Dog Days.....Cat Nights.....

Why does summer have to be so hot? Why 90 degrees? 75 is good enough for short sleeves. If this heat doesn't break soon, I think my brain will burn out. This headache won't go away. It's not a pretty thing to gobble Motrin like M&M's.

The Girl has a new name - Pimplenelle Carbuncle. Nothing holds her interest; nothing catches her fancy. Not even her Nintendo. No, she wants new games. Not her iPod. Quelle horreur! Hers doesn't have a screen like mine. How would she know what's playing? Two weeks to school and I'm counting the minutes.

H started a new job at an old place. Fits in just like before. Hope the $$ is as the union states; it'll make the long hours worthwhile.

Now off to languish in the humidity that is summer.

It's My Birthday and I'll iPod if I Want To

Oh, Frabjous Day!! I got an iPod!! Not a little Shuffle, or the Nano. No, I got the 5th Generation - 30 gb! Enough to hold years of CD's!

And in the blink of an eye, my life was magically transformed by the technology. Literally within a minute, I was listening a Quebequois folk song (sorry, my world music coming out again), checking out their website, when I found the lyrics to my beloved song. And then I was reading the words in my ears. Not that this in itself is extraordinary but it was the gob-smacking realization that this is how my kids are going to college. Why sit in a lecture when you can do everything from home? Or wherever you feel like it? I know, this is going on right now, but it's just the sign of things to come.

So now excuse me. The day is sparkling, my pile of discs to transfer is diminishing and I have a joyride to take.