posted January 22, 2014 02:47 PM            

I would maybe consider starting a station with Mono, Trentmoller, and Ratatat as your seeds. Ratatat might be too exciting if you're trying to keep it mellow, but it is good creative music.

I just started this station for myself, and the first few picks are pretty good. Some trip-hop jazzy numbers. Right now it's playing Emiliana Torrini, an Icelandic singer/songwriter whom I've never heard of previously. Now it's playing Ratatat, which I'm pleased to see is correlated to RJD2 in Pandora's mind. RJD2 did Mad Men's theme song. Also, The Xx, which is another mellow band. Now it's playing Modeselektor, which was based upon the Trentmoller seed. Might be a little energetic and cause you to groove, but it's not aggressive.

posted January 23, 2014 12:43 AM            

UPDATE: The artist's names weren't found by Pandora. Oh well.

posted January 24, 2014 09:07 AM            

Are the questions required to be logical and sensible?

posted January 26, 2014 12:37 PM            

Moving back to same town different home or same home as before?

Do you adjust well to moves?

posted January 29, 2014 08:46 PM            

We've moved back to the old city, which is Dublin. We haven't moved back to Jen's house for a few reasons. One is that she's going to be independent contracting, so she'd rather not have to pay the mortgage. Her renter's have a three year lease, which is something they were interested in because they have a son in the local school there, so it's nicer not to displace them. Also, a former neighbor didn't like Jen's tenants, so there's some friction there.

The move was a killer. So hard...even with help. Now it's just organizing the junk. My friend is trying to get me a job back at the old bank. I'm going to improv tonight for the first time in almost a year!

posted January 30, 2014 07:48 PM            

That violin bow guitar sound...

I love it down in that area, I grew up near Santa Cruz.

posted February 01, 2014 12:54 PM            

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Thanks. I'm sure we'll be fine. It's good to be back. Now if only I could find my pots and pans!

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They are in the carton labled "pots and pans"

posted February 01, 2014 03:53 PM            

I marked my moving boxes with the room, and had my "Emergency Pack" put in my car last.

posted February 01, 2014 03:57 PM            

Dunno, just a quick thought.

Glad you`re back in improv

posted February 01, 2014 07:56 PM            

I always helped my mom growing up, and she enjoyed that I was able to pick things up and help myself. I had superiority over my older sister in that I didn't eat a lot of the cookie dough when we'd make cookies. I think that's part of why I was invited to help (though my mom still made a lot of cookies on her own).

Jen likes the disinfecting power of the dishwasher. She's a bit of a germaphobe. I'll do either way, but a dishwasher can be faster.

I like a good meatloaf. I wasn't crazy about my mom's, but I've tasted some that are pretty good. I think the sweetness has put me off sometimes.

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I marked my moving boxes with the room, and had my "Emergency Pack" put in my car last.

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I marked my moving boxes diligently on all sides. I was the only one to do so. The problem is kind of that Jen was too tired to direct traffic when the help was moving in boxes. Our dining room is impenetrable at present, which is a problem. We have a party set up for Valentine's, though, so we've got a deadline to get this place into shape.

I'm glad I'm back in improv, too. Nothing changed much, and I felt pretty comfortable jumping right back in. I was a little blind-sided by the events of one skit. For some reason our very nice Gemini member decided to cut my leg with huge, imaginary scissors. Very out-of-character for her, and we were all a little dumbfounded by that event. She just wanted my blood for some artwork that had started with a different person's finger having been cut. It was odd.