…but there is no joy in Jortsville

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Bad weekend for Kentucky.

I was actually in New York city for the game, but found the Kentucky bar in NYC (as you can see from the picture above.)  I came home to find the town in quiet despair…nobody even cared about watching the final game.

So tonight, instead of watching the game, Paul and I went to our favorite Cajun restaurant around the block.

Last week they were giving away free meals for anyone who came in and made their jeans into jorts.  Apparently, it wasn’t enough.  Sad, sad weekend.

Oh, and Spike ate our blueberry bush.

Color in Kentucky

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Color is coming to UK.

This location-based mobile app has been getting quite a bit of attention largely due to the $41 million the company raised pre-launch.  And this weekend, they will be in Lexington for the Final Four game.

So if you’re in town this weekend for the game (or even if you’re not), download the app and give it a try (for Andriod users, the app has been finicky, but the company is updating it today so it will hopefully ready to roll by this weekend.)

For a demo of how Color works, go here.

Update: I downloaded the app in NYC, but apparently no one else in the bar I was at did, so I got to look at…my own pictures.

Jorts on Fire

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Things just got serious.

(above photo courtesy of my phone in a dark bar, 3 seconds after the final shot)

Kentucky is on its way to the Elite Eight.

There is a player on the UK team that everyone calls Jorts (because that is what he wears around campus).  He is the only senior on the team, and this year they changed Senior Day to Jorts Day.  Everybody wore jorts.  For reals.

Anyway, yesterday, Jorts had an amazing game and Kentucky ousted #1 seed Ohio State.  It.  Was.  Awesome.

UNC v. UK tomorrow.

GO CATS.

…and then my heart with pleasure fills

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After a few years away from snow and cold winter misery, it’s easy to forget how wonderful the arrival of Spring is.

And the daffodils.  They are EVERYWHERE, like a weed…apparently this is normal, but I have never seen so many bloom en masse on their own before in my life.

In the East daffodils are a sign of prosperity and luck.  If a daffodil blooms on the Chinese New Year it is said to bring wealth and good fortune throughout the rest of year…so this should be a good one for us.  But, their bulbs are poisonous and are often mistaken for onions, so watch out.  Unfortunately every time I see them I think of the mean daffodils from Alice in Wonderland and have a weird kind of aversion to them.

But I’d take daffodils over black ice any day.  Even the mean ones.

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For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.

~William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

The Joys of Technology

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I’ve started listening to podcasts on my longer runs (it’s been hard to get my NPR fix since my 80-mile daily commute came to an end), but only after an extended battle with my iPod shuffle.

The new shuffle is way more complicated than it needs to be when it comes to podcasts (IMHO). After a few failed attempts to try to get my playlist to play both podcasts and music (considering I worked with tech companies for the last 3 years I should probably be more embarrassed about how difficult this was for me…), my very resourceful, very handsome husband took time away from studying neuroanatomy to get on Google, figure it out, and explain it to me.

So for those of you who have the new shuffle and are either too lazy or dumb (like me) to read and understand the instructions Apple provides online, here is how to do it:

  • Download the podcasts that you want to listen to
  • Drag each particular podcast episode that you want on your playlist onto the separate “Podcast Playlist” (dragging them onto a normal music playlist along with your songs doesn’t work, only the songs on that playlist will play)
  • Select the playlists you want on your shuffle, including “Podcast Playlist”, and sync your shuffle.
  • Start up your shuffle, keeping it on the “play in order” setting.

  • When you want to change from what you are currently listening to to another playlist, hit pause and hold down the voiceover button.  It will run through all of the different playlists you loaded onto your shuffle.  When it names the podcast that you want, just hit play.  Note: if you have chosen episodes from different podcasts (ie: NPR Fresh Air and ESPN Pardon the Interruption) these will come up as two separate playlists, even though they are both on the Podcast Playlist.
  • Enjoy Fresh Air with Terry Gross

Ta da!  Magic.

Berry exciting

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Meet the newest members of the fam, planted along our back fence.  I thought the packaging was cool, completely biodegradable and meant to be put in the ground with the plant, which I had never seen before.

And while berries are particularly hardy and can handle the cold, our other crops are going to have to wait another month or so, until the final frost is over, before we can let them out of the house.  (“Before the final frost”…I sound like I’m living on the prairie in my covered wagon.)  But they are doing pretty well.

Paul is excited.  Spring is here.