Quit being an ass. He's just fucking around and having a good time, and he's not hurting anybody. Nothing wrong with that.

I'm not being an ass. I was simply trying to determine his real age.

Seven-
 

The number of perfection. Thank you for the very nice compliment, Juju!

(Not to imply that I seriously believe that I alone am prefect, P-R-E-F-E-C-T.)

Friday night I crashed your party
Saturday I said I'm sorry
Sunday came you trashed me out again..

I think that Dave is probably the most intelligent person on this enire thread.

The correct answer IS STILL 35.

Yes, I'm sure you were. I'm sure you actually thought he was 13, and then 7. Mmmmmmmmmhmmmmmmmmm.

Only a 35-year-old would quote Billy Joel from the "Glass Houses" album. That record would have come out when Jo3 was 14, an age when lyrics are burned strongly into your memory. Furthermore no 13-year-old would find Billy Joel quotable at all. To a 13-year-old he's just some old guy with a grey beard.

Man. Of Billy Joel... I am not a fan of a huge amount of his work, but since there's so much... there is a lot of good stuff there. I know it's probably cliché, but my favorite Billy Joel song is pretty easily "Only The Good Die Young". Man that song rocks.

radio-
 

No offense intended toward my elders, but when I was 13, radio really sucked. I remember the day that Elvis died, that still sucks. I was in third grade and I don't know if I have ever cried that hard ever since. I'll write more as soon as I recover, I ran over a fully grown cat last night that could have been some little boy or girls pet. I feel like cryin', and at the time felt like throwing up. I am crying.

I was in third grade the day the music died.

I am feeling better now-
 

55 WAS the alotted and acceptable speed along that open roadway. I WAS actually sober and driving carefully at 55 mph, as 3:00 AM is literally breakfast time for me. If I had slowed down it would not have made any difference. For all that I know, I did the cat and myself a favor by deciding to never look back upon this ever again. I don't ever want to hear about this ever again. No questions, please. I think that my favorite Billy Joel song was "Billy the Kid". At least a little more entertaining than "Copacabana", a Barry Mannilow song we had to listen to every other fifteen minutes back then on the ONLY local pop/"rock" station back then. That wasn't rock, I contend to this one very hell of a sorry and grief stricken wonderful day. There was one Billy Joel song that will never make sense to me. Something about listening to Doors tapes and smoking hash pipes. Maybe I dropped that in there just for spite, but were four tracks even available DURING the vietnam war? Sincerely-

i liked 'keeping the faith'.

'you can get just so much from the good things
you can linger too long in your dreams'

the thing about billy joel is that hes not just a musician, hes a poet. and like a few other great artists, his music isnt the same 3 regurgitated themes.

~james

Billy Joel is just a great songwriter period...he and Elton John make writing a good pop song seem easy. I cut my teeth on all that in the late 70s and early 80s. My personal faves are probably "Allentown" and "The Longest Time." I can't believe he did all the vocals for the latter...good stuff.

mixed-
 

I probably have at least two favorites on every album, but I'm capable of narrowing it down to two and explain why. Captain Jack was a good kick in the butt for me to get out of my parent's house at the time, to go out and get a job, a date, etc. There was a pretty cool video for "pressure", and the kid in the video didn't look almost like me at the time and maybe that's why it is my number two favorite out of maybe ten I would like to have with me if somehow deserted on an island. I LOVE Elton, don't shoot- he's just the piano player.

Re: radio-
 

Something an adult does not get over. I still remember a cat jumping out of the medium's high grass while I was moving 60 MPH in the left lane. Saw it emerge from the corner of my eye as it bounced off the driver side door. Saw it stumble back into the high grass in my rear view mirror. All too fast to realize what had happened until the cat was long out of sight. That was over 30 years ago. It still bothers me. I can only hope it survived with a big bump on its head - and a lot more caution. The lessons of age vs the recklessness of youth.

Regardless of age, the posted regret is what adults do.

It's still under my skin-
 

Other than a squirell or two, this is the first time I have ever run over any animal that was still alive. You would think that if they could invent and build a noise box that successfully prevented deer from running in front of your car, hopefully they could build one that does it all. And even better, integrate the device as a standard feature on all new vehicles. About the only thing that makes me feel better about the accident is the fact that I am still alive to talk about it. It was a narrow two lane road and a steep five foot slope to the left and right of me, I was too close to have stopped in time. I did what Ann Lander's said to do anyway, not that I meant to make her or anyone else proud.

Jenni hit the hell out of a deer Wednesday night. 270 South by exit 13 (right across from Hughes, russotto). Going 55 in the right lane, next thing she knew the deer was on her hood, rolled up her windshield, scuffed up the roof some and fell off. She stopped maybe 200 feet after the collision. The deer was in... not good shape. Especially after the next 7 vehicles hit it... :(

Unfortunately, the deer population here is WAY too high, and people hit them all the time (over 1,000 deer are hit by cars each year in Fairfax County... I'm sure it's similar in Montgomery as well).

Anyway, the car (a '98 Nissan Sentra) is in fairly good shape, save the crumpled hood. At least it was drive-able Wednesday night. It's having work done on it now, her insurance has got it covered and hopefully nothing major has happened to the engine. Definitely a hell of a collision.

Here's something lovely (note: shows a dead deer. View at your own risk. It's worth seeing though) - http://www.snopes.com/photos/durango.htm

I think it's easier to get over nailing a deer than it is a cat, simply because the deer wasn't someone's pet. No kid is going to find it a few days later and break down sobbing.

Anyway... that's that.