Cereal post (Cheerios!):

Mwa-haha-ha! First Ellery Queen, then ... THE WORLD!

Erika, I do a pretty good hench, if I do say so myself. Let me know if you need a minion.

(Seriously, congratulations -- it's well-deserved.)

It is finally cool enough outside that I can comfortably open my sliding glass door and close the screen door. This means that I can now hear their chirps and their humming wings as the hummingbirds come and go from the feeder. So delightful.

I hope the tooth stuff gets fixed quickly and painlessly, Steph.

What's weird is that there's been zero pain, even when it broke. The main reason I went to the emergency dentist was to see if it could wait to be treated by my regular dentist (who of course is off on the weekend), or if it was such a Tooth Emergency that it needed to be treated today, do not pass go, no waiting. The Emergency Dentist (who looked unnervingly like a young Cillian Murphy) said it can wait for my regular dentist to treat it, as long as the wait isn't like a month. And my regular dentist is good about making time for last-minute appointments, so I'll call first thing Monday.

I feel like it was Ginger who always commiserated about dental woes, and the way that sometimes, even when you take care of them, your teeth are like chalk. My dental grumbling is in her memory tonight.

Even when they are strong, teeth are still a challenge. (Gums are needy, too. They are totally the tooth's partner that wants to know what they are thinking all day.) Yeah, that particular piece of sudden success took about seven years. Maybe more, if you counted how long I've been writing some of those characters. I'm not *totally* sure I'd be up to take over the world, Karl. For one thing, I haven't got a wheelbarrow, firecrackers, and Carmen Electra.(/Pinky and The Brain) OTOH, couldn't be worse than some of those who really got the gig. Right?

cereal; "Way to go, minions!" I literally have a lot of unicorns because that phase went on a bit long for me(And I still think maybe a second tattoo should be of one so maybe I'm not over it all the way, but maybe I've been in training to be Leftist Harmony for decades, now.) "I'm an activist, Spike, hello!" Belated good wishes for flea, and for anyone whose thing I forgot.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry for your loss, Plei.

Congrats, Erika. I have a digital subscription to EQMM, though I have been a bit lax about keeping up with the issues.

I think I gave Plei condolences, but you can't do too much of that, and with my impulsive postings, I could have neglected that, too, so every good thought for Plei and fam.