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- I just bought Donald Fagen's new album “Morph the Cat“. It's great. I have been listening to it over and over. Soon I will be sick of it, but not yet...
- Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants Israel “wiped from the map“. Osama bin Laden has accused the United States and Europe of supporting a "Zionist" war on Islam. A woman heckled Chinese President Hu Jintao on the White House lawn. North Korea. Venezuela. I guess there is no chance of peace anytime soon. That sucks.
- The Suns beat the Lakers in the first game of the playoffs. Woohoo!
- Gas costs $3.00 per gallon again. What the heck?
- My latest hobby -- flying electric model helicopters. Well, trying. I do pretty good with my Blade CX. It's a blast. The more “realistic“ Blade CP is still giving me problems. I have to agree with a saying I once heard, that helicopters can't really fly. What really happens is that the earth repels them.
- Where are the good movies? It's been pretty sparse lately. Not much to see.
- Survivor. American Idol. NCIS. That's about all I watch at the moment. In case you wanted to know. Which you probably didn't.
- Tonight I played a concert at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. My minor-blues solo in the middle of Gordon Goodwin's “Hunting Wabbits“ really clicked. Sometimes I'm hot. Then again sometimes I suck. But tonight was great. I would like to have done “Satin Doll” over -- it was ok, but not as good. And my solo in Bob Mintzer's “New Mambo“, well, forget it. Those are some weird changes -- I don't think I'll ever get that one down right. The rest of the tune was fine though.
- We are making progress at ArrowStorm -- my new company -- slowly. My son Nathan is working for me. It will be a while before we are at break-even. But I am enjoying it. I'll post more about this later.
- How's this for a bunch of totally disconnected ramblings? Done now.
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