YAY for good Teddy news! I hope the trend continues.

Sumi, that was the feeling I got too. I haven't had a chance to read the blogs yet. I'll have to do that when I get to work.

bon bon, I would go see a doctor and do a thorough clean of your bed and sheets. It sounds like either the bites might be getting infected, or you are allergic, and in either case they might get worse.

Signed, is allergic to several bug bites, and still has bite scars from childhood

I think of it in upper case.

That was way too much sugar.

I think I always see it in lowercase.

That was way too much sugar.

No such thing. My left over cereal bowls always look like low tide.

I used to sweeten a bowl of Corn Flakes with a Frosted Flake. I'm handicapped like that.

Also, delicate.

Courtesy of today's Wikipedia image of the day: Lilac Chaser optical illusion. I like that this description tells me what I'm "doing wrong" why I don't get the whole effect--it seems I can't keep my gaze steady enough.

This bug bite has swelled to the size of two bloated half-dollars. It's taking up half my hand and stretching my skin. And I've got another one on my other hand, now!

bon has hand cancer!!1!

20 mpg or 20 MPG?

MPG. It's an acronym. Well, not technically, but close enough.

Well, not technically, but close enough.

It's not really that close. It's an initialism. Which leaves one with little or no style guidelines--initials are the case of the original words, except when they're not.

Style guide!

(I'm imagining a Buffista style guide. What a lengthy and internally inconsistent thing that would be)

(I'm imagining a Buffista style guide. What a lengthy and internally inconsistent thing that would be)

Plus, random pictures of women in corsets. For no particular reason.

For no particular reason.

Well, they are a considerably less divisive topic than the Oxford comma.

they are a considerably less divisive topic than the Oxford comma.

Hell, they're a less divisive topic than the name of the serial Oxford Harvard godandaynrand comma.