the 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

1. If you can't think of a number 1, move on to number two and come back to it. Maybe something will come to you.

2. If you can't think of a number 2 while making a list, give up.
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last three words out of my mouth

1. *cough*
2. *muffled cough*
3. *outright cough*

17 Reasons for Not Posting to this Blog

1. Umm..
2. Er...
3. Pizza
4. spittle
5. Uhrrmm
6. wisdom teeth removal!
7. Attacked by a flotilla of helium balloons
8. yeah
9. fell off a carousel
10. store brand lard
11. Tokyo
12. Edible toilet paper from Boys' Life Magazine
13. Unlucky
14. Infernal nonsense!
15. sputter
16. rrrrrrrrweeeeeeearrrrrr
17. sixteen

Things that annoy/bother me more than a trifle

pens that don't work
pencils whose erasers don't work
the folklore lady on mythbusters episodes
being mad at myself
Creed, the band
people complaining about dangling the prepostition (j/k Mrs. Gray!)
when the cats won't play with me
water going out at home because we waited too long to call the plumber
complaints (like this one)
being in someone's way while watching a movie
causing pain
myself
bagels without cream cheese (what's the point?)
not knowing people I want to know
Knowing people but not talking or hanging out with them
Knowing people but not talking or hanging out with them when I get the chance
bows and arrows I made as a child that never worked
time machines I made that never worked
Mom going into the grocery store for one thing (and taking 20 minutes)
this list

Last 10 CDs I Bought / Borrowed to Rip

Beginning with the most recent:

1. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
   
2. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
3. The Reindeer Section - Sun of Evil Reindeer
4. Christopher O'Riley - Hold Me to This (Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead)
   
5. Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the Cradle
   
6. Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic
7. Ben Folds - Songs For Silverman *
   
8. Philip Glass & Michael Riesman - Music From The Hours (Solo Piano)
9. Junior Boys - Last Exit
10. Zero 7 - Simple Things

* It's Andrew's CD, but I would have bought it if he didn't first. iTunes thinks I own it, though.

Top Reason "Top 10 Reasons the Millenium Falcon of Star Wars Could Beat the Borg of Star Trek" lists are Pointless

1. Duh, it's a no-brainer. The good guys always win.

(Probably) My Top 10 Favorite Music Albums of All Time (not in numeric order, as it'd be too hard)

A lot of things go into a "best album." All the songs have to be good and work together. Most of my favorite songs do not exist on my favorite albums as I have many more favorite songs off of my favorite albums than those on my favorites. Here we go:

A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Help! - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Whatever And Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five
Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid - Elefant
The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
Time (The Revelator) - Gillian Welch
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Automatic for the People - R.E.M.
Weezer (Blue Album) - Weezer

On reflection, this probably isn't the list in all its correctness. At any rate, these are 10 very very good albums that I will not live without.