Friday Freestyles!

It is Friday.

AND it is PAYDAY.

Oh joy, oh joy, oh joy.

This day has been...just the day. I got a few things done in the lab. I have not seen immediate management. I saw my Director twice today. Hmm...

I smiled. I chatted. I waved. And I kept it stepping.

It is payday. I don't feel like talking about science.

So guess what...

I was driving home on Wednesday night, thinking about getting outside and cutting a couple of blades of grass because my doggone lawn dude had disappeared, when lo and behold I see THIS:

Cut grass!  Trimmed bushes!

LAWD!

I screeched. It was a noise that a yak or dolphin would make. I was shocked because I don't remember ever making a sound like that before.  I was so excited!!

I was so happy. Those bushes are crooked, but who cares! I don't. I am just glad I don't have to get out there and fight the bushes with my sword, i.e., my trusty electric hedge clippers.

"I didn't know where you were," I said, trying my best not to run up on him and hug him.

He peered at me curiously. "I am here a day early. Tomorrow is your actual lawn day."

*crickets*

I can't say I believe that.

"It's been real hot and it's been raining bad. That's why the grass grew so fast."

I can't say I believe that. I think he was locked up, and he just don't want to say.

"I bought a trimmer,"  I said, as I didn't want to debate his absence anymore. We walked into my garage and looked at it. I picked it up and handed it to him.

"My back hurts. I will work with that some other time."

Then he walked away.

 ...With my rake. He didn't want to fool with the trimmer, but his back was strong enough to rake up the bush trimmings.  And that is fine. That meant I didn't have to get out there and rake and bag up debris. GOOD.

So one of my goals this weekend is to fool with the trimmer. I have been watching some YouTube videos and I think I may be able to use it without taring down the fence. And that's okay. I am just glad the grass has been cut.

Song of the Week. Some Kendrick! You know he's my favorite rapper of the 2010's. He has a new video out. Well, it came out a couple of weeks ago. "Element". It's one of my favorite songs on the CD.



How awesome is that? And there's a TON of imagery in salute to the famous late Gordon Parks.

It took me a minute to pick up on that.

Very nice.

I hope to have a quiet enough weekend. My nerves are SHOT because because our President has gone straight HAM and ratchet all week, multiple times per day, and it is emotionally draining. So I need to get a haircut and run a few errands and just make sure I do some constructive things with my whole entire life. I want to turn the TV off and leave the news alone.  The quality of my life goes up SEVERAL notches when I turn the TV off and get productive.

I am thankful for that.

Whelp! Tuesday, August 1st, Atlanta Noir officially comes out!

There's a launch party in Little Five Points (Atlanta's Hippy district)!

I am even participating in the reading! I hope I don't break out crying! This will be my very first reading. I am so happy about it.

That is it for me!

Let's have a great weekend... on purpose for real!

On purpose because the political climate is not making us great at ALL!

My goal is to get my emotions back to where they need to be... on purpose, on purpose, ON PURPOSE.

(As you can tell, I cannot say that enough).

Friday Freestyles

Good Friday Afternoon...

Where is everyone at?

Hmm... It makes me want to write something deep, uncensor myself.

Not now, maybe next week.

Anyway, it's Friday, and it's Pay Day. And as stand here and pretend to be a baller until midnight. That's when all my bills and mortgage hit out of my account. But for now I am a baller.

It's starting to get a bit cold in my beloved ATL. Today we won't get out of the 50s, and I have found that I have had to turn on the heat so I won't wake up freezing cold. This is fine, because I don't miss the searing summer heat. Not one bit.

One thing I am glad of, though: the elections are OVER. I HATE election time. I have to be subjected to endless television commercial after commercial. They are all dark and dangerous looking, meant to instill fear.  That ends the day after the elections.  Thank goodness.

And now the Republicans have control of both houses. This means nothing will get done. I couldn't be President. I would veto everything, and I would get everything done by executive order. You talking about impeaching me and repealing my health care act? How about I veto the cheese out of you. Humph.

This should all be interesting. I still don't think anything will get done. 2016, here we come.

And what of the whole ebola epidemic? Shouldn't 1/2 of the USA be sick or dead right now?

No. It all comes down to the whole fear thing again. And the media uses that like a pimp uses a prostitute.

And it's big reason that I'm not a fan of manufactured news.  I am reading a book on ebola right now. That's just me and my PhD mind. I have to go research stuff.

With that said, here's a quote to remember. And it's applicable for every single nook and cranny of life.

The FEAR of something is always stronger than than the actual something.

That's a LadyLee original Quote of the Week. I don't know if that makes sense or not.

It is something I think we all struggle with on some level or another.  What happens when words are said and you receive them? What happens when those words are written across your heart?

Life can get interesting very fast. And it all begins with words. Because with just the  just the right combination of words, I can get you to paint an awful picture in your mind, and have you scared beyond belief. You know it and I know it.  And that's how it all starts. I saw it with the ebola. And I saw it with the elections. Sigh.

With that said, I am learning...

My faith must go past my feelings.
My faith must go past all the question marks.

And most importantly, my faith must go past my fears.  

It must.

Period.

Just some thoughts for this brisk November day.

Song of the Day. I like Jhene Aiko. I like this song well enough...



But I like it when the beat and melody changes at 3:44 minutes. I like songs that change completely to something else halfway through.

Plus Kendrick Lamar does a guest spot. And you know I like him.

By the way, have you seen his latest video?

O_o.

That is all. Maybe I will post that next week.

With that said, I am working this weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday. I don't really mind because I get much more done on the weekends when there is no one around. I can concentrate. I have a ton of paperwork. But I hope to work only 4 hours each day. On the weekends, that's like me working 8 hours each day. That's just how tightly planned and consistent I am on the weekends.

But Veterans day is coming up. I will have Tuesday off. Glory!

You all don't work this weekend, alright? Go out and enjoy this brisk cool weather. On purpose!

Happy Friday Morning

Humph...

Look at me, honey.

All lightweight on the posting this week.

Sigh.

And it's Payday. And I don't really care.

*lee throws one piece of glitter*

This week has flown by fast. I've been a tad bit busy. I was so busy on Thursday that I didn't eat lunch. And I promptly left work 20 minutes early.

I've been in a mighty fight. A fight against the machine!

All that training I had last week, I'm putting to work now. I have two complicated instruments. One of them has an old version of software, and it keeps locking up on me. The new instrument is slick and shiny, but I can't get it to print my data like I want. I told my boss that I was going to do a shot of the screen with my camera phone, and let that be my data.

One thing I know... I can do general maintenance and repair on the equipment. I can do that in my sleep.

Here's my instructor showing some other students how to do some stuff...

Me and this other dude "Johnny"... we didn't care about that. We wanted to get down on the terribly complicated software.  "Big Hunter software is a BEAST" was was my motto for the week. And Johnny had flown in from South America. We wanted software. And we got it, too... but the glitchiness of it is O_O. It has been a fight for the past couple of days.

Right now I need an intense class in Excel. Sigh. I wish I would've paid more attention in college.

I would go buy a book on Excel, but uh.... my specialist returns next week.  He may know how to move things faster.  He's away on training, in a town on a beach.

Yes. That's my kind of training. I am sure he will come back very relaxed, and with a niiiiiiice tan.  A really nice tan.

Song(s) of the Week.  Kendrick Lamar's performances on Saturday Night Live.



Now, I really like this Poetic Justice song.


That uses a heavy Janet Jackson "Anytime, Anyplace" sample. The only thing that would've made that performance better would've been if that chicken walked out and sang.  I do believe I would've passed out on the living room floor if that would've happened! LOL

I like this fella. He's not all bejeweled.  No platinum or gold in his mouth. He's not all tatted up to the point where we can't make out his face. And his pants ain't falling off his behind.

I was telling a friend he looks like he just got off the bus, just trying to make it to class or work.

He stood up there on the mike and rapped. And he didn't bring his whole posse on stage. And there was not one scantily clad woman bouncing around on stage. And he had a GOOD band.

And he has a GREAT CD.  One of the better rap CDs I've heard in a long time. It is pretty low on the bitches and hoes spiel. (Thank goodness for that). And it has a storyline, which makes it interesting.

I don't even remember the last rap CD I liked from top to bottom. Sigh. I think I would have to go back at least 20 years to Biggie's first CD.  And I rarely listen to rap these days. So maybe there have been good rap CDs out. I wouldn't know.

Goodness. I am getting old.

That's all for today

And with that, I will got fight the machine!

Today will have a good day. I will beat the machine!

*Lee doing victory lap around the machine*

LOL

Ya'll have a good weekend... on purpose.