Son-of-a-Weizen

Geez, I thought that was an outstanding offer......picky, picky, picky Mainers. Okay, final offer -- for your Miles Stockholm set, you get my favorite Voting Rights Counselor shirt plus two excellent beer coasters! Allen, that shirt's a must have. Ya never know when you might need it to slip into a polling place or two (say, West Palm Beach??) to help the kindly old folks with their chads...... well, you know what I'm sayin'! Hee, hee..

Well, Hell...since I'm the german beer T-Shirt Nazi, maybe we can do a deal? How about a Spaten Pils, a Stiegl Brau (really Austrian, but who's gonna know?? ) and a Schwarzwald Maedle (a great shirt for ladies!!!!) plus this insanely funny New Yorker mag for a Miles in Stockholm (Dragon) set?

OMG!! ..you're being run by advisors!! I heard that one team of pollsters sifted all the data and warned against adding beets!

Best wishes from another member of Club 48.

Many of us are waiting for letter Q. It's gonna get Filene's Bargain Basement Day ugly.

Sounds nice. I've always enjoyed 'Plexus' on Hub Cap and didn't realize 'till now that Walton wrote it.

Incredible that 'Teacher' is listed as a bonus cut? I always figured it for the numero uno track on the LP. Here's the original track order on my vinyl (CHR 1043) Side One: 1. With You There To Help Me 2. Nothing To Say 3. Inside 4. Son 5. For Michael Collins, Jeffrey & Me Side Two: 1. To Cry You A Song 2. A Time For Everything? 3. Teacher 4. Play In Time 5. Sossity; You're A Woman

Front, with the cover on the back. That would show a "monkey on his back".

SOLD! Literally! Payment already received! Got it!

Truth be told, I only had 'em hidden away in there for 6 months or so because this new puppy of ours was having too good of a time chomping away on large plastic Easter eggs..........and before long I started wondering how long it would be before she spied those little 'black eggs' and decide to give one a try?

You and Lon had it right.....I went with the SACD inputs...problem solved. Thanks!! ....and a little Sun afternoon room rearranging for Sundog, who shamed me into letting those little B&Ws breeeeathe a bit! I hope Kevin Bresnahan doesn't drop by to chew me out over the sub-optimal placement of that Hsu Research sub I bought off him.

No, just a couple of old pieces of paper and a few dusty cds, bands I'd never heard of. Kids didn't want them so I just tossed 'em......would you like them?

It is a bit of a tight spot in there, isn't it?

With about 20% of Netflix titles not being read correctly by the workhorse SONY DVD Unit w/hard drive, we hooked up an older spare SONY DVD player to take care of the overflow. Works fine.......problem is, after stumbling around in the dark and draining 3 or 4 pints of brew, I finally got it rigged up so that each time I go to use the spare (black) SONY, I have to disconnect the red/white rca plugs from tape rec on the integrated amp and then plug them back in when switching over again to the silver SONY. The spare (black) SONY (6th pic down) is running straight into the tv (bottom pic), should it be running through the amp.....or even through the other (silver) SONY? I dunno.....bomething's obviously not right with this ridiculous tangled mess of cables. Anyone care to play the What's wrong with this idiotic looking set-up game? *dang, lot's of dust back there.

Putting this one on a shirt as well. Not the highest rez pic but it's close enough for govt. work. Question is -- front or back of a white shirt?

......as should this one....

Fab....I'm w/you on that. Now on deck........just yanked from the fridge.....a Weissbier that can't possibly be matched by anyone brewing suds over here.

PM on: Andrew Hill - Judgment! (TOCJ-4159, 1994 BN Works 4100 Series, stereo)

A buddy and I took the four kids to watch the DC display and were perfectly situated on an elevated grassy slope on the Virginia side of the Potomac. About 15 minutes prior to the start of The Big One, a whole bunch of fireworks were set off by folks parked about a half-mile in front of us.......between our location and the Pentagon...with DC in the background. All of the smoke from these fireworks formed a sizeable cloud which, given the still air, just sorta hung there and pretty well blocked from view the larger show. At best you might see the outer edge of a massive shell burst......but more often it was simply a brief orange/reddish flash or a red glow behind the cloud and it was like viewing a near total solar eclipse. Interesting to say the least.

"Must-read"?

Indeed it was. The excellent 'Doin' The Thang', with Charles Davis and Hubbard. When I mentioned that title to him a few years ago at The Kitano, he paused for a sec and then gave a response which led me to believe that he ranked it low on the list of titles that should have been available as JPN imports. Did he view it as 'so-so'? I wish I could remember the exact quote.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I forgot about the mental preparation I had to go through in order to be successful the first time. In some cases, that "old mental trick" works. A longtime smoker who quit.....then started up, off & on, when my wife's health problems started in back in 2001, I finally decided that the best way to go was to allow myself the pleasure of smoking perhaps a half-dozen times a year. Sounds nuts, but I basically 'pre-plan' to smoke during various trips/events or during long weekend get togethers with old friends and then stop again. Last time I smoked was over a long weekend in mid-May and I'll be breaking out the Camels again this July 3rd and will smoke like a chimney 'till Monday. At that point, I won't touch them again 'till another mid-August get together and then probably not again 'till late Nov. Obviously, it's best to ditch the pack entirely......but alternatives do exist provided you psych yourself up properly.

$4.00? Nice...gotta love that!!!

Up in Northern Minnesota we had 5 inches of rain one evening this month --- two pics from opposite sides of the street.

Thanks, Chris. If you're ever down in the area, I'll introduce you to the 2 residents. Quiet, but welcoming folk. (btw, I just read your March post re: photobucket in the 'Technical Questions' thread and am trying it out for the 1st time here. A good tip. )