The DSL has been flickering the last few days. That causes congestion in the spam flow, receiving it in huge bursts every time the connection is corrected again. Zounds. 750 new messages. wonder if any of them are from somebody I know. Getting harder to find 'em these days.

Moved the computer which is sending you these pages to its new home in the recording studio. Or should I say the monitor is in the studio. The vacuum-cleaner sucking noise of the CPU is on the other side of the acoustic sandwich wall. I found myself amusingly alarmed when I turned it on and couldn't hear it working. Testing. One two three. Everything is currently jerry rigged because the room isn't done yet. I'm moving stuff in anyway.

The record execs are alarmed because people are only buying singles online, not albums. They're moaning about profitability. Turns out folks buy 10 times as many singles as albums online, but 50 times as many albums as singles in the stores. Seems to me as a struggling merchant that if you've got folks buying ten times as many of one thing as another thing - you shouldn't oughta' complain about it. You've found a market.

Was working on a rant a couple days ago, but it got lost in the DSL hiccups. Something about the 'new folk' music. I hear it everywhere. There were a lot of us baby-boomer guitar players. And we're all doin' our own thang thirty years later. A guy and a lady with stroller were out strolling a few nights ago. He playing a backpacker guitar, both singing wonderful harmonic ditties. It's just what they do. Out for a walk, bring the guitar along.

The Russians mention that they've got a helium leak on their Soyuz, but claim it's not a big deal. I don't know how much has been lost, but agree it probably isn't a big deal. You see, helium will leak from pretty near anything. It will find its way out of a solid glass cylinder fer instance. Not a capped cylinder, but solid glass. It's pretty hard to stockpile the stuff.