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Thursday, 18 June 2009

Lipsmackin' Good Pitch

     I watched a movie tonight, with a friend. I was here in Arkansas and my friend was in New York City, but we synced up our viewing, while on the phone, and texted while we watched:
The main character had Chinese food at the beginning.
    Text 1: "I want Chinese food"
      Text 2 (send button pressed before Text 1 was received): "Chinese food sounds awesome!!"
    So, after pausing and resyncing (if it wasn't a word, it is now), we resumed the movie with our Chinese foods.
     I had many flavors including some good veggies! It was lipsmakin' good.

     I got the new updated 3.0 software for my iPhone today, and it's completely awesome! It now has voice memos. :) I likey! I decided at one point this evening to see if I could sing some particular note. I tried my best to guess what an F was, and recorded meself (I know it's wrong in American grammar, but I just finished reading all 7 Harry Potter's in anticipation of the sixth movie.) singing it. About an hour later, I tried playing an F using my hand like a trombone mouthpiece, as I had learned to do in junior high school. I recorded that pitch, and listened to the other, which wasn't close to the new one. No surprise, I knew I didn't have perfect pitch, as mutch as it fascinates me. I decided to see if either was right. So, I downloaded a piano (only two octaves) to my iPhone. My best singing guess was way off, but my lip vibrations were closer to F than E or F#. So, I hypothesize that, while I don't have perfect pitch, I do, literally, have lip smackingly good pitch.

PS I'll test this more of course. For now, enjoy the play on words. :-s

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Moving in the Right Direction

I guess I could say moving in the good direction, and it would provide a nice linguistic link to the common word used to describe my recently discovered, upcoming job transformation: promotion. It certainly seems to be all pros and no cons to me. I get more money, work less days, have more interesting job functions, and it's officially a "higher" position (each month is another month of experience in a management position). I was hired by Wal~mart only 3 months 4 days ago*, so I am quite encouraged by this quick materialization of the ladder movement possibilities I had been assured of upon my initial hiring.

I do plan to return to and graduate from college, since I want to be a teacher, but since teaching generally dosen't overwhelm one with fincial returns, it would be nice to have Wal~mart career possibilities strewn from now to retirement (and beyond). No one who has worked for Wal~mart for 25 years has poor pay, benefits, or retirement options!

* I do have approx. two and a half years of hourly and salaried management experience.

Saturday, 06 June 2009

Just Pondering Things...

   As sadly old as 25 sounds to me, for where I am in life, I think 26 will be much worse. You see, I now have over 40 years ill I get a good "age thing." My insurance got a deduction, for me turning 25, but the next age benefit is retirement.
   Thanks to a lot of friends and especially family, this Bday was a good one, in spite of my unpleasant feelings about being 25. So, I'm sure I'll have some Bday's that aren't as good as this one was in some ways, but I hope that this one is the worst as far as the bad feelings about my age. I don't know just what it'll be like turning 30, 40, or 50, but I hope that I will again be happy with my progress in life by those ages.
   I think I can graduate college by 30, and I hope that I'll be married by then. Even guessing, right now, at what I will want to have done by 40 seems pointless. If I change 1/3 as much in the next 15 years as I have in the last 5, my current guesses would definitely be wrong...

Thursday, 04 June 2009

Great Friend; Old Park

I recently developed a sleep diet that I hope will improve my not-at-work productivity. This afternoon, I was in violation of the terms of said diet. Fortunately, at the persistent insistence of a friend who knew what was good for me when I was too tired to remember, I got up, did an errand, bought an M&M mix with some B-day money (Thanks Granny), and went to Creekmore Park to walk around and enjoy the great outdoors (city style). I ended up taking several (21) pictures. I hope they are enjoyable to look at. I definitely enjoyed seeing it all! Three cheers for not yet exterminated parts of nature! Hip-hip hooray, hip-hip hooray, hip-hip hooray! And three cheers for friends who insesently harass you into doing what's good for you! Hip-hip hooray, hip-hip hooray, hip-hip hooray!

Thursday, 28 May 2009

My Quote

I'm quite proud of this quote:

"If genius borders madness, one of the two is my neighbor, though I'm not always sure which."
Lance Allen Hall 2009

I hope I come up with an even better one before I die, but if I don't, I want it on my tombstone.