What Is Your Problem?: March Madness!

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Saturday March 15, 2014 · 3:10 PM PDT

2014/03/15 · 15:10

Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons, packed up & ready to go
Heard of some gravesites, out by the highway
A place where nobody knows
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, I`m getting used to it now
Lived in a brownstone now, lived in the ghetto
I’ve lived all over this town

This ain`t no party, this ain`t no disco, this ain`t no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain`t got time for that now

Transmit the message, to the receiver, hope for an answer someday
I got 3 passports, a couple of Visas, U don’t even know my real name
High on a hillside, the trucks are loading, everything’s ready to roll
Ah ha ha, I sleep in the daytime, I work in the nighttime
I might not ever get home

This ain`t no party, this ain`t no disco, this ain`t no fooling around
This ain`t no mudd club, or C.B.G.B., I ain`t got time for that now
Yeah! Woo!

This ain`t no party, this ain`t no disco, this ain`t no fooling around
No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain`t got time for that now
Whoo!

Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit?
Heard about Pittsburgh, PA?
“You Oughta Know” not to stand by the window
Somebody might see you up there
I got some groceries, some peanut butter to last a couple of days
But I ain`t got no speakers, ain`t got no headphones
Ain`t got no records to play

Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time

Can’t write a letter, I can’t send a postcard, I can`t write nothing at all
This ain`t no party, this ain`t no disco, this ain`t no fooling around
I’d love you hold you, I’d love to kiss you
But I ain`t got no time for that now (whoo!)

Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock
We blended with the crowd
We got computers we’re tappin’ phone lines I know that ain’t allowed

We dress like students; we dress like housewives or in a suit and a tie
I changed my hairstyle, so many times now,
I don’t know what I look like!

You make me shiver, I feel so tender, we make a pretty good team
Don’t get exhausted, I’ll do some driving U ought to get U some sleep
Burned all my notebooks, what good are notebooks?
They won’t help me survive

My chest is aching, and it burns like a furnace
The burning keeps me aliive

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Saturday March 08, 2014 · 3:00 PM PST

2014/03/08 · 15:00

dst photo imagesqtbnANd9GcTFLoa01_4oYxnUAWSW__zps54be39ed.jpg Love, or hate it, Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins at 2 AM on Sunday March 9, when the clocks on the US, Canada and most European countries jumps ahead one hour and everyone loses an hour of precious Sunday morning sleep. Damn, that's tonight!

Why do we do this? To understand that question, we have to look at the history of DST which began, not fooling, in ancient Rome. BTW, it has nothing much to do with farmers, except that they hate it.

Although not punctual in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than modern DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of day length, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer. For example, Roman water clocks had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome's latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.

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Saturday March 01, 2014 · 4:05 PM PST

2014/03/01 · 16:05

I, like most folks, have lots of problems, but man the one that's getting to me for the past couple weeks is Mother Nature's seeming intoxication.

As you know, much of the country has had a brutal winter, what with the drunk Arctic and all. Southeast Louisiana has been no exception.

Down here on the bayou, we generally have very mild winters; it was one of the draws for me when moving here. We have an average high of 61-65F and average low of 38-41F for the months of January and February and we usually have maybe 2-3 instances of hard freeze per winter, which last only a day - two at the most. This winter - whoa - not so much.

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under a lot of snow

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praying for rain

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wishing i was hanging with Mother at the CC B&G

6 votes

weather pie!

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Saturday February 22, 2014 · 3:04 PM PST

2014/02/22 · 15:04

I have, in case you haven't noticed, a certain minor problem with insomnia that becomes particularly acute at this time of year when the light is short and changing fast, the weather sucks, and my schedule is stressful.

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Saturday February 15, 2014 · 3:05 PM PST

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