ATF: Disorienting

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Blood, Sweat & Tears]

Spinning Wheel

Blood, Sweat & Tears

What goes up

Must come down

Spinnin' wheel

Got to go round

Talkin' 'bout your troubles

It's a cryin' sin

Ride a painted pony

Let the spinnin' wheel spin

You got no money

You got no home

Spinnin' wheel

All alone

Talkin' 'bout your troubles and you

You never learn

Ride a painted pony

Let the spinnin' wheel turn

Did you find

The directing sign

On the

Straight and narrow highway

Would you mind

A reflecting sign

Just let it shine

Within your mind

And show you

The colors

That are real

Someone is waitin'

Just for you

Spinnin' wheel

Spinnin' true

Drop all your troubles by the riverside

Catch a painted pony

On the spinnin' wheel ride

Someone's waitin'

Just for you

Spinnin' wheel

Spinnin' true

Drop all your troubles by the riverside

Ride a painted pony

Let the spinnin' wheel fly

That wasn't so good

Link: [Fleetwood Mac]

World Turning

Fleetwood Mac

Everybody's

Tryin’ to say I'm wrong

I just wanna be

 Back where I belong

World turnin’

I gotta get my feet back on the ground

World turnin’

Everybody's got me down

Maybe I'm wrong

But who's to say what's right

I need somebody

To help me through the night

World turnin’

I gotta get my feet back on the ground

World turnin’

Everybody's got me down

Maybe I'm wrong

But who's to say what's right

I need somebody

To help me through the night

World turnin’

I gotta get my feet back on the ground

World turnin’

Everybody's got me down

World turnin’

Everybody's got me down

World turnin’

Everybody's got me down

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

 Link: [Day One Photography]

 Link: [Dead Man Dance]

 Link: [Desert Colors]

 Link: [Dreamwalker's Sanctuary]

 Link: [East of West L.A.]

 Link: [Entering His Rest]

 Link: [Erik van Elven Fine Art]

 Link: [Every Blade of Grass]

 Link: [Forest Dream Weaver]

Link: [Gbkoru]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

Sites To See #444

The SOLE purpose of this series is to help call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another.  Just to be clear, inclusion in this series is not necessarily meant as an endorsement, and I have included sites that I found rather disturbing.  The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable.  Please, go see for yourself.  Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.

 Link: [Nessie Natters]

 Link: [NixPages]

 Link: [Nuts in May]

 Link: [Of Hills and Heather]

 Link: [Of Muses and Meringues]

 Link: [Olavs Fotoblogg]

 Link: [Onions and Paper]

 Link: [Only Birds]

 Link: [Organic Discourse]

Link: [Paint Party Friday]

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[Arlynda Lea]

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[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]

ATF: Bridging Gulfs

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Simon & Garfunkel]

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

When you're weary

Feeling small

When tears are in your eyes

I will dry them all

I'm on your side

Oh

When times get rough

And friends just can't be found

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

When you're down and out

When you're on the street

When evening falls so hard

I will comfort you

I'll take your part

Oh

When darkness comes

And pain is all around

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Sail on silver girl

Sail on by

Your time has come to shine

All your dreams are on their way

See how they shine

Oh

If you need a friend

I'm sailing right behind

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will ease your mind

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will ease your mind

Link: [The Eagles]

Seven Bridges Road

The Eagles

There are stars in the Southern sky

Southward as you go

There is moonlight

And moss in the trees

Down the Seven Bridges Road

Now I have loved you like a baby

Like some lonesome child

And I have loved you in a tame way

And I have loved you wild

Sometimes there's a part of me

Has to turn from here and go

Running like a child from these warm stars

Down the Seven Bridges Road

There are stars in the Southern sky

And if ever you decide

You should go

There is a taste of time sweetened honey

Down the Seven Bridges Road

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

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Spilling Some Beans

As I have already told you a few weeks ago, I have been working on another top-secret project.  Now is not the time to spill all of the beans because it is not quite ready yet, but I can spill some of the beans at this time.

Quite simply, I am working on developing an independent website.  Since I know so very little about just how to do this, I have been learning how through the video tutorials at [Lynda.com].  If you take some time to check out what they have to offer, you might find some subjects that you would like to learn a lot more about, such as their Adobe Photoshop courses.  Be assured that I tried several other leaning options, like [Khan Academy], [Codecademy], [Code School] and the hundreds (thousands?) of YouTube videos available, but what Lynda had to offer was the best option for me.

I have finally settled upon working with [PHP], which is a server-side scripting language.  What?  Yeah, see what I mean?

Well, a server-side scripting language does its thing in the server while a client-side language (HTML, javascript) does its thing in the browser.  If you are using something like Blogger and click on the HTML tab at the top-left of your post compose page, you will see a bunch of client-side scripting language after you actually type or paste something onto the compose page.  After discovering that what I picked through the automatic YouTube embed button at the top of the compose page did not always end up with the video I wanted to embed 2-3 years ago, I started manually inserting the embed code directly into the HTML page.  So, I had a little prior experience with working with code, but building a website from scratch involves a whole lot more—be assured.

Alas, please don’t ask too many questions at this time.  For I am still mostly in the dark about many of the details.  Thankfully, there is such a thing as a [software framework] that saves a lot of steps throughout the development process.  It is when I ran across something called [Ruby on Rails] on a YouTube video that started me to thinking that I just might be able to bring this dream/nightmare to fruition (naturally-speaking, of course).  Since I switched from Ruby to PHP, I am now working with the [Laravel] framework.

The reason why I switched from Ruby to PHP was on account of not being completely confident in Ruby being able to handle all I wanted the site to offer and not wanting to take the time to find out whether it would or not.  Whereas, I ran across several indications of PHP being able to handle it all before I made the switch.

Yeah, what a long, strange trip I have been taking.  I hope we both like the destination when the time comes.

P.S.: What you just read was written before I started having so much “fun.”  To put it bluntly, for every step forward I have taken, I have fallen down the flight of stairs that appear just before I can take the next step.  As it stands now, I cannot use either Laravel or Ruby on Rails because of something being messed up with this computer.  What I need can be done on Arlynda’s computer, but that is another nightmare I do not want to deal with.  So, I will be treading water until we can download and install our free copy of [Windows 10] around the last of July.  Oh yeah, there is going to be a rest of this story to come (probably several chapters of it).  Sigh.

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ATF: South Texas

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Doobie Brothers]

China Grove

The Doobie Brothers

When the sun comes up

On a sleepy little town

Down around San Antone

And the folks are risin'

For another day

‘Round about their homes

The people of the town are strange

And they're proud of where they came

Well you're talkin'

‘Bout China Grove

Talkin' 'bout China Grove

Whoa oh oh

Whoa oh

China Grove

Well the preacher and the teacher

Lord they're a caution

They are the talk of the town

When the gossip gets to flyin'

And they ain't lyin'

When the sun goes fallin' down

They say that the father's insane

And dear Mrs. Perkin's a game

Well you're talkin'

‘Bout China Grove

Talkin' 'bout China Grove

Whoa oh oh

Whoa oh

China Grove

But every day there's a new thing comin'

The ways of an oriental view

The sheriff and his buddies

With their samurai swords

You can even hear the music at night

And though it's a part of the Lone Star State

People don't seem to care

They just keep on lookin' to the east

Talkin' 'bout China Grove

Talkin' 'bout China Grove

Whoa oh oh

Whoa oh

China Grove

Link: [ZZ Top]

La Grange

ZZ Top

Rumour spreadin' a-'round

In that Texas town

‘Bout that shack outside La Grange

And you know what I'm talkin' about

Just let me know

If you wanna go

To that home out on the range

They gotta lotta nice girls

Have mercy

A ha ha ha ha a haw

A ha ha ha

Well I hear it's fine

If you got the time

And the ten to get yourself in

A hmm hmm

And I hear it's tight

Most every night

But now I might be mistaken

Hmm hmm hmm hmm

Lyrics From: [eLyrics.net]

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[Arlynda Lea]

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A Sunday Drive

Back during our childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived.  Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again.  The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

 Link: [Cherie's Arts 'n Crafts]

 Link: [Coodlinsncream2]

 Link: [CollectInTexasGal]

 Link: [CONTROLLING Craziness]

 Link: [Corgis In My Garden]

 Link: [Cranberry Morning]

 Link: [Creations by Marie Antoinette & Edie Marie]

 Link: [Crystal Clear]

 Link: [Dartmoor Ramblings]

Link: [Darwinfish²]

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[Arlynda Lea]

[FishHawk Droppings]

[The Tribulation Times Herald-Exhorter]