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No sir!!! That shit ain't happening on my lap, Mikey!!! Little boys, sure, and girls of all ages, but no big boys! No pets either! How many figgin' times do I have to tell the photo company people about that?!?! The excuse I use is that I don't want to handle a dog or cat and then an 8 week old baby 5 minutes later. But the reality is that I don't want shit, piss, grime, drool, and fur all over my expensive custom made suits!

Did 5 Santa gigs today, have 6 tomorrow, 7 on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday. Nothing Monday or Tuesday, thankfully, and then it starts again on Wednesday. Have 58 events scheduled so far with 47 left to go, and the phone keeps ringing. Have had to turn down a bunch of Saturday stuff already. Funniest one was this guy who owns a large janatorial company here who I bumped into a couple of weeks ago. He told me then, all proudly, about how he's having a big party for 300-400 guests, and that I'll be "invited" to attend. Got a call this afternoon from someone at his company as a I was driving from one event to another... "We have an invitation for you for our party for Saturday night. You can pick it up any time..." I said, "For me to attend or to hire me to be your Santa?" Then it was, "Oh no, it's just for you to attend, but Mr. Roper told me to tell you that it would be Ok for you to "play Santa" if you want to... then you can have some jerk chicken..."

Happy belated... hope it was a good one.

If you like Clapton, blues, vinyl, and good deals... I sure do. http://www.popmarket.com/details/26588810

Found a random picture of myself on Facebook from an event I was at recently in "Caribbean Santa" attire: http://img.techpowerup.org/111206/Random%20pic%20of%20me%20found%20on%20Facebook!960.jpg]

That still seems so complicated to me. I can kind of divide by 14 in my head and get things right most of the time, but it just seems like putting something back into a squeeze bottle after it has come out. You can do it. Sure. But why? I guess it must help you to get a better point of reference. Kind of like when somebody says, "Boy, it hot here! 90 degrees today..." and then suddenly Doug's head is set in motion, as he subtracts 32 and divides the remainder by 1.8 and shouts out, "Oh, yes, 32.222 repeating decimal is pretty hot!!!"

Awesome.

Loved his stuff, always so soulful and chilled out. That man could play. RIP, and thanks for sharing your talents.

I guess we'll need to hear them, but I suspect that you're right.

Yes, all around great guy! Happy birthday, Dave.

About half way through it, I figured it was some gay shit...

Happy birthday, Tom. It seemed like only yesterday when I was saying that to you! Have a good one, and keep making the years count, buddy.

My reaction as well. But it's a reputable company, so that's why I'm wondering if this is a serious attempt to enter the high end IEM market, or more or an Ultrasone move whereby you stick a big price on some bling'ed up looking thing and then hope you'll find a lot of fools who think it must be "the best" because it's the most expensive?

You don't like airplanes?

Makes you wonder if they're really worth a shit... Or if perhaps they're the IEM equivalent of the latest and greatest overpriced Ultrasones... and that some numbskull who doesn't know crap about headphones (IEMs in this case) simply chose to rave on like mad about them because he figures high price = great sound. http://www.avguide.com/blog/the-best-earphones-youll-hearone-day?utm_campaign=Weekly+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email-270&utm_content=Surround+Speakers+from+MartinLogan,+Paradigm,+and+Wharfedale+ Any "review" that makes absolutely no reference to any other comparative products is pretty useless. It just demonstrates the reviewer's lack of experience/understanding, etc. Yet, who knows. Maybe AKG is on to something here. Seems like they're trying to catch up with the likes of JH Audio, realizing that there is a market for this kind of thing. Big money for non-custom IEMs though...

Might be of interest to some of you. Gold Box deal of day at Amazon is Panasonic Lumix DCM-LX5 for $269. http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/discussion/A14HFA597GO2KB/ref=xs_gb_A14HFA597GO2KB?pf_rd_p=441937901&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=20&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=18A3HPRF3RGA76PRP258

I know that I'm not supposed to think this is funny...

Hope you have a great one. As I'm sure many will agree, it's no exaggeration to say that it's an honor to be your friend.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of George Harrison's death. Seems like only yesterday...

I definitely should do that.

Happy birthday!

Fuckin' newbies. Can't even bother to read the rules...

Happy birthday!