o/ o/ "When Black Friday comes..." o/ o/

We in the Bachelor are looking at the next step in terms of a device in the Third Pillar: Music/Audio.  We presently use an off-the-shelf solution which was good to have years ago when we got it.  But here are some its limitations.  It doesn't allow you to switch between playlists with next or previous buttons like you would with the tracks.  It would be useful on the road when you want to switch "stations," sort to speak, and not have to pull over to do it.  Also we'd want a wireless ability to manage tracks, though we're not sure whether Bluetooth would help here or not.  We don't always want to have to sync every time we make changes using a central controller like a laptop or a desktop.  And of course it's got to have an elegance to it, but we're hard pressed to see anything out there that comes close.  And no, we're not going the smartphone/touchscreen/tabletized route.  A serious audiophile demands a more dignified approach.  That's why we're looking at a DIY solution, to make use of the Heir's geeky skills in electronic assembly to boot.  If we're ever successful, the device itself will be known as Music The Third Pillar, rather it being a filename type label for an OTS that's actually called something else.

After Rock Star Batter's alleged outburst at his suspension hearing, the Heir now believes it's better for MLB to suspend him for 200+ games, to keep him from playing next year, because he believes it'll be better for Main Team One, long term.  They won't be as distracted, and they might even stave off a second failure in a row to make post-season.  After all, a good clubhouse manager knows he can't worry that much about one player.  He also has to think about the 39 other players on the roster.  Heir doesn't get how in his public statement, Rock Star Batter accused the officials overseeing the suspensions as being felons and liars.  That's an unusual ad homenum to boot, and raises the question of who on the panel served jail time for more than one year for a given criminal conviction, which is what a felon is, the legal definition.  Unless, of course, Rock Star Batter doesn't know what a felon is.  Rock Star Batter's statement also went on for about three screen's worth of words on visual, and raises the issue of someone with that extreme enough anger and near-rage likely having something to hide.  That is, opposed to someone expressing regrets and worries in ten words or less.  Heir will do research on how suspension hearings work in the MLB, as opposed to legal court trials.

No, it was too good to be true with that Greg guy for the Heir.

Something interesting the Heir found for other Ed Snowden skeptics.  Lyle Chargeoshack's nemesis was pulling an Ed Snowden recently, looking just as silly in doing so as Ed Snowden himself.  On visual (requires Flash Player): http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s17e01-let-go-let-gov

Heir thinks that Greg Jarrett might have gotten fired from Bloomberg Radio, because it was a Susanna Thompson who was supplying the numbers this past Friday, not Greg Jarrett.  Actually Greg Jarrett hardly ever supplied any numbers when he was supposed to, and that's why the Heir had to rearrange his listening schedule for the numbers, just because of this Greg guy.  Time will tell if this Greg guy is truly gone, or if he just had a dental appointment Friday.  Apparently if this is the same guy the Heir found research on, Greg Jarrett was apparently associated with the Attack Dog News Network on visual, and got fired from WGN because possibly inappropriate content or remarks on the air.  Heir just hated how he would only give percentages, and not actual point values or the market totals.  It's not what you did do, it's what you didn't do.

Heir's also keeping up with football and basketball, not hockey though.  He's happy Brooklyn got a win on the road west coast, after their inexcusable loss in Sacramento, which used a lot of gloating cowbells.  Those cowbells fell silent in Phoenix, even though it was only by two points.  So it looks as though at their very worst, Brooklyn will split their west coast 1-2.  They could make it 2-1 tonight, even though Fridays and Saturdays are when we in the Bachelor involve most in you-know-what (dang can't we just say it(?)).  Heir was pretty sure they will go 2-7 on the season at the end of their west coast, because that would be the only way they can be motivated to start dominance in their division, by hitting bottom and striking back with their backs up against the wall.  So even though it's good for them to get a win, they really can't afford to go win-loss-win-loss, when their New York rivals would most certainly go win-win-win.  That's how it is in rivalry sports.  When one team wins, the other loses.  Both teams winning or both teams losing, what's all that about anyway?

We in the Bachelor observe the tragedy that struck the mid- Philippines and other places in the general path of that storm.  We intend to give to charity at the appropriate time, the same way we did with Sandy.

Next time we update, you'll probably see Yumeka's profile pic for real.

So the Heir completed the coozie based cradles for his audio player yesterday.  We didn't have a chance to mention that here, because as soon as he came home with them, the first thing he did was take a two hour nap in his club chair.  After an on and off flirtation with type-A striving agitation for the last 8 years, he really earned it.  And today is the 8th anniversary of his health scare/finance scare.  He is resolved now never to go back to the dark days.  The cradles and the space plates that match them contribute to the vanilla society-besieged second and third pillars, to ensure Heir doesn't give away his life savings and not get anything meaningful in return.  He seems to believe that Year Of Nominality 2014 started yesterday.  He's hoping it'll be a slam dunk on those things most wrong in the world from a pro-sex point of view.  And by the way, people, honor our veterans.

It's Saturday night, and the Heir should be getting some you-know-what right now.  Today, he was helping to defend the second pillar from the scourge of over-tech forced obsolescence, by helping the Furniture Store Owner build some coozie based audio player cradles for your car, to match the spaceplates he helped him build too.  Also to help defend the third pillar as well.  And just so you know, it appears as though 2014 will in fact be a year of nominality.  The Heir thinks it might start when he and the Furniture Store Owner get done with the coozies.  Because then the tech sector would not have been there to stop them.

Heir had his last Welch's grape soda at BSK tonight, along with a Chili Pasta.  He took note of his first sip of the last Welch's, but he forgot to note his last drop.  But it's all okay, because to the very end Welch's served as part of the culture, not worrying about ceremony or anything.  However, it's the end of an era, and even though the stand-in grape sodas are pretty good, it'll never be like Welch's.  That was a unique formula that now belongs to the ages.

This year's New York Marathon is getting underway as of this writing, last year's having been cancelled because of Sandy.  The Bachelor is still against last year's cancellation, because the Heir points out that if the official name of this year's marathon is The 2013 New York City Marathon, you cannot then call it The 2012 And 2013 New York City Marathons Rolled Into One, or The 2013 New York Marathon To Also Make Up For Lost Time For Last Year's Cancelled Marathon, because our time-rigid society just doesn't function that way.  The organizers of Run Anyway last year know this fact well, which is why they organized Run Anyway to begin with.  Maybe future Marathons should drop the year from its name officially, and only include it as an informal subtitle.  Otherwise, people like the Heir will be reminded, probably until 3013, that at least one Marathon during the Marathon's history didn't make it.