I'm not exactly what you'd call a truck drivin' mama 

Thinking about the morning and climbing into the cab of a U-Haul truck for a 7-hour drive. I'm nervous.

Shoutcast stream is up for another couple minutes 

Still don't know if anyone can hear it. Doesn't help that I haven't been available to have it running much.

I guess it must be working. I was just able to hear it in iTunes as a listener, a minute or so delayed from WinAmp where I'm broadcasting it.

Signing off again now at 8:40 a.m. Eastern.

Nature and role of Hezbollah 

A retired army guy on the Don Imus show referred to Hezbollah as a client of both Syria and Iran. More like a vendor in some ways, seems like.

Hello from my hometown 

I'm posting from my parents' house in Mt. Pleasant, MI. On dialup. It's my dad's 77th birthday.

Later: Hanging out with my parents, brother and sis in law, talking about aging, Mom made a funny about the last high school reunion she attended: "Those old people depress me."