That's Maricopa County Animal Care and Control to you.

Sorry for a half-cocked post. I'll figure out how to center this thing and work out the other kinks. Whatever.












Also, I left off the promised picture of me looking dumb. Maybe another day.

Joe, you're in luck. My printer just arrived in the mail, in time to scan this lovely family photo featuring Miss Bee. The colors seem a little darker, but you get the main ideas.

So I've undertaken the giant and thankless task of properly tagging and organizing my iTunes library. I started with my "R & B/Funk" genre first, all 958 songs worth (none of this includes the 50+ GB on my external hard drive). After three weeks I'm into the artists beginning with S (caveat 2: I'm not listening to each individual song by artists whose entire albums I have, just singles, 7" records, B sides, the occasional re-pressed 12", etc.). As I've gone along, I've been making modern day mix tapes, going by alphabetical order.

Going under the pseudonym of "Pickle", I'm releasing a four volume set of mixes available to the general public for the right price: a friendly comment if you actually download and listen to the damn thing.

For "Pickled Soul, Volume 1: A-F", I have used a MacFUSE-based application called iTunesFS to easily create a Finder folder of all my iTunes playlists, and used the generic Mac OS X "archive" function to create a ZIP file of my playlist.

All you should need to do is click to download the zip file and unpack it (email me if you have questions).

Anyways, here is the ZIP file.

Tracklisting (which will appear just like this if you use iTunes):

A nice soulful mix of old R & B, doo wop, soul, and funky jams from back in the day. Enjoy!

Trying something new today: here's a Google Docs presentation of the pictures we took today. It should be pretty straightforward: click on the right-pointing button to go to the next slide.

Comments:

I was on the phone with Grandma Venita while walking the Shar pei mix; only one (bad) picture.

And how cute is that little dachshund?

And it's a doozy: fresh mozzarella, seasoned, with basil leaves and tomato paste. We were going to put alfalfa sprouts on too, but forgot. Oh, and that's whole wheat French bread.

Complete. Wow. I am absolutely on the edge of my seat for season 2. This is great stuff.

Who shot Cooper??

On Route 66. Now we're home and regularly scheduled blogging at random should resume soonly. Look for new apartment pictures soon, shot with our new Canon Powershot.

Also, in honor of the Iowa Caucus events, I'm re-posting a Russell Roberts quote that should be remembered whenever you get too giddy about a candidate:

Don't expect pigs to fly, cats to bark or politicians to act as if they care about us. They care about us if it helps them prosper. If it doesn't, they care about more important influences.