I locked everything up here and shut er down. I read a bit out of Ps on the train in. I got my dialer and a few comments about my abscessed tooth. Also, I noticed I’ll be getting a $54 bonus on my cheque this week. I was holding up pretty good feeling no pain. If anything I felt the swelling going down a bit. Moe pulled all of us tap shooters aside saying the line hour for taps is $160-$280 Moe just said, "be mindful of the line hour and do what you can." This was word from Rob at the top. He’s nuts in the head for what we’ve got to work with and he wants $160/hour min? I was doing well but by 6:30pm the calls were coming in slow. Then in the 2nd half it was mostly semies. I ended up with a decent $475 and 1 credit card. Also, I called my book ordering guy and my 3 Star Trek novels came in. Good stuff. Earlier Dave K was talking to me about piano lessons and said his going rate was $30/half hour but for me he’d charge me $20/half hour. He says he’s teaching children all kinds of people. This has some promise. Also when I called Audrey’s my “Vulcan's Soul” trilogy series is in. Great! I gave him the titles of the books I wanted and called back an hour latter. The Dale Myers book is out of print. The 2 Jack Vance books are like $25 Each. Go ahead. I ordered 2/10 of the L. Ron Hubbard “Mission Earth” series. I’ve had them before but that’s another story. I didn’t order the Hal Leonard book because with Dave’s teaching me piano (USS) I might not need them.

I ended up taking the train home and made it in time for Raw. I’m starting to feel a lot better. Speaking about my Star Trek books (TOS), I’m going to order as many top down as possible until the years run out. There’s 27 Star Trek books I can get from the year 2000 up. Prior to that most of them are out of print.

I’m still not sure about taking lessons from Dave. I mean he’s a nice guy and all but how reliable is he? He comes and goes. I just get a funny feeling about him is all. I’d rather take lessons from Neil but Neil doesn’t have a lot of time.

Oh and Detroit won 3-0. It’ll be a different game on Wednesday that’s for sure. If the Wings can split the 2 games at Pittsburg, then wow I’d be thinking sweep. The series could all be but over Friday night but it's going to go 7 games.

Ah, now it all makes sense why they need a Starship and a wormhole. Ps is turning out to be a decent novel after all. If Ps delivers the goods then I might end up saying, see you later Eric Brown. Like in September. Also about Science Fiction novels, I’m going to order the Star Trek Enterprise books. There are 10 in the series so far. The book covers are lame.

On Coast right now, they are talking about Theoretical physicist Dr. Richard Hammond will discuss the origin of the universe, quantum gravity, wormholes and things science still can't explain. First Hour: Richard C. Hoagland comments on the Phoenix Mars landing. And tomorrow night, they are going to be talking about the Giza pyramids. Some decent shows this week.

I watched Raw the last night. Ted DiBiase showed up and introduced his Son. Ted Jr looking to be a tag team contender but he doesn;t have a parner. Also, there's going to be another draft.  Raw was Pretty good tonight. Vince giving away a milliion dollars? Has he gone nuts? What's up with Y2J offering a hand up to HBK? Strange days in the WWE. I'd rate tonight's Raw 8-10. It was a good show.

Anyway Bloggers, that’s all for now

e. Jim