Black Oak's Daughter

Sometimes life happens and I don’t have enough energy at the end of the day to write anything but a recap, but I don’t really feel the need to recap everything, so here’s the short list and a new-ish musician that i’ve just discovered:

• Barfy cat is barfy again. She’s not as bad as before, but every time she has an episode, there’s extra meds, and close watching, and the worry.  I know she’s just a cat, but she’s my cat. I’m responsible for her, and I do what needs to be done to keep her healthy and out of pain.  Hopefully this episode was short. She hasn’t barfed today.  I got the meds in her yesterday, so we’ll see if just that one extra dose worked.
• Conan O’Brien is getting screwed, but he’s also getting $40 million, so I can’t feel really bad for him.  Jay Leno is just doing what the network tells him to do and everyone’s blaming him for the shake up. I kind of feel bad for him. I’m not really a fan though. Conan’s got amazing energy, Letterman is amusing and I usually watch him, but if there was a guest on the Tonight Show I sometimes watch that.  Out of the three of them, Jay Leno is kind of past his peak and not as funny as he used to be.  I hope Letterman gets really good ratings after the change happens, if it happens.  NBC blows lately anyway.
• and really, with the news out of Haiti, why is that such a big story? If you can spare even $10, please give it to the Red Cross, or other charity of your choice that is directly involved with the rescue and care of the people that were fortunate enough to live through the shake.  It’s been more than a week and the story is losing interest in the news. It’s up to us to keep the effort up until every life that can be saved, is saved.
• I’ve been doing the bodybugg thing, and it’s giving me good feedback. I’m still tweaking it because I’m losing more weight than it says I should be losing.  I can live on 1800ish calories a day quite nicely for long periods of time. I just need to up the exercise now. One step at a time. The exercise gets easier after I drop the first 10 or 15 pounds. I’m most of the way to 10 now, and I’m feeling better except sleep has been hell for the last week, so maybe a few workouts will help me sleep a little better.

OK, the new-ish musician is Matt Morris. He’s got a new CD out, so he’s been doing a press tour. He was on Letterman last Friday, and one of the Saturday morning news shows, and on Ellen today. Most of what I found on YouTube is acoustic, and he’s very good at it, but the band that he plays with totally fills out his sound. I don’t know how to describe his sound other than it makes me mellow. Sort of an easy jazzy carribeanish rock. That clip that I linked to is a decent representation.  His new CD is on iTunes. I have been listening to it for a couple of hours today.  He is a spiritual creature and it shows in his lyrics. It’s just good music all the way around.

Bedtime here.

Namaste

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