It is still Thursday

Thursday, cold and wet.  It's rain, but mixed with the slightest bit of slower whiter almost-snow here and there.  Which is pretty much what the weather seers saw and said we would see this morning.  I got up at 4:00 AM just to make sure we didn't have a weather situation that would require decisions about college opening, though really didn't expect anything.

It's Thursday, which I've already noted.  No matter how I parse it, though, it is still Thursday. <sigh>

On to music: Fountains Of Wayne can usually be counted on for lyrics that are clever and fun.  So many of their songs make me smile, and it sure doesn't hurt that they are great tunesmiths and musicians as well.  This morning's contribution was the song Michael and Heather At the Baggage Claim, which is a song about a couple looking for lost luggage after a flight.  It's a sweet tune, really, about love in a situation that is all too familiar to anyone who has ever flown:

Michael and Heather at the baggage claim

Tired of playing the waiting game

Every bag has got a different name

Michael and Heather may never get home again

Michael and Heather at the lost and found

Looking for luggage that's soft and brown

Sir, I'm so sorry, it's just not around

We'll be on a short flight this weekend, but I'll be packing my life on my back and, yes, it will fit in the overhead compartment. That should ensure this song isn't a prescient warning.  Can't say I'm looking forward to the whole airport experience, but I'll flash my bits and bobs on the big screen in my patriotic salute to our culture of fear and its resulting abrogation of individual rights.  Here's the funny thing: try as I might I just can't recall ever agreeing to said abrogation.

Douglas Adams begins one of his books with the sentence (and I absolutely agree with him on this point), "It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear."  This, from the man who also said, "Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast." and "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."  What a brilliant writer - good stuff!

Today's full playlist:

 - Sigur Rós: Hljómalind

 - Bruce Cockburn: Wait No More

 - Fountains Of Wayne: Michael and Heather At the Baggage Claim

 - Wilco: Side With The Seeds