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Reality Check: Coming up with Reasons why Life Sucks

Life is incredible right now. To keep myself grounded, let’s review why life sucks:
* My favorite and most used cardigan (no, not the one most seen by others) developed a hole in the elbow. Replacing this cardigan will require serious research. Patched!

* I lost my phone over the weekend, and it was a bit of a hassle to replace.

* My coffee situation is precarious; I’m nearly out of good beans, but I’m not likely to be near a good bean buying opportunity for a couple days. I haven’t figured out the optimal rationing solution. (RP, ignore this item for the sake of entertaining the people) YM bought me some so so solid coffee from Europe!

* I’m out of eggs from the chickens of one of my friends. Farmer’s Market eggs bought!

* My car needs gas. Gassed!

I guess that’s it.

Things I Learned This Week

Among the things I learned this week:

* Little J.B., a singer who I love from and tried to find more of based on his performance from Super Bad @ 65: A Tribute To James Brown, is Lee Fields (whom I have a few albums). (Courtesy: The New Yorker)

* Stops don’t make sense with country-wide ETFs for anything but day trading because of what it would take for a major price change. (Courtesy: YM)

* The Apollo is a lot smaller than I expected, and seventeen year olds can rock the house. (Courtesy: Wycliffe Gordon’s Jazz A La Carte)

* There is another type of gin, and it is fantastic. (Courtesy: ZS, JSK, and NYC)

* Not enough parents teach their children, some of whom are grown, how to enjoy a meal. (YM’s A and MS’ N)

* Myrna Loy modeled for Gil Elvgren. (Courtesy: Martignette and Meisel)