Yesterday, I drove in with Cynthia and the kids so that she could run into a casting director's office and have someone to sit in the car with them. The funny thing is that literally the day before I had thought about how we used to do that and that we hadn't for quite a while.

Molly is hilarious, though. She has become the most world-weary six-year-old on earth. I think this can only happen if you have a little sister to feel superior to. She feels that she is one of the adults with us, far older and more sophisticated than a mere four-year-old.

Bonnie was trying to identify the numbers on a toy clock, and Cynthia said that as a big reading girl, Molly might want to help out, and so she drawled derisively, smirking, "That's a twelve, Bonnie."

O, had you seen all of the twelves she has seen in her weary years on this planet, it would make a grown man weep.

The Raccoon has become obsessed with my diet, bringing me all kinds of snack bars to try, which is great because I don't have to waste money on them if I don't like them. Of course, as hungry as I am most of the time, I tend to be less picky than usual.

Yesterday she brought me a Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal bar that I turned my nose up at the store, because they looked like Rice Krispie Treats, which I think are nasty, but she insisted that I try one, and I was quite surprised at how tasty it was!

What's more, they are 4 points, which is kind of high for a snack bar, but they're twice the size of the Kudos bars, which are 3 points, and remarkably filling to boot! I wasn't hungry for a couple of hours after eating, which I thought would be impossible.

I saw The Violent Femmes on Conan last night, and boy have they gotten old!

I mean everyone gets old, I don't know why I was so surprised, but to me it's bands from the 60's that are old, even the 70's. The Rolling Stones, the remaining Beatles, The Who, it makes sense that they are old. Johnny Rotten, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, they are all aging rapidly, and I am not shocked.

But bands from the 80's showing their age? That's just wrong! Especially since they aren't that much older than me, and I have no intention of aging. But Gordon's head is getting massive, and Brian looks like somebody's uncle. Only Guy, the drummer, still looked like a punk, albeit an aging one.

What with them looking so elderly, it was very peculiar that they sang Blister in the Sun, but The Who still do My Generation so I guess anything is possible, but it must be weird still doing that song, clearly the song of an extremely young man, after twenty years.

I still love you, Femmes! Now stop that aging! Immediately!

Today's horoscope:
A new love interest develops. Your kind and sympathetic nature attracts the attention of the opposite sex.

One year ago today:
Well, okay, that one would have been better if he hadn't been a naked homeless guy, but one takes what one gets.

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