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(TMI alert, but this is like a romantic sonnet, so who really cares?)

With my recent revival from emotional death, caused by the wonderful
time I had with JT on the day we met (6.3.9), I've been crying every
time I heard the song that has lyrics "I'll be looking at the Moon, but
I'll be seeing you", and crying when I hear it in my head even when
it's not on the radio. Keep that thought in your head because it hits
me smack in the side of the head like that Dean Martin song later in
this narrative.

Thanks to JT, last night before the SNL rerun I had an inspiration:
Among my appx. 20 major inventions, each of which should be sufficient
to earn me a million dollars if only I could get it marketed, there are
two that would be especially timely right now if only I could find some
help developing and marketing them. So I began composing a listing of
them as the basis of an article I planned to post to some newsgroups as
soon as I had finished. In the process of that composition, I thought
of several others of my inventions that would also be timely now, and
the list grew to 6 major inventions with several sub-inventions of some
of them.

But I didn't post it before bedtime, because while I was working on
that task, I had a second inspiration, a more urgent task to complete
that night: Make a private Web page that organizes all the information
about me that JT needs to know, such as my schedule and my contact
informtion, and send her e-mail with link to it, instead of my previous
practice of sending her reams of linear text e-mail that have been a
burden for her to handle. So after finishing the invention-list but
before posting it, I started this more urgent task, and once again my
thoughts were interrupted by another task. I made a list of the women I
would most like to meet in person or see again after meeting
previously. I finished the basic list of those women, in four
categories, but again left it not-posted as I returned to the most
urgent task. I finally finished the JT WebPage and e-mailed the URL to
JT at about 4 AM, and went to bed, hoping to sleep in late.

No way! 

Instead, I woke up at morning light, then tried to get back to sleep,
but couldn't, and finally I gave up and got out of bed just before
6:40, i.e. I had only about two hours sleep after accounting for the
time it took me to get to sleep and the time after I woke up before I
checked the time.

The first thing I did after checking the time was to look out the
window to see the daylight that had woken me up. Immediately I saw the
Moon as clear as day, with its arms open as if they were JT's arms
waiting to give me another extremely-long hug, and the song came true.
I really did "see JT" literally while looking at the Moon. Then I
turned on the radio, and the first song KCEA played was:
   6:41 am - The Clark Sisters - Don't Be That Way (perfect for my lovemood!)
As I composed the above message, KCEA also played this fine music:
   6:44 am - Harry Goldson Big Band - Two O'clock Jump (actually OK version!)
   6:51 am - June Cristy - Midnight Sun (sounds like "cloy lane", why??)
   6:56 am - Englebert Wrobel with Bob Barnard, Chris Hopkins a -
     Shreveport Stomp (actually a new-orleans piano "rag"!)
   7:04 am - Benny Goodman Orchestra v:Dottie Reid - I'm Gonna Love That
     Guy ("like he's never been loved before", which is how JT did me!!)
   7:17 am - Dick Jerjens Orchestra v:Eddie Howard - Careless ("you break
     appointments and don't care, next you'll probably break my heart",
     good dedication for certain women I know)
   7:22 am - Lionell Hampton - Dinah (nice to hear)
   7:25 am - Lionel Hampton - When the Lights Are Low (even better!) 
   7:27 am - Red Norvo's Swing Octet - Knockin' On Wood (3 good vibes in a row!)
That's all the really good stuff played up to the point where I'm ready
to post. (It makes text-editing rather a pleasant task to hear such
fine music while working!) Locally I'm keeping a complete list of all
my favorites that KCEA plays while I happen to be listening, and if
anyone requests that data then I'll upload it to a Web page and post
the URL as a followup and then update the Web page from time to time as
local data accumulates.

ObShy: Before JT revived me, I was too shy to post here. But now I'm as
lively as I was back in 1999 when a cute chick blatantly flirted with
me, right behind the view of her boyfriend as they were walking past
the front of the car I was in, in response to my staring at her as she
walked by. This past Thursday at GCC I hugged Dave's new girlfriend and
kissed her on the cheek right in front of him
  (honestly, when I saw her looking so cute I totally forget she was
  his girlfriend, and asked her for permission for hug, and she said
  "yes", so I'm innocent, right?)
and he sure made a fuss. But it sure was fun finally getting his
comeuppance!!!!!

ObHack: I invented that new way of indenting parenthetical expressions
just a couple days ago, thanks to JT's firing up of my emotions. I
think it makes it much easier to visually track such very-large
parenthetical expressions, and it works even better for nested
expressions!!

ObPrettyprint(Lisp/C/Java): You-all know where I got the idea, right?

ObBroadcast: KCEA's near-real-time listing of all "automation" music is
finally working, and really does add to the listening pleasure. One
glitch: At the top of each hour, the upcoming listing after the hour
shows what would have been played if the same sequence had been
continued, but most times KCEA's master computer switches to a
different sequence, so what's actually played is totlally wrong from
what was promised across the top-of-the-hour "event horizon". Is there
anybody else who has noticed this recurrent glitch?

As I finish composing this newsgroup article:
                             Currently Playing:
   7:57 am - The Syd Lawrence Orchestra - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
                                 Coming Up:
   8:01 am - Les and Larry Elgart - I'll Be Seeing You (Speak of the Devil!!!)
   8:03 am - Earth and Sky - Earth and Sky Sunday Mar 19, 2006
   8:05 am - Ruby Murray - Mr. Wonderful
   8:08 am - Denny Farrell - Denny Farrell Friday
   8:08 am - The McGuire Sisters - Chances Are
I bet you ten quatloos they'll switch programs at 8AM and not play the
song whose theme inspired me to write this article. Since Earth and Sky
is announced as exactly 8 AM and 4(?) PM every day, not the odd time
shown by the automated listing, I predict they'll simply skip the theme
of this article, do Earth and Sky as they should, then it's potluck
what comes after it. I'll wait until the top-of-hour passes and include
the answer here ... any moment now ... sure enough, here's what
actually happened:
                              Played Recently:
   7:57 am - The Syd Lawrence Orchestra - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
   8:01 am - Earth and Sky - Earth and Sky Sunday Mar 19, 2006
   8:03 am - Ruby Murray - Mr. Wonderful
   8:05 am - Denny Farrell - Denny Farrell Friday
   8:06 am - The McGuire Sisters - Chances Are
At least this time they only dropped the one tune they didn't have time for.
But sometime they switch to a completely different sequence for the new hour.

ObTalkOrigins: This is only the third Earth and Sky mini-program that
I've heard so-far, but each of them has been *excellent*. I recommend
*everyone* listen to these programs because they are very good at
explaining how science really works. It's somewhat ironic that today's
morning episode was about the way computer models often disagree with
what actually happens, with climate modeling in the episode, but
also slightly applicable to KCEA's top-of-hour glitch. :-)