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My local public radio station, WUSF, which is run out of the University of South Florida and has some really nice jazz programming in the evenings and late-night, was playing Senor Buffet as I came through the door tonight. Nice.

If you were down 5 percent, then you're doing about 35 percent better than many of the rest of us. My 401k has taken a pretty big hit, but I'm not worried about that. In fact, since I'm still actively buying through the account and retirement is about 10 years out for me, I'm fine with the drop. In the long run it'll be a good thing. That's the good news. The bad: It's death by 1,000 cuts where I work, with 10 more people laid off just yesterday. Frankly, we're so thin now there's little incentive anymore for me to bail faster, cause it's pretty apparent the boat is sinking and I could easily be the next one tossed over the side. I have about enough cash to carry me for a year, but much of it is locked up in a CD until January, and I'm even nervous about that. It's grim, basically, and I'm just hanging on knowing full well the ax could fall at any time. Actively looking for another job in another industry at my age isn't a happy prospect, especially in this job market. So .... paper or plastic?

... or was that Jack Black? ... Jack Buck? //// Buck Rogers?

I thought Tori Amos was that Olympic swimmer. Then again, I'm still not entirely sure who Jim Black is, so. ...

Listening to "Ben & Sweets" earlier whetted my appetite for more Webster, of which I'm sorely lacking. Searched the Artists threads and read up on him a bit. Larry Kart loves "The Tatum Group Masters Vol. 8," which features Webster. "Solid gold," if I may quote. There's a fellow over at amazon who takes a somewhat contrary view: I went with Larry, and am now eagerly awaiting this one. ... and this one also, Harry Edison's "Sweets," which gets high grades on the same artists thread:

ready, FIRE, aim

Shouldn't the expression be: "Waste, want not" ... ?

Have a picture-perfect day!

Congrats. I'm going to give it a spin when I get home in celebration!

Sounds like you had a great day! Congrats and happy birthday!

Have a good one.

Eat cake! Happy birthday

happy birthday!

Happy birthday mon.

Yes, cheers and many happy returns!

googling around for various combinations of "bad trios," "terrible trios," etc., you find some interesting stuff. I lifted this from an amazon review of a Rob Wassermann cd titled "Trios:" Apparently we're not alone in this little quest ...

Now Dave Campbell is jumping up and down about Veritek's tag. Says he dropped the ball on the follow through, so he didn't have the ball under control though the completion of the play, so the runner should have been called safe at third. He's being real adamant about it. Said if the tables had been turned you'd see a 6-foot high headline about it in the Boston papers. Said something about the only reason baseball has instant replay now is because of some disputed home runs in New York and Boston (implying that NY and Boston get all the breaks). He was kind of going off the deep end about it. And with all due respect, A.J.'s a jerk-wad. And no, he's not the kind of player you hate when he's on the other team but would love to have on your team. He's not even that great of a catcher, IMO, unless you count a penchant for cheap shots as some sort of sign of greatness. He's OK, but I'll take "Whiskers" Navarro any day. ... There are other players on that team I respect, and like I said, I've changed my opinion of Ozzie. Sure he might mug for the cameras, but he seemed to really handle his team well in that series. They were just (can't believe I'm saying this) over-matched.

Ooo. Feeling a little woozy after that post ...

The Hasgo mbira pan flute combo ... performing their own interpretations of traditional Greek wedding music.

Maybe if you end up with the best record in baseball it means your division ain't that great. Something to be said for coming out of the AL East. And have we all had enough of Frank TV? ... TBS couldn't sell enough ads so they gotta bombard us with this guy every half inning?

I'm still not sure I feel very safe...

F*ck Ozzie with a donkey dick. I'm so glad I don't have to watch that prick make goo-goo eyes at the camera anymore this season. I'll be so happy when he's finally out of baseball -- egotistical camera hound. Well yeah, there's that.

Broken right arm three times; broken ankle; three broken ribs; and a stick in the eye (not all at once, thankfully). Didn't feel the broken ribs at all once the Demerol kicked in. And I'm sure I've broken an assortment of toes. Oh yeah -- never any stitches! (knock, knock)

Nice win by those Rays. Happy to be done with A.J. "I'm-ready-to-play-some-real-baseball" Pierzynski and his pals, although I gotta say that Ozzie kinda grew on me over the last few games.