Lee, nope. It was more that the various models with the stuff I'd use were well rated for those makes.

msbelle, I totally wish you were here to shop. As you can see, I haven't gotten out of the house yet. It's just a chore. Ah well.

I think I have sucessfully upgraded to Panther. Yes, I was running on an ancient OSX. And this was the most recent version I had on disk. I've had it since Xmas 05.

Oh well. The brands are a good start.

The last bus runs at 6 pm during the week and probably earlier on the weekend.

But I've already been there and back: the bus was lovely. Like stepping into a freezer compared to outside. The store wasn't too bad either.

I moved my bedroom fan to the dining room so I've got one in the living room and one in the dining room. (Ideally, I should have a ceiling fan in the dining room and or the living room -- but alas I do not.)

It's 86 in my bedroom and about 82 in the living room and 90 or 91 outside so without a/c I'm doing okay. I'm keeping it dark and mostly shut.

Eeep, Sumi -- just keep drinking a lot of water. (As if you didn't already know that. I just can't help getting all mom-like sometimes.)

And, I have successfully convinced The Boy to go see PotC in a few hours. Woot! I suppose that means I still have time to mop a floor or two, though. Bah.

Seriously - it's not that bad. I've got fans and my brita and ice.

Other tricks are putting a towel in the freezer and wrapping it around your neck for a bit, cold water foot soak and the ever popular frozen bag of peas hat. But at 80, usually fan motion, dark and not moving a helluva lot work ok. Just sucks if you actually try to do anything.

My cat Ivan is napping in between the monitor and the keyboard. Silly boy!

ION:

Robbie Coltrane back as Fitz on BBC America in October

Robbie Coltrane is back as "Fitz" in an all new Cracker on BBC America movie on Oct. 30. Coltrane, who just wrapped his scenes on the fifth Harry Potter movie, said yesterday that it took about "10 seconds" to get back under Fitz's skin even though it had been a decade since the last Cracker movie.

someone that pretty is popular, so why would she care about getting validation from me?

Oh, that. Yeah. Now that you've spelled it all out for me, I get it. And I have certainly had that feeling, and it is definitely weird.

Li'l Sphere dancing to "Surfin' Bird". WARNING: you may die from the cuteness of it all.

Robbie Coltrane is back as "Fitz" in an all new Cracker on BBC America movie on Oct. 30.

Eeeeee!

Not that I get BBC America.