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Tina Turner. She told me she loved me I was at a concert in Chapel Hill, might have been a wee bit drunk and/or high, and she started into "Private Dancer". I yelled "I love you, Tina!" (like a dumbass) and she said " I love you too, baby," in her unforgettable speaking voice. RIP. Simply the best.

I worked for Sirius briefly. SERIOUSLY underpaid but I wanted it on my resume

I gave it ten and haven’t heard a word since. Probably won’t either, which is fine by me

If it's a virtual day he can IM you when he's available. Wait 5 minutes and bail.

I remember doing those---I think we called them stabs? Maybe I am remembering those wrong. I graduated in 2001 and I was doing evenings on the KC rock alternative station and I loved it. I wanted to go into the programming side (I was SM/PD of my college station) and wound up in Vail as a MD at Radio One (my first day on the job was 9/11). It was satellite network and stations would buy our feed and play their advertising (mid markets usually had their own morning drive). We had about 30 markets. The largest was Ft. Lauderdale and the coolest was Maui. We had two regional spots per hour (I quickly burned out) and the stations would send us regional stuff to plug. I still remember one small town in Oklahoma sending us information on a book swap at the local library and I had to somehow talk about that for 25 seconds twice an hour for over a week. I received demo tapes daily from DJs even when we weren't even hiring. Most were 10x better than me and were willing to work for nothing. When Radio One and moved to Iowa, I decided I needed to find something else. I moved to Florida and found a job teaching--one of the reasons I got this job was they were looking for a TV Production/ Media teacher and the principal liked I had real world experience (the other being if you had a degree in science or math you didn't need teaching experience of ANY kind to teach). I made more as a first year teacher in FL than as a MD of a satellite network. I think if I stuck with it, I would have been a respectable station manager, but not an on-air talent--but at the time, unless you are in a major market, you had to be on-air to be a PD. I still miss it, but I haven't really listened to any radio stations since 2005--I was an early adopter of Sirius and podcasts.

It's weird but whenever I go to Florida I take five showers a day. But the humidity is so bad it's like you're just always wet from a semi-warm flaccid shower. LOL

Awww giant HUGS Zathras. It's the worst.

I'm so sorry

Sorry to hear about your buddy.

I'm sorry to hear. Losing our pets is always devastating. Its.not fair that they have such short lives.

Oh man--that's the worst. Sorry man.

I am so sorry to hear that.

A true legend of the music industry. I've been wondering what's been going on with her, for the past several months.

I'm loving the hot weather. It's warming the pool up enough that i don't have to run the heater. I'm making it goal to teach my pup to like going in the water.

Funny you should mention this. Growing up in Florida, I heard a joke once: In Florida, there are two seasons: hot ... and fucking hot.

I felt the same right after I quit the second job. There was a kind of background noise of worry worry worry about money and doing stuff. I still haven't even finished settling all of Tina's estate. There was a tax thing I had to do and I've been waiting ages to get a letter from the IRS. I could spend all day on hold but I have other things I want to do instead. I've been asked to garden around the pool! It's super shady so we are limited to what can grow. I found some hostas and someone gave me two turks cap plants. I think the always hot feeling is why I could never live in Florida. I get rage-y when it's hot. LOL How the heck did people live without air conditioning? I am glad you got a part time job. Giant hugs!