The Spitter Has Been Apprehended!
Its been a month now since I quit my job at SFPL and moved on to my new job. On my last day we were informed by one of the librarians...The Spitter has been apprehended! Hooray! Now the computers wont have spooge all over them.

I SUCK...
And I don't even know how to change that. So much for my keeping up on my Blog. Well, I think I'm back. But don't be sure 'cause I'm not.

Tra La La
I was thinking that I need a little cheering up. Since I picked up yet another job (making it 3), I've been in a funk. A great big feel sorry for myself funk. FUNK!!! So in an attempt to lift my drooping spirits I splurged and bought myself a couple of CD's with cartoon theme songs. Now I don't know about you, but I love cartoons. Always have. Its been a huge source of friction between my mother and myself since I was about 14. It still is. She doesn't understand the appeal of cartoons because they are so "juvenille". Hey what do you expect, my mother is into ART ! So it still suprises me that she and my nonexsitant dad took both myself and my brother to see the Banana Splits when we were little kids. All four of the great ones were there...Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork! It was pandemonium! South Shore (in Alameda, CA) was overrun with a writhing mass of screaming kids. Since I was about 5 I was just trying desperately to see over the heads of all the other kids. My dad picked me up and put me on his shoulders. This is the single best memory I have of him. But thinking about the Banana Splits has put a smile on my face for awaile.
http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/AudioPlay.jsp?File=TraLaLa.rm

Many thanks to franklarosa.com for the audio clip and to melman2.com for the image

My New Laptop
While I wasn't looking, my husband went out and bought me a laptop to facilitate by schooling. As a result I thought I'd try it out on all of you. Since I'm a technophobe the thing scares the hell out of me but we're trying to get along with each other. I guess I'll try to write something more interesting and substantial over the next day or so, since it has
wi-fi I can write from anywhere I guess. See you all soon. TV

Yum Yum Give Me Some
(Or My Day At The Library)
Working at the library can be a dirty business. Most people can't believe the things that go on in that building. Case in point...A couple of weekends ago I go out to do the
mid-day room clean up. I see an older man sitting at one of the tables coughing. I look a little closer and think "Hmmm, that guy does not look good." As this is floating through my mind the guy picks up a folded newspaper and pukes into it. Gross! I start walking a little faster trying to get away. Once I get down to the end of the range I realize that all the voices in my head are finally agreeing with each other and yelling at me "That guy just PUKED in the LIBRARY! Do SOMETHING!!!" So flouting library rules, I whip out my cell phone (we are not supposed to have them on or use them in the library) and I call up security. Thankfully my husband is the one who answers the call. He tells me to wait at the librarian's desk and he'll send up a couple of guards. So that gets mopped up, so to speak, and I head out for my break. When I come back upstairs and head out onto the floor I run into J, a patron who has serious stalker potential, and start to tell him the story of the Puking Man. J asks me where this happened and I turn to point out the chair which is I full view of us. "Oh yeah, he was right over there what the hell is that guy doing jacking off in the library?" Yes he was and in the same chair as the Puking Guy. What a place to work!

Warning: CA Content
My apologies to those who may be reading who are not from the beautiful state of California, because this entry is Californiacentric. I am siding with my favorite radio station Pirate Cat Radio
(87.9 FM), which may or may not still be on the air. He dude, I can't get you anymore did the FCC manage to knock you off the air? Anyway, all I have to say is...Vote Fucker!
Get out and vote tomorrow.

Y.M.C.A.
It's been two weeks and I am still sick. I have missed so much work that I am going to get evicted because I have no $. I've taken to hiding in my room to escape my two kids who are bickering over whether one or the other is cheating at some Gundam video game they're playing in the other room. I feel like I'm being run over by a truck, I feel depressed, I feel trapped...but wait, there is a light on the horizon!
Flipping around the TV taking in the banal Sunday afternoon offerings I run into my favorite show. This show changes from time to time but I love it and watch it with gusto. It is the Time Life Music Collection Informercial. The show could be about the "Greatest Modern Soul Classics" or the "Best Love Songs of the 50's". It really doesn't matter I will watch it no matter what they are hawking this week. Today's offering was the best in quite a while...(drumroll please)..."The 70's Music Explosion"! I must own "The 70's Music Explosion" because it has some of the worst music ever created all on 10 discs! How could anyone resist a collection that has such gems as The Streak, Bad Blood, Rhinestone Cowboy, Baby I A Want You, Escape (The Pina Colada Song) and Mr. Bigstuff? This music is LEGENDARY. And those are only the songs on the regular disks, because if you order right now they will include for free a CD with all the best one hit wonders of the 70's. I am enraptured. I'm feeling a little better and dance the Y.M.C.A. as I make my way into the living room and search for my Mac Davis' Greatest Hits CD. Who says the 70's are over? We can relive them again and again and again. Thanks Time Life!