Out of the Loop . I spend the weekend at the Old Family Homestead in LA , watching the Angels beat the Rangers and seeing the Bernini sculptures at the Getty . I did n't visit the internet once , only glanced at the local fishwrap , and watched no news on TV . So I missed an entire news cycle or two on Sarah Palin .

A: What may have been your reason for not checking the internet or news ?

When I got my new mac computer it once again reset all of the playcounts on my itunes back to zero making all of the carefully planned playlists that I used obsolete . This was the second time in a month so I was a little disconcerted . So , on a whim , I changed my way of listening to music on itunes and my ipod . ( This actually first occurred to me on an airplane during 3 and a half hours on the tarmac at Newark Airport . )

A: What may be the plausible reason I was disconcerted ?

I laughed and told her she just broke the law . Shocked , she dropped the flowers like they were hot potatoes before I could snap a picture of her guilt - ridden face . " You can pick Iowa 's state flower .

A: what was the person doing ?

I ' ve finally moved over all my furniture and hooked up my computer , although it 's in the living room for now . I ' m still not done painting ! I ' m on the 4th , of 5 coats in the den .

A:
What was the reason for painting ?