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I'm Listening!

August 07, 2010

I'm working, really and truly, I'm working! With the jobs I've got due in the next few days, I better be working. But I'm also listening to WUMB-FM, the live streaming Web version, and they said they wanted to hear from us out here in cyberspace. So I dropped everything and sent them this little e-mail:

I'm not very far away, though. WUMB is playing on the boombox in my studio apartment, but I can't hear it out here. I'm sitting on my little deck, surrounded by oak trees, editing a manuscript on my laptop. The laptop rests on a lap desk, and the lap desk rests, you guessed it, on my lap. To my left is the dictionary; to the right is a beer stein that needs refilling. Straight ahead is my sleeping malamute. Celtic music, beer, crystal-clear sunlight, and my canine buddy -- I tell you, work doesn't get much better than this!

So an hour or so later I checked my e-mail, and there was a reply from WUMB

What kind of beer?    :-)

I replied:

Tonight? Beck's. <g>

By this time the light was gone and I'd moved inside. I checked e-mail again, and sure enough:

There's a great one from New Orleans called "Blackened Voodoo" -- but it's no longer available in the Northeast since Katrina because the company's plant was lost in the storm. They've been using another local brewery down there to make batches for the locals until they can fully get back on their feet again.

Beck's okay in the meantime.

Thanks for checking in. Hope I'm not providing too much of a distraction away from your manuscript tonight!

I asked if my correspondent knew any reliable bootleggers and said I appreciated a radio station that talked back.

 

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