Circle of Confusion

How come?

I have to say I've done that, been there...

Good Morning! My good friend Cmd. Gomez is flying me to Fesno to pick my stuffssss.s.s.s.s.s.s. The CHP was kind enough to tow the mess to storage. Will Joey be there, too? I only hope and pray and plead!

Feel so nice to be back. I was trying to reach my brother Phil at home and got my mother this morning and gave her the street pay phone number and a backup number of my hotel lobby number. She ask my father to do the call back but he was in the "John" doing his morning business. ... Good Samaritant >John< let me use his cell and I call again. Turns out my brother couldn't wait and went to church already on this glorius day.

What a beautifudsjl ddl
I crashed half way (6 mi mark + .3 mi) from 5 Fwy to MERCY HOT SPRING.... ...SOS


From the South
From I-5, go west on the J1/Shields Ave/Little Panoche Road exit. Mercey Hot Springs is 13 miles on the right (west) side of the road. Please Note: Just after "J1/Shields Ave/Little Panoche Rd Exit" - Do not take the "Panoche Road" Exit.

Puppy is in the middle, father left, mother right, a new cousin at the bottom. If you like, let me know so I can tell the guy.

Instead of camping out in the wild, I decided to camp out at General Chang’s garden just outside of Mariposa. We will do the wilderness another time. Thank you Adobe (see previous post).

Because of Katrina crisis, China's leader postpones trip to US

By Joe McDonald, Associated Press | September 4, 2005

BEIJING -- President Hu Jintao of China yesterday postponed his official visit to the United States this week because of Hurricane Katrina...

And look who I saw on Tioga Pass: none other than Mr. Hu's medicine man, Dr. Forest. I wonder whether the Chairman knows he is here to "drink some pure heavenly water..." and is he bringing some of these aqua back to the chief?

Now on to the subject at hand: misery tax. I wonder if your profit is largely the the result of other people's suffering, like the gulf coast along Louisinan presently resulting in small jump in gasoline price, should extra tax be levied?

Joe called from his yacht yesterday. He was sailing Martha’s Vineyard this Labor day weekend. His portfolio was up a few hundred mil (his words, ‘a few hundred mil’). He donated $500k for hurricane relief.

“You should donate a hundred, two hundred mil, maybe half of your gain from last week.” I said since much of his gain was in oil and gas.

He told me to get real. “Who is going cover me when I go bust?” he asked.

“Don’t be too greedy and you won’t go bust.”

“If I am not greedy, I wouldn’t be sailing now and slurping uni (sea urchin) and tobiko. What about you? You did pretty good last week and you are roughing it out in Yosemite. Putting up a tent in somebody's backyard is camping? You are a disgrace to Yosemite. Stuck in limbo my yinyang. And how much did you give?”

"do you have any abalone over there. I can't finish mine here." I quickly changed the subject...

Joe is one of the good guys I met in Wall St. We used to worked at S&P’s years ago back in the dotcom boom when blokes became millionaires daily and I had a pocket full of stock options from several dotcoms. He used to joke: “You’re Standard and I’m Poor’s”. Joe vowed then: “if I ever made a hundred mil a year, I would donate 20% to charity!”

As the calamity of Katrina unfolded on General Chang’s big screen in front of me, and Bill is urging me to "finish the dog gone abalone already", I wondered should there be misery…er…tax? Joe profited handsomely from Katrina. I know because he was loading up his portfolio betting the hurricane “will slam the gulf coast with total devastation.”

“Pray for N.O. L.A.” I saw that on the back of a truck as I left L.A. on Friday. I thought “LA sucks sometime, but why pray for no la?” Then I realize it’s New Orleans, Louisiana.

My thoughts and prayers goes to N.O. L.A.

I setup camp in a nice secluded spot in Yosemite. My plan was to stay there a few days and try out all the new outdoor gears. This very first morning, when I ran Photoshop, I was greeted with this dialog box:

Good morning to you, too! Adobe !@#^#%%#$!@ Just before the trip, I upgraded my notebook with lots of ram and biggest notebook HD there is. I was quite happy HD transplant worked out without problem.

Damn! But I didn't think about reactivating Photoshop.

So I had to trek back to "base camp" in town to fetch a new activation key. Now I'm mystify why there isn't even a demo option to allow me to go a few days! What happen if I am in really in limbo when there is no Internet, no phone? Can I send a letter to Adobe for a key? And what should the return address be? Limboville, of cours!

This trip is the beginning of my Amazon jungle expedition. Sheees, I totally didn't expect Photoshop was the first to malfunction.

Oh yeah, I threw away my iPod before the trip. See, there is no iPod in the photo where the iPod should go. I couldn't figure out in time how to transfer all my music files to the new notebook. Seems copying the iTune-music folder "no so fast, buster". Thanks, Steve Jobs. So I brought along good old CDs. I think these thing doesn't expire. I can degrade, though as I found out. The John Lenon CD I just bought won't play on my computer. But that another Limboville tale for another day.

One last thing: money in my pocket is expiring more rapidly these last few days. Gas was $2.89 when I left Arcadia, by the time I get to Merced, it was $3.59. I am down 6 bucks for the same tank of gas. But my energy portfolio is up 600% so I on the upside still, thank you!

林妈妈气愤担保绝对是真的 她說: "如果您不相信, 來more一more即知道"

Easy!