thanks for the extra cash, mr. douchebag!

my client, whom i'll refer to as mr. douchebag here, has been late to pay our monthly invoice for the seven thousandth time. this time it's 22 days late and counting so i gave him the obligatory nudge today. he promised he'd get to it by the end o' the day. so several hours later i received a note from him questioning my numbers (the nerve!!!). he thought they were on the high side. so i begrudgingly checked my numbers again, and lo and behold i was wrong... i was actually SHORT by around $13K!!!! i apparently forgot to add an entire campaign's worth of calls to my query when i created the original invoice. what the fuck!!!

anyway, i just sent the new, higher invoice to mr. douchebag. i can't imagine he'll be too happy about it.

but F him, he's the one that was late. lucky for me that he complained about it, or i never would have found the error!

newt for prez...

the one with the clown and one with the nude guy sawing(wtf?) are my favs of newt as he proudly announces his exploratory campaign for el presidente...

http://newtinfrontofstockphotos.tumblr.com/

will the real p.d.d. please stand up...

rachel and i went to twenty manning grill last night for some nibbles. as we waited at the bar for our table, we had a couple margaritas, one of which was their specialty, a granita margarita... very good.

after our drinks i handed the bartender my credit card... she looked at it and said "was a relative of yours here a few minutes ago?" i said "no, why?" and she said "because another guy named peter deluca was just standing at that same spot a few minutes and ordered drinks." wha wha whaaaaat?

i really wish i had been there a few minutes earlier so i could have met my doppelganger.

Incontincence Update...

According to an interesting email I just received that was sent to my spam folder... "Mesh Patches used to fix Incontinence are Recalled."

Won't be too long before email messages like that actually make me interested enough to read them thoroughly...

the big push...

my subway ride was its usual horrid event. i smushed my way on at bedford, then the announcer said the train would be bypassing union square (my stop) and 6th avenue. instead of heading all the way to 8th avenue and getting on the eastbound L, i decided to get off at 3rd. it's raining today in the big rotten apple but i had my trusty umbrella. well, moments after exiting the subway on 3rd, three of the support beams(?) popped and i had to throw the umbrella in the nearest garbage can. i walked the remaining four blocks to work in the drizzling rain.

all in all the usual nightmare. from the crowd standpoint, i still have never seen anything as bad as the subways in japan.

happy ides of march...

why isn't this a federal holiday?

rest in peace, joe morello...

one of my favorite drummers of all time was joe morello, who passed away saturday at the age of 82. morello created the amazing rhythm for dave brubeck's greatest songs, including his opus "take five."

i had the privilege of seeing morello and brubeck at the new orleans jazz festival about 13 years ago. they weren't on one of the main stages -- those were reserved for the horrid dave matthews and other ludicrous popinjays of that ilk -- but the crowd for brubeck was huge, regardless. unfortunately their sax man paul desmond had died several years before that, but seeing morello and brubeck was a thrill.

here's morello in action on one of my favorite jazz tunes, "three to get ready." i persuaded rachel to learn how to play this one...