Well Carolyn is off at yoga tonight, to which she goes just about every Thursday. The kiddoes are all in bed, and all but Amy appear to be asleep. Amy has this rather frustrating habit that she has recently picked up, where she wanders around her room and/or kicks the walls for 1-2 hours after we put her down. Not to mention the occasional poopage. And then, surprisingly enough, she is tired in the morning. Who knew?

In any case, I am sitting here listening to the track which inspired this post’s title. For some reason, I can only be inspired to be productive when I am here by myself. So I did a little cleaning of my nightstand, which had reached quite a mountainous state. Carolyn will be happy I think, but I just wonder how long it will take for her to notice. Will she notice before she reads this post… stay tuned!

It’s somewhat amusing how little time it actually took. I think that goes for most things – actually getting around to doing it is much more time consuming than the actual task itself. For example, I cleaned out my entire nightstand, organized it, moved all the stuff to its new homes, and folded a load of laundry in the time it took me to listen to one Bad Religion album. And if it’s in the space of a Bad Religion album, you know it was quick-quick. For example, no song on the album is longer than 3:30, and the entire album (11 songs) is just over 30 minutes.

So Windows Media player correctly identified my Raulin album, with full track list and saucy picture (SFW). I don’t know why I am surprised. Okay I’m not really surprised, but I don’t think I’d have been surprised if it had gone “wha-huh?” when I put it in. Now let’s see if it can correctly identify Charles Aznavour the great bolerist. Update: Of course it did, though the tracks are in the wrong order. Let’s see – does Wikipedia have an entry on him? Of course (even with a picture). Yo te dare calor baby! All this bolero makes me jones for some good ol Jose Luis Perales. You just haven’t lived until you’ve heard Joe Louis belt out “The word liberty pleases me” Unless maybe it’s “I want to be fresh water” :-). And that’s not even mentioning the “theta”, which I really wanted to link somewhere but couldn’t.

This has been quite the long post, so I will conclude by saying I went bike riding again, and have now done 4 of the 10 trips to complete my goal of every street in Madeira. The ride today was quite vigorous. Lots of hills. The 6.90 miles took me 42:38, which is a shade under 10 mph. The 4 rides so far have been a total of 22.22 miles, and I’ve done it in 2:01:36 (10.96 mph). I was thinking “not bad” till I thought that some people can RUN A MARATHON (4 more miles) in essentially the same time (2:04:55). But I’m still pleased. I’ve programmed a pretty wicked awesome page of my routes, which I will post here when I’m done with it.