…more than I can ever pay. (Special prize from the Secret Vault goes to the first person who can tell me what show that ridiculous song is from.)
Actually, the picture below is of Illinois, just shy of the Iowa border. But I don’t know any cool rhymey songs about Illinois. And by the by, that’s Ill-i-noy. Not Ella Noise. I get a little snarky about that particular Schmenglish mishap, seeing as how that is the state in which I was hatched all those many moons ago. I mean, what if I said, “Oh-hee-oh,” or “Grennitch” instead of “Green-witch.” I could snark. I could. But I won’t. (But I could.)
Anyway. No coffee yet, feel me?
I took this while zipping across I-80 west, singing along with the Jackson 5, near Davenport. Dassum flat land, fiends.
I worked on some session prep and channel-flipped for awhile last night. It was actually fun, and tres therapeutic.
Since I get up at the butt crack of dawn anyway, it won’t surprise you to read that I am wakey-wakey at 4 a.m. local time. So I inspected the disinfecting pod in my room…
And Starbucks isn’t open yet, either. It’s going to be a long wait.
So this morning, it’s off to Lincoln. Should be an easy drive. Looking forward to hanging with the fellow choir geeks tonight.
Are you behaving this weekend? Show the Fink some love. I can’t believe it’s only been eight days since the 4th of July. It seems like months. Has this week gone slowly for you too?
FO
Tom Hanks
/ 12 July, 2009What a fantastic disinfecting pod.
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Fink on the road Reply:
at 6:53 pm
July 12th, 2009
Ain’t it though? And the nozzle thingy points straight down. I totally channeled Karen Silkwood.
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Suzanne
/ 12 July, 2009State Fair?
Your trip sounds fantabulous.
Oh and in England it’s pronounced Grennitch and THEY should know.
Norwich is pronounced Norridge, too.
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PKPudlin Reply:
at 4:54 pm
July 12th, 2009
Is that from “State Fair” by Rogers and Hammertoes? errr… I mean Hammerstein?
One of my faves is how the word ‘Lieutenant’ is pronounced in Great Britain….’lef-TEN-ant’. I don’t see an ‘f’ anywhere in there, do you????
Glad you’re enjoying your trip. Especially the disinfecting pod.
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Fink on the road Reply:
at 6:53 pm
July 12th, 2009
Ding! Greggy wins! Watch yer mail when I gets back from the prairie, dog.
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Suzanne Reply:
at 12:36 am
July 13th, 2009
Uhmmm I believe I won.
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Fink on the road Reply:
at 6:32 am
July 13th, 2009
Aaaack! You are right, Suzanne! I don’t know why I got you and Greg mixed up…god knows you don’t look alike! HA
Hey, when’s the trip stateside again?
PKPudlin
/ 12 July, 2009PS – I was born in the Great State of Illinois as well – up on Lake Michigan at the Navy Base where my daddy was stationed and played his French Horn in the band.
The state motto is “Please Don’t Pronounce the ‘S’.”
PK
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Fink on the road Reply:
at 6:47 pm
July 12th, 2009
PK! You were born at Grayslake? I was born in Zion, and Mavis in Waukegan. Small woild…
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PKPudlin Reply:
at 10:40 am
July 13th, 2009
Umm, it’s “Great Lakes” Naval Base, unless, of course, you were in the service at that time, in which case you called the place “Great Mistakes”. That could be true now, for all I know.
Small woild indeed!
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Rat Fink Reply:
at 1:03 pm
July 13th, 2009
I always get those 2 names mixed up! Grayslake is also a town in IL. I’m off to do my session now…ta!