love, loss, like a bullet's path

[asimplechord]

• *facepalm* I might be considering going to Atlanta to see Green Day the first weekend in August. I'll miss them when they're in TX/LA, and there's no other weekend date that I can manage. Plus, it's inkandchaos's birthday that weekend, so we could hang out. Do I need to see Green Day on this tour?
  
  
• Sometimes sports metaphors make no sense. When there's a runner on 1st and 3rd and baseball commentators say there are "runners on the corners" I don't get it. It's a DIAMOND. EVERY BASE IS A CORNER.
  
  
• And to complete my rantiness, a science rant: I'm reading Twinkie, Deconstructed right now.The chapter about enriched cake flour (#1 ingredient of Twinkies) explains the enrichment process, including the addition of iron to prevent anemia. There are two sources: ferrous sulfate and "reduced iron". But the reduced iron the author talks about is "food-quality iron that has been reacted with carbon monoxide and/or hydrogen to get ferric oxide". I get that while the CO is present, there's probably pi-bonding to the iron that makes its electronic state not "look" like it's ferric. But ferric oxide? NOT REDUCED. In this case, the iron has one less electron than it has in ferrous sulfate.
  
  
• Bird wings are fluttering in the chimney. Sandy is camped out in front of the fireplace, waiting for a meal. She's ridiculous.
  
  
• Why don't I have any Veruca Salt in my iTunes library? This must be corrected.
  
  
• Electric Touch tomorrow at Warehouse Live. Y/Y? It's been WEEKS since I had live music in my ears. Must go.

Comments

[libgirl.livejournal.com]

Hiya!

I think the answer is always if you have the money, time and inclination YES you need to go. LOL. :)

I'd love to GD, but I don't think I can right now. Bah.

Your science rant made less than no sense to me, but I love that you made it anyway.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I sent that rant to my sister (who is so not a scientist; she majored in modern languages and linguistics before going to law school) because I was so annoyed, and essentially got the same response. :)

Eh. I am not going to the Minneapolis Blink/FOB/PATD show because it would be three extra days off, so I can put the money I'd've used for hotel and such toward ATL, plus I'd be staying with someone rather than a hotel, and I wouldn't have to take any time off work. Decisions, decisions. My life, so hard, right?

[vic-ramsey.livejournal.com]

You know which concert you really need to go to? FOB/PANIC IN MINNEAPOLIS.

Just saying. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I WISH I COULD! I actually booked my tickets today for Chicago. I can't do Minneapolis - that'd be three extra days off, and since I'm taking two days the previous week to go to SIL's wedding in Tahoe and my sister is coming to Houston the following week, I just can't. The thing about the Green Day show in ATL is that it's a Saturday show, and I could go without missing any work.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I know! I'm just trying to figure out if the airfare and tickets will push me over budget or not, b/c some people (*cough* my half-sister *cough*) still haven't ante'd up for their pair of three-day passes to the ACL festival, and it's messing up my accounting. >:/