POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

So, Dan . . . What’s Going On?

Crappiest. rapture. EVAH.

Crapture.

I spent yesterday cleaning this place. I had invited Dahlhalla and Anthony Bialy over here from Middlebury, where she was playing, for a cookout, but they had to catch a train early this morning back to NYC, so I went down there and had a few pints with them.

Place was a wreck. Spring comes late around here, so you could consider it a spring cleaning, I guess. I found out kind of early that they wouldn't be coming here, but I pretended otherwise. Moved everything in the kitchen and cleaned down all the surfaces, gathered up all the paper and cardboard to recycle, washed a bunch of clothes, put the winter gear away, swept, mopped, scrubbed, put down some carpet deodorant and vacuumed. The works.

The daughter is a rebellious teenager. The form this rebelliousness takes is organization and practicality. She hates living in a messy house, though I must say she's much more interested in straightening up and maintaining her room than any of the common areas. She seems to believe also that cleaning up the kitchen is the task of whoever happened to cook, which is never her. Not trusting anyone else to properly treat her laundry, she does that herself . . . but only hers.

Anyway, she was delighted at the thought of being able to invite her friends over. Not that she would. She prefers to go to her friends' homes, where there are large-screen hi-def TVs, hot tubs, and all that sort of thing. It's just the thought that she could that makes her happy.

Saturday, I did some investigation of Android tablets. My 25th wedding anniversary is coming up, and I'd like to buy something nice for Mare. There's one that's a color e-Reader I could get very cheaply. She loves to read books. It doesn't have Bluetooth, but an inexpensive dongle would fix that. Then she could use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse or trackpad to type on the thing. Syncs up with the Mac, too.

Had a really good time meeting Anthony and Dahlhalla. Talked about music and a bunch of other stuff. The City, Vermont, politics, the intarwebz, CPAC. You name it. Just really nice people, and awfully laid back for New Yorkers. They said they had trouble sleeping because of the lack of ambient noise.

The guy who connected Dahlhalla up with the folks in Middlebury moved to San Antonio last year. For a long time, he conducted the Vermont Youth Orchestra. He's originally from Dahlhalla's home town. A few years ago, he was the graduation speaker at the Waldorf high school that Mary works at.

Anthony blogs at a couple of places, one being Pundit League, where I did a short stint, until the editor stopped responding to my emails. Sounds like the project is going well, anyway.

Lady Gaga's latest album, "Born This Way," is Amazon's Gold Box deal of the day, at 99 cents. Seven cents a song seems a little steep to me.

One of the things we talked about was what a good topic would be for a conservative opera. Ideas?

Feedly's flaking out on me. I guess I'll have to use Google Reader till I get that sorted out.

So, what'd I miss?

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

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