Annoyances to Pleasantries

While driving home from work today, my radio station was set to what I listen to on the way in (104—love Sam, Maria, and to a lesser extent, Robbie). I forget that most of the music on 104 is not within my realm of appreciation. So I flipped to 106.9, the 80's (and beyond) station [this is also known as The Point, which I discovered one day is a whole family of stations across the country — or at least the south].

Anyway, they were on their slew of commercials since they play relatively few during the day. The most annoying commercial I've heard in a while: the Cingular commercial where the daughter is trying to convince her dad to add on a phone. As many times as I've heard this commercial, today it just hit me as screeching. I turned the radio off.

I would have listened to a CD, but I finished at least the 20^th go around of the soundtrack for The Prince and Me, and I couldn't safely get to another CD in my briefcase. I haven't seen the movie, but the soundtrack is pretty cool. Why do I have this soundtrack, you wonder? Well, I'll tell you: I won it in a contest. Quite a variety of music, some alternative, hip-hop [me, saying hip-hop as a good thing? go figure!], some not-quite techno, and some other stuff I can't quite identify but I like. There's one song that reminds me of Arcadia's "Meet El Presidente".

Once I got home, I got to see the last 30 minutes of Amercian Idol and the announcement of the grand winner, Fantasia [where's your charge of racism now, Sir Elton John? a bogus, irrelevant claim if I ever heard one]. I had no particular favorite this season (I picked Clay from the beginning of the twelve last year). I kind of liked Jon Stevens [no death threats, please] just because he was so different.

Then I watched news on the local Fox station for about fifteen minutes —  way too many horrible accidents the past couple of days.

Then I watched the rest of disc 2 of Invader Zim. Don't like it? [you lie! YOU LIE!] You just haven't seen it, then. I laughed and chuckled and chortled. Then I stopped. Until I started up again, which was usually within just a minute or so. Gir is my favorite. "I love this show." <switch channel> "I love this show." <repeat> I think Invader Zim has taken over Spongebob Squarepants as my current favorite cartoon.

Well, conference call at 9 in the morning. Must get to bed. There's so much to do.

Good night, and God bless.

-jack

P.S.: I didn't forget about writing my thoughts about the morality piece from Switchback, but I did forget what I wanted to say [must be my early-onset Alzheimer's]. I'll have to think about it some more.