It has been all weathers but snow the past couple of days.

Thursday I was drenched with sweat at 9.30a walking to work, it was so hot and humid, then that afternoon as I was on my way to the bookstore, the wind was blowing so hard that it was practically cold, then steamy and rainy an hour or two later.

Yesterday it was pouring and cold and horrid. Today it is stunningly lovely. If all of that rain and humidity was necessary to get to this point, that's fine, but I hope that it stays this pretty for awhile to make up for it!

After work I returned Hogfather to the store (I'm reading my other copy, the one that I got in 1996 and hadn't read as yet--shows you how big my to-read pile is!)

They didn't have Feet of Clay, which I'll bet I already have anyway (I really must unpack my books sometime--I'm sick of buying things twice!) so I got Calvin Trillin's new book, Family Man, which looks very funny.

Then I went across the street and had dinner at McDonald's, enjoying the neat juxtaposition of eating Chicken McNuggets while reading a book called Hogfather.

What are Benecol, Take Control and Smart Balance?

Well, Benecol sounds like a cold medicine, Take Control like an incontinence diaper and Smart Balance like a wheaty cereal. But they aren't.

They are all butter substitute spreads. Apparently, they magically lower your cholesterol and make it so that you can live to be 120 or so, if spreading something that sounds like Robitussin on your bread makes for a life worth living.

Only in America, man.

We're having a lovely mini-epidemic of mosquito-borne encephalitis round our way, which means that they are spraying malathion all over the boroughs (ah, medfly memories of LA). The fact that I am covered in so many mosquito bites that I look like a poppy seed cookie makes me vaguely wonder why I'm not hearing about them doing anything in Jersey, but there you go.

On the news last night they were talking about the symptoms of mosquito-borne encephalitis. They said, "Be aware of warning signs such as fever, vomiting or convulsions."

Yeah, thanks for the tip, if I go into convulsions I'll try as hard as I can not to shrug it off as being meaningless!

And if Beth wants me to update faster, she should damn well stop distracting me with long, interesting entries that she posts before mine! This would have been up much sooner if it wasn't for her.

Today's horoscope:
You have the urge to suggest improvements in your love life today. Focus on what you LIKE, lest hurt egos result from implied criticism.

One year ago today:
Darn that bad ol' Media for spoiling their good clean fun!

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