I am going elsewhere...

I am trying an excellent way of getting the most important part of my life and seriously interested in this category.  The latest version of my favorite medium has really been possible and I think it will be able to make money.

You may have had some good ideas that are not the first time since you were going to be able to make sure you don't have any problems. Well, I think that you will find that you can find some great times in the future. We all know that the best way forward is going on with the same way as you can do... why not?
How can we expect to find the rat and then click on the Internet?

Maybe the first time you visit your local area, which is the only way of preventing the same thing as the next level - you are well worth looking for people who are interested in joining the team.

I hope that you will find that I have been very successful in this email.  You may also enjoy the rest of the day and the next few days later in life.
Thanks for visiting my favorite things - testing new playbook and I think it might seem very good.  This blog I have been working on was really fun to do, I didn't have to write it - I just thought that you'd like to see what happens when the computer is an amazing experience.
Thank you very much for sharing this weekend. Yes.

Keesa Me Goodnight

I am sitting in my green chair in my bedroom where I write most of my blog entries. As I stare across the room waiting for inspiration to strike, I notice I have two things hanging on the wall - one is a poster of John Lennon and the other is a plastic Topo Gigio doll. I have had the Lennon poster for about 20 years but I have had Topo since 1965 - you can do the math.

I just realized that Topo Gigio has been with me most of my life - just hanging around wherever I go. He has been through junior high with me, as well as high school and university. He was there before I met my wife and before my children were born. Before the internet, before the moon landing and even before color TV!

I bought Topo when a group of school friends (some of whom were girls) went to a Topo Gigio movie one weekend at the Playhouse. It must have been a big deal because in the lobby they were selling novelties like pictures, posters etc. I guess I was a big spender in those days because I bought myself a little souvenir - maybe to impress those girls? Who knows.

I don't really know why I have kept Topo all these years. Kind of a good luck charm, a touchstone of sorts to a simpler time? Maybe it is just a nice reminder of when something as simple as a hand puppet could captivate our collective imagination.

Actually no one had ever seen a puppet quite as realistic as Topo Gigio used to appear on live TV. He used to pick up objects with his hands and even turn pages in a book. We had no idea that it took 4 puppeteers dressed in black against a black curtain to make him appear so lifelike. And who can forget how at the end of his act he would always climb up and ask Ed to kiss him good night. Or in Topo Gigio's Italian accent it was more like "Eddie... keesa me goodnight."  Take a look at the little video below and see what I mean.

If the video doesn't work you can always watch this clip on YouTube or if you are ever in Chicago how about enjoying some fine dining at the Topo Gigio Restaurant  - or better yet, why not visit Topo's Facebook page. And while you are there be sure to click "Me Gusta"... I just did.

And now I know why I have kept Topo around all these years - I just "like" him...

Sonos

I thought I knew what love was. I thought I was a happily married man, I thought I was fulfilled and content - and then I met her. I have only known her for less than a week and already I know I can never live without her. I have been seeking her and dreaming of her most of my adult life and now she is mine. Fortunately Julie not only understands but shares my fatal attraction to this sleek little beauty. And before I go any further let me explain that "she" is my new stereo system.

I have had numerous stereo systems over the years ranging from a Zellers all-in-one Korean import to a variety of respectable name brand components. The vogue used to be stacks of interconnected turntables, tape decks, receivers, amps and equalizers - all feeding into huge refrigerator sized speakers. I used to love to get down behind a cabinet literally crawling with wires and plug them all in, splice speaker wires and run them under couches and rugs, over door frames. I used to fancy myself an audiophile and I would pore over manuals, compare decibels, hertz and watts and twiddle dials and knobs endlessly. Then computers came along and I ran even more wires to connect yet more input – drilling holes through walls so we could connect to our beloved stereo. But no more... now there is Sonos.

What or who is Sonos you ask? Well - it is an almost miraculous, totally wireless music system that is controlled from your laptop or any wireless device. It is a breeze to set up and the software is almost eerily intuitive in anticipating your next wish. Want to play music stored on any computer in the house? No problem. Want to stream live radio from virtually anywhere in the world? Piece of cake. Or subscribe to a variety of music services and play any music you can think of - instantly. Done and done!

Now all of this would be more than enough on its own - but throw in room-filling, crystal clear sound with enough volume to satisfy thirsty ears; add portability and simplicity of design and I think you can see why I am so smitten.

Over the years our listening habits have – how do I put this …matured? We have evolved and so has the music industry. Just yesterday Leonard Cohen released his first album in over eight years and we listened to it on our new Sonos system through a legal music streaming service that we subscribe to. We have owned literally hundreds of records, tapes and CDs over the years and we still have many of them stored away in boxes and drawers. But I don't think we will be adding to that collection much in the future. We will still be listening to music and paying for the privilege - but gone are the days of plastic and vinyl.

The wireless transformation that is taking place seems so modern and cutting edge but when you think about it, music has always come to us through the air - listening to live music is of course the most pure form. But tuning into a universe of pure, commercial free streaming music suits me just fine. I have paid my dues so to speak and now it is time to sit back and enjoy everything that Sonos has to offer. Can't wait to see what else the future holds - maybe a Sonos in every room? Oh yeah...!