Los Angeles

* Whenever you mention the city of the Angels, Los Angeles, you get nasty looks from people. There's a pretty serious dislike of LA outside of LA.

* Did you see the movie, The Perfect Score? Not bad (for a bunch of kids trying to cheat on their SAT exams).

* Have you noticed when a company or organization re-organizes, all it seems to be is an exercise in moving boxes around on the org chart? Nothing ever seems to change. Maybe people get promotions who drew up the chart. That's possible. But folks in the trenches, stay in the trenches. Only their boxes move. "You keep on doing exactly what you're doing. Good job."

* Hey, Los Angeles is the city of the Angels again, as the once California Angels, then Anaheim Angels baseball team is renaming itself to the Los Angeles Angels. Oh, they'll still play in Orange County at the stadium formerly known as the Big A, but this will help sell their team gear. They say.

* My coworker has some add-on for his PDA that has all the NY Times crossword puzzles. And he's proud of this. "Hey Muckdog, what's a 5-letter word for 'Someone who's different than everyone else, in a bad way?' It starts with an 'L' and ends in an 'ER.' Any ideas?" Uh, yah.

* Having Los Angeles on merchandise is a winner, they say. But I don't see too much Los Angeles Clippers gear around, do you? Nuff said.

* If there is a new org chart, you want to be on that org chart, by the way. It'd be a bad thing if you got the chart, and had to ask "Hey, where's my box?" They might answer, "Well, funny you should ask, because you'll be needing some boxes to pack your stuff."

* Lame vending machine stoll 75-cents from me today.

* The Los Angeles Angels used to be called the, well, Los Angeles Angels. History repeating itself all over again.

* What if I didn't mention the stock market today? Yeesh. It was down. Well, they say it's because the Fed is worried about inflation. But heck, that's why they're hiking rates, right? This is the excuse on the news, but I just think that we're in a new tax year and folks are booking profits. For now. They'll have to redeploy it somewhere. Either in bonds, stocks, or Los Angeles Angels merchandise.

* Last game of the college season tonight! All the marbles at stake. I like Oklahoma in this one. But, I'll be pulling for USC. Lets just say that it's an LA-thang, okay?

* NY Times crossword puzzles are hard. If I had that thing for my PDA, I'd be cheating all the time. I like the easy ones, like in the TV Guide. "Three's Company star John." That's more my speed!

* Heading to LA tomorrow. Maybe to get some Angels gear. Be the first on the block and stuff. L--ER!