Here comes the rain again!

All together let's sing that mid-1980's song by the Eurythmics. It is amazing that despite the rain during the past week we somehow remain in a drought or below rainfall expectations whatever the meteorological term would be.

I have been giving some thought this weekend to the idea of what to name my company. Surprisingly, this is much more difficult than one would think. One the one hand you would like to have a name that tells what you do, but on the other hand you need to have a solid marketing program behind what you do that will sell your product or service. For example, Amazon.com works much better than, buy your books using a computer and have them shipped to your home. Of course, I can't help but smile when I see Stop & Shop. As far as a name goes, that one does the best job of simply stating what the company's purpose is.

Another Red Sox win does help to make an otherwise yucky Sunday morning more palatable. Winning ugly is still winning and when the Yankees lose so much the better! The lead is now three games and looking very good but of course as all life long Red Sox fans know, the Sox never look strong than what they do in June. If World Series were decided in June the Red Sox and not the Yankees would have 26, maybe 30 plus World Championships!

Now I will admit to seeing a kids moving and enjoying it tremendously. I saw Wall-E on DVD the other night and was surprised that I found myself sucked in by the story and while I had expected something cheesy and sugary, instead it was quite warm and inspirational.

Oh by way of retraction, I believe I said that Cuckoo Clark Rockefeller should have had the book thrown at him. What happened is the wrong book was thrown. He should have had War & Peace thrown not some little kiddie book!

The Rains Have at Last Abated

Oh how nice it was to wake up this morning and see the sun shining bright in the more-or-less blue sky and be able to take a deep breath of fresh air. All is right in the world today not the least of which is the Red Sox winning over the Phillies last night. Jon Lester pitched a great game and were it not for a blown save would have another win on his belt. This guy Ramirez seems to blow more than his share of saves. If you recall when relievers were called fireman well this guy should be called the Arsonist.

Congrats to the Pittsburgh Penguins for winning the Stanley Cup. Still I can't get over those loser fans in Detriot booing the team and booing their own team. Gee the Wings have won it like 4 times in the past decade and are always in the final 6 or 8 each year. Yeah they are an embarrassment to a city where a mayor sits in prison for lying about firing a body guard who refused to protect him when he was cheating on his wife.

Also good jobs today to the jury that convicted Cuckoo Clark Rockefeller. This man is a con-artist pure and simple and what he is doing is trying to use the suffering of truly mentally ill people to get away from another crime. Sadly this being Massachusetts, he is only going to prison for a very short time and no doubt will be treated as if he were mentally ill. To commit a crime in Massachusetts is simply to change into another vocation. Massachusetts is a state where to break the law is rewarded and where to be an honest decent person is to be a fool. In the words of Jimmy Walker one of the most corrupt mayors of New York City during the second reign of Tammany, "Show me an honest man and I will show you a sucker." That is the Massachusetts mentality pure and simple.

Well today is errand day again as any Saturday is. Of course, Max the Wonder Dog will want to be walked and will nag until I do it. I never knew a dog who could nag?

A Lovely Day Despite the Raindrops

Nothing will bring out the Sun on a rainy morning than a Red Sox victory of the evil empire. Once again, we saw Big Papi bring out the Big Lumber and Josh Beckett pitched like the Becket of old. It does seem that Alex Rodriguez broke out the special steroids he takes to choke in big games. Not only did he go 0 for 4 but he muffed an easy double play grounder that should have ended the inning and would have saved 2 runs. Now lets give A-Fraud some credit he's only been playing third for going on five years now and this time he didn't let the ball through his legs did he?

The business continues to go on. It is tough getting a business set up when you need a partner and you have to realize that this is not like working for an established company where you can say, "Hey our deadline is tomorrow." No in starting a company you have to make sure you are balancing the partner's well being with that of your own. So it can be a slow process but you have to make sure that forward momentum never ceases.

It seems like the news is full of lurid murder stories these days. There was the one last night about the woman who was found murdered in the Blue Hills and then the two Catholic Memorial alumni who killed their coke dealer/business partner to settle a debt. How did these two guys come up with something so evil? Now I see myself as an intelligent fellow but I have to admit that I could never cook up a scheme like what we see here? But then again I also think I am way to smart to try and do that. How often do we see these idiots hauled off to jail? Look at Cuckoo Clark Rockefeller for proof that living the life of a fraud only gets you so far before you are caught.

Oh this is the time of year when television is terrible and I have to say thank God for books! I do enjoy reading in the summer time! But it will be nice for summer weather to return so I can indulge in some ice cream and especially a frappe or take a walk to Friendly's for a fribble :)

Well must work and see if the economy is rebounding as strongly as the stock market seems to indicate?

The More Things Change,,,,Yada Yada

So was anyone really surprised to see speaker Sal indicted yesterday for corruption? I for one would love to see the job description for Speaker, Massachusetts House of Representatives. Does it say, Ensure House Runs Smoothly, Be House Counter to Governor's Power, Be Hopelessly and Blatantly Corrupt. To call Massachusetts politics a cesspool is to not even come close to the nature of the nature of the corruption at the fetid dump that passes for the Massachusetts State House. While we know there is a dire need for some type of reform we all saw how when this was attempted the legislature thought that the best way to improve ethics was to eliminate the ethics commission. I can't help but think of the child sticking their fingers in their ears saying loudly that they can't hear you and if they can't hear you it's not true!

The trial of Cuckoo Clark Rockefeller goes on and on. He's done a very good act of looking like he is crazy but the guy is just a sleazy operator who found not one, but two gullible women, who did exactly what he wanted. I don't know which one was more naive, the one who married him for his green card and who he left the day after, but then didn't divorce him until 10 years later, or the one who was making a million dollars a year while he wasn't working and let him manage the money. Is she still single???

Oh I heard a good story from a friend interviewing for a PR position. He met with a SVP who told him that their image was bad and they didn't have good relationships with their news media. When asked why he thought this was the SVP said that it probably had something to do with the fact they didn't tell the news media anything and communicated only via news release. But that was OK since that was how the news media want to communicate.

On more friendly front it is a good thing that with Dice K pitching the Sox have a deep bulletin. I mean the guy must have had two men on in each inning and got out of it each and every time. Big Papi is slowly wearing out what ever good will there was for him. I think the Sox need to put him on the DL and figure out what to do with him. Jason Bay continues to show he was more than just a throw in for Manny the Cheat. Add together Bay's stats subtract what Manny might have done over the same time and then add in the 20 homers and 75 RBI's you can add in when you take into account not having to deal with Manny's BS and you have what someone like Jason Bay who just does his job is worth.

The word is out that Rodney Harrison is going to retire. I will always remember in the Super Bowl against the Panthers when he broke his arm and did not come out for something like 3 plays. He was and is a warrior and helped the Pats win 2 Super Bowls. Appropo of nothing, some 93 year old guy crashed his car into the Wal Mart in Danvers, MA. I am amazed he was able to do it. I don't think that if you tried to do it you would be able to!

Just another so-so Saturday

Well I wasted Friday night watching the Red Sox game. You knew the Jays were due having lost what like 8 games in a row and then we all know how the Sox never hit for Wakefield. If he wins he needs to carry the team and if he loses it is when the knuckler isn't doing the job and like last night it is 6-3 or some number like that. I love how the weather continues its unbroken run of mediocrity. Yet another day of grey skies and drizzle to look forward to.

Today is my usual Saturday routine of laundry and shopping. I am going to miss watching the "Cuckoo" Clak Rockefeller trial during the weekend. Cuckoo Clark wants us to believe that because he is a terrible scam artist that he is by nature then mentally ill. So does this mean all those bad liars in bars who try and say they have served in Iraq since 2001 or are really only 25 with natural blonde hair are mentally ill? Well I don't question their stupidity and vapidness, I do believe that there are people who are really mentally ill and that to see people like Cuckoo Clark trying to pass off bad lying as mental illness turns my stomach.

Oh and I did a happy dance yesterday when I found what I believe to be the last 12 pack of Pepsi Throwback in North America. The pack looked like it had fallen off a truck but hey I will take it since the cans look OK. Funny thing is that I e-mailed Pepsi to tell them they were idiots if they stopped marketing such a break through product. To thank me for my insult, they sent me a t-shirt in the mail yesterday. Well I am a co-creator of the Bacon Sandwich at Wendy's :)

Have a Super Saturday everyone!