"Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol

Threw out a box of old 8-inch floppy disks

The weather had really taken a toll on these old floppy disks.  I think the era of 8" floppy disks was the late 70's - early 80's.  I remember how excited we were to have like 128K bytes of random access storage, on the first single sided ones.  Then later they were double sided and double density so they stored 512K bytes.  Woo Hoo!

Anyway, SueZQ was asking what the hits were of Snow Patrol.  I said "Shut Your Eyes", but it took me a minute to remember the name of this song.  And funny I've performed this song...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GemKqzILV4w

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Why not me doing karaoke at Big Willies last year:

YouTube (me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6x3hXK3C28

"Night In My Veins" by Pretenders

I found this cassette in the garage yesterday

I bought this CD for Chrissie Hynde's advice on the back

I had one of those funny, magical little coincidences today.  Yesterday I found the cassette "X96 After Dark" shown above in the garage and brought in into the house.  I was playing it last night while I was making my bed (washed my earthing pad and sheets yesterday).  It was fun to hear Chet Tapp and Todd Nukem's banter.  The running joke that night was apparently "it sound a lot like Depeche Mode".  Mike Summers even got into the act once.

Anyway, the song that jumped out at me was this song.  I thought "I need to post it to my blog".  Then today SueZQ was loading some of our CD's into her iTunes and she hollered out to me how much she loved what Chrissie Hynde said on the back.  I was like "yeah, I bought that CD because I loved what she said on the back.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOcUXDt4z0

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Coronavirus Ignorance: Tampa Pastor Arrested, Possible Outbreak at Liberty University

YouTube (TYT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNUlH_gAyU8

"Wicked World" by Laura Jansen

Unmasked the part of the Trans Pride Flag I have done on the passenger side

I found the little origami Lucy made, that I had in Lily.  Now it's in CeCe :)

I couldn't sleep last night, so I was digging through my bedside drawers and found the note below.  (Thankfully I also found an edible that must've fallen out of the package, that helped me sleep finally.)

The top two songs are in SueZQ's handwritting, not sure what that means.  But the Wicked World is in mine.  The songs all appear to be around 9 or 10 years ago, so I'm guessing this note was written around 2011.  Also how erratic my writing was, it was probably after MS had made my right hand numb.  I was diagnosed with MS in January 2011, due to my right hand first going numb on November 2010.

#FuckMS

Anyway, this is a fun song and really fun video!!!!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3vybPClCCk

"She's So Mean" by Matchbox Twenty

It's rare that I get turned on by a music video, but this girl was a turn on!

I love this video!  So fun!  Interesting playing drums while they were on fire (were they really or special effect?).

#Lesbian

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8WLa6umgdw

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I've been watching this 3-part series on Netflix called "Don't F**k with Cats".  It's pretty fascinating.  Being a geek, nerd, etc. even more fascinating some of the tech stuff they did.  I was amazed!!!

At one point they are talking to the killer's mom and she was talking about how her son was bullied in school. She said they called him things like "gay", "pussy", "fag". I too was called all of those things and many more.  Thankfully I didn't turn out a serial killer!  In my case it turned out they were right, I was/am all of those things and oh so many more that I was called, like: "tranny" ;)

#Transgender

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When I woke up I didn't think I'd be able to work on the car today

But the sun came out later and I was able to paint the upper pink stripe for the Trans flag

"You Ruin Me" by The Veronicas

Masking to paint the upper pink stripe of the trans flag was THE WORST!!!

And then the weather on my phone said it's going to rain tomorrow

One of the effects of MS I have is inhaling (aspirating) liquids (often saliva) and even food all the time.  So speaking of the worst, I inhaled some syrup this morning.  It was 10 or 20 times WORSE than anything I have ever inhaled before.  I was hacking, chocking, coughing, couldn't breathe, for like 20 minutes or more.

And afterwards my throat just burned every time I inhaled.  I finally called my doctor's office, but she was out today was out today.  Her nurse advised me to go to the InstaCare.  SjeZQ drove me over there.  They had Covid-19 drive through testing set up, but it said you had to be pre-screened.  I wasn't really there for that anyway.

I had to go in, in the foyer I was given a mask and a slip of paper that had a number to call and was sent back to the truck.  I talked to someone and they said to come back in.  The doctor listened to my lungs and didn't feel I had any liquid in them.  But since I've had a mild cough they decided to test me for Covid-19.

A different doctor came in, basically in a hazmat suit and put a Q-tip up both my nostrils.  It didn't hurt really bad, but it made my eyes water.  I guess I'll know in 3 to 5 days.  :/

#FuckMS

Anyway, I really wanted to paint the pink stripe on CeCe (the Plymouth) so I started masking it off for it.  This was absolutely THE WORST, hardest masking I've done.  The door handles were a bitch and matching the lines on the car was tricky.  The door lock was a bitch and it didn't even hold.  I going try putting tape over it and cutting around it with a razor blade???

I saw this video tonight, despite maybe being a little over dramatic, I thought this  video had A LOT of helpful / factual information about the Corona virus.

#Covid19
#CoronaVirus

Myth-Busting Coronavirus (COVID-19) with Dr. Fauci - Give Back #WithMe

YouTube (Lilly Singh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2YKKba6ps0

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Top 100,000 As Trump Demands Praise From Governors

YouTube (MSNBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs0_ntO3OsE

#TheVeronicas

I love The Veronicas!! And their videos are always so incredible. They have cool outfits, cars, buildings and things.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_rZ9rHFwGY

"In The Early Hours" by The Catfish

Round 2 of attempting to repair the wheel bearing, this time I expoxy'd it in the hub

Weird ridges, reveal partial trans flag drivers side, moved Mazda and start flag passenger side

I first found this song on an "Unsigned Bands" CD many, many years ago and I've always loved it.  But I never could find it anywhere else.  It came on my MP3 player today and decided to check on YouTube again and there it was!!  I'm so happy!!!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nOL1jIANC0
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3EG85H66ZA

"Riders In the Sky" by Kay Starr

Decided to take CeCe to the rec. center and some other places for the first time.

Everyplace I went was closed, except Costco they had a new queue outside

This is another song I found on the old reel-to-reel-tape (see my posts on February 2nd and 3rd).  As I mentioned before the tape is running at the wrong speed, so it is hard to get an idea of whether it is a male or female vocal.  I totally thought it would be a male vocal on this song.  But I love it!!  Kay Starr has a lovely voice!

YouTube (45 RPM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-frYJDCp0g
YouTube (Vinyl): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfW1fNacSsk
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcJJJtY9rnc