Today, I’m at Borders. This free Wi-Fi is the best I’ve ever experienced. Consider me impressed. Can’t find a power outlet to save my life, but my battery is charged, so for today, management will be spared my tirade (and patrons will be spared my 100-ft orange extension chord)
In a stark contrast to the next part of this blog entry, South Park premiers tonight. “Ike Has a Secret”. Hard to believe South Park‘s been on for over a decade. If I could embed the video preview, I would, but I can’t, so click here.
The Verve Pipe (remember the song “Freshman”?) reunited and released this children’s CD. Click the link. You can listen/stream the entire CD. Me? I kinda like it. I really have to convince myself this emo-angst-ridden Gen X group, and their lead singer, Brian Vanderark, are truly capable of being this upbeat. But once I’m sold on that, I’m buying the CD.
This morning was nice. I shined shoes and taught my 5-year-old son to shine his shoes. I let my 6-year-old daughter do my hair. Both did great jobs. The boy used a sock, some polish, and worked the leather real nice. Then he buffed and shined them with expert form and precision. The girl took a little Aveda molding mud in her palm, rubbed her hands together, and then deftly sculpted my coif even better than I do it myself.
Either this was just a sweet, beautiful bonding moment between me and my two children, or I’ve discovered something each has an aptitude for and they may never aspire to anything greater. What if, right?
Oh, and my workout-slash-running song of the day* is “Meant to Live” by Switchfoot. They don’t allow embedding of the song (which is crap), but add it to your workout mix, y’all. Check out the lyrics!
Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he’s bent for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live insideDreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we’ve been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we’re bent and broken, broken[Chorus]
We want more than this world’s got to offer
We want more than this world’s got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life, yeahWe were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live
* all “songs of the day” are intended to be played and enjoyed at very high volume
