• Fog.

    This morning the fog wasn’t confined to my mind. The only thing better than riding in a fog is riding in a rain storm. If the fog is thick enough, like this morning, it feels very much like riding in the rain. Not only is there a lot of moisture in the air, it tends to condense on the ends of your hair. Then every time you ride over a bump the drops of water shake free from the ends of your hair and you can feel the drops falling on your skin. It is a bizzarre feeling; almost as bizzarre as seeing hundreds of drops of water hanging from the ends of your hair.

  • Any minute now I’ll find this funny.

    There was a time when I told Beth to leave the T.V. on. We were listening to a digital cable music channel, so Beth felt that the T.V. was unnecessary (the sound was going through our stereo at the time). Our discussion went something like this…

    “Beth, what are you doing?”
    “I’m just going to turn the T.V. off.”
    “Beth, I don’t want you to turn the T.V. off.”

    Beth reaches to turn the T.V. off once again.

    “Beth, leave the T.V. on.”

    Beth reaches to turn the T.V. off once again.

    “BETH STOP!”
    “Why?”
    “Because I want to see the song title when a new one comes on.”

    Our discussion ends and we continue to do our respective “things”: me, lobbing shots at our indoor basketball hoop and Beth dancing to the music. The current song ends and a new one begins.

    “Daddy, what is the name of this song.”
    “It’s Muckety Muck by the Blah Blahs.” (Actual song and band not committed to memory.)

    CLICK (The sound of Beth turning the T.V. off.)

    “Beth, please go to your room.”

    Does anyone else’s six year old do this kind of thing?

  • One half of a trillion dollars per year.

    $500,000,000,000.00. That’s what it looks like in dollars and cents. Your individual share of that is around $1600.00. Will that be cash, check or credit?

    No why do you suppose I get the feeling that I’ll be one of the lucky ones to ultimately pay the bill?