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No trivia post yet

And not yet sure if there will be one this weekend. I had a great idea but I'm not yet sure I can come up with enough songs for the category. Sigh. I will persevere, of course.

But in other breaking news...

I'm kinda pumped. I told you already that I've done the telecommute thing a little to save on ga$oline. Well, my immediate supervisor (whom I CHOSE - it's rather gratifying to be in a point in your career where you get to choose your own boss), bless her heart, and her immediate supervisor, bless his heart, have agreed that it's okay for me to just work four days a week (longer days, of course) and take Mondays off.

Which is great for next week, starting two days from today. Slightly less so the week after seeing as how I have Jury Duty on Cinco de Mayo. Yeah, not a big deal, it would have been a regular week otherwise.

But I am indebted to my immediate spvr (bless her little pea-pickin' heart) and her immediate spvr (bless his little pea-pickin' heart) for allowing me to work only four 12-hour days (roughly) than five 12-hour days (roughly). Bless their little pea-pickin' hearts. Because in the biotech industry, the attitude is too often along the lines of "why would I let you work four 10-hour days when I could make you seven 12-hour days if I want?" (No joke, but I have some anecdotes along these lines, one involving the sentence "That's what nights and weekends are for")

ANYhoo, in lieu of a trivia post or anything else actually interesting, here is a vid of my favorite C/W song of all time. All due respect to THE GODDESS PATSY CLINE [genuflect] this is my single favorite song of all time. Unfortunately, this is not the Hankster's best rendition of the song. His best rendition is on a CD I inherited from my lovely and sainted Mom. While she was still alive, I taped this song off that CD, and listened to that tape yesterday and today.

The reason I listened to that tape is that the CD player in my car decided to choke on the CDs I had fed it. Which, of course, means I will be trying to retrieve said CDs and returning them to the library before the fines start accruing. Good thing I finished the CD version of this before the player decided to choke on the next book.

ANYHOW (too late!) here is my favorite C/W song of all time (and as I said, not his best rendition, but there you have it). There are other covers, of course, not least of which was one by a local Santa Cruz band that played College Night once. A band by the name of "Johnny [something - cut me some slack, been Thirtysomething years] and All Those Golden State Gamblers" - yeah, after 30 years, it's hard to remememememember, though my good buddy Julie might rememememember it.

Anyway, in any case, the great Hank Snow can't be beat:

UPDATE: Two things: (1) Remind me if I forget to post the lyrics. Unlike the sad copies of the idea done in later years, it's really a well written song on many levels, and (2) it's really a shame that in this video he's backed up by an all male band, because on the tape I have it's really cool when the imagination ponders the female backup singers when they sing "I know someplace you haven't been!"

Or, maybe that's just me. And the Bingster. And possibly JeffS.

Posted by Ken S at April 26, 2008 05:21 PM | TrackBack (0) |