I feel like I did not get from this headline what CNN intended me to get:

Men pack boats, leave towns without husbands

Dana, I'll file that with the name of a local handyman service: Husbands for Hire.

Sophia - freaky!

And I am SO GLAD that it turned out to be only freaky and not scary or a TRAGEDY.

Please lock your car.

This week off has been great. I don't want to go to work. Well, except that the weather has taken a turn for the hot and humid and going to that cool air-conditioned envirionment, i.e., the office, will actually be nice.

I have discovered "Take Home Chef" and "Wedding Altered". I only discoverd "Wedding Altererd" within the last 30 minutes. The Groom in the episode I am watching seems to not have a clue as to what his Bride would like. (She knows what he likes.)

Interesting.

Oh, I remember Walter

Isn't it a shame the way our little world has changed?

So Jesse, my paralegal just came in and said 1. he was at some saxophonists' concert last night and PRINCE came on stage for the encore and 2. said paralegal also got in line (on line) at 6:15 this morning to see Prince on GMA-- he said there were thousands of people there, lots of people dressed like crazy (one in a New Power Generation jacket, others in boas and homemade Prince tee shirts) and the line went all the way around the block. But he got closer to Prince than he would have in any other concert, so.

Sophia, you are to lock your car. Get a spare key made in case you lock them in, but LOCK.

And my, that's a scary story.

Gronk.

This cold will not go away. I thought I was over the hump, but then we went to the grocery store and I relapsed. Paul's sick, too.

Lillian's recovered.

This is not a pretty picture.

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In an e-mail exchange with the editor of a conservative site, Coulter seems to be advocating the murder of Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha.

As Editor and Publisher reports, Coulter was asked to do the name-association thing with several prominent Democrats. When she got to Murtha, Coulter wrote: "The reason soldiers invented 'fragging.'"

"Fragging," as Editor and Publisher notes, is the Vietnam-era term to describe the killing of an officer by one of his own soldiers.

I mean, if someone on the left said half the nutty things that Coulter says, we'd never hear the end of it. But for conservatives, it's OK. (To be fair, some conservatives say that Coulter goes too far.)

Healthy baby, sick parents? Yeah, that's tricky.

I remember lying on the living room floor, trying to play with Emmett while he stepped all over me. I think we watched a lot of videos that day. I don't know if Lillian watches TV, but the very first thing that Emmett watched on TV? Horse racing. That's what he liked. In fact, I have video tape of him watching horseracing on TV and pumping his fists and yelling, "Go! Go! Go!!!!!!" when "Go" was one of only 20 words he knew.

Sophia, so glad you are ok.

Screw locking your car (I'd lock myself out and lose the extra key in a week and a half)-- just glance in the back seat.

This is not a pretty picture.

This, however, is a very pretty picture.