Category Archives: rambling

new years eve ride

I’m tryin! Self rehab. It’s working ok. 🚴

I’m in the mini-mansion area, none of which are mine. The regular-size mansion area is not far away where that Postmaster General lives.

We live near the former mill worker housing and the Colony of Sears (coloniam de Sears)

mid-80’s new year’s eve in monica’s guadalajara

I spent one New Year’s Eve in Guadalajara, maybe ’84 or ’85. A bunch of us went to the big gay disco, called Monica’s, for the midnight party.

Just after midnight, the music stopped. I thought, “no way!”

In marched a rockin’ mariachi band that the bar had hired that played most of the night. Some of them looked a little nervous when they surveyed the crowd. 😀

It was funny to see drag queens and a disco full of gay people stomping out those traditional dances. I didn’t know how to do them, but plenty were willing to teach.

The disco also had a kitchen. After midnight, they opened the service area and the food came rolling out. Massive.

What a party.

notetaking decades ago

1979 I was taking notes for something and wrote the word “bourgeoisie.” A sweet friend beside me I loved saw it, leaned over, and asked, “how do you know how to spell that?”

Me: I just do. 🙂
Him: Maybe we can talk later.
Me: Sounds like a plan!

retro photo

Looks like my type, actually. ♥️☺️

This is a photo in an antique shop.

giant late lunch after having to fast

After fasting all day for the doctor, I stopped at the cafeteria in High Point and got a lot. Rebound.

I couldn’t stop with just over eating at the cafeteria, so I brought home an entire pie. 🥧

mex dress

I should stop shaving for a couple of months, squeeze my squishy body into this, and go somewhere. Then nobody would notice if I had a mask on or not.

ovaltine

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A crummy commercial! Son of a bitch.

masked santas

Somebody posted a pic of their Christmas tree today with ornaments that are a Santa with mask. Some people lovin’ this stuff.

Those ornaments gotta be made in one of those countries we’ve been instructed to hate.

edm christmas song fun

Listening to O Holy Night that has an energetic disco beat to it. Nice and fun!

museum of endangered sounds

This site is nice. Sounds of aging technology, like modems negotiating a connection over copper phone line.

Windows 95 start-up melody is there. I still have it on my modern Linux desktops, saved and passed along from one hard drive to another since I got my first Windows machine in 1996.

AOL Instant messenger is nice, also ICQ. I still use ICQ. The default sound is still “uh oh!”

http://savethesounds.info/