SoCal kind of takes care of that for us

That's why I have a humidifier.

It says something about me in the morning that when I went to retrieve the paper, I was startled by all the postits I'd plastered to the door to remind me of stuff I needed to do as I left the house.

I mean, I put them up yesterday afternoon because I am notorious about forgetting something I need at work, taking the trash out or whatever in the morning. And their necessity was proven in that in the morning fog of waking up, I'd forgotten I'd put them up the afternoon before.

If I can't have a keeper, at least I have postits.

TAR: Poor Uchenna and Joyce - has any other team ever been as screwed over by air travel as them this race? Though Phil's "Well, you have won this race before..." comment was spot-on.

I did wonder why none of the travel agents were able to find the route that Charla and Mirna took. All I can think is they were flying some of the legs on competing airlines, so the route wouldn't have been available to concierges working on commission?

And note to EVERYONE... NEVER DO THE SEARCHING CHALLENGES! Granted, nobody knew how easy or difficult the batik challenge would be until they got there, but it's pretty guaranteed that any detour beginning "search through X number of X's" is going to suck.

TAR: Although, on the one hand, it is cool to think that this year that there might be two all female teams in the top 3 but why does one of them have to be Charla & Mirna?

TAR: It's so true about the searching challenges. The clue said 600 boxes of cookies -- they really should have realized from that alone that it would be a bad choice.

TAR: I note with the recycling challenge that Dustin or Kandyce very carefully read the rules and repeated the important points. At least somebody has learned from their past mistakes.

I wonder what the percentage of Roadblock challenges sees the teams taking the first-offered challenge in the list? There's a lot of bad choices that seem to be made here, and I wonder how much adrenalin plays into that....

Yes to both comments, Sumi. If Charla and Mirna make it to the final 2, it will be Flo and Zach all over again -- yay for a woman winning the race, but why'd it have to be her?

I hope there are scenes we don't see where Charla kicks the crap out of Mirna for her incessant annoying cheerleading -- does Mirna not realize that Charla's inability to run fast is not an issue of willpower?

I'd forgotten I'd put them up the afternoon before.

I see someone else uses the post-it memory system. I sometimes look at a cryptic note I've left myself and have no idea what I meant.

TAR - I knew when the show focused on Joyce and Uchenna being told that flight was a bad idea they were in trouble, I didn't realise they were going to be elminated until they weren't shown at all.

Also I can't believe what's his name thought you only had to eat 1 cookie out of 1 box to look for the one with licorice, since when has any TAR searching task been that easy?

I really want Team Barbie to win now, I didn't like them the first time they were on or even at the beginning of this season, but they are racing a lot smarter and are keeping a good attitude for the most part. Plus I have to say that I'm glad someone used the Yeild, it's a valid choice in the game and I hate that people see using it as playing dirty.

TAR: As much as I can understand being pissed off at being Yielded, the charges of the blondes "playing dirty" by using it are as idiotic as when people on Survivor are shocked and appalled that another player has lied to them about how they're going to vote -- it's part of the game, people! Deal with it!