Another quiet night.  Phone hasn't rung all day.  Had to check to make sure that it hadn't been shut off.  Went grocery shopping.  Saved a shitload of money.  Feel like writing in sentance fragments.  Have no idea why.  Other people's weblogs are far more interesting.  Does this mean they are more interesting??  Ryan Seacrest is an ass.  That's all folks.

Ok....my life is boring.....I have relatively nothing I feel notable to post about these days.  It's all work work and more work....  Many of my friends from the drumming community are away at Starwood this week anyway (last year's website was way better).  Maybe I'll get there some year!!!

Ok, something of note:  The website Craigslist has finally reached Hartford.  Craigslist is a discussion board/classifieds/help wanted/personals site that started in San Francisco almost 10 years ago.    Or I guess you can call that an "online community".  I had been occasionally reading some of the zany posts there through links on The Black Table. The Hartford link had a "coming soon" next to it for a while.   Here's the text of the story that ran in the Record Journal.

My other recent favorite online community site, The Daily Column, has been down for almost 2 weeks while they get some sort of hosting problem straightened out.  To tell you the truth, I havent had much time to browse it lately anyway.

I spent Sunday afternoon doing some chores around the house..I actually washed the car-for the first time since I bought it. It was filthy, both inside and out. I broke out the new shop vac that I bought for work and tested it out. For a little 2 gallon machine, it's a powerhouse!!!

Cool thing- I fired up the stereo in the garage that Ben set up in there. Just for kicks, I tuned it to 92.9 to see if I could get WEHM in there--at first nothing. But I touched the little piece of wire that is acting as the FM antenna and it came in LOUD. I let go of the wire again- nothing. So I found an alligator clip lead and BINGO. I now have one of the coolest radio stations loud and clear RIGHT IN THE GARAGE. Now, if only I could get the stereo in the house to get it.....

So, I was able to wash the car and listen to the awesome good tunes they were playing.

Again, I haven't been posting much lately. I've been working alot, and it seems that I've been coming down with a cold or something this last week.

Delilah and I spend the 4th of July holiday together- we went to the Middletown fireworks together. She was funny, she was adding her "color commentary" throughout the whole display. The people sitting next to us thought it was really cute.

I also managed to catch another fireworks display tonight- this one in Groton-New London as part of Sailfest 2004. These fireworks were sponsored by the Mashantucket Pequot tribe--as they do every year. Lisa and I went over her friend's house which has a view of the monument at Fort Griswold--where they shot the fireworks over. Pretty cool and we didn't have to fight the traffic or worry about the parking. I hadn't seen a fireworks display here since 1998 or 99--with Jill and Delilah.

Of other note, I noticed that one of my favorite radio stations- WLNG in Long Island now is broadcasting on the net. Cool- and they provide a Winamp feed!!! They're the only radio station that I have ever heard to segue from Steve Miller's "Abacadabra" to "Walkin' After Midnite" from Patsy Cline. If you're down by the Eastern Connecticut shore or listening via the net, check them out!!