McSneaky

I played the piano and sang. A few friends joined me. Even some guy I don’t know joined me! Folks, this is what happens at a holiday party for our investors with a grand piano in the entrance foyer, separated from the rest of the party where in you can barely hear yourself talk. So us in the foyer had a blast doing half-ass sing-alongs from The Sound of Music, some other Christmas carols we had no idea what the words are. Well, I play by ears and mostly to the key of C. And I have not practiced my...
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Wild wild west

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca4oH6Gvie8&feature=related] Yeah, baby! My first 2 DVDs of Young Riders Season 1 arrived. I wrapped presents and signed Christmas cards while watching them over Saturday and Sunday. Hey, this show is not as obscured as I thought! I mean, at least they got the first season out on DVD, right? And there were 3 seasons of this stuff. I watched this series back in Thailand what seems like a million years ago. Of course, the whole thing was dubbed so things were a lot different then. I remembered having a major crush on the Kid played by Ty Miller (That...
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Golden Child Complex

The problem with being the baby girl of the family, let alone a baby girl of an Asian family, is that undeniable instinct to please. It’s the Golden Child Complex, I hereby dub it so. You start with your parents. By keeping them happy, you get the attention you need. And of course, with the attention you need, you can get away with or get just about anything you want. A baby girl already has +10 advantage to the ability to get what she wants from her dad, but still, there is always that need to be good, to do...
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And the traffic gods smiled

It’s amazing how LA traffic works. I had to be in Burbank at 8:30 a.m. this morning for a proofreading training.  (Good class, by the way.  Learned a LOT.)   According to Google Maps, that would be 33.1 miles,  and 38 minutes or up to 1 hour 30 minutes in traffic. Just to be on the safe side, I decided to give myself 2 hours to get there, leaving the area around 6:30ish. 605 to the 5 North and onward.  Traffic was flowing.  It was no autobahn but it wasn’t bumper to bumper. It was about 7:15 a..m. when I...
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