Blog of Billy

Short notes first:

Specialist Steenson has left again for Texas, but, as Doug has suggested, we'll be seeing him pretty regularly.

Hertz, from my understanding, has now made official its arrangement to outsource IT/MIS to CGI. The "re-badging" process is commencing as we speak. I'm eager for gossip. Spill!

Happy Birthday, Mom. You're old, but then, so am I.

Now, I've been mopey and forlorn for the last two weeks or so, due to some weird pseudo-revelations. How time distorts things. Thus, in keeping with the title of this post, I include lists below.

Top 5 OKC Mexican restaurants: I rank based primarily on quality of queso, and secondarily on quality of everything else.

1. Chileno's It's just that good. The queso is top-notch, the drinks are plentiful, and the food is just yummy. It's seriously the best Mexican in the OKC Metro.
2. Abuelo's I think it's pretty decent. Their queso is creamy without crossing any textural lines. I'm also a big fan of their spinach enchiladas.
3. Tarahomara's One of Doug's favorites.
4. La Luna I may be a bit biased as I usually ate there for free, but their queso was worth actually paying for.
5. Dos Gabachos New flavor in Edmond that has par-level queso, good food, and downright delicious tortillas.

As has been noted elsewhere, there are more good albums than there are spaces. This is a good problem to have. Also, this list is weighted in the indie-rock direction as that (and Simon and Garfunkel) is all I'm really listening to at the moment. Hence, my top 5 albums of 2007:

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows Just. Wow.
2. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank I had "Florida" on repeat for almost 3 straight weeks. The whole album is just about as good.
3. Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs Despite using the incorrect plural form of "Seraph," this album is beautiful and flowing.
4. Interpol - Our Love To Admire More of what I love of these kids.
5. Battles - Mirrored Found this in Time's list, and have been enjoying it ever since.

Keeping in mind my somewhat...lax views of the status of copyright, you could probably ask me for a sample of any of these, and I could point you to some well protected bastion of freedom from which you could pull them.

Also making me feel better: pedantry. Attention KCRG writing and editing staff! Specifically, whoever wrote this article on Huckabee! Your third paragraph makes a mockery of sentences everywhere. You use two semicolons, but neither correctly. You get sharply negative points for perverting that most precious of punctuation marks. You also lose a frightening number of points for missing an apostrophe on the possessive "plans," while putting an extraneous one on the plural "American's." Finally, you shouldn't put a comma in front of an in-line quotation if you're setting it up to read as a continuation of your sentence. Seriously now. Who writes these things? Who edits them?

More information on the "Fair Tax" later. Strangely, I don't hate it on face.

Lay there with your mouth on mine.
Stay there with that thought in mind.