Take No Prisoners: July 8th

This is a short week on either end - no work on Monday because of the holiday, no work tomorrow because I took the day off to hang out with a friend who flaked, so I'm taking it as a mental health day and going to the city with my camera.

I'd promise pictures tomorrow night, but I know me.  Especially lately.  I promise I'll get those photos to you sometime before October.

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I will be in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin for the World of Outlaws sprint car race on Saturday night.  The rest of my family is partaking in Indiana Sprint Week, so feel free to say hi to them if you see them wandering around.  You know they're more fun than I am anyway.

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Chicago, or anywhere in the Chicago-ish area, is not a stop on Rosanne Cash's impending book tour.  Dudes.  CHICAGO.

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Shazam has been my favorite app for the last few days.  I use it to identify music playing wherever I'm at.  Things I've tagged lately:  Fleet Foxes, Josh Thompson (a Fan Letter coming soon), Silversun Pickups, When In Rome, Skillet, Joan Armatrading, and Stellar Kart.  All artists, songs, or funny stories I would have forgotten about or failed to note without my phone's magic music guessing app.

But at least it's an app that doesn't cost me a million dollars.  I'm one week and four whole brand new full-price books into Kindle for Android.  Somebody slow me down.

One of these days, I'll make a list of all of my favorite Android apps and why.  I rattle them off to people in the real world a lot, always forgetting who I am talking to.  So to all of the guys who have installed the Magic Girl Fairy Special Lady Times Visitor app . . . well.  Sorry.  But isn't the flower icon pretty?

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This week, years past:

2009:  Fencelessness: Notes on Love and Sprint Car Racing

2008:  Outdoor movies on the river

2007:  I met Mare.  This is handy proof that the extra person we've added to this memory wasn't actually there.

2006:  Somewhere I have never travelled.