Memories of You

Richard Shindell is touring all over the country. I heartily suggest you see him if he comes to your town. Here are his tour dates and locations.

You can also buy tickets for his shows online, depending upon the venue.

Today was okay, overall. After work I worked out and then went to visit D and A. They were having computer troubles, so I went to help them out. D and A are Thomas' parents (Father and step-Mother, technically). For those of you who just joined this journal, Thomas is my dead ex-boyfriend.

Why is this significant? Because tonight, A got rather nostalgic about Thomas. Of course, that puts me in a bit of a nostalgic mood. All the things we did, the conversations we had, how we first met. On the second time we met, I was listening to a song on the radio that I grew to love. It was Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha". I still love that song. I heard it today on my ipod. Whenever I hear the song, I'm back in my car listening to that song, about to meet Thomas for the second time. We were meeting up at the gym to work out.

The first meeting was dinner and a movie. We saw L.A. Confidential at an AMC theatre around San Jose. He told me that he thought I would love this movie. And I did. He was always a sweet, thoughtful man. Of sound judgement, he was thoughtful and adorable. Life is good, but thoughts of him make me feel rather subdued.

I'm sleepy. I shall sleep.

Borrowed from scarcrest

The publishing company that brings us Unfit for Command has strong ties to white supremicism.

More interesting economy news

It strikes me that more than ever economic news has been rather confusing. Maybe that's why they call it the "dismal science", because as far as being a science goes, it might as well be astrology.

"If a Cancer or Libra is in office, the economy shall sucketh grandly. If a fire sign be in office, hoo-ah. Now there's some growth!"

Or something like that.

Yesterday I posted some information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Today, The Census bureau chimed in.

Here's the horses mouth, for those who caught glimpses of the article in various news sources around the country: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty03.html.

What I'm referring to, is that the population of those below the poverty line is growing, and it's been growing for three straight years. What will the counter argument be to this? That we're able to get so much more for our dollar below the poverty line, now? Certainly that doesn't include rent.

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I'm home at last.

I'm quite happy. Why? The latest Richard Shindell CD, Vuelta arrived in the mail!

In my reply to taogrl, I also mentioned that Shindell will have three concert showings within my grasp. Two in Berkeley and one in Winters. Three Shindell concerts over four days. It shall be quite lovely.