1. When your wife asks for your opinion on her AM clothes, start with optimism. When that fails, switch to honesty. When that fails, run!

2. The iPod “Shake to Shuffle” feature was fun for about an hour, but has grown into an unappreciative brat and has been subsequently grounded.

3. However, The new iPhone “Wipe On Shirt” feature has been most spectacular and works better than Windex or power washing.

4. Chances of me getting tickets to Nine Inch Nails’ bonus NYC shows: 1 in 100. Chance of NIN never performing live again if I don’t: 9 in 10.

5. I try not to question my daily cache of bad luck. I prefer to hogtie it & make it watch Lifetime movies. That’ll teach it to not interfere.

6. Don’t tell me it’s 100% fact if you’re serving me nuggets of reprocessed fact-meat smothered in opinion gravy.

7. I run into reprocessed people every day. They used to have a personality but have been reprocessed by their job and their responsibilities.

8. For many questions in life, there is no right answer. There is only wrong, a distracting sales pitch made of bullshit, & none of the above.

9. This morning’s SomBlock is sponsored by my newfound thirtysomething nasal allergies, because getting older sucks. The Who was sooooo right.

*** Every weekday from 8-9am while traveling from Stamford to Manhattan, Mark Sahm writes a block of thoughts on his Twitter account (@Somrod) via his iPhone.***