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Time to stop fighting the inevitable, I guess. LOL

Okay. So. Um... Oh, right.

There are a few books from last year's "really want to read" list that I didn't get to so let's put those down.

Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation - rather dense non-fiction tome, so will be an ongoing read.
Cult Vegas: The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin’est Town on Earth!
LIFE The Rat Pack: The Original Bad Boys

New items for the "really want to read" list:

Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong; Revised and Expanded Edition

In case anyone is wondering why I list a few things separately like this, it's because they are only in physical book form and I read very few physical books these days. So it's sort of like a special thing. Not necessarily in a good way, because I'd MUCH rather have e-versions.

Series to continue

Sandman Slim
Joe Pitt
Wayward Pines
Albert Samson

Series to start

Mountain Jack Pike
� Miles Jacoby - started
Shell Scott
Doctor Orient

The Book Covers

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Reserved

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FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You never disappoint. :P

lol

I aim to please. ;-)

Oh. no!! I missed it!! I wanted to be the first on all of the 2017 threads!
Congratulations Mrs. J.! *grumble, grumble*

LOL :D

OH NO!! I'm not even second! :( LOL

:-D

Okay, starting to have some structure to 2017's reading. Will update when I've got The Weird Challenge fleshed out.

sounds interesting :D

Updated info on The Weird Challenge in post #3.

Christa wrote: "Updated info on The Weird Challenge in post #3."

OMG! This sounds awesome and hilarious! I'm going to be so busy reading your updates I might not get to mine!! lol

Wishing you an awesome 2017! :)

ROFL Thanks! :D Hey, if I can entertain others while I'm entertaining myself, all the better. :)

I'm so full of cold, doped to the eyeballs in medication and a few glasses of red wine to ease the pain, that I don't understand a bit of your weird challenge. But that's what makes it weird :)

Looking forward to the updates.

LOLOL! Cold medicine and red wine? Oh dear. :D

I think I've just come up with Part 3... heeheehee!

Part 3: "You've just won a lifetime supply of wine!" - Find (or fabricate) a connection to alcohol for each book I read.

:D

Christa wrote: "LOLOL! Cold medicine and red wine? Oh dear. :D

I think I've just come up with Part 3... heeheehee!

Part 3: "You've just won a lifetime supply of wine!" - Find (or fabricate) a connection to alc..."

*Snort!*

Okay, the thread for The Weird Challenge is ready.
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Christa wrote: "LOLOL! Cold medicine and red wine? Oh dear. :D

I think I've just come up with Part 3... heeheehee!

Part 3: "You've just won a lifetime supply of wine!" - Find (or fabricate) a connection to alcohol for each book I read.
"

I'm sold!

*just off to incorporate a drinking challenge into my 2017 targets. That's what Christa meant. Right???*

Um, sure! That's what I meant! :D Just don't blame me for any resulting headaches. :P

I can't wait to see the updates xD

Christa wrote: "Origin: The ITAO list, copied shamelessly from Nyssa's thread. :D

The Alphabet List ... Also copied directly from Nyssa's thread, because I really am that lazy. "

ROFLOL!!

No worries, copy away ... umm, since you already have anyway! :D

hahaha I didn't think you'd mind. :D But when I was copying the alphabet, I really had to laugh at myself for being too lazy to type it out myself.

Christa wrote: "hahaha I didn't think you'd mind. :D "

No, of course not.
And hey, if you find a Bahamian Author or setting before I do, please hook a sista up!

It's highly unlikely that I will find one first, but if I do, I will definitely let you know! :)

Finished a book, so updated stuff in this thread.

Another book done! Haven't done my Weird update yet, though.

Nice going!

Read my third book of the year, updated all my shit. :D

Christa wrote: "Read my third book of the year, updated all my shit. :D"

:-D

Oh. My. Gosh.

Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation is available as an ebook! Not sure when that happened, but maybe now I'll actually read it. :D

lol

Must admit, given the title and (some of) your predilections, I thought it might be a different book altogether :)

I totally knew what it was about. Although I'm weird.

Orlok wrote: "Must admit, given the title and (some of) your predilections, I thought it might be a different book altogether :)"

Yeah, I can totally see why you'd expect that of me. I would, too. LOL

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I totally knew what it was about. Although I'm weird."

Yes, you're weird, and AWESOME. :)

I recently joined a different Ark server to play on, and the admin set me up with a Discord channel to play music on. I named my base "Martini Beach", I built a tiki bar, and I play exotica, lounge and standards over the Discord voice channel.

It feels like home. :)

That sounds great Christa :D

DoodlePanda wrote: "That sounds great Christa :D"

It really is. I paint everything pink and blue, but I plan to add more colors later for that "tropical" feel. :) It's a nice way to escape, and everyone one the server is really nice, too. I even run rescue ops when newbs' thatch houses are being attacked by mean dinosaurs. :D

Oh yeah, you say you're running rescue ops, but you're really just looking for more olives. :P

Well, I mean, I might be multi-tasking, yeah, but the result is the same. :D

Updated all my crap. :D

:-D

Yay :D

So... this ukulele thing has really knocked my reading off course. I'm still reading, but not any of the things I was thinking I was gonna be reading. :D

Oh, and I now own one of these:


and one of these:

Definitely the surf green. Definitely. Although the dark one does look nice.

Welcome to the wonderful time-sucking world of music. It will suck up all your time and if you are a gear hound all of your money as -well. I have thankfully passed through most of the GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) issues, but what to learn can still suck away large portions of my life.

So what are you learning to play?

Christa wrote: "Oh, and I now own one of these:


and one of these:
"

Did you buy BOTH?

Haha yes, I bought both. The Shark (which I named Jabberjaw) arrived last Sunday and I ordered the Ziricote (named Delilah) from Mim's Ukes on Wednesday. :D She got here Friday.

Homey, I've been a musician for most of my life. But I quit. Long story, but there was both emotional baggage and physical limitations that were an increasing problem. Then the uke started to invade my subconscious. Started having dreams about them and then I started seeing them everywhere. So I figured I should at least try, since Jabberjaw didn't cost that much.

Well, it took me less than a day to fall in love. No physical pain (aside from having to build calluses again for the first time since I was like 10) and no emotional pain - the uke is completely foreign to me so I have no previous associations for it to get wrapped up in. It doesn't remind me of bad things like guitars and keyboards do. It's friendly and happy and makes a wonderful sound.

I've been singing more in recent days than I have in probably the past 10 years. Stuff I never tried to sing / play before. I'm starting all over, and since I have no pre-established "walls", if I want to try to play something, I just fucking go for it. :D I'm doing things I didn't think I could do. Now, my physical issues still exist, so I don't know if I can get into fingerstyle picking because I don't think the joints of my right hand are up to the task, but you know what? I'm still gonna try to learn and see what happens.

So what have I been playing / singing? Elvis. Sonny Burgess. Frank Sinatra. Dean Martin. Ella Fitzgerald.

I was singing Love Me by Elvis in C, which was too high, because I can't yet get all the chord shapes quickly when playing in A or Bb, but my second time through, I realized I was hitting all the notes anyway. Not perfectly, of course, but still. With practice... (original Elvis version, for reference: )

I'm very happy. Very, very happy. Which makes sense, because I'm playing the friendliest instrument in the world. :)