vw, also -- do you have any vinegar? (White vinegar or cider vinegar -- NOT balsamic or red wine.) Seriously, it works to quell the burn-y pain. Just soak a washcloth with it, and pat the sunburned areas and let air dry. Or if you have an empty spray bottle, pour the vinegar in that, and spray it on.

I speak from many years of sunburns as a fair-skinned kid.

Yay, Emmett!

Random snippet of conversation with Paul.

Me: "It's a truly tragic hole in our collection that we don't have Zeppelin IV."

Paul: "I don't think we have any Zeppelin."

Me: "We don't, because mine didn't make the transition from tape to CD. I wonder if there's a store where I could go get Zeppelin IV and some cheap beer."

Paul: "The same store?"

Me: "Yes. The Zeppelin IV and Cheap Beer Store."

Can someone find em the Zeppelin IV and Cheap Beer Store? I think it would really help this freaking writing I'm trying to do if it existed.

Ok. Just took ibuprofen, and I'll try the vinegar. Just took off my top and put on a very soft t-shirt. It's worse then I thought, and most of the way down my arms to my elbow. I'm glad I had a good day, because otherwise I'd be beating myself up for being this stupid.

VW, sunburn sneaks up on the best of us.

The Zeppelin IV and Cheap Beer Store

Get thee to a truck stop!

Get thee to a truck stop!

The Flying J is, like, a zillion miles south of me, damn it! And I think all they have is both kinds of music, country and western. Damn city life!

Seriously, I should just go hit Barnes and Noble and the neighboring QFC, but I won't because that's TWO stores, and I only have the motivation for one.

Tommy, I'm so sorry for your loss. I know it's always sudden, but this was sudden...er. And I totally get your dark humor side. I would've been cracking up through my tears, had someone said that to me in a similar situation.

Happy Birthday, Sean!! I hope it's been a good one and that this year treats you fabulously.

vw, I'm pulling up a comfy chair to sit in your sunburn corner. If you can find aloe with lidocaine at your local drug store, BUY IT! Seriously. Katerina Bee turned me on to it the last time she was here and it's a wonderful thing. Takes the sting out of the burn immediately. I love the stuff.

Nicole, can you hop on IM for minute?

Plei, wouldn't a Target have Zeppelin and beer?

CJ pitched today for the first time...evah. He struck out his first batter. He kept a smile on his face the whole inning. And he gave up a homerun.

But all in all, he LOVED the experience.