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Everybody keeps talking about how hot it is. Today’s high is only 91. I’m still waiting for summer to start.

Thanks to the wonders that is Amazon, I managed to dig up the Cosmic Cowboy album from the Disco Saints.
And in response to as many as two requests, here’s Range in the Sky. It’s a disco hoedown, y’all!

I just went over to myspace and thought I’d leave comments on people’s pages. But I don’t have anything to say. So I didn’t say anything.
I can ramble here, though. It doesn’t matter if I don’t have anything to say.
I will say, though, that Martha and Rachel are cute.

But the nearest Bojangles’ is 28 miles away.

Okay, it’s been so long since I’ve posted that I had trouble remembering the CharmingGeek.net’s URL.

Screen on the Green has been great the past two weeks. I’m looking forward to more of that. It’s been a lot of fun dragging out all my friends from around the DC area to hang out on the Mall and watch movies. Last week’s movie, was great! It had aliens, giant robots, and politics. To make things even better, the entire alien invasion was set in Washington, DC. I loved watching they flying saucer pass over the Capitol viewed from a camera angle almost exactly where I was sitting.

People always ask me what kind of music I like. Not because people are particularly interested in me. It’s just a question that people ask. Well, when I’m asked that, I usually say something vague like, “You know, whatever.” Thanks to Pandora Internet Radio, I can now answer that question, “I like Christ-centered music with a subtle use of vocal harmony, meandering melodic phrasing, mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation, extensive vamping, and an emotional male lead vocal performance.” I think I also like folk influences and major key tonality. Pandora is my new personal DJ.
Pandora is based on something called The Music Genome Project, classifying songs based on hundreds of musical attributes. You then go over to Pandora.com and put in the name of a song or a band that you like, and it will create a radio station just for you based on the attributes of the song or band you entered. As Pandora continues to suggest songs it thinks you’ll like, you can say “I like it” or “I don’t like it” and the musical playlist will be automatically adjusted to fit your more specific tastes! Of course, you could have found most of this out from just reading the Pandora FAQ.
If you haven’t tried Pandora yet, give it a try.
Here’s one of my favorite stations.

So, many of you know that I’m looking for a new place to live. It’s that time again, so I’m looking for a cheap place to stay.
Here’s the best I’ve found today:
Mobile home for rent in DC

Because they came from afar!

You might need a little southern in you to get that one.

So today, I thought it would feel good to go run six miles. I was wrong.

I’m trying to squeeze this one in while it’s still today.
I just got back from the National Mall. I can’t think of a better place to spend Independence Day than in the nation’s capital. Last year I was in the original Washington for a great down-home celebration. The year before that, (or was it the year before?) I was in New York, perhaps the city that best represents America’s diversity and initiative.
However, this year, I stood on the grounds of the Capitol as I listened to the National Symphony Orchestra and watched fireworks explode over the Washington Monument. I stood in a crowd of over 400,000 people waving American Flags and dancing to music provided by Stevie Wonder as part of the Capitol Fourth celebration.
And now that I’m home, I watched the video of today’s successful liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery.
Oh, and did I mention that they have instant cheese grits at the newly remodeled Kingstowne Giant? It’s been a good day.