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About a year ago, I stumbled onto Nile Rodgers’ Twitter account. Yes, that Nile Rodgers. I can’t remember how it happened. I remember him talking about how he was recently struck with cancer. He was in treatment, after surgery, and spoke about his doctor-prescribed daily walking therapy. The part that interested me is the way he narrated his daily walks. They were spotted with “we did this here” and “that was recorded there”. Of course, these references were always about some of my favorite soundtrack-to-your-life artists.

Of course I knew of Chic, Nile’s band along with Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson and the ladies. I remembered roller skating to them on Friday nights and dancing to them in my room as a young teenager. I knew of Nile’s far-reaching producing efforts (Madonna, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Sister Sledge) and of course Bernard and Tony’s crucial contributions in Power Station but it wasn’t until reading his daily blog, and seeing wonderful vintage photos, that I realized how extensive Nile’s musical reach was into the fabric of the soundtrack of my life.

Last year when I was going to spend a long weekend in New York I thought “How wonderful would it be to run into Mr. Rodgers on one of his daily walks?” We had batted a tweet back and forth, about what I can’t remember, but he did start following me and I always appreciated that. The accidental meet up never occurred, unfortunately. Probably because I was way downtown in Chelsea and not waking up until the afternoon and I think Nile is up on the Upper East Side somewhere. And judging by the pictures he took of him bundled up from the cold on his daily walk, it seemed he started pretty early in the morning. No worries.

Tonight, I saw Nile post a tweet to Miss Jody Watley (swoon) about loving to play on her new album. I noticed he accidentally made a typo (@ jodywatley instead of @jodywatley) and I realized she wouldn’t get the message. I retweeted his tweet, correcting it so it would show up in her feed. This is what he sent back to me:

What a helluva guy. Maybe one of these days I’ll be in New York and accidentally run into Mr. Nile Rodgers and I would love to shake his hand. Shake his hand and say “Thank you, sir”, thank for all the wonderful music you have given to me.

You can read Nile’s Planet C blog here and his homepage here. You can also purchase his autobiography, Le Freak, (which I haven’t started reading yet) here.

Be well.

Thought I’d write a little before I head into work this evening…

I had the morning and the afternoon off. So I stayed in bed for a while, until about 1:00. It felt really good to snooze and just relax. It was also quiet (all loud, rude neighbors being at work) and it was nice to take advantage of that peaceful time.

I finally got up, made some coffee, surfed and here I am. I know, exciting, right?!

I went to ivan.com which is in the exact same state as the last time I went there, about fourteen years ago. Most of the links there go to Geocities (remember that?) or 404 broken link pages. I hope he’s not paying monthly to host that account. It’s a good example of what web design (if you can call it that) was back then.

I’ve missed a couple of days of blog posting in my 2012 Initiative. I work. I’m tired. Sometimes I sit on the couch for a few hours when I get home. I can’t be in front of this computer all the time.

Here is a list of some tweets that, for some reason, didn’t get sent:

Why does my neighborhood look and feel abandoned?
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Sweetie it’s fucking McDonald’s. Stop doing special orders for your five children. #holdinguptheline
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Loawd give me 2x patience today!
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I’ve dribbled on myself. #vietnamesefood
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Looks like I should start hanging out at this bus stop more often. #mayor http://moby.to/d5d1kq
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Next up in the shuffle: Grace Jones, Erasure, Housemartins, Lightning Seeds, MJ, Beloved, Kylie, Matt Alber, Interpol, ABC, Fischerspooner.
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Picked up my new iMac!
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Street preachers are funny. #andscary
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Every song on this playlist at Noodles & Co is a prime example of what is wrong with pop music today.
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My email isn’t working. The personal email that I’ve had for over eleven years. I talked to the hosting company and they say “Yeah, there’s something wrong with that User. I’m going to open a Ticket and get back to you.” Great.

So what else is going on?

Let’s see. Nothing really coming up for this week… not really much going on for next week… not much the week after that. Well there you go.

Oh, here’s something. I still haven’t billed for those two freelance jobs I did in December. I guess I should get on that because that’s about $630 that I could have in my pocket. I’m always the worst when it comes to billing for my freelance gigs. I do the invoicing manually and maybe that’s the reason for the delay: taking 15-minutes to fill out the template I’ve created.

#lazyass

Today may be a Saturday to the rest of the world but it’s no weekend for me. For the last 20 months, Saturday’s have been Day Two of the Doubleshifts.

On the train home people are definitely out for their Saturday Nights. Loud, subtly obnoxious, mildly drunk already and it’s only 11:00. I’m exhausted after working for twelve hours and I’ve got a full day of work ahead of me.

Walking home, Everything But The Girl’s 25th December comes on and that, on top of watching everyone going out to have their fun, immediately depresses me.

Getting home, the upstairs neighbors have their tv up sonfucking loud that I can basically watch with the sound down. They’re so fucking rude. I was hoping when one of them moved out (which happened a week ago) that the new neighbor would change things up a bit but it appears he’s taking his cue from the existing roommate.

I had a lot of apps crashing on my iPad. The biggest culprit was The Sims Freeplay. But Safari too. And my Videos app too. So I made the appointment during my lunch break to have it look at. It turns out that it had some software corruption. Which means that I would have to do a Restore that completely wipes content back to its factory settings.

Now, little things like photos, music, contacts and calendars used to be a big deal but now with iCloud I don’t have to worry about that kinda stuff. What I do have to worry about is apps that don’t back up to the cloud yet: developers that have not fully implemented such backups. I guess it wouldn’t really matter much in this case anyway, as I couldn’t restore from a backup because that would put the corrupt software right back on.

So I have to setup as a new device.

Although I’ve lost the hours already spent building my town in Sims I haven’t re-downloaded the app and started again. So daunting. Sigh.

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