Ramblings of Silver Blue

“There are three things in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.”

I’ve gone through numerous different potential names for the follow up to Through The Eyes of Silver Blue, including The Heart And Soul of Silver Blue If Music Downloading is Theft; Photography is Kidnapping And all this time, I thought… (which also is the name of another fiction book I’m working on with “Jonathan Gibson” [...]

Gather round, boys and girls. Silver Blue’s going on a trip. Perhaps the best thing for everyone. It appears that in the past few days that I have had quite a catalyst-like effect on a great deal of people and events. I’ve even managed to make a few important decisions on my own. I’ve been [...]

Thanks to Tink for shooting the outtakes.

Welcome to the first day of the rest of your life, gentle readers of the Ramblings. Oh, sure, it’s now 3:29pm in the afternoon, but you know what? Time is irrelavant. I’ve learned that while we think of things (and time) moving in a linear path, it’s rarely that simple. As such, I feel the [...]

Ack! What is that glowing orb in the sky doing peering through my window like some sneaky pepping tom, disturbing my slumber and raising the temperature of my abode? Oh wait, it’s cooler OUTSIDE than it is INSIDE (72 versus 76). I’m moving slowly this morning, but that’s good. At least I know I’ll get [...]

While I sometimes dedicate my music of the night to people, places or circumstances, this song, in this particular timespace, is the Music of the Night simply because it exists. As such, I’m about ready to turn in for the night, but will leave you with this track by former Country chanteuse, Sylvia, from her [...]

Well, Akismet, thankfully, has now blocked over 46,000 pieces of comment and trackback spam. That’s freed up my time to do other things, like ramble stupidly about a book of photography, assorted weight loss techniques, lyrics to obscure songs you could find on the web, tired and trite jokes that a grade schooler would be [...]

Ratatouille and No Reservations (the latter of which is having a sneak-preview this evening in US theatres). Has anyone seen either? If so, your take?

Ok, back, new cup. Made it to bed around 12:30 last night, and was up by 6:45. Most of the time, though, I was simply laying there, in the darkness, listening to the white noise of the fan as it blew the room around. Sandra Lee just went off; she REALLY needs to learn a [...]

Morning comes early around the Shenandoah Forester. Tink’s still dozing, but that’s because she’s dreaming. Today’s a big day for her. Sorry, I can’t say more than that. If she wants to invite you into that part of her world, she’ll give you the details. With the sun starting to burst through my windows, and [...]

Oh yeah, I’m awake and blogging. Actually, I’m behaving myself and monitoring my mood, etc. I found out today that Wrigley’s DoubleMint gum, while not sugar free, actually contains aspartame, which — as you already know if you are a long-time reader of the Ramblings — I am highly allergic to. The side effects? Depression [...]

“The Food of Love” 1. If Music Be The Food of Love – Samantha Fox 2. Chocolate – Kylie Minogue 3. Sugar, Sugar – The Archies 4. Hungry – Kosheen 5. Black Coffee – k.d. lang 6. Rock Lobster – B-52s 7. Dance Little Bird (The Chicken Dance) – The Tweets 8. You Take Some [...]

Today has been a heck of a day… it certainly didn’t turn out the way I had hoped (though dinner did. The chicken was rolled in hot sauce and pineapple juice before being tossed with breadcrumbs, and baked for 15-18 minutes [I think my oven must have been cooler than Coffeemate's!]. Well, Grandma’s being released [...]

Thanks to Coffeemate who gave me the low-fat breaded chicken recipe… (look through the comments from a couple days back); I used refrigerated angel hair pasta, tossed with petite diced tomatoes with oregano and garlic. Glazed carrots finish the dish. (Yeah, yeah. I know. I need to learn the finer art of plating so that [...]

As promised, a MixDisc… called OMG! WTF? or in RealAudio Artists? Sure — in random order. Savage Garden. Annie Lennox. Kim Wilde. BT. Sarah Brightman. Roxette. Agnetha Faltskog. LaTour. Kylie Minogue. Debbie Harry. Linda Eder. BWO. Barry Manilow? Yep. Bananarama. Alcazar. Sting. Songs titles? Listen for yourself.

Abbreviated version, as the coffee’s still brewing this morning and brain receptors, however happy they may be that caffeine is on the way, are not firing in the right order. First up: Grandma. It appears that when they were doing the colonoscopy, they scraped a flat polyp, which started to bleed. Given her past cancerous [...]

Online Tarot reading for free. So, I asked it a question. Four different ways. Same response each time. Here’s the response. I’ll keep the question private. The Celtic Cross spread is one of the most popular Tarot spreads, providing varied insight into many aspects of a complex situation and your role in it. The Rider [...]

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…and IF you really wondered what was in “The Book” but didn’t want to cough up the $12.40 for the PDF, or the $47.53 for the paperback, or the $60 for the hardcover, AND… ….if you have Flash installed. You might just have a treat. Since it’s a file of 77.6 MEG, however, make sure [...]

Bingo! This I can see. Realizing I’d had my photo taken in the shirt I wore to work today, previously, I had it repeated. Lo, and there was great rejoicing in my heart as I, without being struck by a cluestick, finally observed what others have been getting tired of telling me. (Isn’t that right, [...]

If you pray, to whichever Deity you pray (or even if it’s just asking for help from a power higher than yourself), please remember my grandmother, Katie Cottle. She turns 84 in December. She’s successfully battled melanoma (1984/85) and stage IV Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (1995). She went in for a routine colonoscopy this morning and had [...]

I’m wondering how much longer I’m going to be able to get along with only five hours or less of sleep. I’ve cut caffeine out, and that hasn’t helped — so, it’s back to coffee for me. I think it’s a bit of the weather’s fault (yeah, I’m blaming some external factor, LOL!), with temps [...]

My mama told me good, my mama told me strong, she said, “Be true to yourself and you can’t go wrong…” The wireless installation went flawlessly. So did the installation of a new phone system. RadioMan’s quite happy, and that makes me happy. We had a chance to chat, at length, about what it means [...]

…I’ve never really found anything that I’ve been looking for. It always finds me when the time is right. A friend pulled me into chat today and asked me a few personal questions on how things were going, from weight loss to the price of a properly brewed cup of tea. They also asked if [...]