Just heard two songs on the radio that made me sublimely happy: "Hackensack," by the Fountains of Wayne, and "I'm from New Jersey" by John Gorka. The Fountains of Wayne especially are the poets laureate of the state of mind I grew up in:

And I will wait for you
As long as I need to
If you ever get back to Hackensack
I will be there for you.

Emily and I are feeling much better, thanks. We're gonna feed the pork loin to my Finnegans Wake group tonight. They'll eat anything.