Today’s music
trivia is an American singing duo formed in the 1960s that was introduced to me
at a young age by my oldest sister, Barbara, that had a hugely successful
career before they broke up in 1970. Their vocal harmonies were unparalleled
during the 60s but due to their rocky relationship and artistic differences,
they went their separate ways. One half,
the singer/songwriter, went on to a very successful solo career. Their many,
many hits included, “Cecilia”, “Mrs Robinson” (used in the soundtrack for the
movie, “The Graduate”), “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” and “The Sound of
Silence”. Reuniting many times for brief
concert tours over the years, including a free concert in Central Park in 1981,
can you name this American folk singing duo?
I had some
technical difficulties yesterday with trying to post my blog entry, so it
finally went out earlier today. Some day
I hope to have it all worked out, but I somehow doubt I will ever get that
process down pat, ya know? It does get quite frustrating at times but after
trying for an hour or so yesterday, I just had to let it go and try again
another day. I finally got it figured out, for now, hopefully.
I tried about
ten times to call the Verizon Wireless help line, but the automated system
couldn’t read my number correctly, the piece of crap. I finally got to speak
with a person who was very helpful, thank goodness. My Hotspot MIFI internet
connection was not working properly and I had had enough of it, so I was
calling in for tech support, which I frequently do for electronic equipment
operations. This guy even gave me his email address so I can contact him
directly, which is nice! Finally a helpful and good customer service
representative for once! J
I have been
exploring some new music for free lately using the Rdio App on my iphone. It is a cheap way to check out new music
without investing your hard earned cash for a CD before hearing the music. I
saw a video on You Tube that had a song I liked so I pulled up the CD on Rdio
and gave some of the music a few minutes while I listen to what it has to
offer. Now I need to figure out how I can download this music for free to my
ipod library. Getting good music for free is a good thing for the consumer.
I should of
explored this all when Napster was going on about ten years ago. All kinds of peeps were getting all their
music for free back then. I have never
bought any music off of the internet. All my music in my ipod libraries are
from CDs I actually purchased, some I purchased multiple times due to damaged,
scratched or lost CDs. I guess I am still Old School when it comes to
purchasing music. Also, I actually listen to all of an album when I buy them.
Those songs were produced and recorded by the artist or a reason, so I try to
listen to all them. You never know what you might be missing.
I wish some of
you guys and gals would start writing a blog page every once in a while. It would be nice to have some kind of dialog
going on here. It is not hard to set it
up, I mean, I did mine on my first attempt not even planning on penning one. I
just knew I would receive a bunch of negative feedback from my posts on
Facebook, so this way I write what the heck I want and if someone does not want
to read it, they can opt out at any time. I can speak politically, religiously
(or in my case no-religiously), say what I think, post my views, tell people
off, congratulate someone, make fun of someone, honor someone, show respect for
someone, show my feelings… and do what the heck I want. It mainly was developed
for a way for Snoopy, Linus and myself to keep in touch when we go on our
exploration of the USA. When we are out there using mostly back roads and
camping out in the middle of nowhere as much as possible, we want to keep in
touch as much as possible, to a point. This way we can share the experience
with you guys, Our Beloved Peeps! J
By then I hope to know how to download and insert photos into this blog
because we plan on taking lots and lots of photos to document our travels. A
Picture is worth a hundred words!
Good grief, I am
attempting to insert a photo Snoopy and my chubby self had taken at the Annual
Tavern Pet Holiday Photo Night. I am hoping it works out okay, then, I can actually
say I accomplished something useful today and I’ll have some experience inserting
photos! J
Okay, we are going to close out this blog post for today.
Let un know if you can view the photo or not.
As Snoopy says, Bark Less and Wag More!
Until next time… Be Good!
- cb
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