So while tooling down the expressway close to the Ohio/West Virginia border, I notice a white SUV slowly pulling ahead of me on the left. As the passenger pulls even with me, he flips me The Bird. I'm wondering what this might be about until I consider that I'm driving my wife's van with a big, fat Obama sticker on the back. This notion is confirmed when the SUV pulls the rest of the way past to reveal a McCain/Palin sticker.

Clearly, if McCain wants to win he needs to reign in his supporters. If they keep going driving around flipping off guys driving their crippled spouses, everyone is going to think that all Republicans are asshats that like being rude to cripples. He really needs to get on this. Right Now!

The major British banks apart from HSBC looking extremely shakey. My prototype exposure system pressed into service to monitor Royal Bank Of Scotland trades. RBS looks in total  shit, no more trading with them boys. The pound's sinking like a stone. As Dulltrev say we're all doomed...

Poll: doomed?

I have a crush on this gal.  Curse my shyness, curse it!

The Naming Of The Dead - Ian Rankin

Reading: "The Naming of the Dead". Museums. Web.

i need a vacation from my days off.

Call it dirty names and humorous titles.

AFKS. The ever amusing Mrs. Netgear = suck it. Mom's medical procedure mania.

I don't get the feeling I am living in momentous times.

Sister of WPKAW (SoWPKAW) turned 30 on Thursday.

The weekend was spent in Welsh Wales with WPKAW's family.

On my first visit to Tsukiji, I felt as though I was on a movie set - no doubt due to those old Hollywood movies that attempted to capture the hustle & bustle of a seaport, a train platform, a ballroom, etc., by having a bunch of extras wander back and forth on a large stage in southern California made up to look like a more crowded exotic city somewhere else in the world.  But after walking around for a few hours, it all began to seem quite normal and ordinary.