A digital commonplace for a Regular Guy called Charlie Pharis

Author: Charlie Pharis (page 38 of 165)

Tuesday Morning Early Edition…

Just some stuff that fell out as I get up and going this morning…

OK, that’s it…I’ve got 2 miles to cover, and weights that didn’t get lifted yesterday! I’ll pay off the “I Quit” post later this evening…

Tomorrow is Labor Day…

And all you loyal readers (both of you!) know what that means…

It’s beginning to look sound a lot like Christmas;
Soon the bells will start,
And the thing that will make them ring is the carol that you sing
Right within your heart.

That’s right, boys and girls…Labor Day officially kicks off the start of Christmas music at the ol’ Just Charlie hacienda! And I’m chomping at the bit this year…

I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now.
For we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute…

Non-iPod Players?

OK…suppose you wanted an mp3 player. And suppose you couldn’t afford an iPod right now. What would you do? Would you…

  • a. Keep saving up for the real thing?
  • b. Get something that’s not the real thing, but would work while you run, work out, etc.? (And if b. is your choice, what brand would you look for?)
  • c. Forget it…go back to your Walkman, and leave well enough alone?

Stuff…

Just some things in my head and my heart at the end of a long Sunday…

  • God used Lifehouse to speak to me this morning. Funny…He also spoke to our folks through their song “Storm.” Even funnier…”we” didn’t much “get” The Goo Goo Dolls a couple of weeks ago, but “we” “heard” Lifehouse today. Go figure…maybe there is hope after all…
  • Speaking of lyrics, (and speaking of Ella in the previous post), the “old” lyricists were real craftsmen with words…Told me love was too plebeian, told me you were through with me and…yes!
  • Thoreau was right…The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Sunday Night Unwind, 08.19.07…

I’m in one of those jazz singer moods tonight, starting with “Lady Ella” herself. I heard this “new” CD in Starbucks last Friday. I’ve been a sucker for Ella for probably thirty years or so – ever since I discovered jazz singers in high school. When the CD finishes, I’ll be switching over to the Ella Fitzgerald channel on Pandora. (Cool deal, that Pandora…thanks, Gary or Ken or whoever it was that first alerted me to it!)