tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56738972011-09-01T08:51:05.479-04:00I run a Brooklyn mailing company, but am also a graduate student at the New School, and I have also managed weekly newspapers in Brooklyn and Greenwich Village. I have also been a radio announcer. And now this...George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.comBlogger751100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-56215737227180079332009-03-13T22:19:00.003-04:002009-03-13T22:30:43.400-04:00

Why Not Perennial Stimulus?On a long walk from home tonight I got a chance to mull something over that's been in my brain for a while. Namely that since the economy is a manmade system that one would hope is meant to maximize at first survival and second pleasure for all people, then why not make sure that always happens. Of course, this presupposes that as fact. Someone else might say that our

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Maybe we need a global euroIt's been a while since I last wrote - I guess I had nothing more to say about the worst US presidency to date, and thank goodness he's gone and we now have hope for better. My latest interest (among many, actually) is currency, and that is what I will begin writing about - basically my thoughts about the need for a world currency, replacing all national currencies,

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Iraqi PropagandaRegarding the news that the US pays Iraqi newspapers to get fake positive news published, Senator Ted Kennedy had the best response:Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., characterized the program as a scheme that “speaks volumes about the president’s credibility gap. If Americans were truly welcomed in Iraq as liberators, we wouldn’t have to doctor the news for the Iraqi people.”I

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Bolton FollowupI think he's nuts. He thinks he speaks for everybody in the United States when he spouts nutty ideas... for what I mean see the last paragraph...EU rejects US tactics on UN reformWed Nov 23, 2005 2:58 PM ETBy Evelyn LeopoldUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The European Union rejected on Wednesday a proposal by U.S. Ambassador John Bolton to delay adoption of a two-year U.N. budget until

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They Don't Get ItToday the Senate voted to try and disengage ourselves from Iraq by demanding that the Iraqis get their shit together. Senator John Warner is quoted "The message that Iraqis should take from the Senate action, Mr. Warner said, is that "we have stood with you, we have done our part," and now it is time for them to do theirs. He said 2006 would be a pivotal year for the campaign in

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Today I asked John Bolton a question.I went to see him at a luncheon at the 20th floor rooftop mansion hall at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. As a member of a group called the Foreign Policy Association, which is a business friendly organization that I charecterize as the poor mans Council of Foreign Relations, I was allowed to break bread with this epitome of the Bush administration.I kind of

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Using the Power of Office to Avoid JailPaul Krugman's column today ends like this:"Our current political leaders would suffer greatly if either house of Congress changed hands in 2006, or if the presidency changed hands in 2008. The lids would come off all the simmering scandals, from the selling of the Iraq war to profiteering by politically connected companies. The Republicans will be strongly

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This was written in Salon today by Tom Grieve, and I just wanted to concur in print on this, I truly believe this will happen:From the "For What It's Worth" Department, Bob Woodward offered up his predictions for the 2008 presidential race during a talk in Colorado Tuesday. He didn't pick a winner, apparently, but the Aspen Times says he did name the contestants: Hillary Clinton and . . . Dick

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The Real Reason for the Bush AdministrationIt has been my feeling since his first election that the real motivation for George Bush seeking the presidency has been the possibility for him to fix things to keep his father out of trouble. The three main acts within the first year of his presidency were:1. To prevent the release of presidential papers even though the law required them to be released

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The Gulag of Our TimesLast weekend I spent some time shopping at Walmart. Actually, I myself was not actually shopping, I was accompanying a friend. Even though it was around noon, I hadn't yet had my morning cup of coffee, so I decided to head to their little food area, ubiquitously placed to the right as one walks in. I looked around and saw that what they had that most matched my particular

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Who we?For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," Dick Cheney said in an interview that aired Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live.""Guantanamo's been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. ... I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and

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Maybe it takes a Brit to call someone a 'Lick-spittle, crazed Neocon'I got a big laugh reading the following story. A British lawmaker has taken umbrage at being accused by the US Senate for Iraqi wrongdoings. Here, you can laugh yourself (or, if the case may be, get upset by it).WASHINGTON - British lawmaker George Galloway said Tuesday he would reject charges at a U.S. Senate hearing from a “

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NewsweekThis Newsweek stuff really gets me. Aside from the obvious comparison with the US administration, which has failed to take any responsibility at all for invading a country by using false claims, it is obvious based upon the sequence of events that nobody in the government even cared about the item until it becamse an embarassing problem for it. Here is some original reporting:japantoday >

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Blix Blames U.S. for Nuke-weapons StalemateEver since the Bush administration including Don Rumsfeld took over, I have had the thought expressed by Hans Blix (click on above headline to read the story) in my mind, but I was unable to voice it properly. One of the first things the new administration did was to disown international treaties (unsign them), as well as plan for the militarization of

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Lifting the Censor's Veil on the Shame of Iraq - New York TimesThis is for the gentleman who commented below that it is childish to belittle this kind of war. According to Mel Brooks, the only war that was justified was the War of the Roses (they took all the roses and we needed to get them back. We needed them to smell better!). Being absolutist against war is not the worst sin.

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The Lying Game, Prominent Gay Microsoft Employee Quits, as More Evidence Emerges That Microsoft Caved to Anti-Gay Minister, by Sandeep Kaushik (05/05/05)The gays go first after the fundamentalists take over (people like me are next).

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KR Washington Bureau 05/04/2005 Lessons from Iraq: Rand offers War 101 textbookThe above links to a Rand report that condemns just about every aspect of our Iraq intervention, putting the blame to top leadership. While one may say that this is written in hindsight, I seem to remember many people making many of these same points before we moved our troops over the border from Kuwait.My impression

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War is Killinghere's another breaking story..."The U.S. military has cleared a Marine who shot three unarmed insurgents in a mosque at the height of fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, in November."All this tells me is that the US military takes the position that when a country sends its citizens someplace with guns, it's ok to use those guns to kill people, for pretty much whatever reason.If you ask me,

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Starbucks Becomes IBMCan you believe this? Starbucks, which has become a formidable cd as well as java outlet, has declined to sell the new Bruce Springsteen cd because of some risque lyrics having to do with what a prostitute does. Asked to comment, some Starbucks executive uttered the following:"When considering new projects, our primary goal is always to help our customers discover and acquire

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Today's Foreign Policy and ReaganIt struck me tonight as I was listening to Condoleeza Rice being bashed on the radio by moderate Iranians as an aggressive war mongerer that our current foreign policy is based less on current events and more upon the Republican view that it was Ronald Reagan's bluster against the Soviet Union that led to the demise of the Soviet system. To most Republicans,

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Dylan "Out of Time"Last night I went to see the Bob Dylan Band at NY's Beacon Theater. It's the second time I have seen a Dylan show, the first was only last summer. My impression? That the show should be judged more as a piece of art rather than a musical performance. The set, including costumes, was all red and black, with some occasional maroon lighting and for a while a blue backdrop dotted

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I couldn't resist posting this. I guess Bush never watched Fahrenheit 911 or else he'd have been more sensitive to this. Did you notice the other photos from this event where they were walking down a path holding hands like second grade boys? 

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Where are the Schools and Hospitals?A big defense of the American mission in Iraq as it was going sour was that our soldiers were helping open schools and hospitals for the Iraqis. The American right wing propaganda machine would get newspapers and programs to show heartwarming photographs of American soldiers helping young Iraqi schoolchildren.Well, it just struck me that I haven't seen any of

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This was dessert! It was YUM! I'm still not hungry.... 

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Jack and Susan the seder mavens. 

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Last night I went with my girlfriend Susan and her daughter Chloe to her friend (and hopefully now mine) Jack Jacob's house for a Passover Seder. Jack is a college professor and a Yiddish scholar and much of the pretty short Seder liturgy was in Yiddish, which is different from the elongated Orthodox Jewish Hebrew seder of my father's brother that I am accustomed to (the most my own family ever

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Wow - yesterday I went to Town Hall to see a live performance (a repeat of which is being aired as I type on WNYC-AM here in NYC) of "A Prairie Home Companion" (that's Garrison Keillor in the photo). Not only was it great radio, but it was wonderful to watch in person. They operate like a smooth running machine, going from skit to musical performance to storytelling without a hitch. I was quite

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I've been away and now I'm back. And now I'm leaving again. But just for dinner... more on my bird adventures later. The big word now is "International" - I'm international now that I've started advertising my business on the internet - it is very interesting.  

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A Terrible ThoughtAs I was driving to work today an scary idea came into my head as I was waiting at a red light. It's quite possible that at some future time, maybe even in a couple of years, Clarence Thomas will seem liberal compared to the 2 or 3 new judges that will be placed by this administration.

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I think we're doomed...The New York Times > Washington > Frist Set to Join Religious Effort on Judicial Issue: "WASHINGTON, April 14 - As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as 'against people of faith' for

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What a Meal!Tonight was Adrianne's birthday dinner at Peter Luger's Steakhouse in Williamsburg. We do this every year. Here Adrianne is being service their frizzed potatoes which sits alongside the traditional T-bone and spinach. We don't menu it - we have the same thing every year. Appetizer is tomato and onions topped with Lugers Special Sauce and dessert is apple strudel with schlag... this

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We coulda had pastrami!After dinner I drove Adrianne to her friend's apartment on the lower east side and we passed by Katz's Deli, which almost made me wish I hadn't had that amazing steak! We did stop for a photo....

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I Saw FREEBO!After Katz's we walked down Ludlow Street and I noticed Freebo's name up on the sandwich board outside of the Living Room so I had to go in. Freebo was Bonnie Raitts great bass player for many years. He played a fretless bass with her, but tonight played both one of those acoustic basses with pickups - not the big thing but one that looks like an acoustic guitar but with only 4 big

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Relevance in EducationJust this morning I wrote about the importance of relevancy in school and just tonight I started reading a book about Emile Durkheim - one of the social science great ones... and what is in the introduction but the following paragraph, talking about the writer of this book which explains Durkheim's four most important works. I shall repeat it here for it bears relevance to

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Informed Comment: "Ironies of Iraq today: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is afraid that the new Shiite religious government in Iraq will purge ex-Baathists placed in the army and intelligence services by US ally Iyad Allawi, a long-term CIA asset. Rumsfeld said that competent persons should be retained. This is the same Rumsfeld whose own deputy, Douglas Feith, set up a grossly incompetent

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Madame De StaelI just finished reading a book about this woman. She lived in and near Paris during the period around the French Revolution. More on this later, but the salient point for me is that I finally become aware of the exact circumstances of Napolean's coming to power, his impact on the world, and his demise. Spurred n large part because of economic reasons, France had a revolution

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Hello Bay Ridge!This was taken last Sunday in Bay Ridge. Have I told you about Bay Ridge? I have lived in Brooklyn since 1983, when I purchased a co-op near my then place of work in Boerum Hill. Boerum Hill is the part of Brooklyn not far from Fulton Street, kind of between Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope. Back in those days it was recovering from probably twenty or so years of having the stately

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Flowers and the pendulum that has stopped turningFirst of all, in case you are anywhere near Brooklyn, we are at the time of year when the cherry trees at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are starting to blossom. You can check the blossoming progress right here http://bbg.org/exp/cherrywatch/map.html And the big weekend when they have full ceremonies with Japanese music and dancers is the 30 of April

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The United States of ChristHere's today's news. The only part of this I appreciate is the last paragraph"Bush talked about his time in Rome in extraordinarily personal terms, saying it strengthened his own belief in a 'living God.'He remarked on how affected he was by the services, particularly the music and the sight of the plain casket being carried out with the sun pouring down on it. As he

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Informed Comment: "On one hand, people were thrilled that Saddam's regime was overthrown. On the other hand, McDowell said, 'I don't know anybody that would tell you conditions are better. They are worse. Obviously, there were problems under the regime. But they could walk the streets. Their kids could go to school. They felt safe - as long as they didn't engage in politics.'"

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I was lucky to be accompanied by my daughter Adrianne in the East Village on this great spring day! 

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Oh, I forgot to mention, but Tompkins Park was featuring - not bums, not conga drums, not Union rallies - but dog yoga! 

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Today was a great spring day - and so I walked around the East Village and this garden on 6 and B is marvelous! 

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OK, here's another great lead about our current government, this one from MSNBC"WASHINGTON - The most significant news to emerge from Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the USA Patriot Act was that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is willing to negotiate with members of Congress on revising the law."It's like the press is amazed when something happens that less than dictatorial....

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In case I forget, let me express right here that semiotics is the study of signs. Not only street signs, but many forms of non literal communication. I have much to learn about this, but I do vow that someday I will read a book by Umberto Eco on this. If you have a recommendation, by all means share.

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One quote from a NY Times article says all that needs to be said about our Orwellian government:"WASHINGTON, April 3 - A remarkable thing happened here last week: the Environmental Protection Agency announced a set of guidelines, and environmental groups were largely complimentary in response. "need any more be said about this unfortunate state of governing we are presently subject to....

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All weekend I've been hearing features on the radio discussing the current Supreme Court case concerting the sharing of music and movie files over the internet. This reminds me of similar brou haha about copy protection in the software industry as it came up in the 1980's. The one thing that I never heard anyone mention, back then and now, is that if companys want people to pay for their stuff,

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Well, today is April, it's not quite raining YET... what came out today were the monthly job reports and measure of industry and inflation, and the markets are a little mixed up trying to figure out what to make of it all - less jobs than expected, business middling, and inflation rising.I think the reason for this questioning is that we are on the verge of the same kind of stagflation we faced

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1112328333990636302005-03-31T22:59:00.000-05:002005-03-31T23:05:33.990-05:00

Well, tomorrow is April. This country is a mess, but you don't need me to tell you that. Intellectuals must be taking bets to see which comes first in the United States, a dictatorship or economic failure. I think history has shown that the two usually go hand in hand.Anyway, there's lots of money out there. I spent the whole day actually working, finishing up the huge mailing list for Astroland,

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Today was a day of technical glitches. All morning my Verizon DSL account at work was acting very spotty. It wouldn't let me send mail, some websites worked but others didn't and I realized that not having the internet would be very disconcerting for business, what with the emails that customers send me with their files, not to mention the easy way it is to communicate boring but important facts,

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1111965644883707652005-03-27T18:20:00.000-05:002005-03-27T18:20:44.883-05:00

Carrot juice with ice is nice!

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So how did I spend my Saturday night this week? Well, I did something that I haven't done for at least five years... no, I didn't run 5 miles or stay out all night drinking... I stayed in the office and did a Windows 2000 installation from scratch. My Western Digital hard disk manufactured in 2003 died, which was highly unexpected, and I couldn't get to the CD Rom so I let it languish for a month

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1111737733252304312005-03-25T03:02:00.000-05:002005-03-25T03:35:52.393-05:00

My mother and my daughter taken a couple of years ago at Peter Luger's famous Brooklyn steak house. We're going back soon as Adrianne celebrates her 23rd. Oh yeah, I'm the guy.

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Well, it has been a while since I posted, but I am thinking of adding this blog to my brand new business web page at www.selectmailbrooklyn.com. I think I will work on remembering how to do a blog before I link this, but I definitely have things to say, and not all of it political.So let's see how this looks.

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1064600451569458382003-09-26T14:20:00.000-04:002003-09-26T14:20:51.410-04:00

I absolutely love the ending of todays NY Times editorial regarding the quest for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq "This is clearly an uncomfortable question for the Bush administration. Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Times editors. Asked whether Americans would have supported this war if weapons of mass destruction had not been at issue, Mr. Powell said the question was

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I can't believe they're now resorting to this tired tactic... Mr. Rumsfeld did not mention any of the domestic critics by name. But he suggested that those who have been critical of the administration's handling of the war in Iraq and its aftermath might be encouraging American foes to believe that the United States might one day walk away from the effort, as it has in past conflicts. From the

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The River Cities' Reader Online Very interesting stuff here...

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It's so nice to see the cold face of reality jump right into the Bush White House and interfere with their misguided sense of destiny and world changing. They have had a lot of fun being unaccountable to the whole rest of the world, including the US Congress, but now they are forced to come begging for more moolah and help from other nations. I know that the President feels degraded by this and

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1062173127105643042003-08-29T12:05:00.000-04:002003-08-29T12:06:01.170-04:00

I just read this in an MSNBC story about the horrid bombing in Iraq today: The leader of Iraqi National Congress and Governing Council Member Ahmad Chalabi, speaking on the al-Jazeera satellite television station, blamed the United States for failing to provide security and said the bombing was the work of Saddam loyalists who were trying to create sectarian discord in the country. How

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1062094480797249812003-08-28T14:14:00.000-04:002003-08-28T14:14:40.806-04:00

My mother called me up in a great mood this morning. She was happy for 2 reasons - first, that it's such a nice, sunny, clear day. She went on to say that there used to be a lot more days like this but now people keep fogging things up with their SUV's etc. Secondly, she was happy to see that the Bush administration seems to be hog-tied by Iraq, even considering, gasp, help from the United

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OK - I haven't posted for a while, I didn't even see a computer for 9 days after the blackout. I went for a computer free vacation and not only survived by thrived in upstate NY cooking a lot of the great products that are still grown in NY State. It's a great year for corn and tomatoes and cabbage and peaches and I got introduced to yellow watermelon - delicious! My only news fix was my morning

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060961902203011552003-08-15T11:38:00.000-04:002003-08-15T11:42:42.800-04:00

They must have been laughing real hard at us in Baghdad yesterday! Oh well, electricity is back here - back to work....

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060874318069466992003-08-14T11:18:00.000-04:002003-08-14T11:23:11.970-04:00

OK, it's a new day - going to be a hot one... I'm down to 12 active jobs, finished a bunch yesterday and no new ones yet today. Listening to Greg Brown cd's - he's good and I often forget about him. Got to get to a folk festival again one of these days... Loudon Wainwright has a new live album coming out soon. Almost finished with my Reagan book - got two more in the mail yesterday - one on the

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060806577533484932003-08-13T16:29:00.000-04:002003-08-13T16:34:21.613-04:00

Now I have to estimate a job for BAM LDC.... I like lots of work but it gets me nervous!

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Say Hi to Adrianne who is here in the office

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I wish I knew how to update the links on the left - I'd like to add some.

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I'm up to 19 jobs now - someone who runs a cab company wants to buy some labels for a mailing - I'm getting a little anxious trying to make sure I keep up with everything... 2 more bills to send out. Yikes!

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060786008102382332003-08-13T10:46:00.000-04:002003-08-13T10:51:35.363-04:00

I just got into work and nothing is happening, not only that, but my eyes are tired. Better make some coffee and get on with work!

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060756542758459732003-08-13T02:35:00.000-04:002003-08-13T10:51:03.970-04:00

I had a bandwidth meter here but I took it off - but I am impressed with html code

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060752142727307182003-08-13T01:22:00.000-04:002003-08-13T01:22:22.806-04:00

Google Toolbar Installed

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Oh, I keep forgetting to let you know about www.mailmore.com

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Full moon, meteor showers, and I'm still stuck in Iran/Contraville. It's hard to believe that the current administration had the nerve to let John Poindexter back in government, instead of in jail, where he by all rights should be. There's enough people from the 1980's serving 20 years simply for selling cocaine - he allowed the country to sink in it.

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060746413173199542003-08-12T23:46:00.000-04:002003-08-12T23:46:53.066-04:00

I still have 17 jobs - this evening I took photos of Fifth Avenue and then fiddled around the rest of the time. I am reading a book about the 1980's called Sleepwalk Through History - America in the Reagan Years....

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060725934592810172003-08-12T18:05:00.000-04:002003-08-12T18:06:17.286-04:00

I have 17 mailing and publishing jobs right now. Why am I writing here? Why am I talking to Richard

George Fialahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962223741910566014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5673897.post-1060725149613311992003-08-12T17:52:00.000-04:002003-08-12T17:52:29.486-04:00

OK - I will try again with a new post - here it is!

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