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Happy Birthday Wes!

Happy Birthday to Nojjy!

I'd strongly recommend Selling England by the Pound, which stands as their greatest album, imo. Foxtrot would come in second. Nursery Cryme is a bit weaker.

Well, I guess the deterioration of our economy creates some work as well, just as the deterioration of a life form creates energy.

No purchases nor burns were involved here. Just trades. I'd be happy to help Mosaic out if I had a job!

Happy Birthday Hans!

Happy Birthday, Sandy!

I've got a Modigliano Select for Agg for a cool $100.

ditto!

Thanks for coming through, Buzz.

Lot of good you guys are! Har-har!

lol! I've got my finger on the Mosaic website, getting ready to pull the trigger.

Can buy directly from Mosaic, but wondering if anybody has a set for sale or trade for another Select.

Was going to say something but forgot it after staring at Bright Moment's signature pic.

Happy Birthday, Bruce!

Happy Birthday, Michael. And thanks for the cds I purchased from you last year.

I think we think back to our beginnings whenever times get rough. I guess it's a way of reinforcing who we are and what we believe in. I tend to do the same thing too.

Very good post, Shawn. Everybody has a story, and I like to read them!

Favorite both to watch and play? 1. Chess! #2 to watch only is NFL. Other than that, I like to watch the Olympics and World Cup. That's about it.

I enjoyed this Super Bowl. Cards made a game of it. Fitzgerald=beast. He gave some props to Randy Moss. Pats will dominate in '09.

You forgot about the white South African, Gerrie Coetzee, who won one of the alphabet titles in the 70s/80s. It is fitting that Johansson passes within a year of Floyd's departure. The two fighters were linked together after the triad of bouts. They were pretty evenly matched. I think boxing is banned in Sweden today. I would prefer that America would follow suit and ban it also. So many boxers suffer from permanent damage at the end of their careers.

There is usually an entire section in the classifieds (at least in the Plain Dealer) that is specifically directed towards this kind talent because the demand for nurses is so high. My estimation is that you should not have too much trouble landing a job upon graduation. Good luck nonetheless! Yes, I had thought that nursing is one profession where finding work wouldn't be too difficult (and well-paid, too). Come to Florida. You'll get a job. In the winter when the snowbirds arrive, there are nurses who come down from other parts of the country and Canada to work in the hospitals on temporary or seasonal basis. There is a nursing shortage nearly EVERYWHERE in the US but it is especially high in Florida. You'll get a gig, don't worry. I think you guys are right, but I cannot move anywhere. I couldn't sell my house in this economically-depressed part of Ohio. I'm stuck! Got to hope the job market for nurses will exist by the end of the year when I'm done.

Good luck, Dan!

When I attended my 'layoff meeting,' the company reserved a conference room at one of the local hotels by the airport. At the back of the room they had cookies, little cakes, sodas and coffee for us. I worked for a software company. I thought the meeting was an introduction of a new support model or a new piece of software the company had developed. Yikes! Within minutes, after we'd all settled down with our coffee and cookies, the man with the suit & tie at the front of the room let us know we were being laid off, a reduction in force (or RIF) he called it. Enjoy your coffee and cookies, ladies & gentlemen, because it's the last you'll get from us. Our jobs either went to India or simply went away. I did get a severance package. Still, it was just two days prior that the company was filling our asses with blue smoke saying, "Employees are the lifeblood of our business, our greatest asset." Then, "You're laid off, GTFO." After 12 years of employment with the company. And the coffee wasn't even good. Damn! Sorry to hear the news, Wes. Glad to see you post on the board again.

I'd like to have what Agg's drinking, but I'm suffering from a cold and am consuming agua.