There's some other way to start a vacation?

Well, I could have gotten bitten by the raccoons, I guess. I thought the fall down go boom would be better though.

ION, the guy sitting across from me keeps scratching/playing with himself.

Dude, get a room.

eta: I just noticed he's reading an Ann Coulter book, and now I'm even more skeeved.

Fucking A, people, last night I smelled the syrup and thought something had spilled near the couch and was doing crazy things like sniffing my pillow all over. And then we smelled it again in the bedroom and I was going nuts that there might be syrup in my hair or something (though I managed not to smell it until the evening).

So yeah, there was definitely a slight syrup smell-- slight enough so that you thought it was on you. Bob smelled it too. It's incredibly odd that the whole island can smell it and no one knows what it is.

My theory is an antifreeze leak on a huge scale. Antifreeze leaking in a car smells sweet and syrupy. You don't usually notice the leak until you turn on the heat for the first time in the Fall.

Addendum: officemate and I were discussing anthrax that smelled like baking bread. It's a pretty good way to kill people.

and no one knows what it is.

Pancakes from the fifth dimension?

You don't usually notice the leak until you turn on the heat for the first time in the Fall.

In the house where I grew up, when we turned the heat on for the first time, it always smelled like licorice.

The NYC smell thing is very creepy, and I'm not even in NYC.

Thinking about the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man is making me giggle, though.

Making the people of New York crave waffles is a very *subtle* form of attack. Not particularly effective, unless you somehow simultaneously interfere with the city's waffle supply.

Man, Al Qaeda must have hired some new interns or something.

Tom, they're WILEY these terrorists.

Wile E. Coyote belongs to Al Qaeda?

Maybe the whole obesity epidemic is an Al Qaeda plot. Destroying America sweetly, one Krispy Kreme at a time.