America: Revisited

I've got the guts enought to admit it. I like America, the all-too-easy to discount easy listening folk band from the 70s. I bought all their LPs as cut-outs in the late 1970s and I have quite a fondness for them. Once you get beyond the mind-think of "I'm not supposed to like this band", then the album and others from the early 70s can entertain and even delight. Sure, the lyrics can drive even the most ardent surrealist into fits of aggrivated aggitation. Yeah, some of the melodic ideas seem pat from this vantage point. But, holistically heard, it's good. Sometimes surprisingly good. Plus, the CD sounds like cut grass in the summertime. Doing chores for dad and the lightning bugs are just coming out. It takes me back. Sonically. Some CDs/LPs do that better than others. This one is Janus - it takes me back and propells me forward at the same time. No easy feat.

Sleepy

Fell asleep immediately upon coming home from work and just now woke up. I think my internal clock is a few time zones off this week. It's been a very difficult week thus far. Sleeping so few hours each evening and waking up so tired that I yawn every 10 seconds. Hope to be back to normal by this weekend.

Virus

Picked up some nasty butt computer virus somewhere in the last couple of days. Struggled with it for about 10 hours this weekend - to no avail - and decided to reformat the harddrive and upgrade Active-X protection. I got hit with something from a Trojan via Active-X. Somedays... Well, I have most of the essentials re-installed. After about 12 hours total time. In the next week, everything should be back to normal. I had to take Deeper Into Music off-line while I used it as a back up for all the files from the infected harddrive that I was certain I could back up with out too much fear of re-contamination.

Ack.