excellent tip, smax! i just loaded up on my favorite l.a. restaurants. $185 worth for $15. merry christmas to me.

p.s. it's possible i will become one of those irritating l.a. folks who waltzes into park city and treats it as their own for two weeks. if it works out, i will try to make it up to you with beer?

happy holidays to all the diner denizens. and kudos to everyone still managing to live in the chicagoland area. i do not know how you do it.

learning how to work things out in the world? struggling with the fact that nothing's fair? trying to learn to harness and exert power? because you can? because you love each other and know that at the end of the fight you'll still be loved?

perhaps it's all this not fighting getting us "adults" ground down and into therapy.

time flays.

pedro, do you, or anyone else here for that matter, do software scripting? in order to create a business suite especially for photographers? i'm not sure i know what i'm talking about, but if that sounds familiar and you or someone you know can do that, my roommate's boss is looking for someone.

let me know: k3ls3ylink @ gm@ail.com

i gotta find my copy of that song. it really is great.

andronicus, congrats on your niece...

happy birthday to grady.

hello to scinatfilm. good to see you here again.

my major apartment overhaul was rudely interrupted by the blazing heat.

got a friend in the hospital if you all want to send up your good thoughts for her. she had a seizure induced by the absence of meds she was supposed to be taking and her doctor suggested she be admitted because she seemed particularly unstable. she seemed to be doing better yesterday so she might be out soon.

i could use some help figuring this out. i sent an email to a friend at a hotmail address. it was bounced back with this explanation and followed the link to try to sort it out and i don't understand a thing. anyone?

Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: Gmail tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 SC-004 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. A block has been placed against your IP address because we have received complaints concerning mail coming from that IP address. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your E-mail/Internet Service Provider for help. Email/network admins, we recommend enrolling in our Junk E-Mail Reporting Program (JMRP), a free program intended to help senders remove unwanted recipients from their e-mail list: http://postmaster.live.com (state 13).