{"id":57234,"date":"2011-08-18T00:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57234\/afternoon-invaded-morning\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T00:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:15:44","slug":"afternoon-invaded-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/57234\/afternoon-invaded-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"My Afternoon Invaded after an A to Z Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted a blog at the beginning of August complaining about the young family moving upstairs.\u00a0 I talked about the noise.\u00a0 I showed you the toys.\u00a0 I can live with those things.\u00a0 What I was worried about at the time was the inevitable \u201cchildren at the window\u201d.\u00a0 See, my apartment is half-basement.\u00a0 My windows are ground level. <\/font><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 I got that.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I also got kids screaming<\/strong>.\u00a0 Running back and forth.\u00a0 Yowling.\u00a0 Nowadays, I spend my afternoons online, watching Dylan Rattigan and Chris Matthews talking politics on MSNBC and shooing the kids away.\u00a0 See below.\u00a0 Welcome to my world.<\/font><\/p>\n

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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. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nI posted a blog earlier today<\/a> 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.\u00a0 Congrats to him!<\/font><\/p>\n

The theme is the alphabet.<\/font><\/strong> Each of the clips in the vid depicted each successive letter of the alphabet.\u00a0 Starting with asphault and ending with zuchinni.\u00a0 Each clip was recorded sequentially.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I didn’t do that.\u00a0 I tried not to think ahead beyond the particular letter I was looking for either.\u00a0 Mind you,\u00a0 for the bigger Scrabble value letters like Q, X, and Z, I did have to think ahead a bit.<\/p>\n

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I knew there were only two places I could find my X: a doctors or dentist\u2019s office or a music store that stocks xylophones.\u00a0 The folks at the dentist\u2019s office were more than accommodating. <\/font><\/p>\n

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The two hardest letters I had were \u201cQ\u201d and \u201cU\u201d.\u00a0 I went into two convenience stores looking for Q-tips, and although they both had cotton swabs, neither were the name brand.\u00a0 I bought that second lunch instead.<\/font><\/p>\n

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 \u201cU\u201d, just 3 letters away from the dreaded \u201cX\u201c.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t even think <\/strong>of ANYTHING <\/strong>that began with the letter U other than undergrowth (too easy) and underwear (getting a pic of someone\u2019s underwear might have been feasible, but was definitely illegal and might have landed me on the registered sex offender list).<\/p>\n

Of course, \u201cukulele\u201d kept popping into my head for the \u201cu\u201d, but I didn\u2019t bring any of mine and there were no music stores in downtown Edmonds.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not even sure I\u2019m showing you actual \u201cviolets\u201d and \u201cwindows\u201d are definitely too easy, but when that UPS truck appeared after half an hour of circling on my bike, I just wanted to get to my X.<\/p>\n

So here is the Alphabetical video in two versions.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re a little bit country, check out Obadaiah Paker playing Outkast on accoustic guitar\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or, if you\u2019re a little bit Rock and Roll, here is a little\u00a0 System of a Down\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n

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