I would like to state, for the record, that if you sign contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars that have these little things called “morality clauses” in them, you are an idiot if you commit any crimes at all.  At all.

I will be so bold as to suggest that once you get to multi-millionaire status as a celebrity of any sort, you now have multi-millions of reasons to protect yourself.  Anyone that is trying to “keep it real” is stupid.  You are in unreal territory.  You need to live by the unreal rules.  Sequester yourself.  Only go to clubs that cater to other incredibly rich, incredibly famous people.  You get a driver to take you there.  And you don’t break the law.  Ever.

I don’t know what kind of sentence Vick is going to get, but if he were being charged with stupidity it would be life.

We’ve cut off the voicemail to our home number and will be phasing it out completely soon. If you want to call us, try the cell phones, mine should even have working voicemail soon.

My comcast email account will be phased out shortly. Most of you use the gmail and/or yahoo account anyways. They all have the same username@ so just substitute the domain you want.

If you need any more contact info, click the “email me” button in the right column (towards bottom) and shoot me an email.

UPDATE: The gift card has been claimed! Good riddance.

Life gives to the givers and takes from the takers
– Rev. Joseph “Run” Simmons

In this episode:

I talk about hospitals, a bathroom incident at my Mom’s house and I play some randomly grabbed songs by Five Miles Out, Spinnerty and Fall Out Boy.

Audio feedback/promos are always welcome at jaslusher AT gmail DOT com.

Later.

In this episode:

I ramble, I tell which groups I think the songs from the “Sounds Like” episode remind me of and I play some randomly grabbed songs by Sole, Dr Israel and Chance.

Audio feedback/promos are always welcome at jaslusher AT gmail DOT com.

Later.

This is the beginning of my 3rd week off and I’ve done 2 of the things. Just 2. Small things, at that. To be fair I have accomplished portions of many things, but not enough that they could be labeled Done.

There were also some assumptions I was making that have turned out to be just plain wrong. One was that I would post more to the blog and the other was that I would turn out podcasts with the same speed and consistency with which the Braves fold in the postseason. Like clockwork, I’m saying. Hasn’t happened yet. We shall see if it will. I’m beginning to suspect the answer is no.

I need to find my groove. I am currently just all jangly and feeling like the various parts of my life are like an ill-fitting suit. Some parts are too big, some just right and some too small. So even though parts of it are just right, overall I feel uncomfortable with it.

I’m looking to do a little tailoring.

After making this particularly hostile statement towards upgrading Quicken, I went out and bought Quicken Deluxe 2005. That and I bought the TurboTax software for federal and state software. All by Intuit, thus making my statement of hostility towards them fairly meaningless.

But frankly, the rebates and all that you get by buying all three of them were so good I couldn’t pass it up.

Upgrading Quicken to the 2005 version was a bit of a pain as it decided that it didn’t need to convert absolutely everything over, leaving out a number of fairly important transactions and making me have to go back and figure out what was missing manually. It also looks a great deal different from the 2002 version so I’m still trying to get my head around what I’m doing with some of it.

I have, however, worked out a compromise. I have begun doing things that I don’t want to do and shouldn’t be doing.