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Excellent customer service message from Blue Fly, where I bought some clothes recently. Amazingly, the truck that transported my stuff was in an accident, and all the parcels were destroyed. Pretty wild, had never had that happen before. They automatically re-shipped me the items I had bought. The message I received is below:

Just called Del Posto and changed our reservation to include Rene, later this month. Getting hungry myself now, should procure something to eat.

In totally unrelated news, I saw the RIAA got its way and a Minnesota woman was fined $220,000 for illegally downloading music files . That may set a precedent for other recording industry lawsuits, which is not good. The amount of the fine is totally outrageous. The recording industry continues to fail to accept the fact its business model was completely obsolete and they gauged consumers for years and years, charging them ridiculous prices for CDs, most of which contained only a couple of good songs. Anyway, I don't think this will stop consumers from downloading, and certainly not across the globe, where file sharing is not considered illegal just yet.

And it's the weekend! Slept in quite a bit today, felt very good. I was out with some friends last night, had dinner with Rene and Lindsay at one of my favorites restaurants ever, Il Buco on Bond street. After that he stopped by a wine bar, and then went into a couple other places where we met up with Gina, Dimitri and a few other people. All in all it was quite late by the time we left the place. They the Socks game on the tv's, couldn't believe how many fans .

Incredibly warm, I woke up almost sweating this morning, it's like 80 outside! Have to talk to Chip, we have to connect later on a couple things. Also heard from Steve, I also need to talk to him for a few minutes.

And Jose called a little earlier, he has a friend visiting, Jaume. They are going to a Broadway show today. He wanted to see if I wanted tickets, but I wasn't sure I'd be up to it, so I declined. They are seeing Les Miserables.