Now, while I will admit I get cold very easily, if I were the only cold critter in here I would never, ever suggest that the thermostat be adjusted to my particular body temperature. And yet, although he is the only one who ever gets warm around here, the Little Big Man has always done so. And of course all of our thermostats are kept under lock and key so that we won�t go playing with the temperature all the time.

Well�not anymore, people!

We�ve revolted!

We went behind his back and had our Facilities Manager raise our thermostat. And, even though I still have my Kashmiracle! jacket around my knees right now, it is immensely more comfortable than usual temperature-wise.

Now let�s see how long it takes LBM to throw a hissy and have the thermostat changed again. Several months ago, I had it moved up one degree (yes, that was ONE DEGREE) and it only lasted for two days before he made them change it back. Ridiculous, I say!

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OK�you know this new-found patriotism we as Americans have found within ourselves is going way too far when that stinkin� Josh Gracin is still on American Idol!!!!!! You know he�s only there because he�s a Marine and somehow the voting masses have gotten it in to their heads that it would be un-American to vote him off. Well, it�s either that or you lot have even worse taste in music than I had previously given the bulk of you credit for and boy howdy�that�s some bad taste in music, my friends.

I watched a few minutes of AI last night, during Buffy commerical breaks (and honestly even during the show; when Spike just wouldn�t shut the hell up already. Hey, I love Spike. I especially love Spike when he�s being bad. But Jeez�shut the hell up about it! OK, you�re tortured! We Get It! This is actually one reason I stopped watching Buffy last year and decided to wait for the repeats this season. Buffy and Spike just talk way too much about their f'd up relationship. I know this show has great, snappy dialogue and that�s why I love it, but come on already. Either shut up and screw or just dump him Buffy!)

OK, with that out the way�This Josh kid�SUCKS!

I�m sorry, but I�ve heard much better singing at my neighborhood karaoke bar. He was off-key numerous times, was extremely affected in his �I�m gonna try real hard to sound like a country-singer, so here is the obligatory twang and here is the whine and here is the ever-present vocal hiccup.�

Hey, I love me some country music. I could write for hours about the many ways and reasons why I love Merle Haggard. But this Josh kid needs to go. And go quickly.

And what really pissed me off is that, even though he was off-key; even though he stole all of his vocal technique out of the �How to Sing Country Music and Sound Like a True Hick� handbook at his local Sam Ashe music store; even though, let�s face it � the kid looks like he hasn�t done a single sit up since boot camp; all of the freakin� judges professed to LOVE him. And then they nit-picked most everybody else�s performance, all of which were far superior to Josh�s. Who�s the big black judge, the one that calls everybody �dawg�? (Don�t even get me started on that numb-nutt expression, by the way. If I were up there and he called me a "dawg"�) He was the only one who even made mention of the fact that the kid fell off of his notes, but even he hurriedly went on to say that he loved the performance. Huh?

They even told one gal she was off-key, when I heard no such thing. Man�life is so unfair. Even on American Idol.

P.S. And hey, by the way...Is Lionel Richie the most self-absorbed man on the planet or what? I've thought this since the days of "We Are The World," However, I assumed that perhaps the fact that nobody has seen hide nor hair of him in about 15 years and did not care to (except his wife, with whom I went to high school, by the way) would take the edge off of that quality. Evidently not. Somebody should have told him that last night's show was not about him. Shut UP, Lionel!

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