Love Rollercoaster

This morning as I pulled up to Jessie's school to drop her off, the song "Love Rollercoaster," by the Ohio Players came on the radio. "Oh!," I exclaimed, "I haven't heard this song since I was 12!!"

(Actually I was 12 when it came out... I found out later it came out in 1975.)

I immediately turned up the volume and began singing and moving to the beat. I was flooded with memories from that period of my life. Funny how a song can do that.

As I neared the drop off location, I noticed Jessie staring at me with a half grin, half puzzled expression. She was staring as if she didn't recognize the person who was driving. I looked back at her with a big grin and continued my performance. As I pulled up next to the teacher who would open the door to let her out of the car, she looked at me again and, without saying a word, reached over and turned the volume down.

Then she got out of the car.

Water thoughts

My building at work is being renovated on the outside. Today I was watching a guy from the window next to the bathroom. He was pressure washing a wall that was totally covered with scum. As I watched him, I thought at first what an awesome job it would be to just stand there and blast away scum with water. He moved his wand up and down, sideways, back and forth.... always in either vertical or horizontal strokes. I thought about how long it would take him to finish the wall as the spray nozzle was not that wide. Probably at least most of the day.

As I continued to watch him, totally forgetting why I went down to the bathroom, I began to think how this job would not be fun. I mean he's standing there holding the pressure washer up in the air. Has to hurt after awhile. And the nozzle being kind of small, I bet he wanted to get done quickly. And how tedious to just spray left to right or top to bottom.

After a few more minutes he began looping the nozzle making random swirls almost as if he was writing his name in cursive. I smiled very big to myself and went into the bathroom.