Well, I thought that too, but then I remembered back to the days when you were biking 100 miles a day (okay, maybe I forgot the actual number) and thought anything was possible.

Heh. It was more like 15-20. We're finally shopping for a bike trailer for the kids so I'll hopefully be able to get back to biking. Anything to get active again.

Ouch, you guys! What's up with y'all's skin?

Just a little chickenpox redux for me. Painful rash of blisters.

A pox on the pox, says I!

It could be Toxic Shock Ebola Syndrome -- a mutated virus. Are the hives getting worse? Do they look like ordinary hives - or more like a rash?

They're not blistering or anything. Just itchy like fuck.

Maybe I'm mutating. I could go for being an X-Man.

TAR: Well, they didn't lie that the end would be shocking. First to worst!

Maybe I'm mutating. I could go for being an X-Man.

What will your superpower be?

I don't know. Itchy sort of indicates something ominous, doesn't it? Maybe I'm going to be The Beast or Nightcrawler or Mystique.

Mabye I'm in Stargate: Atlantis and I'm turning into a big blue bug.

Maybe your power is actually the power of transference, because I'm starting to get itchy. So like, you manifest a thing, then foist it off on your nemesiseses. I am not a nemesis, Dana. I am a human being.

I wish the itchies on no one! Except maybe Rush Limbaugh.

Dana, I had totally random hives a few years ago on my arms and legs, that just sort of appeared out of the blue, plauged me with itchiness for a few weeks, and then vanished again. Very strange. I vaguely recall my doctor saying they mght have been caused by an allergic reaction to a virus? Or something. They were exacerbated by heat, I know that, which was fun in a 100-degree summer.

Yeah, I halfway expect the doctor to say "Hell if I know." But some medicine would be nice.

TAR: Damn! I really like them. And I can't stand freaking Charla and Mirna.