Day: March 15, 2020

Who Won The Week? 03/15/2020

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10CC3057-4EEA-4C80-B8C1-700C0FC6C906It’s time for another Who Won the Week prompt. The idea behind Who Won the Week is for you to select who (or what) you think “won” this past week. Your selection can be anyone or anything — politicians, celebrities, athletes, authors, bloggers, your friends or family members, books, movies, TV shows, businesses, organizations, whatever.

I will be posting this prompt on Sunday mornings (my time). If you want to participate, write your own post designating who you think won the week and why you think they deserve your nod. Then link back to this post and tag you post with FWWTW.

This week I am choosing me, Fandango. Yes, that’s right. I won the week. Why am I bestowing this great honor on myself? Because I’m down to one house.

Five and a half weeks ago, my wife and I moved from the “big city” to a relatively small suburb about 35 miles to the east. Two weeks after we vacated our old house, and after some sprucing up and staging, our San Francisco house went on the market.

Could the timing have been any worse? First, the news about this new coronavirus having reached America came out. People were testing positive for the virus, a lot of whom were getting sick, and with some dying. That created a widespread sense of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, also referred to as “FUD.” Then the stock market started falling precipitously, adding to the FUD. People were stocking up on toilet paper and hand sanitizer and pulling their money out of the stock market and stuffing it into their mattresses.

Some industries, including travel and entertainment, began scaling back and jobs were being lost. Schools were being closed, sporting events were being canceled, and large, public gatherings were being banned. Economists were saying we were entering a serious and potentially long term recession. Who buys a new house under those circumstances?

I thought for sure that we were doomed to carry our old house indefinitely. But, for a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling down upon us. A week and a half after going on the market, we accepted an offer on our house that, remarkably, was 20% over asking! And a week after that, this past Wednesday, we closed escrow. So now we’re down to one house. Phew!

And that is why I won the week!

And now it’s your turn, folks. Who (or what) do you think won the week?

Song Lyric Sunday — Gimme Some Lovin’

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For this week’s Song Lyric Sunday, Jim Adams has given us “Give,” “Get,” “Take,” “Receive,” and “Send” for the theme. I reached way back to 1966 for the song “Gimme Some Lovin’” by the British rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.

Written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis, and Muff Winwood, Steve’s older brother, “Gimme Some Lovin’” reached number two in the U.K. and number seven in the U.S. Steve Winwood was just 17 years old when he wrote this song and it was pretty much written on the fly. It was one of the first songs he wrote and when the band went to the studio, they banged it out on the first or second take. Bassist Muff Winwood said, “Steve had been singing, ‘Gimme some lovin’” — just yelling anything. It took about an hour to write, then down the pub for lunch.”

“Gimme Some Lovin’” is one of the most covered songs of all time, having been recorded by The Blues Brothers, Olivia Newton-John, Ike and Tina Turner, Chicago, Queen, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Traffic, The Grateful Dead, and Hanson.

The song is not really about a man asking his woman to give him love as it is about a band performing on stage and looking to get some lovin’ from the audience.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

Well my temperature’s rising and my feet are on the floor
Twenty people knocking ‘cos they’re wanting some more
Let me in baby, I don’t know what you’ve got
But you’d better take it easy, this place is hot

I’m so glad we made it, I’m so glad we made it
You’ve gotta gimme some lovin’ (gimme some lovin’)
Gimme some lovin’ (gimme gimme some lovin’), gimme some lovin’ every day

Well I feel so good, everything is sounding hot
Better take it easy ‘cos the place is on fire
Been a hard day and I don’t know what to do
Wait a minute baby, it could happen to you

I’m so glad we made it, I’m so glad we made it
You’ve gotta gimme some lovin’ (gimme some lovin’)
Gimme some lovin’ (gimme gimme some lovin’), gimme some lovin’ every day

Well I feel so good, everybody’s getting high
Better take it easy ‘cos the place is on fire
Been a hard day and nothing went too good
Now I’m gonna relax honey, everybody should

I’m so glad we made it, I’m so glad we made it
You’ve gotta gimme some lovin’ (gimme some lovin’)
Gimme some lovin’ (gimme gimme some lovin’), gimme some lovin’ every day

Gimme some lovin’ (gimme some lovin’) I need it
(Gimme gimme some lovin’) I need it
Ooh, gimme some lovin’, every day, every day

FOWC with Fandango — Browse

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FOWCWelcome to March 15, 2020 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.

I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).

Today’s word is “browse.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.

The issue with pingbacks not showing up seems to have been resolved, but you might check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

  1. And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.