Unless you’ve been living under a rock (which, based on the activity around here lately, must be a rock w/o Internet access), you’ve certainly heard the news. Free at last. Yes, Monday Night Football is finally free of Hank Williams Jr. Never been much of a fan of his, so I’m afraid I missed him on Fux and Friends where he compared Obama playing golf with Boehner to Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu. But I think Hank’s kinda gettin’ hosed here.

First, I’m pretty sure Boehner would be Hitler in that scenario, not Obama (I mean, think about it; who would HW2 consider to be on “his” team – the Nazi or the foreigner with the funny name who aint a Christian?).

Second, after viewing the clip of the appearance, I don’t even think that was Hank (or ‘Mister Hankey’ as I like to think of him). I think in two years we’ll find out it was Joachin Phoenix playing a prank. And, oh my, won’t we all get a chuckle out of that.

The Bank of America website is apparently still kind of messed up (they swear it’s just “too much traffic” and not related to their decision to start charging people to use their debit cards). Here, Bank of America started out as Syracuse Savings Bank (back in those days, ‘Savings Banks’ in New York weren’t allowed to offer checking accounts – but they paid higher interest rates).

Since I know you’re dying for a bit of CNY trivia, I’ll mention the main Syracuse Savings Bank office was built in 1875 – directly across the Erie Canal from what was then the Onondaga County Savings Bank (they had a bit of a rivalry, and wanted to stick it to them), which was built in 1867. Not only was it the tallest building in Syracuse at the time (at 170 feet), but it also had the first passenger elevator in the area.

Alas, the era of local financial institutions wouldn’t last, and SSB was bought out by Norstar, which was bought out by Fleet, which was bought out by BOA.

It’s interesting that college athletics leagues appear to be remaking themselves in the image of American financial institutions.

I have begun to actively search for a new job. By that, I mean I’m looking online and classifying the opportunities into four categories – things I don’t want to do, things I’m not qualified to do, and things I can’t afford to do. Of course, there’s a fair amount of overlap between them, and there seems to be a lot of openings in the “things I don’t want to do but that’s OK because I can’t afford to do them, and I’m not qualified anyway” hybrid. That, and the “I doubt they’d want to hire an old guy who isn’t willing to work 100 hours a week for a couple cases of Red Bull and enough money to rent an apartment with four other people so I can get the latest and greatest iPhone” category.

Speaking of which, the iPhone 5 comes out today. I think. It’s not really on my radar, but you can’t help but hear about these things. Other than the teevee “news” people and Apple fanboys, does anybody still care? I mean, at some point it seems like you have to wake up and go,

“Oh. This really is pretty much the same shit as the last one.”

Although if it comes with an App to track Amanda Knox’s travel itinerary from Rome to Seattle, let me know, ‘cuz then I’m so gonna get one.