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Coffee is actually good for you, in moderation.  Just like wine.  And beer.  And coitus...

Checked out "Single Mothers".. Not too keen on it.. I liked his last album ok, but I'm afraid he's getting away from what made him awesome--that rootsy/country/dixieland jazz sound.. Now he's doing straight soul type stuff and his voice doesn't match well with it..

Ha yeah.  Or the Walmart Great Value Honduran Press

The thing (spiral plate?) that presses the coffee down was made of metal.

Love French press.  But the last one I had started to develop a metallic taste after a few months.. 

Guess I need to get a nice one next time.  

That clears it up.  Career-defining--maybe for another topic.. 

Define essential..

How about career-defining instead?  

Donna, I don't know what I want.

Think long term possibilities.  Do you want to end up working in elementary school or high school?  Either job can end up leading to better opportunities.  

I left my last job for my current position because I wanted to move back home, closer to family, and in an area with lower cost of living.  However it turns out that I would have been better off career-wise had I stayed at my last job.  

Patty Griffin.  Her latest album "American Kid" is widely regarded as her best work (and it charted the highest if that matters).  

John Hiatt is still making some great records - Master of Disaster and Same Old Man is as strong as his mid 80's work. His latest is pretty good, too.

Ever heard his daughter Lilly's music?  Not bad.  Not bad at all.  Her last album "Let Down" was good and she's releasing another one soon. 

Ah caterpillars... I should have said an entomologist.. 

Either way, I love the great outdoors too, and don't get out in them enough.. 

Are you a bird breeder, NoJ?  An aviculturist?

Well I played the show, but couldn't read my lyrics due to poor stage lighting (and my ageing eyesight).  So this whole thing was moot anyway!

But the responses were interesting and helpful nonetheless.  

Pay no attention to the crazy uncles in the attic.

Don't worry, all the mean ones have left or have been banned.  Only the 'happy drunk crazy uncles' such as myself remain...

That place sounds awesome, Lammy. 

I'm going to watch my Clemson Tigers play tomorrow.  Tailgate, eat some breakfast casserole, BBQ, drink some beers.. Besides coitus, it doesn't get any better... 

IMO, I don't they can ever top Ode to Sunshine.  That was the height of their career for me at least, and I haven't been able to get into any of their other records.  

Ugh, I stopped at David Bowie. I know it's tongue in cheek and all, but too many ridiculous insults hurled at rock icons.

You guys are too sensitive.  I laughed my ass off.  

Some of my favorites:

Nope, you're not crazy. He sounds exactly like a guy talking through a song, along with about 99% of his peers in that genre.

I thought that was the whole point of the Rap. 

A friend of mine earned a masters degree in music, and wrote his college thesis on "how Rap is not music".  

Yes, I'm in a Yahoo league with friends and family.  I've done NFL Pick Em for years, but this is my first time doing FF.. 

I learned about this a few years ago when my 65-year-old mom divorced my 67-year-old dad out of the blue.  That sucked.

If you don't mind me asking, what were their reasons?

My 80 year old grandmother in-law divorced her 70ish second husband a few years ago.  Her first husband died of cancer in the early 90's, and she remarried pretty fast.  She jumped the gun because she didn't want to be alone, and soon figured out the dude was a creep.    

I've always said that it takes at least 10 years or so for a marriage to really settle in.  After 10 years, you have experienced a good bit of the shit that comes with marriage.  So I'm pretty baffled when two people have been together for 20 or 30+ years and then call it quits.  It has to be infidelity, or something else involved...  "We just got tired of each other" is a bunch of bullshit.  Again, I think you would have gotten tired of each other within the first 10 years.. 

It's college football opening weekend baby.  It's like Christmas.  It's absolutely ludicrous how much college football I'm going to be watching this weekend...  Ludicrous... 

You're not supposed to get into the pants of movies, just watch them.

You obviously don't know my skills.. All I have to do is walk in the room, and the movies just start dropping their panties.. 

Yeah.  Today I would love to just stop at the Blockbuster on the way home and browse around, maybe pick up an old horror movie or something.  

But oh wait, I can't do that anymore.... Shit!

It might have something to do with you referring to them as "dwarf" trees. Pretty sure they prefer "little people" trees.

Haha!