"Rainy Day People" by Gordon Lightfoot

We had another aftershock last night.  I was worried about bricks falling on CeCe

So I parked her on the other side of the driveway, which is sunk down and the car was tilted 

I loved the way the raindrops ran off the freshly waxed hood

I finished painting the Trans Pride flag on the passenger doors last night

These 4.2 aftershocks are pretty nasty!  Every time one happens I wonder if this is going the "The Big One".  Like is one of the aftershocks going to trigger the Wasatch Fault?

Gotta love Gordon Lightfoot!  So many great songs!!!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phcDgM2Mazk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdhRhGX3AG4
YouTube (vinyl): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBV-glyM1UY

"Green Grass" by Gary Lewis & the Playboys

Marks left in the green stripe by masking before the paint had completely dried

I got in a rush to paint the yellow stripe and it hadn't occurred to me that the green paint had not had time to dry completely.  So it left tape marks in all the places the arrows point and fine ridges in the paint all around the yellow stripe.  And they looked even worse after I waxed the hood.

I was really dreading having to repaint the green stripe, so yesterday I thought maybe I could sand the ridges and marks out and make it look better.  I got some 600 and 1500 sandpaper and gave it a try.

It's not easy being green

I put some wax on it today, if you look close you can kinda tell it's a little dull where I sanded, but it looks much better than it did with all those marks and ridges!

It turns out this is my 1300th published post in my Rachel's blog!  (I'm still filling in my older missing posts back to  September 2017.)   Added to the over 1,000 published posts in my old (before I transitioned) blog, that makes over 2,300 songs / posts.

Gary Lewis and the Playboys was one of my favorite bands when I was a kid.  As I mentioned in my post back on 5-Dec-2018 the first album I ever bought with my own money was their "This Diamond Ring" album.

This first video made me pretty nostalgic:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsWnwvD11s
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZYE1TIxGMA
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNOkISxemlk

I thought this was pretty funny:

SueZQ accidentally took this when I was showing her how to take a picture with my Android phone

"Here Comes Trouble" by 3 One Oh

Trying to figure out how to do the stripes on the trunk

I got frustrated, it felt like I had more trouble with the trackball and the editor

I'm obviously on the "every other day" plan.  I had a pretty good on Thursday.  Friday was bad.  Saturday pretty good.  Today was pretty nasty.  The weather app on my phone said it was almost 50 degrees (F), but every time I went outside it felt more like 30 degrees.  I suppose it could have been my body temperature was just screwed up.  It happens sometimes where I can't get warm, no matter what.  There have been times where I cranked the space heater in my room to 75 crawled under the covers and still felt like I was freezing.  MS, so many fun "features"!!

#FuckMS

I wanted to get the final pink stripe for the Trans flag painted on the passenger doors and start on the stripes on the trunk today, but between the cold and the gusty wind that didn't happen.  I sat inside for a while listening to  Talia Keys and The Love's "We're Here" CD and trying to make a bracket for the car stereo out of plumber's tape.

#Transgender

And just to add that final touch to my day, one of the birds (I suspect one of the crows) took the biggest dump on CeCe that I think I've ever seen.  I swear it was like 3 inches in diameter.  I thought I took a picture of it  I love the birdies, but I wish they would stop shitting on my car.  I've washed CeCe 3 times in the last few days.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVyvho6nwJo

Oh and lastly, the new battery I ordered for my LG G4 phone came on Easter Sunday... weird!!  SueZQ commented that at least they found a box big enough for it:

"Pieces of Clay" by Mae Moore

What you don't want to see looking out your front door

Found my old iPod Shuffle

I found my old iPod shuffle today.   After I charged it, this was the first song it played.  I was really surprised I never posted it, just love this song.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeOYYRScGsg

Oh yeah, we have no idea what was going on across the street.

"You Need a Man" by Loggins and Messina

BASF C60 Cassette - Type I

Track listing for my "Best of All #30" cassette

#BestOfAll

Some weeks ago a person messaged me on Facebook and asked if I was transgender.  Well YEAH!  Then they told me... I actually can't remember exactly how they put it, but they wanted to be a girl?  Anyway, as time went by, the conversation became sexual.  Anyway, they said something this morning that kinda freaked me out.  It wasn't a bad thing, just not...

Anyway, I've been working on making a track listing for this cassette tape above.  And then this, the final song on the cassette came on and I had to laugh!!  It said it perfectly: You need a MAN!

The funny thing was, SueZQ was just playing this song on her iPod yesterday.  I mentioned it to her and we both agreed: she does need a man!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2gTa8mG3Vo
YouTube (short?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwOIH9bs3e4
YouTube (live 2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz7nfMzec98

"Crawling From The Wreckage" by Dave Edmunds

I thought I lost the set of keys to CeCe with the tag and pink high-heel 

I feel like a train wreck most of the time!  I constantly lose or misplace so many things.  I swear I spend half my life searching for things I've misplaced or lost.  I still haven't found the original set of keys I had to CeCe.

I thought I had lost my keys to CeCe a few days ago.  So I went and had the ones on the right in the photo above.  Then today I found them in the bag of tools I've been using to install the car stereo in CeCe.  I decided that the one with the rubber head is easier to use, so I'm using that set for my main keys.

#LostKeys

Sue was pounding on the kitchen table and I opened my door and sang "I Hear You Knocking".  She named a different artist and I said I thought it was Dave Edmunds, but given how bad my memory is these days I wasn't 100% certain.

I checked and my memory was correct.  I already posted that song back on 17-May-2016.  But it reminded me of this song.  My friend Joe Stohl is the one who first told me about this song.  He said he always played it when he woke up with a bad hangover.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrURe9s572I
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SqpsrU_2AY
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPI8RHfL5UY
YouTube (Car Crashes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4p8RYoJ9DQ

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I had to laugh at what YouTube's captioning did to Don Jr's name! 

Lies about Black Lives Matter

Total bullshit about transgender people

Really?!?!?!?

I watched the "Last Week Tonight" story about "One American Network" today.  Just nasty, idiotic right wing, conservative BULLSHIT!!!  No wonder it's  Trump's favorite network.

#Transgender
#BlackLivesMatter
#ConservativeBullshit

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSILVWDKL8

As a side note I noticed this is my 1288th published post as Rachel.  Added to the 1016 currently in my old Scott's blog that makes 2,304 songs / posts as of today.

"I'm Just Your Fool" by Buddy & Ella Johnson

I'm putting the dragonfly my friend Liz gave me into CeCe

Threw out a bunch of old 8" floppy discs that got all icky

#FloppyDisks

I was trying to find an old "I'm Your Fool" song that I could hear in my head, but I couldn't find it on YouTube.  But this song popped up and it's pretty fun!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTTFyLsvBOc