Oh my god. I'm going to kill the bastard that called and hung up at 2:40am. I couldn't get back to sleep, so I wrote Media Unspun instead and collapsed on the couch around 6. The alarm started going off in the bedroom at 6:30. Then I crawled in to bed, and at 7:40, Rick started racing around trying to find his wallet. I found it for him and got out of bed, thinking I'd try again in an hour or so. Of course now the road crews are out. DDDRRRRDDDTTTT!!! DDDRRRDDDTTT!!

Kill me.

While I sit here and die of sleep deprivation, I'm pondering this bookmark on my desk: "1975 - YOUR Special Year"
Average Income: $14,816.00 (hey, in 1975, I'd be flush)
New house: $39,000.00 (Double in Boston, I bet)
New car: $4,225.00
Loaf of bread $.36
Gallon of gas: $.44 (And people still bitched about it...)
Gallon of milk: $1.57 (Right, from now on we're putting gas on the cereal...)
President: Gerald Ford
Vice President: Nelson Rockefeller
Minimum wage: $2.10 (I'd be *really* flush...where's that Wayback Machine?)
Life expectancy: 72.6 years
Dow Jones average: 802. (Ouch.)