Today I have been sick sick sick - sore throat, cough, headache, yada yada. Tonight I am at what's left of the party for Logan, our now-9-year-old grandson. We're in the Blackhawk. Just down the street is the Adler Theater, where there is a big show choir competition going on. Half the state of Iowa is keeping us company. Fortunately, we have three adjoining rooms, and everyone is in the room two rooms away - leaving me alone.

'Nuff about me.

At work we get the online version of the Business Record Daily. For some reason, some stuff in yesterday's edition just struck me as odd. This is what passes for business news in Iowa.

SEC creates software to better detect accounting fraud. Yeah, good luck with that. Wanna bet the bad guys already have the details and are already months ahead of it?

China's bachelors driving economic activity. Wow, that must be a lot of bachelors. But - how are they driving economic activity? Are all those single guys really more responsible for economic activity than married folks with families? I can't imagine - well, I guess I could - WHAT ARE ALL THOSE SINGLE GUYS SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY ON? Maybe they don't want to be bachelors anymore?

Maybe we're looking at the Law of Unintended Consequences. If China is adhering to a one-child policy, and if they have such a preference for sons that they abort or abandon baby girls, should they be surprised that, about now there would be a shortage of wives for all those Chinese bachelors?

Etiquette training for YPs. First point of etiquette - don't use a cryptic abbreviation in a headline. Etiquette training for the Yellow Pages? Oh - for Young Professionals. I know a few young professionals. They all need etiquette training, but none of them would pay the slightest attention to it.

And in the not-even-remotely humorous-in-fact-pretty-sick department: Child in high-speed chase was found on vehicle floor. What? What? The "Dad" led police on a chase that topped 110 mph. It ended when the fellow slammed his car into a police cruiser. The officer wasn't hurt; he'd left the cruiser. They found the driver, dead behind the wheel. And I don't think it would have occurred to anyone that this clown would lead police on a 110-mph joyride with his kid in the car. When officers found the dead driver they heard the child crying. The youngster was sent to a children's hospital, and the last I heard, was OK. The driver was the father, but the kid's mom reported him missing in Dec,., 2012. The father's death does, I think, merit a nomination for a Darwin Award. RIP idiot. Asshole.

Thanks for hanging out.