I'll be here! Well, I'll be in Salem, and you should come up and see our lovely new home! I'll also be in Cambridge working, except for the week of August 22-26, but I'll be on vacation that week so I'll be anywhere you want me to be!

Do think about coming up to Salem though! It's easy. Plus, we have a guest suite! (well, there are lots of boxes in it currently)

JZ in Somerville! That could warrant a train ride. (Not that Somerville doesn't always warrant a train ride, because I don't get there and see you all nearly enough. Or at all... looks at floor all guilty-like ...)

How's his mortal battle against the ceiling fan going?

He seems to have forgotten to get offended by the ceiling fan. His new hobby is trying to climb his sister's dresser and jumping off every chance he gets.

Too bad JZ will miss Toto's birthday party. I'm planning the menu right now. Doggie pizza, homemade doggie bones, and chocolate/banana cake...and that's just for the dogs. Imagine what I'll come up with for the humans!

How do you do chocolate for dogs, vw? Carob?

Yup...carob.

Hee, sounds fun. Lucy's dog daycare back in DC used to do dog ice cream socials every so often.

See, the lovely Erin, with the grown up sexlife?

BWAH! If "grown-up" means "drunken booty call" then yeah, I'm all about that.

I would prefer "grown-up sexlife" to mean martinis and cocktails dresses with George Clooney, then a wild tequila-fueled threesome with GC and Colin Farrell in the back of a limo...but I guess you take what you can get, no?

This temp job is over this Friday. I hope that the agency has something lined up for me, I truly do....but a small part of me kinda hopes that I will have MOnday off, so I can go to the school, and clean my room and putter around arranging things.

(((Nora)))

I like JZ's answer for the shipwreck riddle. I thought it sounded like a description of dating services..."She" is the author, and potential date, the shipwreck survivors are the people participating in the dating service, the shipwreck is whatever turn of relationship fate brought them here and left them adrift in the dark and the storm (and "sea" is often a symbol for sexuality). The sea could also be the mysterious virtual world inside the computer, which is the "wooden box" that she's peering into, seeing other shipwreck survivors.

The "sky opened up" doesn't mean it started to rain...it means that someone opened the wooden box she herself is in.

But I still think bt ought to write a puzzle in return. Seize tempo, as they say in chess.

Wow. Raquel wins the date with the lady!