Weather here is weird. Sometimes it's totally rainy, like this morning, and it reminds me of West Cork, Ireland. I even get little flashbacks of the tea at Field's in Skibbereen. Then suddenly it turns sort of vaguely overcast and not as rainy. And you go out and voila! A brilliant burst of sun smiles down on you and you're reminded that the world is actually a beautiful place. I love sun. The whole whipping wind that we experienced in Ireland, that was pretty hard core. I remember going kayaking in slashing rain and crazy wind. People were really into it, though. Full moon recently. That explained a lot of things.

About a year ago I started making these little videos for YouTube. I don't know why. I just wanted to. Here's an example. And now I just can't stop thinking about podcasting. It's podcasting this, podcasting that. Even Barack Obama has podcasts, I hear. I don't know. I'm not sure. I think it can be a bit overloady. You can get carried away podcasting, I think. Plus, who wants to hear it? Really. Dandan is enough as it is as a blog. Right? Who wants to hear somebody's opinions, anyway. Downloading opinions to their iPods and jogging and stuff. You know what I mean? Jogging with opinions blaring in your ears. I was thinking about how I used to go for walks on Broad Street in Durham with my walkman blasting stuff. This was before iPods, this was actually before CDs. I had a cassette tape player. I don't know why, but in Seattle, that kind of thing is all retro and "in." People actually have told me they like this one T-shirt I have, this guy in line somewhere said, "I like your vintage T-shirt." What he didn't know was this was just a college thing I got somewhere, that the vintage was really me. Anyway, I'm mixed about the whole podcasting thing. Should Dandan podcast, or not? You guys can be honest.

Our neighbor really likes this radio station. 103.7 Lite FM. So we listen to it a lot in the evenings, through the window, at about the time when Delilah's show comes on. This happens so much I feel I'm on a first-name basis with Delilah. Here's how Delilah describes herself:

"I was a small-town girl. Aside from the ridiculous green beret and homely green jumper, signing me up for Girl Scouts was the best decision Mom made for her fifth-grade daughter... ---103litefm.com/...

The thing about it is, it's a nice change from all the emo stuff you keep hearing all the time on KEXP. I used to like KEXP but lately other things are more interesting, for some reason. For example, cds from the early 1990s. From the dustier section of our collection. Also: podcasts. Even the Lite FM station is a nice change of pace, kind of. It sort of reminds me of home, actually. Actually it's Anytown, America music. This is the kind of music that reminds me of after tennis practice. Back in the day. It makes me want to drive to a mall and get take out from Chick-Fil-A. Did I really just say that? Ew.