MekaLekaHi, MekaHineyHo

That's what Jambi on Pee-Wee's Playhouse always said when a wish came true. My wish, is that I will enjoy my week in Hawaii and post-week at home working on our kitchen.
I'm sure I'll have a great time. We've been planning this trip for an entire year, so I'm almost Hawaii'd out - and I'm not even there yet - but I am looking forward to the trip, and spending time with all of our friends and family travelling with us.
Shrimp truck eateries, NorthShore admiring, helicopter tours, Pearl Harbor, snorkelling and a Purdue vs. Hawaii football game to top it all off.
What am I forgetting? My snorkel gear's packed, my boots tied tight. I hope I don't get in a fight.
Hopefully I tied up all of my loose ends at work today. Making calls and planning for a two week hiatus is hectic. At least I won't be tied to this desk until the beginning of December. By then, our friends Mike and Rachel will have become parents by then ..dang. Time flies.
I'm most looking forward to not having any plans while we're on Oahu. I like those kind of trips - where you're there with nothing scheduled. No plans, and nothing to rush to.
It'll be my first flight in ten years, and my first flight that's longer than two hours. Should be fun. I'm taking Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," Frank Miller's "Batman:Year One" and "Fables" books one and two. The first because, like most classics, or oft-talked of books, I've not read them. The second two are comics and should be read instead of scoffed at as superhero dredge.
Anyway, I did listen to a TON of music over the last couple of days ...

The Beach Boys, "Pet Sounds"
Black Mountain, "Black Mountain"
Yo La Tengo, "I'm not Afraid of you, and I will Beat Your Ass"
Thom Yorke, "The Eraser"
Tilly and the Wall, "Wild Like Children"
The Wrens, "The Meadowlands"
The Weakerthans, "Left & Leaving"
My Morning Jacket, "Z"
The Pixies, "Bossanova"
Cat Power, "You are Free"
Iron & Wine w/ Calexico, "In The Reins"
Miles Davis, "Miles Ahead"

I'd normally write something about the music here, but I'm really ready to leave the building. Maybe I'll follow up tomorow before we leave with something short about one of them ... likely the Pixies - I've been on a big kick lately.
-DJr.-

The Waiting ...

Tom Petty said the waiting is the hardest part, but I think keeping your sanity while waiting on others is TRULY the hardest part.
I wonder how much of my day is spent just waiting. Doodling. Staring off pretending I'm busy while I wait on other people.
How much of my day is spent waiting in traffic? Waiting for my coffee? Waiting for the interent to connect at home (yes, I still have dialup)
Waiting for a phone call to come, or an email to be returned. Jeesh. The more waiting there is, the more wasting of ones life that is done.
Anyone have any suggestion on how to fill those waiting voids in my life? My mom prays while she waits. That's a possibility.
Sometimes while waiting I giggle at the other people around me. Sometimes I replay Tom and Jerry cartoons in my head. The old Chuck Jones episodes with 'mammy' chasing Tom around with the broom.
I sometimes wonder if the dogs at home are doing fine. Are they treating each other nicely? Are they doing the dishes like I asked - probably not. They never do.
Anyway .. this blog was created while waiting ... on others. And as soon as I can maybe I'll pray while waiting, then switch over to 'Tom and Jerry.'
-DJr-

All Saints Day ...

I've never been much for Halloween. I have occasionally dressed up though - Mr. T, Princess Leia, Buck Rogers. I remember trick-or-treating only a few times when I was a kid. Not because my parents didn't want to take me, but because I just didn't care.
If they gave out something other than candy - say, steaks, pizza slices, ribs - I'd go door to door everyday. But candy's not really my thing.
Halloween bugs me now because it seems its the day for the lazy people to just wear pajamas and pretend they're a baby, or the pretty people to wear a low cut/high slit thing and insert a 'sexy' tag infront of their name and voila! Sexy Cat, Sexy nun, sexy zombie .. whatever.
We had two trick-or-treaters at our house this year. I wan't even home to be there. The dogs scared them for me - thank God. Luckily though, I did get to watch "Night of the Linving Dead' and "Dawn of the Dead." What better movies have been made in the zombie genre, I don't know.
Yesterday being Halloween, I listened to a lot of scary music by the Misfits.
Glen Danzing and Jerry Only pounding three minute tunes about Marilyn Monroe's death, baby killers and monster movies could easily be the soundtrack to any Svengoolie or Sammy Terry movie marathon. I actually listend to the entire boxed set while sitting in the construction zone none as my office.
-DJr-