Got home last night and it was too nice to just collapse, which is what I mostly feel like doing after work these days. Changed out of my boring work clothes and put on some boring play clothes, strapped on the IPOD and started schlepping down Delaware to get some exercise and see if a spring day can revive me.

It did. I followed Delaware down to Lincoln Parkway and veered over to Elmwood by the gallery and just worked my way back of Elmwood to Utica and back to my humble abode again. No great shakes that, but it was just good to get out with a decent soundtrack in my ears. It was one of those nights that make you happy to be glad in the village, plenty of folks were out, but it was without the weekend tourists, ya know. I stopped or was stopped to chat a few times, snafed one of Spot's patented italian sodas. Almost no money fun.

It wasn't very remarkable, but a jaunt like that was able to free my mind from all the intellectual bullshit of work, the possibility of needing to look for work and sundry crap.

While downloading Batman's whupping (Thanks Jenks), I made a contribution to Gather that caught my fancy. It's an acoustic version of "That's Entertainment" by Paul Weller with a little help from Noel Gallagher.

Enjoy
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the world in which I live......

I'm struggling to hang on the job, as the door isn't closed all the way. I'm a hot topic at Adelphia Media Services. The news that I am probably available is grist for the gossip mills down there They are the hucksters who go to businesses to sign them up for commericals. "You can come join us"

I know cults with more enticing recruiting. What makes the whole thing a fucking sitcom is that there actually are Sales Representatives for Adelphia who work on a door to door basis, jehovah's witnesses without the warmth. These characters are the result of somebody calling central casting and saying "Send me the most charmless creeps you can find and if they have body odor, more's the better." These gifts to society now reside in our building. We used to keep them safely stashed over by UB. A few of the matinee idols are grooving through the building trying to find out who got the call from Time Warner and who didn't.

Their inquiries have gotten progressively annoying to the point where the two women I share an office with laid them flat. They both have my eternal respect and today reeled off lines I wish I would have thought. One DSR was told "he made it to Day One with Time Warner, best of luck with Day Two."

Not terribly innovative, but it gave me a chuckle over my morning quart of coffee. My ego got a much needed boost too. There has been a big hullabaloo over Major League Baseball coverage and we got to the bottom of it all. A release was drafted but the big bosses weren't comfortable turning it loose until "Mike reviewed it."

Score one for me. Gotta take your victories where you find them.