It’s country music time here in our office. We’ve just been listening to some Johnny Cash and Charlie Daniels Band. The Snook and I were both reflecting on the genius that is “Devil Went Down to Georgia” when I wondered if anyone’s ever done a dance remix of it. A little googling turned up quite a list of covers. We have to get some of these.

• “Devil Went Down to Brixton”
• “Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe” (the punk version)
• “Devil Went to Jamaica” (the weed version)
• “Devil Came Up to Michigan” (the rap version)
• “Cuando El Diablo bajo’ a” (the Spanish version)
• “Cletus Went Down to Florida” (the redneck version)

The Snook is hunting for these online as we speak. We’re envisioning an entire album of covers of this song. 🙂

Happy first birthday to Joey! My (other) little brother turns one today. Here’s the blogged birth announcement from last year. Isn’t he funny? Such a cutie. My sister took that first one, and it’s one of my favorites. She’s also the dork that bought him the cowboy hat. 🙂

     

Ladies and gentleman, I think we have the first confirmed instance of a blogger wedding! Meg of not.so.soft is marrying Paul of digitaltrickery. Congratulations to them both. But of course, in fine blogger fashion, I must now make this all about me. I’m feeling weird. I remember reading Meg’s site when she and Paul first got together. I can’t find a date in the archives, but I’m pretty sure they’ve been together less time that we have. And that… makes me feel kinda weird. Not for them; for us. Know what I mean?

Yum. Kris wine. I’m a winemaker. Betcha didn’t know that? (The other Kris broke the secret.)

I’m all about the Herald links today. I can’t help it; they have good stuff. Anyway, they’ve got some more information on that crazy new “moon” I told you about. (They refer to it as only the second one, though, so I don’t know what happened to the other one the BBC mentioned.) The best part is this graphic entitled “Route of the Space Intruder”. It looks like they drew it with a Spirograph!

And just like that, my lifelong dream of marrying Prince William is gone. *shudder*

Antarctic ozone hole is closing. Hooray! The sun down here in Oz can be pretty powerful. At least if I’m still around in fifty years, I won’t have to worry about it so much! 🙂

It’s been a head-down-busy kind of day, and I expect tomorrow will be the same. Bloggage will resume soon.

“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.”
Wine class was really great tonight. Our topic was fortified wines (port, sherry, etc.) which I wasn’t really looking forward to, but I learned a lot and got to try a lot of stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise… including amontillado! I also tried some vintage port that was older than I am (27 years old!). I think the tawny port was my favorite. There were these jerks in the corner who talked all the way through the class though. I’m like, what kind of asshole pays $250 for a class and then doesn’t pay attention? And I’m the youngest person in there! I thought grown-ups would behave better.

New Jersey has become the first state in the U.S. to regulate G-Forces on roller coasters. Of course, the law is just pointless election-year pandering, given that it would set the limit at 5.6 G’s and no ride in the country even tops 5.0. Even Cedar Point’s Millennium Force – the tallest, steepest, fastest coaster in North America – is well within those limits. I love roller coasters and the bigger issue to me is the relative smoothness of the ride. We rode the Millennium last year and I thought it was great. No problems whatsoever. The wooden ones though… They shake and rattle me so much I have neck pain afterwards. I’ll take more G’s and a smoother ride any day.