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My apologies for missing your birthday. I hope it was a good one! B)

I have always tried to avoid making too many purchases at once, mainly for the reasons vibes lists about not really having a chance to know the date. It does get tough because I enjoy having a somewhat steady stream of new music coming either in the mail or what I can get at the record store. I do try and stay within a budget, how much I spend is usually determined by how the month is going.

Did any of you guys catch the show over the weekend? "The Time Haters travel back to the days of slavery, spewing racial epithets popularized by the great George Jefferson."

Tony, be not afraid. At some point, (probably about 2.3 minutes into episode 1) you will be laughing your ass off. Good luck.

Gotta be this.

Is it already pirate-speaking time again, maties? A very much needed laugh.

Is it the one our own Chris Albertson wrote the liner notes for?

I heard that. B) I'm still waiting for the fence company to show up. I guess they don't know the meaning of a fucking emergency! I'd really hate to have to spend the night here, the sound of the office boom box really sucks.

How good is this?

I just ordered this.

The inside job thing is always your first thought. I've never had a vehicle stolen, it's always been just the equipment, so this time it's really odd. We have a system that records the cameras right on to the computer, but we had a power outage so the dedicated computer on the office was off. Now I have to wait until Tuesday for the backup file to be sent from another location. I used to have dogs in the yard up until a couple of years ago. We had a kennel but the dogs belonged to a service. It's a pain in the ass using a service, mainly for the reason the dogs will go after me as well, so I had limited access to the business during off hours. He used to switch the dogs every couple of weeks. I had them all at one time or another, Pit Bulls, Dobermans, German Shephards, Rotts. We released the dogs through in the evening using a rope tied to the gate of the kennel, and the guy would pen them up in the morning, but he didn't like to work Sundays. My insurance company hated the fact I had the dogs. Believe it or not you are exposed to some liability especially if there is a fatality involved. The service I used had an incident with the Pit Bull team killing a guy trying to escape from a fenced pottery company yard he broke in to. They let him in, but he never got out, the dogs pulled him back off the fence and he bled to death. What saved the shop owner and the dog service was a camera showing the that the dogs left him alone after he fell to the ground. Part of the problem with owning my own dogs is with so many people coming and going, it's been my past experience that the dogs eventually get used to the employees, so if it's an inside job you are indeed screwed. You've got to lay out some real cash to get quality trained pups to keep that from happening. The security system has sensor beams around the perimeter, in the past it has done the job, dogs would set the beams off, but I may be forced to have to consider them again. I've got a security guy working right now on replacing the lines that keep getting wet. We'll see.

Agree. They were on the right track up until lastnight. Who was the writer?

Some jackasses broke into my equipment yard lastnight and stole a truck from me. They drove the damn thing though the fence. They ripped some electronics out of a couple of others and attempted to hot wire another. My damn security system really let me down. Apparently the rain caused a malfunction and dis-engaged some of the zones. It finally triggered when they tried to get in to the building. Now we'll see of the investment I made in the cameras will pay off. All this after a serious accident with a truck and brush chipper flipping over two weeks ago, and me in the middle of trying to get picked up by a new insurance carrier. I'm screwed. SONS OF BITCHES!!!! Now I feel better. B)

Tony doing cocaine, WTF??? What a bizarre episode, that whole thing with Adrianna was fucked up.

My weekend purchases.... Jeff Hamilton - Best Things Happen... (Azica) Al Grey - Centerpiece, Live At The Blue Note (Telarc) Rickey Woodard- The Silver Strut (Concord) Junior Mance - Happy Time (Jazzland) Hampton Hawes - All Night Session! Vol. 2 (Contemporary) Duke Pearson - Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note) Pepper Adams - 10 to 4 at the Five-Spot (Riverside)

Happy (belated) Birthday, Calude.

This about sums it up.

Hey! Who you callin' nobody?

Dude, I love it! Keep tuning in for the "STORM REPORTS".

Thought this one was funny. Groucho Marx once sent a telegram to the exclusive Friar's Club in Hollywood: "Please accept my resignation," it read. "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."

No thanks, I'm trying to quit.

Why does that remind me of Ricardo Montalban hawking the Cordoba? I think he did say he wanted to do Leather on the leather of his new Cordoba.

That was close.

I live in the crazy land of no time changes. B)