He probably doesn’t want to hear, “Umm…Truman Administration?”
Just demonstrating that I am living the “something shiny” lifestyle. I don’t close the spout because the whistling annoys me, but then I burn the kettle out.
On the cello front, I’m currently working on Ode to Joy and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Watching Project Runway. Gretchen’s stuff is so hideous. I just don’t get it.
Ooh Something Shiny! 
Ha – I do the same thing with my tea kettle, but it’s because the whistle is so dang loud it sounds like a freight train. I also clean my house in similar ‘something shiny’ fashion. I bounce from one room to the next, beginning a new task before finishing the old, etc. Eventually I get a clean house out of it.