My Top 5 Songs

Late this month posting - school has kept me busy.   The class ended this week, and I hope to get an A - we'll see.  I have 10 days of freedom until my accelerated pace summer class (2 months instead of 4!) commences. In good spirits lately.  The warm weather has me kicking butt on the hills on my bike.  The gears are a mess, though - I really have to learn how to fine tune them. The chain locks up at times, going up steep hills. I saw Mastodon, with Clutch and The Graveyard a couple weeks ago.  I really enjoyed Mastodon a great deal!  I did my head banging and acting so not my age (jumping up and down) but I don't care - I waited months for this after getting into this band last January.  I have three of their albums, now, and will probably get 'em all.   The other two bands were OK.  I was not fully impressed with Clutch, partly because I do not know their songs.  Most people there were for Clutch. I hope to see Godsmack at a mus...

This month's post is VERY late.  I had to move more suddenly than I anticipated.  The predictable lack of inaccessibility to the internet took hold, and a couple of weeks slipped by, and there you have it - a late Top 5 installment for my hordes of hungry readers... ... Haha!  What readers!?! Well, summer rolls on. I am enjoying it, but always, as usual, sad about...something, whatever it may be. First things first:  the reason I moved.  On a Sunday night in late June, I heard strange noises in my ceiling. In most areas of the previous apartment, the ceiling was a 'drop' ceiling, built of suspended tiles. I heard something weird in the bathroom - and there I saw a ceiling tile partially removed from the framing. I pushed it back up, then heard a small squealing.  "It's a dog outside", I tried to convince myself. So these unusual sounds continued, and I followed them to a nearby area, where another tile was not fully closed (this was/is an old apar...