Dear Newsperson:

You say of the car wreck, "The driver is deceased at this time." Do you expect that to change?

So, last night I tried using the flashlight on my iphone. Couldn't get it to work - believe the phone needed charging.

So I just went and hid in the bedroom where it's cool and this morning, went over to check the fusebox and yes, indeed- somebody had turn on my heat.

Sigh.

Why is there a delay between French Open radio and the NBC tv coverage?

(Of the French Open.)

Hey, I was baptized at Corpus Christi! We can see the little blue tower from my dad's back porch. And it was actually the home of the now-retired, about-to-be-fired priest and the fiery radical friend of Bartlett before they moved to my old parish.

The thing that's obvious from an outsider's perspective is that this parish priest was installed to basically break up this parish.

Oh, it's pretty obvious from an insider's perspective, too.

Nobody expects to be able to change the course of events; the goal is to make it happen in the open. And if eventually it came down to a big ugly rupture and a schism and we ended up with (a) Opus Dei, and (b) a Vatican II hodgepodge of folk songs and women priests and no more secret handshakes with the Mormons... I could live with that.

You say of the car wreck, "The driver is deceased at this time." Do you expect that to change?

I'm only surprised they didn't say allegedly or reportedly deceased at this time, just to totally cover their asses.

I was being Socottish.

Hee!

Also, if we ever have a recommitment ceremony, we may have to celebrate afterward with a hippo diggity cake.

And argh, sumi. My skin is getting all itchy and sweaty in sympathy. And mutual annoyance. Who the hell? Why?

I really dislike having control of my heater in one of the public areas of the building - particularly when I am the one paying for it.

sumi, how can the heat turn on without you knowing about it?

ION, someone (probably my next door neighbor) is cooking waffles and/or pancakes, and they smell deliciously good.

The only way to turn on/off the heat is by turning on/off the fuse at the fusebox. This is kept in the basement of the other half of the building.

Does that control only your heat, Sumi? If so, you could tape it in place and stick on a note.

Yes, it controls the heater in the living room. (I no longer have central heat - just individual heaters.) That's a good idea.

There would be no way that it could have done it on it's own, is there?

Hey! How come nobody told this Cowboy Bebop fan that there was such a thing as (Bill) Cosby Bebop?