what did i forget? what did i forget? eh... i will discover what i forgot tomorrow, about 150 miles from home....

he wasn't an especially tall boy, maybe a bit over average height for his 11 years, but he looked taller somehow standing on the quad, sunlight burnishing his auburn hair to copper.

and, that's as far as i've gotten with that one.

the new killers cd - day & age - is a keeper. i have listened to it approx 526793 times. of course, that's just an approx. one thing i like about it is that it is the killers. i just happen to like them, probably b/c they sound somewhat like music from my rebel youth. there is a song on day & age that has a sax solo. i know, right? i mean, it's a tiny one, but still - the sax solo is like a lost art. it's beautiful, man! makes me cry. okay, not really. so, 1 = it's the killers. the next thing to like about it is that each song is different. it's not like one big moosh of goosh where every song sounds like every other song. each song has a character unique to that song - a guitar lick or a bit of drum action or the background vocals or the sax solo. i mean, in addition to each song having a unique melody and lyric set, each song also has something going on. i'd say it's mature, but that would make me sound somewhat of a dweeb.

i will be taking day & age on the journey tomorrow but might not need it because... the rental has satellite radio! whoopwhoop! i already found the blue collar - foxxhole - raw dog - laugh usa - laugh attack settings, so no worries there. in case you do not know or cannot tell, these are comedy channels. they play mostly cuts from live standup shows. of the 5, raw dog is the funniest, but of course also the raunchiest. sometimes it crosses the line into simply raw for the sake of raw, and that's not funny, but there's something about being that crude that generally lends itself to being funnier.

blue collar is next funniest. you'd think it's all lame-oh jeff foxworthy, but it's not. there are some really solid comix on there. next is laugh usa and laugh attack. laugh usa is... um... usa and laugh attack is canadian. actually, laugh attack is a wee bit funnier than laugh usa but they are both a lot the same. it's like the family channel. sometimes sort of okay but mostly trite. foxxhole isn't really stand-up, it's got more set programming. yawn-o-la.

1. raw dog
2. blue collar
3. laugh attack
4. laugh usa
5. foxxhole

enough comedy. time to pay the mortgage so the vacation can begin!