I checked the Mail Box twice on Monday

I checked the Mail Box twice on Monday, and the January syndication check was not in the mail — and it’s long overdue. Maybe it was my response to a too serious Pisces, or maybe it was the late check, but I got the web guy to 86 the “free chart” link from the front page, and I myself reworked the splash page, so it resembles my own tastes a little better. And I never could get a consensus of opinions, either, about whether to use a real splash page, or to let the weekly column always be at the root of the web site — interesting debate, and no easy answer. But I know the sites I like have the data on the front page. News: that’s what’s important. I had sushi with a red headed Capricorn for lunch, the Pisces and one of the Gemini’s came by and gathered me up for a culinary adventure for dinner. Middle Eastern cuisine at Ararat. I had the sizzling (hot and spicy) lamb. The only thing I could find fault with the place, okay, maybe two things, one: they didn’t call the tortillas tortillas, and two: the business cards [with web address] make lousy toothpicks for digging that succulent lamb out from between my teeth, after I got home. Airport morning — another long day in Dallas — then home again at the end of the day, or so I hope. “Good lord willing and the creek don’t rise,” to borrow a quote from Hank Williams Senior. Off to see Sister [and attend to familial business] — yet again. Now, this will be the second time this month I’ve had to do this shuffle. I liked the Amazon headline, “1,500 staff Remaindered….” I’m sorry to see my ‘next best friend’ at the help desk go, but if they cut the folks who actually didn’t really accomplish anything, well, there goes a lot of the help desk folks I talked to. “Wow, you didn’t get your refund? You didn’t get your credit? You should have that by now….” Took a at least three calls, each time.