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Aug. 20th, 2009 04:29 pmFor years, I thought Ride Captain Ride by Blues Image must be about some historical event. Why else would there be such an unusual and specific number in it? "Seventy-three men sailed up, from the San Francisco bay...." I figured it must be about a commune that had seventy-three members who were trying to interest more people from San Francisco to come with them and join their collective, but they couldn't get anyone to come.
I finally looked up the song on the intertubes when it happened to come to mind. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:
Oh well. I like my version of the history better.
Do you ever find yourself doing that? Something unusual that someone does happens to strike you, or you slightly misread a sign and suddenly you're inventing an entire alternate causality that would make your observation make sense? I can't remember any details offhand, but I do know I do it with some regularity. How about you? (Interestingly, someone else online proposed that the song is about one of Francis Drake's voyages, since he had 73 men on one of his expeditions.)
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I found the last remnants of doggy diarrhea. There was a smell upstairs, but I couldn't track it down. It was behind, and inside of, Kuma's crate. One end of our upstairs bedroom is basically a railing that overlooks the stairs up. Doggy mess was all over the railing and wooden lip behind the crate too, but I'd missed it because we have a big tapestry hanging from the railing that hangs down past floor level and makes an almost-wall along the side of the stairs. And of course that was all messy too. Laundry time! (He seems to be feeling much better now that we have him on the old food again, though he just doesn't have much energy in general these days. Think good thoughts for an old dog, would you?)
And I've been keeping up with work too, though I feel like I ought to be doing more. The workload isn't very heavy these days. It looks like I'll be working with my team lead on some anti-virus software migrations he needs to do, but he hasn't gotten back to me with info on who and how, though I've asked him a couple times. I worry about this.
I finally looked up the song on the intertubes when it happened to come to mind. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it:
The song was inspired by the number of keys on Pinera's Rhodes piano:
"So I say, "Okay, I need a first word." And what came into my head was 73. I liked the rhythm, and I went, "73 men sailed in, from the San Francisco Bay." ... The song sort of just wrote itself from there."
—Mike Pinera
Oh well. I like my version of the history better.
Do you ever find yourself doing that? Something unusual that someone does happens to strike you, or you slightly misread a sign and suddenly you're inventing an entire alternate causality that would make your observation make sense? I can't remember any details offhand, but I do know I do it with some regularity. How about you? (Interestingly, someone else online proposed that the song is about one of Francis Drake's voyages, since he had 73 men on one of his expeditions.)
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I found the last remnants of doggy diarrhea. There was a smell upstairs, but I couldn't track it down. It was behind, and inside of, Kuma's crate. One end of our upstairs bedroom is basically a railing that overlooks the stairs up. Doggy mess was all over the railing and wooden lip behind the crate too, but I'd missed it because we have a big tapestry hanging from the railing that hangs down past floor level and makes an almost-wall along the side of the stairs. And of course that was all messy too. Laundry time! (He seems to be feeling much better now that we have him on the old food again, though he just doesn't have much energy in general these days. Think good thoughts for an old dog, would you?)
And I've been keeping up with work too, though I feel like I ought to be doing more. The workload isn't very heavy these days. It looks like I'll be working with my team lead on some anti-virus software migrations he needs to do, but he hasn't gotten back to me with info on who and how, though I've asked him a couple times. I worry about this.
