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It's been a crazy week. But it's all going to be worth it!

Free Phone 411 information. No Catch!

Have you used Google's Free phone information service at 1-800-GOOG-411 or 1-800-4664-411? It's voice activated directory service! They'll even connect you for free if you'd like!

If you're on a cell phone Say "text message" or "map it" and they'll text you the information with phone, address with web and map links (with driving directions too).

It's not new but I've never gotten around to mentioning it. Here's direct YouTube link to Google's Free phone information.

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A Fine Frenzy Part 2 - Detroit at The Shelter - March 2008

As music goes, I've talked about A Fine Frenzy as much as any musician, probably more and that's a lot since I hadn't heard of them 6 months ago. I started liking as soon as I heard of them (they were opening for a Brandi Carlile concert I had tickets for) and I wanted everyone to know know about them!

So Alison Sudol is a super sweet person and seems very sincere. She's got these great songs and wonderful voice. Alison talks between the songs but I think she'd rather just play, because when she plays it's like she forgets were there (this is a compliment, not a complaint). When I saw Liz Story, a pianist, play a few years back she talked between the songs because "her agent/manager made her" since if not, she'd just play for an hour non-stop; so she'd stop and tell us stories about the song and the song titles. I think of that sometimes when she's talking, either that or she's shy when not singing/playing.

So I keep thinking of two things she talked about. One was her mother and how much they got along and she really liked her (her Mom was there too, right up front). And the other is that she likes the word "shucks" and she's thinks people should use it more. "Shucks" And she said something like, 'I know I'm a nerd' (but I can't remember if 'nerd' was the actual word).

She's uses Twitter occasionally and the few MySpace e-mails that I've gotten from her seem like they were really written by her, that's got to take a lot of time.

And she's super nice when I've talked to her. And gotten her autograph both times. The promo poster from when I saw her at The Shelter (above) is signed by her you can see a bigger version...

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Waiting at the Airpot

So we got to the Detroit Airport super early, but it really made it ultra-low stress since we weren't in a hurry at all and the lines were all pretty short so it's been pretty easy going so far.

My cool PacSafe secuity backpack got put through the xray machine a few times. I'm not sure if that's from the wire mesh that's in it or all the electronics...