I’m sad. I am going to miss Eisley when they come to Florida for Labor Day weekend as I will be gone on vacation in Ohio.
Hopefully they will return and come to Orlando after they release their new CD.

Looking at car buying lately. My Altima is about ready to die. It’s 9 years old and has 150,000+ miles on it. I’m looking at some different models and trying to decide what it is I really want in a car.

2005 Totoya Matrix XR
My first pick as of now. Has a cool look, good colors, lots of space, 130hp isn’t too shabby, pretty good options, overall good value.

2005 Scion tC
Don’t know much about this one yet, has a nice look, price is good, good standard features.

2005 Scion xA
Similar to the Matrix, the cheapest of my picks, plenty of cargo space, not much pickup-and-go.

2005 Mini Cooper
Tons of style, great options, fairly inexpensive, virtually no cargo space, probably not practical.

2005 Nissan Altima
A little more expensive, like my Altima I have now, nice new features, the high-end of my selections.

2004 Toyota Prius
Gas!, hybrid engine is cool, no horsepower can’t drive it fast, sorta space-age looking not sure if I like it yet or not, little more expensive.

Too many choices. Anyone have any thoughts?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/14/BUGKK6L0LB1.DTL

“In an agreement announced by government prosecutors Thursday, Pfizer unit Warner-Lambert admitted that it aggressively marketed the epilepsy drug by illicit means for unrelated conditions including bipolar disorder, pain, migraine headaches, and drug and alcohol withdrawal.

Prosecutors said Warner-Lambert turned Neurontin into a blockbuster drug with tactics like paying doctors to listen to pitches for unapproved uses and treating them to luxury trips to Hawaii, Florida or the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. One doctor received almost $308,000 to tout Neurontin at conferences.”

What is the world coming to when we can’t trust our doctors at all? By the time most of us (us being people around my age) are old enough to collect Social Security there most likely won’t be such a thing, and all the money that gets taken out of our paychecks for it just gets absorbed by the U.S. government.

Viva la revolucion!

I can finally be done with the documentary for a while… Lots of work. Watching Kill Bill on Dvd tonight for the first time tonight. Josh is buying it and I missed it in theaters so it should be cool to see. Going to La Nouba tomorrow with the wife. It should be a good evening! And then playing at the Social on saturday afternoon as part of the Florida Music Festival. Hopefully there will be some VIP’s in the audience. We shall see!

EDIT: didn’t get to see Kill Bill tonight after all - will have to wait until later this week…

man the fair really tires you out! No one barfed tonight however. Primus is tonight. BOOYAH! 2 sets back to back. The first: a Whitman’s Sampler of songs from their whole discography minus one album; which is the 2nd set: the Sailing Seas of Cheese track listing from front to back. It’s going to rock my world.

booked a camping date, bought tickets to see Tortoise (woot!!), saw that rebirth brass band is coming back already to the social!, listened to the new UZ demos some more - looking forward to hearing the other new ones recorded sometime soon, still tired from gainesville…