In today's exciting news: flat tire.

It's getting fixed while I'm at the cafe I'd normally go to. So, there's that.

Also, I've got Matilda's cold just in time to fly down to LA on Saturday, give a four hour bus tour and top it off with a book-reading. Fortunately, I think this will give my voice a gravelly gravitas worthy of Tom Waits.

Finally, it looks like I might finally have some temp work next week after the longest drought I've ever endured in 20 some years of temping. Sheesh. It's even conveniently located near Matilda's daycare so it'd be a real boon.

Best Cash Cab Ever! Two professors of astrophysics and a professor of physics just beat the all-time record.

How ya doing Pix? I hope the pain is going away before the drugs run out.

IRT reading at night, I recall at a young age, before 8 or so, the switch to my bedroom dying. Dad took me to the hardware store and asked which one I wanted. I thought that was the coolest thing! I got to pick my own switch!! I flipped every single one of them, and picked the one that didn't have a click, and was lit up when off. This solved two problems. 1) Finding the damn switch after mom turned it off. And 2) it not making noise, that mom heard from the KITCHEN and yelling at me to go to sleep. I got SO much more reading done after that. It was awesome!

Two professors of astrophysics and a professor of physics just beat the all-time record.

Rodney McKay and Radek Zelenka in Cash Cab? Oh, lord, now I smell a fic . . .

Hec, I am SO excited about the tour! I will think good, throat-soothing thoughts in your direction.

was lit up when off

I was expecting to hear you were able to read by the light of the switch.

o_a has a cool dad. Perhaps I'm just impressed because my father never asked me what I wanted.

Rodney McKay and Radek Zelenka in Cash Cab?

Two of 'em were married and the wife had a double a in her name but that's all I remember. Oh that and that they all taught at a community college. And they were on their way to the library.

Each of us kids had a flashlight next to our bed in case of emergencies but the batteries in mine wore out all the time. I think Mom knew I was reading under the covers and maybe she didn't think it was all that bad.

A friend of mine just poked his head in and held out a block wrapped in white paper. I thought, "Why is he handing me a--brick? Eraser?"--then I realized "Ice cream bar!"

Nom nom nom

mmm that is a nice surprise