One of acting's finest, Paul Newman, died of lung cancer on Friday, September 26th, 2008. It is possible you only know him fof his not-for-profit salad dressing line. If so, as soon as possible you owe it to your soul to rent Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid or any of his other amazing works.

I truly was surprised how sad I got when I heard this news. Tears formed. I was close to this sad when Robert Altman died, but at that time Laura and I had just finished a Robert Altman marathon that took place over months.

When we came into town I got a job right away with my old employer, Figaro's, as a normal employee this time, not the manager, which I did previously for 3 and a half years before we left on our moho journey. And I really don't want to go into the long details of what happened next, so here is the short story. I got hired by the manager as a new employee. A week later I was fired. 3 weeks later I was given the manager's job (and paid for the time I wasn't employed). The store had completely entropied out in less than a year after I had left. Three months later I completed my job which was to put the store back in order, get it to a place where it made money again, and to train the owners how to manage their store. There were some good times, but mostly drama. I am appreciative for the respect that was shown to me by the owners and the opportunity given me, but I am glad the job is over and completed successfully.