can the music in my head ever stop

Three days on the road again this week and there are three things that have become very apparent to me.

1) the rallies the stock market is making does not translate AT ALL in the manufacturing sector of the country. Quite the contrary actually, as the market has shown signs of recovery the manufacturing sector has dropped even further into the abyss


2) driving for long periods of time with a patella tendon tear makes your knee feel like your balls do when you sit at FD's for too many hours.

3) somehow morning radio is worse in Detroit, Massachusetts, Ohio etc. than New York. I could not imagine how this is possible but the "Quack Quack" Morning Zoo routine when it's a copy of a copy is 10 times more excruciating than the original.


Manufacturing is totally dead, plants are closed, parking lots are empty and fax machines are eagerly waiting for faxes that are not coming in. I'm not sure how you handle this but with the talk of the car companies going on shut-down for almost two months this summer, it could get very ugly out there. It gets so bad out there that guys I know are being sent home on a Tuesday afternoon early and told not to come back for 10 days as there is just no work for them at all. Not exactly sure when all this stimulus money will start stimulating but this country needs a lap-dance quickly and probably needs a double.

One way you can tell though that even the stock-market is still pretty unstable is that at the annual Wall Street Run (a 3 mile sprint through lower Manhattan organized by the NY Road Runners club) this year lost its title sponsor (Merrill Lynch) and instead was sponsored by Phillips. The race has always been dubbed "Running with the Bulls" which does not have nearly the same oomf to it with Phillips at the head. Truth be told you knew it was pretty bad when at the end of the race we were plain rolls when last year we got free Subway's.