Mutterings - July 30

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Pillow :: Talk
2. Calendar :: DLMS these last few weeks I'm been working on implementations of getting calendars off a smart meter.
3. Melissa :: Etheridge
4. Notebook :: Spiral (bound)
5. Circumstance :: Forced
6. Technical :: Document
7. Bracket :: Hinge (though that should be Brackett)
8. Horror :: Blanch
9. Pink :: Elephant (Dumbo...)
10. Polish :: Cavalry (I think this is a reference to a comment about one of the Chopin Polonaises - the Ab)