Tears. His big hit was “Show and Tell” in 1973. “Whoa whoa, Show and Tell, is just a game I play…when I want to say I love you (I love you)” Some years before that he recorded one of my all-time favorite songs, “The Snake”. I’ve read more than one book about Co-Dependency. Oddly enough, this little song conveys the whole point - don’t be bringing home snakes! Here’s a link to the song on YouTube- this one is not so much a video, as it is a good recording on the song itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZBqpEUbik

* I was thinking about typing in R.I.P. but I can’t visualize Al Wilson sitting on a cloud, or pushing up daisies. I think I’m going to start saying R.O., for Rock On !

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