I put a few more different sunset photos, three from July, on
my Flickr.
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I'm so, so ready for summer to be over. I'm sick of feeling sweaty and gross all the time, my body and head deal with heat and humidity very badly, and my hair is frizzy 85% of the time these days.
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I think these
National Parks Notebooks (Set of 3) look really cool, but the interior pages being grid paper means I'd have nothing to use them for.
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Whoa, what? "
NASA will crash a spacecraft into a 525-foot-wide asteroid in September. Here's how to watch it." Armageddon in RL?
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Lately, when I'm playing the radio while driving I have three stations I use: the alternative station, the whatever is currently popular station, and CBS FM, which is the oldies station that now plays mostly songs from the '80s and creeping a bit into the '90s. I almost had a heart attack when I got confused and thought CBS FM was playing Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" when I actually had it set to the alternative station. No, just no.
In my defense, I've heard CBS FM play the Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)" as one of their Friday 5 pm "work week is over, hooray" songs so.... (Beastie Boys on my oldies station? It's more likely than you think!)
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I often put my music player on Shuffle but randomly decided to listen to a few albums in their entirety. Depeche Mode's Ultra immediately and vividly brings me back to a certain time in my life and fandoms. I'd forgotten that Dave Gahan sings a lot of it at a comfortable place for my lower range on that album--he tends to sing in a baritone--where usually I sing higher harmony (or just Martin Gore's canonical harmony). I'd forgotten that I enjoy that little rumbling feeling I get in my chest doing it.