It's a date. The Big Day, when I end my career as a solo artist by marrying TheGirl, will be Saturday, September 30, 2006. The festivities will be held here, at the Entrada Golf Club in St. George, Utah. The website doesn't have much content up yet, but TheGirl and MomInLaw took it for a couple of test drives earlier this month and gave it the thumbs-up. Hey- it's a Johnny Miller-designed golf course (including the absolutely monstrous 613-yard par 5 9th hole) with a nice clubhouse and it's less than 90 minutes from Vegas. What more do I need to know?

The gross weather has passed in the Windy City and today is a picture-perfect early fall day. Hurricane Rita, however, is now a Category 1 storm and is over the Florida Keys now, and is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast sometime this weekend, when it could be a Category 3. Repopulation of New Orleans has been delayed and they are expecting more water damage from this next hurricane.

I know I've said it a million times, but if you can do anything to help these victims as they get hit by yet another storm, please do so. If you would like to donate, you can go here or here. Both of these funds will go directly to relief from the Katrina disaster.

One more funny news note today- apparently there is now a Mrs. America Pageant, where, I assume, be married to compete, although the winner has two kids, which makes me think this thing must have sported the largest concentration of MILFs the world has ever known. It doesn't have quite the same ring as Miss America, but it's still good stuff. Next I think they should have a Baby's Momma Pageant (unmarried women taking care of kids), a Single Father Pageant (unmarried men taking care of kids), and maybe a Deadbeat Dad pageant, where the winner would have to hand over his prize to the kids that he doesn't support, and the losers all get handed over to whatever state agency tracks deadbeat dads.

Time to get some work done. What are you working on today?