Got the fire stoked up, brought in some more firewood, listened to the news, did an hour on the Larrivee working on improving my finger style, did another 30 minutes working out some blues stuff, also worked out an arrangement of "Save the Last Dance For Me" suitable for house/small venue concerts (I like to throw off genre stuff in to break things up), put on the Mills/Crabtree CD "Freedom", then the Robert Earl Keen CD "West Textures" and listened to it all before sitting down to work out his great song "Mariano". I am now headed over to Sandy's Lakeside Country Kitchen to take the piss with the old timer, right wing mafia. Much as they bitch, I think they love having a real live lefty in their midst. The other day I hit them with some hobo lefty economics that my friend Mark Ross shared with me. Goes like this:

A year ago if you invested $1,000.00 US in Delta Airlines, today you would have about $32.00
If you invested it in Wamu, you would have $27.00.
If you invested it in Lehman Bros. you would have nothing.
If, instead, you had just went out and bought all the beer you could get with it,
you could have enjoyed the time drinking it with you friends,
saved the cans and turned them in for the deposits of about $243.00.
Hobo economics.

Off to Sandy's I go.

All the best,

Mick