http://www.cornerbirch.com blog of tbrooks. Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:42:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't been sleeping lately.  It's not uncommon for me to stay up all the way through the night.  Over the past two or three weeks, I've seen the sun come up 4 or 5 times.  I've tried Ambien, reading, noisemakers, hypnotic sleep podcasts, a glass of wine (or three), ... http://www.cornerbirch.com/fiction-reading-and-the-nashville-library/  In a roundtable discussion this morning with George Stephanopoulos, George Will, Steven Pearlstein, Robert Reich, and Newt Gingrich; the group started off talking about the proposed $700B bailout plan.  Later on in the program, the group gets to the heart of the matter: "You are coming dangerously close to the ... http://www.cornerbirch.com/george-f-will-finds-the-deeper-issue/ The above picture is my current workspace.  I can hear the constant roar of 440 and West End.  There is a fire station less than a mile away and within a 2 mile radius of my apartment, there are 2 hospitals.  This is not a quiet place.  Amazingly, I'm pretty ... http://www.cornerbirch.com/current-workspace-and-routine/ The disaster of the sub-prime mortgage crisis has not seen the bottom.  Only one shoe is off the foot and it seems there is more room to fall.  Ever since IndyMac closed up shop, the industry dived into tailspin.  Here is a list of all the banks that have closed ... http://www.cornerbirch.com/financial-companies-are-crumbling/ The past two months I have gone over my cellular calling plan by 200+ minutes.  Multiply those minutes by the $0.40 charge they nail you with and you're staring a $200 phone bill in the face.  Screw that...I took matters into my own hands and registered an additional number with ... http://www.cornerbirch.com/ip-phone-and-voipms-make-calls-cheap-cheap-cheap/ [HTML1]Tyler Ward sent me this video a couple months ago.  Cary Barlowe (of Luna Halo) shows his alter-ego Miss Evelyn and her dilemmas with her "show puppy" baby dachshunds. http://www.cornerbirch.com/miss-evelyn-aka-cary-barlowe/