#241: Made From Stuff on Earth

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I had to go to IKEA to return a rug, a floor lamp, and two desk lamps.  But, before I could do that, I had to find the receipt for the floor lamp and the desk lamps. And, before I could do THAT, I had to remember everything I did on the day I bought the lamps.  I could remember what I wore, what I didn’t wear, what I paid with, where I parked, where I couldn’t take a cart… What I couldn’t remember was where I stashed the damned receipt.

At some point during this recording, I had to change microphones.  I think my trusted Audio-Technica AT3035 (discontinued) mic finally gave out.  I took a few moments to mourn the passing of an old friend, and quickly replaced it with another mic.  Listen, I love the old mic, but the show must go on.  Right?

I tell a story about having to drive to Burbank to buy a telescope on the same day I had lunch with my old college friend the celebrity priest.  I hit a lot of traffic on the way to lunch, so the trip to a lot longer than I expected.  Or could stand.

The photo above is of BEER.

6 thoughts on “#241: Made From Stuff on Earth

  1. Unfortunately I think I know the name you were searching for – Bret Michaels/Poison frontman in the 80s.

    Hey guy – celebrate the fact that a Snapple bottle can come to the rescue. Revel in it. I have to tell you as a woman, a woman that has had children (‘nough said), I wish I had the option of the Snapple bottle a few times in my life!

    My daughter wanted a telescope too. (She is Hudson’s age.) We saw that one at CVS and I Googled reviews and of course they were craptastic. I did not get the telescope. I don’t remember what she got instead. Never came up again.

  2. Audio-Technica is high performance microphone and I also love it when I do recordings. But sometimes we have to adjust on what we have for the moment. though there are much more better than what we have. we still like the used things. feels comfortable with it.

  3. I have not gone away RZ – been soooo busy to respond, but not listen!

    Thought this was hilarious – right before Dan explained what he did I was shouting at the car stereo for Dan to just take a pee down an alley or find a bottle or something. as a guy it is WAY easier that a gal. In the UK it is legal if you are caught short to pee against the front tyre on the offside with the door open behind you as extra screening – had to do that myself once when I broke down. I explored the bottle option but given I was wearing my work suit and the bottle top was not, as they say, generous, I forsaw only disaster and humiliation, so decided to just pee against the tyre!

  4. I’m not sure if you’ve seen it, but your long discussion made me smile. The one on how you met your friend for lunch and your long detailed directions on what roads and highways were taken, because of a recent sketch on SNL called the Califorians. I saw it on hulu you should check it out. I know SNL hasn’t had the best track record ever but I thought this sketch was a gem amid the usual “eh” sketches.

  5. Sadly, we actually do talk that way here. That was an aggregation, of course, but…not. We’re always trying to win the Rubik’s Cube that is the daily traffic patterns. Ugg.

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