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Today? Delta Sonic or Hess - 900 block of W Ridge Rd. $2.87 at Optima (Wal-Mart Hudson Ave)

The Red Apple/Kwik Fill is posting gas prices lower than their competitors. On one side of the street there are three prices clearly posted for the three grades of gas. At Kwik Fill, they display the top two grades in large signs, but the lowest grade price is blank. On another sign, in bright bold letters, regular gas is listed about 4 to 5 cents a gallon lower than the station across the street. Once you pull in you see that you need their credit card to get the reduced price. Like I NEED another credit card! Smart advertising but annoying as hell. Gas prices here in Rochacha are currently running at 2.83 - 2.87 lowest prices as of today, btw.

I know. Thanks!

The general public can buy individual game tickets starting today. Bills Backers could buy them yesterday. Season ticket holders have been buying up blocks of tickets since May. Just for grins I just went to bb.com and asked for 4 tickets, "any price, best available" for the Jets game (home opener). There are not four to be had together at any price. I tried again for 2 tickets - same response. I can buy single seats if I wanted to. Sucks to be "general public"!

Allstate. We have them with three cars (with one 20 year old driver) and our. The kicker is that the wife has a home daycare and not many insurance companies offer a "daycare rider".

Damn, don't they grow up fast!? This is very cool!

Marv knows the team is rebuilding, but he expects them to be winning games. He is not sacrificing the "now" for the "future". He said in his book that if you work on a three year plan, you are just building a team for the next coach. I am - as always - cautiously optimistic.

All it shows for me is assessed value of $114,500. It also lists the width of my property as 75 feet. My yard is actually pie shaped: 75ft wide in the front, about 200 ft deep and almost 300 ft in the back. The photo is pretty cool, showing the 16x32 ft in-ground pool and large yard. Homes are selling for more than it shows in my area, but not a lot more. Fricking NY state taxation!

Stop, you are making me blush. Time to throw this thread under the bus.

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Did not see too much of Joe Bonamassa. We did not get there until 8:00 and he was done before 8:30. Duarte started off his show, no better than a local club bar band. He would have been better off doing covers of other bands. A lot of people packed up in the first half hour of his show. Then he started cooking with some really long leads that were excellent that woke up the crowd. Really fine, loud, electric blues - but he waited too long to cook! Bonamassa should have been the featured band not the intro. A really nice night to be sitting outside listening to southern rock/blues and sipping drafts, though. It was not REAL loud.

Oh, good - it's Friday - let's get depressed.

The strongest women I know do not have to say anything. Their mere presence in the room speaks for them, right ladies? The weakest women make noise and have to prove they are better than men, and the weakest men have to dominate them, or at least try.

...and he is still only about 28 years old - a YOUNG dude! Utica kid teaches the blues to a new generation

At free shows in Rochester I have seen Bonamassa, Marshall Tucker, The Crash Test Dummies, Dickie Betts, Taj Mahal (3 times), Leon Russell (3 times), North Mississippi All Stars, Koko Taylor, and others. I am a bit disappointed that they moved from Manhattan Square Park to The High Falls for many of the shows. The Public Market is in the center of the "hood" but is cool. Never had any problems there. I love being ten minutes away from downtown. As far as "new" musicians doing blues and jazz, Pooj, I think he was just saying it was great that the traditions continue with younger musicians, even if there is not big dollars in it, like frickin American Idol pap. These guys do it because it is in their blood. When I last saw Bonnamassa, his MOM was selling his CD's at the show. I remember him being on WCMF with Brother Wease when he was TWELVE. The kid is fast!

Bands on the Bricks concert series - starts around 7:30 Concert is free, beer is not. Also with Chris Duarte link who I have heard a lot about but have not seen. He is compared to Stevie Ray and Coltrane. I am not sure WHO is the headliner. Bonamassa home page - live in Germany performance video (watch your sound at work!) I saw him about two years back and his version of Tull's 'New Day Yesterday' was freaking amazing! Ted Nugent played an impromptu blues jam at the club on Feb. 25. Here's what he had to say about it, "Last night, my musical jihad grew even more hair on its scrotum, because I got to jam onstage, no band, just a couple of Les Pauls and a kid named Joe Bonamassa, a white kid from New York. It was just us onstage, and this little white prick, and this older white prick, continued to pretend we weren't, in fact, white at all. This kid deserves to be in the same class with Stevie Ray !@#$ing Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck. It was really inspiring. So this kid and I had maybe 40 minutes of exchanges of notes that don't exist, guitar sounds that are brand new, and soul and emotion that can only go back into the glow of the B.B./Albert/Freddy King world."

too true

Too much generality in your first sentence (yes, I recognize the sarcasm). I see dehumanization on a much wider scale - to those who materially benefit as well as those who don't. Those "leaders" are an embarassment to anyone with a brain.

You better duck! oh yeah, NO!

...and I said that when? I thought you knew me a little better, Joe. I have been "victimized" by reverse discrimination enough that I cannot say that I support affirmative action, but that's WAY too general of a statement. I guess if you were a bit more specific I could tell you what I think. If you mean that everyone should be on a level plain when being considered for opportunities in education, employment, housing, etc., as intended in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - I support affirmative action. If you mean arbitrarily granting PREFERRED treatment to targeted groups solely to fill government defined quotas, I oppose it. Quotas dehumanize all of us.

All four of my kids learned to swim early. It was required by ME. Three of five grandkids can swim (still working on the one year old and soon to be three year old). When I was a kid, summers were spent near a lake so swimming was natural. When I moved to the city, me and the wife made sure the kids had swimming lessons every year.

That is a lot of wallets.

Paul told me of flying to Savannah in 2004, drinking champagne, and planting flowers for Darlene. I guess he is with her now. RIP, my virtual friend and confidante.

I turned it on for a while, but it seemed like 5 mimutes of show followed by 10 minutes of commercials. Got Lost very quickly!

Judge is caught using penis pump. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/29/pneumatic_judge/