Apologize to Re-Hang Lyrics

I'm holding on the rope

While you start to tighten it down

I'm looking at the plot

And slowly start to frown

You shout ready for next

And start looking for your ground-er

I tell you to hold on

'Cause that light's in the way of sound

Oh No!

It's too late to re-hang that light

It's too late

I said it's too late to re-hang that light

It's too late

A sound guy walked in

And started to get pissed

He took a swing at me

But I ducked and so he missed

He knocked into the ladder

And it started to list

Then everybody froze

And I swear I saw two girls kiss

...Or not!

But it's too late to re-hang that light

It's too late

It's too late to re-hang that light

It's too late

Exercise

My on and off summer work schedule has given me the free time to focus on putting together a little workout regimen for myself. It started when I found the Armstrong Pull-up Program to increase the number of pull-ups I could do. It is a great workout that adjusts itself to your personal fitness so as you get stronger it gets tougher with you. That was going great until I decided to donate my pull-up machine to the new gym in the basement of my building only to have them take it from me weeks before actually open up the gym.

So while I am waiting for the gym to open I have found a website designed to help you reach 100 consecutive push-ups. The website is appropriately titles "Hundredpushups.com". There are adjoining websites titles "twohundredsquats" and "twohundersitups". I have decided to take on the hundred push-ups and two hundred squats regimen. I am avoiding the situps as I don't enjoy doing them and have never found them useful.

I am a big fan of exercise that does not require weights because most of the weightless exercises focus on a range of muscles instead of strengthening only one or two muscles at a time. I can also do these exercises just about anywhere which means I don't have to spend money on a gym in Manhattan.

It will be interesting to see how this goes. Being able to do 100 consecutive push-ups seems pretty far fetched to me right now as I still struggle to get to 25. and 200 squats is just ridiculous. Who even has time to do that many squats in a row? But still, I will press on and see what happens.

Hopefully in about 4 weeks I will be pretty close to completing these two workouts and can return my focus to improving my pull-ups, and then I will get to work on doing this...

Have Some Free Time and The Internet?

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and my favorite:

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True Blood

Oh it is so good. The second season is continuing on with the same greatness the first season had. I just wish I had HBO so I could watch it when it first comes on instead of having to downl...go downtown to a friends place and watch it on his DVR. That is what I do. Also, I bet if you did some fancy editing and took out all the gore, violence and fangs you would have a hilarious soap opera for youtube.

On an entirely different note, stemming from my use of "a hilarious" in that past sentence instead of "an hilarious", I really don't understand why an is used before words starting with H. Every other time "an" is used it makes sense because it allows for a smoother flow between the words than "a" does. But wait...my research over at Yahoo has brought much needed insight to my dilemma. I like the second response best which says that "an" is often used before words in which the H is silent, such as herb or hour. This makes sense to me. But I still must protest against people who say or write things such as "an historic event". It doesn't make any sense.

Digitized Eyes

Anyone who reads blogs has an appreciation for reading digital media. And why not? It is so easy to access any form of information online from sources like The New York Times, Digg, and 4Chan. If you don't know that last one I suggest you avoid it. If you choose to check it out, you do so of your own volition; so don't blame me.

In my approximation there are two downsides to reading on a computer. The first being the concern of eye strain from staring at a screen for an extended period of time. But as far as I can tell, from my limited research via the Internet, eye strain from staring at a computer and eye strain from reading a book have the same causes: too little or too much light.

The main issue when it came to accessing digital media was how inaccessible it was. We were always tethered to a clunky computer. And as nice as laptops are for on the go computering (that is my new word meaning: the act of using a computer) it is still a bit much for a quick commute downtown on the overcrowded 1 train.

Fortunately, the Amazon "Kindle" (I am omitting the Sony "Style" because I have yet to see anyone using one) solved this age old issue. It is small, has the ability to download books at any time, and looks to be pretty easy to use. Or so I thought. Because then I realized it was black and white, and a gazillion dollars, and the IPod Touch/IPhone could do everything the Kindle could do as well as access all those Internet blogs and websites...in color...and with a touchscreen. And if I have not mentioned it yet, let it be known that I think everything is better with a touchscreen.

Let me be clear, if the Kindle were $100 less and had a color screen I would probably own one right now. Because the IPod is just too small when reading for longer than 20 minutes. And if the Kindle had some sort of online library where I could rent one book at a time for a small monthly fee I would be...I don't know...I have yet to be what I would be in that situation.

Internet on my TV

Why can't I access the internet from my Television? This question has puzzled me for a while, but it has finally become so annoying that I can't deal with it anymore. I can watch various TV shows on my computer at any time because all the stations have uploaded the shows to their websites. But I can't watch youtube, play WoW, or download porn via my television. What gives?

The way I see it, the cable runs from my wall to my cable modem. From there it splits off to my cable TV box and my internet router. The internet is just hanging out there at my modem. So why can't my modem send the internet signal to my cable box too?

I understand that I would need an OS and some software to run programs on my TV. OK, so lets go do that then. My cable box has a hard drive of some sort. I know because I record shows onto it all the time. There is already a usb port on the front of my cable box also. So lets throw a little computer in there and make it funky already. I'll buy it.

I think I figured it out. There is a solution to this and it is not improving my cable box. My cable box will always suck. What I need to do is get a bunch of money and buy a big monitor. Then I need to buy a nice computer to hook up to the monitor. Then a nice surround sound system. Then I buy a wireless keyboard and mouse. And finally, I hook my cable box up to the monitor somehow. So I just gotta find a big lcd monitor with an HDMI port. Oh, and a receiver to manage all this new equipment. I can't forget that.

Yeah, this could work.

To Those With Babies

Keep in mind, I have no children. So this advice is potentially baseless. But if I had a child in that age range where first steps, first words, and all those other firsts occur, I would want my partner to be there when those firsts occurred.

Lets say your wife is out of town for the week and you are home with the baby. Suddenly your baby blurts out its first word..."tofu!" Wow, what an odd first word. But now there is a dilemma; do you call your wife and announce this significant event over the phone? Or do you wait for your wife to get home and then slyly coax your child to repeat the first word? I vote for the latter option. It may be something of a white lie, but it is still better than calling and describing how amazing of a moment it was. After all, the magic of the first moment is really only experienced by the parents. So why not share that moment, no matter what it takes.