All of this shit happened in one twelve hour period (Wednesday)

This morning, Dan Rosenberg called me, launched into the most boring and pointless series of comments about the way the city council and other operations are run. Then when I didn't take his bait - basically leveled with him that what he was droning on about had no news value, told me I was wasting HIS time! Remember, he called me. Then he said, I'll be writing for a competitor (the L.B. Times - oh, yeah! big time competitor) and he wouldn't be calling me again. My reaction, tho unspoken...promise?

The next call was from "KO," whom I've been trying to reach for several days, about coming on my show.

KO: Elliott tells me you have all his records.

Me: yes I do, and I have yours too, so if you come on my show, you'll have a CD of all of them.

KO: Look, I can't do that. I'm working on a big movie about my time with the Temptations when they were the Primes and my mgr. won't let me come on your show. So, could you make a CD and send it to me?

Me: Let me get this straight. Not only do you not want to come on the show, you want me to do this work. Listen. Come on the show, that way you get the songs.

It went like that for awhile. Later, Elliott told me, "forget K.O." Okay, it's a trend. No more Dan, no more Kell. Next?

In the afternoon, after my walk, (walk an hour every day, eat two hours....every day), I bought 15 interesting books from Gary for .10 apiece and 10 good 45s for a total of $13 cash.

After shopping, came home and a guy I'd never seen before named Rory was fiddling around in our driveway and garage...seems like Sylvia contacted him thru a Pennysaver ad and he literally blew up from Sunset Bch and had finished $50 worth of chores (rehooking our dead phone line and cleaning out our clogged down spouts - the ones that send sheets of water over our back door), so I guess it was worth it. So while I'm messing around at Gary's, Rory's taking care of Sylvia's needs. As Rory was on his way out, he mentioned how he worked on a fishing boat in Alaska and that's how his first marriage broke up...gone for months out of the year, and a bigger fish moved in...and brought his own hooks, apparently. Had never seen Rory befory in my lifey.

Other stuff's been happening, just forget what it's named.