Hopstretch

I hope Audio-gd have the capital to absorb the hit, anyway, as they do seem to be on the side of the angels. Do you have any idea of the scale of the operation, Currawong?

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals -- Jacksonville City Nights

Helped my neighbor install a hot tub in his back yard. On the way home I bumped into his teenage son: "Hey Mark, you get to use the new spa?" (Smile) "Yeah." "Did you ever see Election?" (Big smile) "Yeah!"

Bob Marley And The Wailers -- LIVE!

Prince -- Purple Rain Kevin Gray remaster, 24/96 vinyl rip

What's the case made out of, marble?

Aaarrr whore.

The Eagles -- Hotel California Kevin Gray remaster, 24/96 vinyl rip.

RHODIUM or GTFO.

Yeah, would that that was so easy to just dial down.

You forgot tubey. That's worth plenty!

John Hiatt -- Slow Turning

Should get together with these geniuses.

Isn't Boulder supposed to have 300 sunny days a year? Always thought that sounded pretty cool.

Tahoe for you, sir.

John Hiatt -- Bring The Family

San Diego.

My friendly local Ayre dealer says they're getting one in any day now and would be happy to lend it to me for a week to try out at home. So, woot!

Got home, yay! Thanks for all the positive waves. Highlight of the morning was my daughter telling the chief resident he was a "very pretty doctor" during rounds, causing some pronounced sniggering from the rear ranks. Diagnosis highly noncomittal, maybe mycoplasma pneumonia maybe something viral. Main thing is she's getting better. Think I'll have to purchase some Scotch in celebration.

Just make your ice with tonic water. Damn I could use a drink right about now.

Four identical pairs of LLBean chinos. Forward to middle age!

Still at the hospital. These beds suck. Thank God for the iPhone.

Thanks guys. She's handling it all well, has already set herself up as Princess of the Paeds ward, but her oxygenation is still not improving with treatment. My own uninformed concern is that she may have a shunt -- there were some concerns about her heart structure in utero, but they thankfully never came to anything after she was born. She was thoroughly checked out at Childrens' back then, but I wonder if her growth since might have made a very minor problem more apparent and I think I'm going to start bleating about getting her down there again.

Spent the entire day in the ER with my daughter, who appeared perfectly happy and contented the whole time despite having an oxygen saturation stubbornly below 90%. Many nebulizers and a half-bucket of steroids later, the wife arrived on emergency recall from Montreal to man the oxygen blower for the overnight shift. Also learned that the nearest hospital to us sucks balls, which I guess would be valuable information in a direr emergency.