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the 9-point plan to financial success, according to Scott Adams:

Make a will
Pay off your credit cards
Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
Fund your 401k to the maximum
Fund your IRA to the maximum
Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio

so anyway, i fell over

I had a whoopsie daisy as I was sliding down the stair-rail at the subway station last week and landed on my ankle pretty bad. It was OK at the time but it has gradually gotten stinker and stinker to walk on until now I am all gestapo around the office an shid, so Supervisor/Big Sister Jen nagged me into seeing a doctor, which i would gladly have done sooner if only i knew how to find one and had my health insurance card ready.
Anyway, today the spheres were in alignment so after today's bike and weights session I hobbled away to find a "Hellss Sentoh". Three buildings and 5 different floors later I saw a doc who fondled my foot and informed me that is was sprained. But how would he treat it? Well, he injected the foot (it's my left one) in four places with muscle relaxant; he inserted two acupuncture needles in my ankley area; and, he attached me to a "Low Frequency Therapeutic Apparatus" with three vibrating/oscilating pads buzzing at 7Hz on my tender tootsie. Gotta go back Friday.
Yesterday I carted a spare monitor off to my hoose, so now I don't have to spend 12.5% of my life in dark PC rooms to let off steam. Also, I'm getting a TV. Wonderful. Just what my life needs. Lol. Ahem.

There. Now you are up to date with the most important events in my life.

Stephen Chow's God of Cookery (clip)

I saw this movie "God of Cookery" at the Incredibly Strange Film festival years ago and haven't fond it anywhere since. This scene really stands out. The lady really likes the BBQ Pork.

10 tracks of shuffle

My iPod passed 3000 tracks today. Here is a sample of ten tracks on shuffle:

1: You think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Million Bucks
Queens of the Stone Age

This is a ballsy rocker that would make mummy cry. Not for bedtime, unless it's the naughty kind of bedtime. NOt cookie monster vocals, more like a metal bin full of bottles and stone being thrown down a flight of concrete stairs.

2: Why
Joe Satriani

Just about my favourite song of my favourite guitar virtuoso. Shay showed me the kick-ass scale at the end. Just beautiful.

3: The Widow
The Mars Volta

I've never actually heard this one. The Onion says they are a punk band, but i's too melodic to be called that. Anyway, this one is balladic. And quite beautiful too.

4: Everything Reminds Me of Her
Elliot Smith

This is a lovely little apologetic song, by the guy who wrote 'Needle in the Hay', the song that Luke Wilson slits his wrists to in 'The Royal Tenenbaums'. Awwww.....

5: Son of a Preacher man
Dusty Springfield

Ahh the old classic straight outta Pulp Fiction. What scene? I think this is the track that Vincent Vega plays when he arrives at Mia Wallace's house. But I can't be sure.

6: Windy
Incubus

The Incubus is sounding off about the way one can drift through life with no ideas about what you're doing. All right for him.

7: Sweet Ammonia
Meat Puppets

Jesus! All this rock music. Usually I can't find a rock song to save myself. Anyway, this one came off of 'No Joke' an ugly little album that sat in the $15 bargain bin outside of Sounz even after Kurt Cobain made them famous by inviting them to play with Nirvana at the MTV Uplugged thing they did. You know: Lake of Fire, Plateau?


8: The Day We Caught the Train
Ocean Colour Scene

Another classic. This was fresh when I was a 1st year at varsity (which is another way of saying '96). I didn't really understand it so much back then but now that I've done some of the things they talk about it makes a lot more sense to write a song about it.

9: Reference Check
Foreign Legion

Diversity! At last. I think I hooked this one up off of Eru and these guys are pretty damn good, although, as this track shows, they can't resist propping themselves up in the underground.


10: Wild America
Iggy Pop

Blah. This one came of the Trip 2 and I would always skip it back in the old days. It's kinda grown on me now, especially the kind of rant he does at the end. "They're so goddam spoilt... they're poisoned inside!,"


And that ends this month's little incursion to the sonic realms of my best friend in korea, Poddy. Not what I expected. I was kinda counting on some Tony Robbins and some funk showing up in there seeing as the bulk of my music these days seems to be soul and stuff. Funny how that happens.