Random Thoughts: 

Why did Todd Snider kill Slick Willy?  Is it just a subtle reinforcement of the title of the song, or am I missing something, or is the song just woefully incomplete?  By the way, I do wonder if the song Bring 'Em Home was inspired by a T-Shirt he saw a fan wearing in Lexington last year.  Wouldn't that be awesome?  I wore another one of them this year to The (new) Dame, and the husband of the opening act wanted to know how I got a T-shirt like that so soon after (or was it right before) the release of the album.  Does anyone remember her name?  I had a really nice conversation with both her and her husband as we were leaving and now I feel guilty for not even remembering her name.  I guess that's what you get with opening with the song "I Wish I Was a Tree," and yes, I'd had just enough PBR to tell her she might ought to rethink that.

No doubt Carrie Prejean is a not a good person, but I wonder why we expect better?  Surely we don't everyone to be smart, and I would think beauty pageant contestants to be at the top of the list of people who get a pass for being brainless.  I mean, let's face it, no one is more pampered than the kind of girls who consistently enter pageants.  The only real benefit to entering is a boost to the ego of the winner and her parents, and the costs are enormous.  Parents who spend the time and money to get deeply involved in that world are probably not demanding the right kind of emotional growth from their precious snowflake, and probably don't offer too much in that department genetically speaking either.  I'm not criticizing girls who enter a pageant or two as they grow up.  There's certainly nothing wrong with trying to be Corn Queen or Miss Powell County, but to compete at the Miss USA level (or the Miss California level) demands a lifetime of activities that do nothing at all to build character.  It shouldn't be surprising that Miss Prejean has such an unenlightened and entitiled attitude.

I've been posting my opinions on a variety of sites, but recently suffered criticism for being "online" in Facebook when I shouldn't have.  I hate those "online friends" lists.  They don't update when you leave, and then people think you just sit on facebook or myspace all day.  Since I've had to curtail sharing my random thoughts there, it seems I should come back here.

All week I've been a day off.  I keep thinking that today is Friday.  Yesterday I was convinced it was Thursday.  Tuesday it was Wednesday, etc.  I'm not sure what's gotten into me.  The only possible problem is that I spent a lot of money yesterday afternoon on replacing some bad electronics I have, knowing that since I had enough to cover it in the bank, with fifteen or twenty dollars to spare, and knowing nothing was going to post between two and midnight (when I thought I was getting paid), I was completely safe.  So when I checked my balance this morning to find out how much money I'd been paid, my account was at near zero.  I was pissed off.  Someone had messed up payroll.  That's when I finally remembered that for the ret of the world today is still Thursday.  I just hope I can remember to come to work tomorrow.