toothpick is a rapper. a big thanks to all you losers who knew that and didn't clue me in. jeezumpete.

yesterday afternoon, jerky showed up early, so i was still merrily skipping my way across the vast vistas that lie between my office & the pickup point. just barely made it over there before he passed the intersection. no idea why he was early. he didn't say why he was early. would he have left me standing on the corner if he were early and got there before i showed up? he would, no doubt.

this fabulous computer has no serial port, so i cannot plug in my garmin to download the data into the garmin logbook. most likely can get a usb<->serial adapter, but wanted to do it without further trips to the selling agent, and could not. a hassle, no doubt.

did some magic last night -- turned bananas into bread. a miracle, no doubt.

the local news has been replaying this story over & over since the early news last evening: there's this baseball league around here that requires a $50 registration fee plus another $50 by either donation or by selling raffle tickets. this one kid's dad took the raffle tix but didn't sell them. opening day, the kid was benched. no pay, no play. simple. since 17:30 yesterday evening, we've been watching this irate dad harp on about how he paid his $50. too bad the registration fee was actually $100, buddy. they've also been showing an interview with the president of the league where the prez says all the parents signed an agreement to pay $50 and then either donate $50 or sell raffle tix. did you get that point? they signed an agreement. from what i can glean from the dad's complaint, he was being forced to donate or forced to participate in the league's fundraiser. well -- welcome to the world of rec sports. jeezumpete. this is so very much the way leagues raise funds... what is news about this? the news is that no matter what people sign, no matter how the world continues to operate around them, no matter -- people continue to be eejits, no doubt.