Metal Junk

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Went very early this morning to the beach in Wading River to try out the metal detector my family got me for my birthday. Today's swag: Two bottlecaps, a lid from a can of Sterno, an old metal tube of Desitin and an ancient brass doorknob. ;-)

Maybe this weekend I'll take an early-morning trip to Smith Point and see what I can find out there.

House Closing Tomorrow

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So we're closing on the house tomorrow and I'm a bit nervous. I just got one of the agreement docs tonight from the lawyer and to be honest, I don't think much of the protection it offers me. To be honest, I'm less concerned about legal tangles with my own family and more concerned with missing some critical detail at the last minute. I think I should have received at least a draft of the agreement at least a couple days in advance, just in case I wanted someone to take a look at it for me.

At this point, unless I want to cause a major stink, delay the closing and create a mess for everyone in the name of protecting myself against the extremely unlikely, I'd better just sign off on everything. 'Tis a shame, though, because I feel like the bad guy raising the prospects of worst-case scenarios to my family and asking them to share in the expense of having the lawyer clean up little details and such.

I hope this all works out. Fingers crossed.

Jupiter vs. eMarketer - Response Somewhat Lackluster

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I got some favorable responses on the Spin Board, but folks didn't really have any sort of strong reaction one way or the other. I've been watching Alan Meckler's blog, too, just to see if he's seen the piece or wants to address it. Nothing's crossed my radar screen yet. I also searched with some of the blog search engines I referenced in my column a couple weeks back. Nobody's picking up on the article.

Not that I wrote the column to get a rise out of anyone in particular, but I expected that folks would be a bit more passionate about the issue. If there's one thing I can't stand in this industry, it's the filing of silly, purposeless lawsuits, and I definitely consider the Jupiter suit to be just that.