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I posted a blog at the beginning of August complaining about the young family moving upstairs.  I talked about the noise.  I showed you the toys.  I can live with those things.  What I was worried about at the time was the inevitable “children at the window”.  See, my apartment is half-basement.  My windows are ground level.

Today, I wanted to spend my afternoon allowing the nice 75 degree Seattle summer air in whilst working on my videos, my first of the month.  I got that.

I also got kids screaming.  Running back and forth.  Yowling.  Nowadays, I spend my afternoons online, watching Dylan Rattigan and Chris Matthews talking politics on MSNBC and shooing the kids away.  See below.  Welcome to my world.

Now, as a general principle, I won’t show other people’s children in a YouTube video without the parents’ consent… but when those kids are peering in your window, fair game.

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I posted a blog earlier today where I challenged my readers to figure out what was the dumb idea I came up with on which to record a video. What was my theme? Chelo was the first to figure it out.  Congrats to him!

The theme is the alphabet. Each of the clips in the vid depicted each successive letter of the alphabet.  Starting with asphault and ending with zuchinni.  Each clip was recorded sequentially.  It would have been very easy as I was recording D, E or F to find clips for S, T or U and then edit them in later.  I didn’t do that.  I tried not to think ahead beyond the particular letter I was looking for either.  Mind you,  for the bigger Scrabble value letters like Q, X, and Z, I did have to think ahead a bit.

I knew there were only two places I could find my X: a doctors or dentist’s office or a music store that stocks xylophones.  The folks at the dentist’s office were more than accommodating.

The two hardest letters I had were “Q” and “U”.  I went into two convenience stores looking for Q-tips, and although they both had cotton swabs, neither were the name brand.  I bought that second lunch instead.

U was really tough. I had already spotted the dentist office where I knew I wanted to inquire, and so I circled a 4 block area around it looking for something that began with the letter “U”, just 3 letters away from the dreaded “X“.  I couldn’t even think of ANYTHING that began with the letter U other than undergrowth (too easy) and underwear (getting a pic of someone’s underwear might have been feasible, but was definitely illegal and might have landed me on the registered sex offender list).

If you’re a little bit country, check out Obadaiah Paker playing Outkast on accoustic guitar…

Or, if you’re a little bit Rock and Roll, here is a little  System of a Down…