Hot Sauce, Soft Wood, Drugs and Tunes

I am a certified Taco Bell Junky.   No where on earth is $3.00 more valuable.  People watching at TB is at a premium.  I frequently encounter trophies that are only bagged at much larger venues such as football games.  Domestic disputes are not uncommon and apathy runs high.

To improve upon this already gas fueled festival of insanity, TB has begun placing these zen-like sayings on the sauce packets which are just brilliant.  A sampling of these includes:

I fear bike tires, how many of these do you already have in your glove compartment?, nice palm- I read a great deal of pleasure in your future, do you add sauce left to right or right to left?, not to be used as a flotation device, be gentle, and .... use your stomach-nacho mind.  If you are interested in a fuller perusal please follow the link below to the Condiment Packet Museum.  Oh yeah...finally someone with even more free time than your very own Tumorless Joe. 

http://www.clearfour.com/condiment/tbsauce.html

Now for some seizure news.  Amy and I visited a neurologist on Thursday.  We liked talking with her.   It was an interesting time for the appt as I have not had a seizure while I was awake in almost three weeks.  We did have a lot of conversation about trying to continue this success while moving to some new medications.  She feels that Dylantin is a 'dirty drug' because it interacts with many other drugs and it is not the best long-term solution.  My other anti-seizure med has an unwanted side-effect that I would like to get away from.

It gives me unwanted erections.  They are not the viagra type; although I have never taken it so I really don't know.  It is more of a half-chub but it lasts all day.   So it ends up not being anything for Amy to write home about but  I can't leave the house in sweats.   The doc assured me that this current med has a 'cousin drug' that she is not aware of any reported half-chub issues.  I am not comfortable with the words cousin and drug being related but the alternative is really getting on my nerves.  Plus, I live one block from a school so it is only a matter of time before the police come to have a chat.

(The above erection references are fictional and not intended to cause anyone anxiety.  It has been included because a recent poll of my demographics indicate that 78% of my readers like boner jokes.) 

Finally, I have been volunteering at KKFI radio the last several weeks.  It has been tremendous fun.  I am currently working on music cataloging project that involves listening to new music and making recommendations to the on-air staff on the best tracks and occasionally canning stuff early so they do not have to waste time listening to the really bad stuff.  It is a blast!  Several volunteers sit in a room with disc players and headphones and just listen to tunes.  Everyone has a genre that they are familiar with and that they work in.  So you get to know a really wide range of very cool people who have all kinds of musical tastes.  We also share the really good and the violently horrible with each other.  I am working primarily in the folk and occasionally country areas.  I would like to do a few hours in the jazz area but there are so many people in that station who know so much about Jazz it wouldn't make sense for me to listen to that.  Not that I am a huge country nut but I can seperate good musicianship from the label manufactured crap (Country Backstreet Boys).

So to summarize a long bunch of babble:  I feel good, NO seizures for almost three weeks, new neurologist that we like, NO erection issues and Volunteering is good.  Here are a few music discoveries that were pointed out or I discovered: 

Bill Dees  'Castin my Spell on You' - bluesy, honky tonkin, rock that is just damn good.  The guy has pipes and can play the piano with the best of em.

Copperpot  "Chapter 7' - Rap with some incredible sampling that includes an accordian.  The guy reviewing the hiphop stuff just called it 'Whack'

Hiromi  'I didn't get the name of the album' - Electronic fusion jazz that Sun Ra would have been damn proud of.  This is a musical amphetamine. 

Wow- the longest post in a while.  Thanks for sticking with me.  For those of you who have written me about your own tumor or one that is annoying someone you love, please write back.  I won't preach but I can answer any questions.

love to everyone

joe

Comments

[Lael]

Haaa,you're too funny!