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Our Toyota Rav4 (like most recent vehicles) has a system that warns you if one of your tires has low air pressure. So this morning I back out of my driveway and begin the commute to work. About a block away I see a warning light, realize what it is, and turn around for home. I pull into the driveway, open the garage, and fire up the small compressor and reach for the air gauge. Somewhat confused (I had just checked the tire pressure a few days previously) I begin the process of checking all four tires. Some are a little bit low but not enough to set of the warning. Perplexed and out of time I put everything away and head to work, calling Athena along the way to tell her whats going on. She does a quick search online and comes up with a fair number of other toyota owners who have similar issues. One of the first reports she scans seems to suggest that the owner took the car to the dealer and they somehow mysteriously fixed the problem.... A little while later she starts laughing. What did you find I asked her. "Did you check the pressure in the SPARE TIRE?" she giggled. Oh Shit. You see, I simply assumed that a car obviously has four tires and thats all you need to check right? Well, the full size spare also had one of those pressure thingies on it and thats where the low tire was. So next time you start troubleshooting something, before you dive in head first, take a deep breath, think about the BIG picture, and then maybe you wont forget about the spare tire [edit: So I told this story at work today and a guy looked at me and said 'sonofabitch, I been trying to turn off that damn warning light in my pickup truck for a month!" He is sure its also the spare tire pressure now. I got home and called my dad to warn him too (he's got a rav 4 ) and it already happened to him and he took it to the dealer LOL! So either we live in a cluster of extra-special automotive stupidity, or this is pretty commonplace So heads up!]

I saw a Neil young performance on TV (DirecTV) in which he also closed with A Day in the Life and ripped the strings off of his guitar ...... That was a while back (Months). Could it be the same performance? [edit] nope - I just realized the review mentions 12/15 as the date...... At any rate, that was a simply amazing performance. You go Neil!

"I want to give you a moment when everything's alright" "He actually does give them that moment... Everything seems to be OK when you're with Tom..." - Peter Bogdanovich

Expensive is right! Beautiful unit though. Does it come stuffed with the entire Beatles released music catalog? At that price it ought to!

Sheesh Linda! "There's no place like home There's no place like home" (Like you even have a basement!) Whoa, I just saw a flying monkey go by the window!

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!! Hope you have a blast today! (and every day!)

Another shot of the rail from the Sacramento show. Recognize anyone? The color is off but you get the idea

Well, a number of fans conspired to pass out fliers to the crowd at the arena, reminding everyone that it was Tom's birthday that day and asking them to join in and help sing Happy Birthday. The crowd did a pretty good job, but then Stevie Nicks got up on stage and helped pull it all together. Judge for yourself how Tom felt about the whole thing.... (I've been holding on to this photo for over two years and its finally time to let it fly - Enjoy )

The crowd in Sacramento sings Happy Birthday to Tom Petty during the 2006 tour.

A co-worker told me a story that happened many years ago when he was doing electronics work for the LaHabra California Police Department.... He was helping to install some communications gear and overheard a call come in from a local fast food joint. A number of gals who were pledging a local university sorority decided to drive thru a fast food restaurant drive-thru window while completely naked. Well, as my friend told the story, as soon as the call came in basically the entire police force rushed down to the 'scene of the crime' as fast as they could. Not completely sure how the story ended but no doubt it involved a flurry of limbs frantically putting on clothing, and a rather lame explanation about how that paper bag got lodged on top of the license plate of the car I don't think there was much law enforcement coverage in the rest of the city once that call came in LOL! Everyone with a radio was at the fast food joint helping to keep LaHabra safe

I just popped the Mudcrutch EP into the CD player and blasted Athena awake. Love her more than life itself, but I wish she tolerated loud music better first thing in the morning There is nothing quite like rolling out of bed, hitting play and hanging on for dear life! And who wouldn't want to be blown out of bed by Crystal River and High School Confidential? (Why does she put up with me?)

Our Holiday begins with a trip to visit Sara and Michael in Oakland. We are going to hang out together, and ring in the holiday with a show at the Fillmore (Black Crowes!!!! Oh Baby!) Then its off to the Columbia River Gorge to visit Samantha and Michael (a different Michael). Michael is a phenomenal landscape photographer who has been living and working in the Gorge, following the footsteps of the greats of landscape photography. Last time I spoke to him he was thrilled that his work is being reviewed by a huge museum in Portland for possible inclusion into their photography exhibition. He may be in his dark room all holiday long! LOL! That is until his supplies of platinum and palladium run out! Their house in the Gorge sits on land that was once owned by Harry Truman. Not the president, but the lovable old codger who refused to evacuate from the lodge at Spirit Lake below Mt. St. Helens before the eruption. He was never seen again, but we think of him every time we visit. If we are lucky the weather will be amenable for Michael and I to go out on a photo safari. There is so much I can learn from him!!!! Hoping to use their hot tub while we are there. It is a wood burning hot tub that they call the 'cannibal pot'. It does have that cookware look to it, and I suspect that it helps keep the missionaries away

Source: http://www.kirotv.com/news/18265099/detail.html " Cops Help Couple Handcuffed Together Friday, December 12, 2008 DEARBORN, Mich. -- If you love something, set it free. And if you can't, call the police. The Detroit Free Press reports police in suburban Detroit responded to a call Thursday by a man who handcuffed his wife to their bed but misplaced the key. Dearborn police used a universal key to free the woman. Sgt. Ray Patrick calls the situation "more of an intimate relationship than an unlawful imprisonment." Now why don't they have stuff like this on 'Cops' ?

Here are another couple of charities - I learned about these guys years ago when TP&HB played a special charity event in Southern California: Orange County AIDS Services Foundation: http://www.ocasf.org/ Laugna Art Museum http://www.lagunaartmuseum.org/ Tis the season for giving

Hmmm, We got a bunch of idle factories and workers We got an oil addiction that is threatening our national security and the health and stability of the entire planet. We know how to build solar panels and windmills, etc. People would love jobs building and installing these things.... as well as designing the next generation of renewable energy sources... Um, tap tap tap Is this thing on?

Just found this: http://ia301133.us.archive.org/2/items/WZ1999-02-06.shnf/WZ-1999-02-06-D2-02_vbr.mp3 An awesome live recording of Warren Zevon doing 'My $hits F*cked Up'. The Knobs covered that at the benefit show last year at Mavericks. Just one track from one directory at that site - there are three pages of directories for WZ music there. Incredible. Guess I'm late to the party huh? LOL!

You have pretty good FM radio there though! I was even listening to 'The Mountain' over the net the other day when checking out the AV receiver internet radio functions. Then we found a bunch of bluegrass / roots and folk stations..... and then Athena dialed up archive.org and looked thru a zillion live concert recordings and I realized that this internet radio (or podcast) thing is pretty incredible. It was one of those 'Oh wow' moments. So I am going to start getting to hear a whole lot more variety in my music. Those IO radio stations (I think this one was Newgrass) are really cool www.radioio.com Might help avoid cabin fever (edit: in fact they are playing Chris Thile's 'Heart In A Cage' right now. Chris played in Nickel Creek with Sean and Sara Watkins. Small world.)

^agreed Katie! Way to go Yuppie! Clinicals sounds like you are going to be on your feet, sleep deprived, and working your butt off! Just like a doctor doing their residency. Get rest now while you can!

'Undie Run' from Chapman U. upsets Orange mayor City's historic fountain might have been damaged during traditional jaunt. By EUGENE W. FIELDS THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER [url=http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-fountain-plaza-2254347-university-run#slComments] ORANGE – The annual "Undie Run" at Chapman University is a way for students to get rid of stress – and clothes – during final exam week. And, at least this time, a way to upset the mayor. Most of the students stripped down to bras, panties, boxers, briefs and thongs before a midnight run through the streets of Old Towne Orange and back to campus. Mayor Carolyn Cavecche said the early Thursday morning event went "beyond an innocent run." The 1,500 students started at Memorial Hall on campus and ran down the middle of Glassell Street to the traffic circle, or Plaza Park. They laughed, joked, screamed and happily greeted one another. Residents and onlookers lined the street to watch the parade of scantily clad college students running, walking and rollerblading. Students filled the Plaza, frolicking in and on the 71-year-old fountain, splashing in the cold water. Officers calmly stood and watched. One woman was cited for public intoxication. Police would later say they warned students to disperse. "It appears that the announcements were not heard due to the loud and boisterous nature of the crowd," Sgt. Dan Adams, an Orange P.D. spokesman, said in a release. "While the crowd was not hostile, they did not immediately respond to commands given by officers." At one point, 20 officers helped peacefully clear Plaza Park. The procession turned back to campus, where the revelry continued at the Attallah Piazza. Students danced in the university fountain, climbed the stone pillars and took pictures of one another before heading to the bottom level of the Lastinger Parking Structure for music spun by a DJ. But the students did leave behind an apparently damaged Plaza Park fountain. Paul Sitkoff, the city spokesman, said the extent of the fountain's damage won't be known until Monday. "It has to be taken out and inspected by experts," he said. "We know there is some repair that is going to have to be made on it, but we don't know the extent." Even though the Undie Run is not sanctioned by the school, Chapman President James Doti said the university will pay for repairs. The fountain, which was built in 1937 for $3,100, was refurbished two weeks ago for $3,200. "Chapman University has worked very hard this year to improve relations between our students and our neighbors, and we are very sorry for this momentary setback," Doti said in a release. "The university will take responsibility for damages caused by our students to the Plaza's historic fountain." Most of the participants were unaware of the fountain's damage. The clothes, stripped off and left at the steps of Memorial Hall, will be donated by Action in Africa, a student group that sophomore Adam Whitfield started. He added that his group is also donating the $600 raised by selling briefs stamped with the outline of the continent of Africa. "We thought we'd do something where we can benefit other people as well," Whitfield said. Senior Jenna Pinkham ran in a pajama jumpsuit. "It's sort of a camaraderie thing. It doesn't matter who you're next to; you all know that you've had a horrible finals week," Pinkham said. "So we all just might as well go down to the circle, run around, let it all out and come back refreshed." source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-fountain-plaza-2254347-university-run

Another very cool experience last night was when the gang played the Everly Brothers 'Poor Jenny'. Its an amusing song in the same vein as 'Wake Up Little Susie' From the Lyrics: " I took my little Jenny to a party last night At ten o'clock it ended in a heckuva fight When someone hit my Jenny she went out like a light Poor Jenny And then some joker went and called the cops on the phone So everybody scattered out for places unknown I couldn't carry Jenny so I left her alone Poor Jenny Well Jenny had her picture in the paper this mornin' She made it with a bang Accordin' to the story in the paper this mornin' Jenny is the leader of a teenage gang Jenny has a brother and he's hot on my trail Her daddy wants to ride me out of town on a rail I hope I'll be around when Jenny gets out of jail Poor Jenny..." (The rest can be found at: http://www.lyricsdepot.com/the-everly-brothers/poor-jenny.html ) Anyhow, they took off into this song and something in my brain went 'CLICK' and I realized that I had heard the Everly Brothers do this song just 3 days before when listening to Tom Petty's Buried Treasure show. Its a small world sometimes No idea if these were two completely unrelated random events, or if there is some kind of connection here. After all it is a great song, and so it wouldn't be too surprising if two different musicians independently decided to 'cover' it. Still, what are the odds? And I still love the way Sara Watkins will sometimes kick her leg or stomps her feet to the music while performing..... I know she's a married gal now, and I am so happy for her and her hubby, but can I still lust after her voice and her talent? Please?

That was a ball. David Rawlings, Jackson Browne and John Reilly were some of the 'drop ins' tonight. The entire show was great, and we got to hear some wonderful new songs too! But one special highlight for me was Jackson Browne, David Rawlings and the gang performing Dylan's Desolation Row. That was just huge! Do that again!!!!!

LOL! Dale, I don't think the Knobs have ever been invited back to a venue they've played. There tends to be so much havoc and mayhem where ever they go that they've never been invited back! (I think I might have even seen a Hazmat truck at the last gig!) I am sure I am representing Knobs fans everywhere as I applaud Cozy's bravery in hosting a double header two nights in a row and by raising the bar even further by making it a double bill with Romeo Delta! (OK I know what you meant, and I can't ever recall two shows at the same venue night after night.....)

There is something simultaneously horrifying and completely wonderful about leaving one of those mega-stores with a metric ton of Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Ah, the sound of cardboard ripping as I lunge head-first into that chocolaty goodness, meaningless calories and hyper hypoglycemic buzz..... List, smist.... where is the candy aisle?

This bizarre mystery has been solved! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/10/jubs_recovered/ " Readers of Oz chaps' mag Ralph are doubtless beside themselves with joy at the news that they will not, after all, have to suffer Xmas without the benefit of a couple of free inflatable breasts. Over 130,000 pairs of Bulgarian airbags intended as a giveaway with the magazine's December 15 issue last week went awol en route from Beijing to Sydney. Initial reports suggested they'd gone missing from their shipping container and were presumably drifting the world's oceans in a vast mammary shoal. However, the Australian now reveals that they have in fact been sitting in a Melbourne dock for a week "after Chinese officials lost the paperwork and put them on the wrong boat", as a Ralph spokeswoman explained. Relieved Ralph editor Santi Pintado said: "If we'd found them a day later, it'd have been too late to get them on the next issue. You'd think the Chinese economy was in enough trouble without misplacing 130,000 pairs of boobs." The publication is apparently now expecting to break the Guinness world record for the most breasts given away in one hit - an impressive achievement which will certainly be writ large in the annals of publishing history....." So Mudcrutch readers can now relax, the items in question have been recovered and are not bobbing around lost at sea. Those who rushed down to the beach to search for the misplaced funbags can now go home.

Just trying to keep everyone abreast of the situation: Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/04/inflatables_overboard/ " An Australian men's mag has asked beachcombers to keep a sharp eye out for inflatable breasts after 130,000 pneumatic chesticles went awol en route from Beijing to Sydney. Ralph had intended to to distribute the tits free with its January issue, but while the AU$200,000 cargo apparently left China a couple of weeks back, when the container turned up in Sydney the jubs had done a vanishing act. The magazine's editor Santi Pintado asked anyone with information on the current whereabouts of its freebie to get in touch. He said: "Unless Somali pirates have stolen them its difficult to explain where they are. If anyone finds any washed up on a beach, please let us know.'..." I'm assuming he's talking about breasts and not Somali pirates, but anyhow I really don't think I can add much to this story. Its got mystery, tragedy.... breasts..... Pirates..... Its got breasts.... Anyhow, be on the lookout beach goers.