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Getting white chocolate and red food coloring. The intention is a pink fondue for our valentine’s day spn – we’ll see if it works.

NOT happy with a certain auto shop on 1st st who gave the truck a clean bill of health yet we just had to walk halfway home from the store.

Are we the only ones having internet issues?? Usually when there’s an issue I see locals tweeting, but nobody is – ours is horrible all day.

Since Netflix IW isn’t working, we can’t watch Terra’s choice Sweet Home Alabama – we’re watching her dvd of Hope Floats. Chick flickerific.

The "pink chocolate" fondue is great, btw. And the Irish Coffee with it is – erm, was. hic! – excellent 🙂

And we’ve finally answered the question. Knickers, while an unfortunate name, turns out is an excellent Irish Cream. And we’re REALLY picky.

@don_rivers I was afraid you’d say something like that.

I need that thing in The Matrix to download massive knowledge instantly so I could know how to go make the truck right. Brake trouble 🙁

Or say screw it, the world can turn without me today, and go to Cruces with @don_rivers. Sigh. I wish.

It’s been a working on the truck day. Joy. It seems things are worse now. Though, got the choke adjusted correctly, it seems.

But, it seems we blew the master cylinder on our way to get parts we now don’t know if we needed or not. Limped home on the emergency brake.

Do I sound like a real man now?

Just had an ex sighting at Walgreens. Mine this time. My ex pastor 😛 Long story.

I’ve said for years: If I couldn’t have a home coffee bar, 2nd choice would be home ice cream sundae bar. I’d put in the same enthusiasm.

Tonight will be a special valentine day edition slumber party with chocolate fondue, irish coffee, and the sappiest movie Terra can find 😉

Just heard in a country song on an old tape I found: "She took my keys away and now she won’t drive me to drink."

Been working around the kitchen and bar, listening to a cassette of The Lost Tapes with George Gimarc I recorded off the radio 12 years ago.

The short-to-the-point-of-misleading answer to "What’s The Lost Tapes?" is a talk show about pop music that aired every Sat night for years.

George Gimarc knows probably everything about music history and has a mind-manglingly massive collection of rare recordings.

No idea why it’s been a few days since my tweets stopped posting to Facebook but it looks like it’s just you and me for now, uh, ‘tweeps’.

Did not know he had an entry on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gimarc He obviously deserves one.

Anyway, I have about 30 of The Lost Tapes I recorded off radio in tha day. I probably have more of his show than I do The Dr. Demento Show.

New trinket on the bar: Bottled Poetry (wine) http://flic.kr/p/9hp846

Ok, maybe that fixed it. My Twitters haven’t been posting to Facebook, maybe they will now?

Admittedly quite a few i didn’t know or had forgotten http://www.eternalcode.com/100-google-tricks-that-will-save-you-time-in-school

Whoa, slumber party gold. Netflix IW has all the Friday the 13th movies (except the Freddy crossover) and the first two Hellraiser movies.

Sick of hearing it’s gonna warm up. I’m finally getting to wear my favorite coat and sweaters! Don’t want more snow, just cold.

Never thought of it, but yeah, I agree meaningless descriptor RT @CoffeeAdventure: RT @dearcoffeeiluvu: Boycott bold. http://fb.me/zASIdjt5

Comic books b2g1free at Hastings and the display moved back can’t be a good sign. Terra’s pretty hooked at this point.

Can’t decide which I love more, The Darjeeling Limited or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Passionate about both lately.

I want to be a Wes Anderson character. Hm. Who am I kidding? I already am. He needs to write me a part so I can get paid for this!

@don_rivers Zissou is more technically intricate, surreal; Darjeeling more emotionally engaging. Both a stylistic "see also" to Tenenbaums.

"I quit school ‘cuz I didn’t like recess." One of many great lines in The Apostle. (Vudu got our buck tonight.)

rated "The Apostle" 4.5 stars on #VUDU! http://www.vudu.com/movies/contentId/5232

Again with the late night sonic booms. That was three big ones in a row.

@prdpgn as i look back at tweets of the past, i’ve noticed this time of year i’ve twittered that we get a lot of late sonic booms.

@prdpgn my tweets archive to my blog + decent wp site search plugin + a couple years on twitter = find lots of interesting trivia 😛

RT @MicheleSims1: Did you hear that boom last night!? If you haven’t heard, night flying is happening again… http://fb.me/DS5mZb8S

What a wasted year. It’s been 8 months since my bday and I’ve only used the Monty Python "I’m 37, I’m not old!" line once or twice.

Love this one, have the Signature Collection LaserDisc RT @vudufans: 99 Cent Movie of the Day for 2/7 is "The Apostle" http://fb.me/UqQ9vvud

Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those ‘truths’ we once believed. – Friedrich Nietzsche (http://refdesk.com totd)

My beloved black auto 510 battery seems to have suddenly died 🙁 That was the only auto I owned, too, grrr. Should buy a 5-pack next time.

Put a tapedeck at the bar, so, tonight’s long-overdue slumber party is starting with Dr. Demento from May 3, 1998 and Irish coffees 🙂

This is the first time we’re trying Irish coffee made with siphon/vac pot coffee. Should be great 🙂

Tonight’s slumber party night junk food movie – a choice by Terra I’ve still somehow never seen – the one, the only, The Evil Dead.

Btw, noticed Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time are both on Netflix IW. Both a lot of fun.

Spending the rest of the day marathoning Lexx – gonna finish s3 and start s4. Just found out a new box set is coming in march! Not U.S. 🙁

Worried about Lexx s4 – heard very little good. But, we’ve been at this for over a year, wanna see it all. Then, we’ll start over 🙂

Anyway, we have three eps of Lexx s3 to go. We have become squealing, slobbering fans of this show. Even Wesley loves it 🙂

Tore sitting room apart looking for the ball from Terra’s BlackBerry – screw it, order it from Amazon. Wesley walks up, "What’s this?" O.O

Seriously, it was our entire morning. Flipped the couch over, got in a fight about it, everything. And we were about to next-day air it.

RT @opusmcfeely: PNM has graciously offered to kill the electricity, via rolling blackouts. Real Mexico laughs at our infastructure

Trying to be thankful for what hasn’t gone wrong. But, I’ve never been very good at that.

@don_rivers we’ve got everything and have since the power came back on yesterday morning.

RT @johnkejr: Alamogordo: Relights are in prog in golf course area & Cottonwood Hts, hope to be done late tomorrow per http://bit.ly/hxTMIL

According to the guy on the radio, you need to be home for the relights.

Dayim. RT @don_rivers: http://plixi.com/p/74349353 long icicles. 6 ft maybe.

The lights are flickering. We used to lose power all the time. Hope this isn’t a return – don’t feel like being blacked out right now.

The fracking power just went out while i’m cooking breakfast and she’s in the shower!!! grrrAAARRRR!!!!

Then, this must be all over town. RT @prdpgn: Grrr power outage first no water now no power seriously?!

Via FB, hasn’t hit yet… Jason Lord Hypno Over heard at the truck stop parts of alamo and tuli are loosing natural gas in about 5 min.

Finished cooking by cell phone light, she finished shower by flashlight. Still no power.

This sucks! Someone tell me again how this is all supposed to be some kind of fun??!! @prdpgn: @ABQChristopher estimated time is 830am

Power just came back on. Will it stay?

Btw, this was at 6am RT @PNMtalk: Could NM cold cause outages like in TX? PNM running ok today, but it’s always good to cut back usage in…

RT @prdpgn: Powers back on we get to live we get to live! Oh wait dammit we get to live….

RT @don_rivers: Oh shit. No natural gas. No electric.

RT @alamogordonews: Parents upset with national pizza company about "forcing" daughter to work, deliver pizzas during the snow and ice.. …

Wow. Unbelievable. RT @don_rivers: It is -11 F / -24 C here. Wtf

The only good news is that we have completely clear skies so the sun will be free to do all it can today.

@don_rivers Yeah, and gas. Someone on Facebook says we’ll be having rolling blackouts every two hours.

Listening to the annoying 91.7 guy, hoping for info. People are talking rolling blackouts, no gas, etc..

Great. RT @PNMtalk: #Ruidoso, #Alamogordo customers asked to immediately cut back power use. Plz turn off all you can, t’stats 65 or below.

RT @PNMtalk: Ruidoso, Alamo, Tulie: outages occurring. 1 of 2 transmission lines serving area out of service. Repairs under way.

Wtf is this music on 91.7?? Isn’t this the stuff they used to kill the martians in Mars Attacks?

RT @PNMtalk: Current outages statewide. See our outage map for more: http://bit.ly/9QLS7P #nm #abq

There’s something wrong with the electricity. My phone won’t charge. I plug it in, it thinks i’m only connecting to a computer.

Someone more knowledgable about electrical stuff can probably tell me what that means. But, every cord I try gets me those results.

Wha?? RT @don_rivers: My neighbor (a ham radio operator) says they are setting up a shelter at 1st and Florida. #alamogordo

Making a siphon pot of coffee while we still have gas. It’s the new Guatemala Antigua from Red Rock in ABQ. Stop by and have a cup! ;P

.@don_rivers Yeah, I don’t know from volts, amps, ohms, whatever would make my phone not see the power cable as, uh, power.

RT @PNMtalk: #Alamogordo, #Ruidoso update: service restored in 2nd trans line. Lifting request for customers to cut back. thx 4 patience

@MicheleSims1 Anger ;P

@don_rivers Good point. Though, i tried it on more than one. I’m hoping the power atm just doesn’t have the oomph my phone wants.

.@don_rivers btw, the chargers not lighting up the charge light on my phone are lighting up the charge light on my usb passthrough e-cig.

@don_rivers ;D I plug in my phone to a cable, the light doesn’t come on saying it’s charging – plug e-cig into same cord, its light comes on

@don_rivers I therefore deduce my e-cig may very well want less volts/amps/?? than my phone does

RT @TheLordHypno: Updates on #naturalgas situation #Alamogordo #tularosa #laluz from NMGCO:
<a href="https://www.nmgco.com/Emergency_Updates.aspx“>https://www.nmgco.com/Emergency_Updates.aspx

RT @TheLordHypno: emergency shelter has been set up #Alamogordo Civic Center 800 East 1st Street at the corner of South Florida and 1st St

Well, something changed, my phone will charge now.

Attn guy on the radio: It’s a water heater! Not a HOT water heater! You don’t have to heat hot water! Duh! #petpeeves #badday

If I’m getting the radio info right Tularosa and La Luz have no gas, most no power. There and here, they have emergency evacuation shelters.

@RachelRT Wow. I lived in Tulie for a few months when I was a kid – we either had gas or I was too young to notice the difference.

Pretty bold move giving cell #s of people (with 4x4s) offering rescue rides to the shelters for those who can’t get there. Good on ’em.

I was just reminded by @RachelRT how many in Tularosa and La Luz use propane, not natural gas.

The internet feed for city of alamo police isn’t streaming. I’ve never had that happen before. Was hoping to hear something interesting.

(it’s easier than a scanner and free)

I’d be getting more done if I didn’t have to hold this towel to the side of my head – the music on this station is making my ears bleed.

Uhhh, I just noticed it was @RamboKK, not @RachelRT, that told me about Tularosa and propane. Sorry, ladies!