it's not that I have anything against Emily Dickinson...

...but ages ago, when we lived in the UK, one day Bob came home from work to find we'd declared war on Emily Dickinson (today's WIKI featured article).

None of us can remember exactly WHY. Maybe just what happens when you spend a LOT of time with the same people. Our homeschooling days, oh what memories...

But back to the topic at hand; I was taking Bob to the airport this AM, as he's off for a trip. Been pondering The Last Remnants... (which is the longest title I've come up with, and is only getting longer) and told Bob that Kell is going to write a book called The War on Emily Dickinson.

Bob thought that was a great title, linking that age-old family mantra to what I'm doing now.

Well, as we approached, I was more worried with not getting killed; San Jose Airport used to be a fine little airport. Now it's a huge, in-debt mess, and while I was quite sleep deprived (having slept poorly and it was 6 AM) all I wanted to do was make sure I negotiated the track. But what I wanted to tell him was the book itself already has a title, that The War on Emily Dickinson was going to be a novel Kell pens...

Then, driving back home, squinting to the blinding sun, it hit me that the book (mine, not Kell's) could have an even longer title: The Last Remnants of Tuesday Morning, or Why I Fought the War on Emily Dickinson.

And right now, that's the working title. Kell's book will still be The War on Emily Dickinson. I, however, need to find an acronym for my title.

TLROTMOWIFTWOED

No, that's just ridiculous.

Or maybe The Last Remnants of Emily Dickinson?

Oh, I don't know...

I'll have to ponder that, and with Bob gone, I have plenty of time... In the meantime, I have a new toy to while away the hours. Last night, between his packing and my stitching, I signed up for Audioscrobbler again...

Last FM is a big part of our lives, especially Bob's, scrobbling all the tunes he plays on the big PC. We've been doing it for ages, since early 2005, and he just hit over 100,000 tunes. I use to scrobble, until last autumn, when they revamped the site.

Then I just said no.

But last night he brought it up, that all the Nirvana I was listening to wasn't being counted, teasing me, taunting...

"You COULD be scrobbling all that Kurt Cobain, you know...."

Sigh.... So, while I won't give in to FB, I did sign up for Audioscrobbler again. Strictly for the work, tabulating all the music I listen to while coming up with insane ideas like a war on Emily Dickinson. (Still none of us knows from where that came...)

You can have a gander at my scrobbler page, get one of your own, if you so desire! I was fortunate that it counted the last week of my listens, why after only one day I have over 400 songs counted. That link sits along the sidebar, under the bits about me, a window to all that I play on itunes. Before, every Sunday afternoon was spent wondering how the charts would look, but since they changed the graphics, we don't bother with that anymore. It will be interesting to see how it evolves. When I quit last fall, I had over 16,000 plays, my big three (The White Stripes, R.E.M., Madonna) taking those first trio of spots. Now, an entirely new list begins to emerge.

And maybe, one of these days we'll figure out just how the war on Emily Dickinson began...