Happy Non-Denominational Winter Holiday!

* Here I am at the Fun Factory, overloaded with work but not much motivatio to do it today! Not going to, either!

* This one seems like it'd go over like a lead balloon. Privatize CalPERS?

* Anyone else hoping they wake up to Ashlee Simpson in their Christmas stocking wearing nothing but stockings? That'd be a fast path to make it on Santa's naughty list for 2005.

* I read that the Stock Trader's Almanac says that historically, the stock market is up an average of 1.7% the last 5 trading days of the year through the first two trading days of January. No guarantees, of course!

* I had a happy thought yesterday, that the days are now getting longer.

* If the NFL was like college football, they'd do away with the playoffs and just pick the two best teams and let them play it out in the Super Bowl.