Boy, have I let the journal slide...

15 brief snippets of What's On My Mind:

1) When Grandma told Abbey not to touch her cosmetics any more, she should've been clear that the perfume was included in that.
2) I don't care if I'm broke. I still want an octave mandolin, dammit.
3) Our Lady Peace's music really gets on my nerves.
4) As does Aaron Neville.
5) I miss Champaign-Urbana.
6) Cynicism doesn't do a thing for me.
7) I'm craving Thai green chicken curry like a fiend right now. It figures that I'm working through dinner for the next three days in a row.
8) When the union mobilizer tells you to just ignore the guards they've posted outside the doors at your office, it's time to worry.
9) Nik reeeeaallllyyyyy needs to stop screaming right now.
10) "We need to recognize that any government that would deny a gay man the right to bridal registry is a Fascist state." -- Margaret Cho
11) Autumn? Now, please? And not the stupid 3-week autumn we had last year, okay?
12) Must talk about kitchen witchery, Kristi's recent decisions and hormones some time soon. Wish I had the nerve.
13) In my life, I need fewer cheeseburgers and more soup.
14) Abbey's new all-purpose alibi: "Abbey, did you [verboten act X]?" "[innocent grin] Mayyyybe..."
15) Must learn to keep my feet away from Muckle John the Macintosh's power cord when I'm using it. Ugh...

I like the way my daughter thinks...

Me: I have to go to work soon.
Abbey: But I don't want you to go to work.
Me: Believe me, I'd rather not be going to work, either. But I have to.
Abbey: So? Just try not going.
Me: Unfortunately, I can't do that.
Abbey: Why not?
Me: Because I'd get in trouble.
Abbey: Ohhh, riiiight. And you need to make money, so you can buy me birthday presents.

That's Abbey. A girl with her priorities in order.

What the...?

So anyway, I had this hankering to listen to Joan Osborne's Relish, or at least a few selected tracks thereof, so I grabbed Kristi's copy and popped it in. And while I listened, I thumbed through the liner notes, largely because I was curious as to whether "Right Hand Man" is an original. Turns out it is, although she wrote it with a team of about four others, which is par for the course.

So my eyes were scanning over the list of songwriter's names on the track (Eric Bazillian of the Hooters, etc. etc.) when I locked on the last name on the list: "D. van Vliet."

[pause]

What the ferk is Captain Beefheart's name doing on a Joan Osborne CD in any capacity?

I sincerely hope we have some Advil somewhere, because it's going to be a long day at work if we don't.