NEVER JET HOT

I found this old textbook at a yard sale... It's sort of reassuring that previous generations also knew how to annoy the librarians. I think all the entries after Nyla Sperlick and before Fam Ranken are the same kid, a kid who lived in a house with a television I presume... He checked out the book for "Dragnet" in 1954, then "Francis", I presume he means the talking mule, as his address is "Stall 3 1/2" (Adding the fraction makes it funnier- this kid is a comedy genius) - Don't know why the date is 1868 on that one- Then back to 600BC for Tarzan at cave 6D (What did I tell you- picture a cave apartment - maybe Tarzan will bring Jane up to show her his etchings!) Then five years later, Tarzan checks out this book again, but now he's moved to "Cave 91". I sure hope this kid got into advertising or some such lucrative endeavor, rather than getting electroshock therapy.

Good news, sitcoms are coming back. Has anyone seen "Till Death Do Us Part"? I got the first episode on TIVO and thought it was hilarious but somehow the 2nd week didn't get recorded. I shouldn't let the kids use it, it skews the preferences so the machine doesn't know what shows I like. Anyone else have one of those or a DVR, or DVD software and a TV card in the computer? I know a guy at work that went that route, but I don't want to burden my computer with it, and who wants to watch TV on a computer screen? He even downloads movies to his Palm computer and watches it on the little LCD screen. Just because you CAN doesn't make it a good idea!

I am up in the middle of the night BECAUSE Woke up with a sore neck and can't find the Motrin that is usually on my desk for convenient proximity to financial records. I must have slept on it funny. Why do we say that? I see nothing amusing about the way I slept. I didn't dream about clowns. Well maybe a nightmare about the people I work with. I have a habit that annoys even me. When I occassionally have to get up to pee, I think, well, at least my bladder works. I don't have to wear some overpriced piece of cloth, I think I saw that they started calling adult diapers "Bladder Control Systems" or some such. If you make something a system you can systematically raise the price. Anyway, So I was thinking, Stephen Hawking, now there's a guy who probably gets a sore neck from time to time. There is always someone worse off than you, and the other side of that coin is, there's always something to bitch about. I'm going back to bed. Talk amongst yourselves.

I was looking for an explanation of the inside lane on some traffic circles around here- what's the deal? Are some people going all the way around? Found this, apparently other people have traffic circle troubles- " Green Oak traffic circle vexes drivers - 08/31/06 - The Detroit News Online ": "'They should take them out and put the (stop signs) back,' said Tara Neff, 23, of Pinckney. 'I got lost going around it and ended up back on the expressway.' Neff's friend Jacki Moilanen, 21, of Brighton is not a fan either, saying the roundabouts are confusing because they are so close together with too many on and off roads. 'People have stopped right in front of me not knowing what they're supposed to do. I saw one woman going the wrong way,' she said. Several near-misses were reported by Heath Loninz of Swartz Creek. 'It's the stupidest thing I've seen in my life,' he said. But Vincent Hunter and some of his co-workers at the...