The Eyes Have Legs

Violated

It's happened--the first indoor mosquito bite of the season. This time, it was four bites on the same ankle, inflicted during the after-work nap. Horrid little beasts!

From the Garden

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.

ATTRIBUTION: Ambrose Philips (1674–1749), British poet, politician. Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709). http://www.bartleby.com/66/32/44132.html

On My Mind Today

Chinese Dumplings (from use real butter)

and

Pistachio Macaroons (from Tartelette)

Yes, the Internet is a Dangerous Place.

Big Brother Is Watching You...

in the restroom stall.

Higher Math

K moved into a new house 3.5 months ago and has hung one set of curtains.* With eight windows to go, how long will it be before all the curtains are hung?



*two sets if you count the bedsheet hung from an existing rod.

The Only Explanation

I've determined that the common cold was devised by The Devil as an effective, efficient method of sowing discouragement, discontent, and general unhappiness throughout the ranks of civilized men and women. Anyone disagree?

Un-Coordination

Last week I was dismayed to realize my electric company payment was overdue. I am very careful about paying bills and thought the bill in question must not have been delivered. I hurried to pay online, incurring a small surcharge to do so.

Yesterday I discovered that I did indeed receive and pay that bill. However, I paid the water company instead of the electric company. You would think the two could get together and figure all of this out.

(To compound the situation, I paid against a closed water account, so now I have to figure out how to get my money back).

Photo: Nesmith. (ca. 1930-1935). Girl using adding machine [photograph]. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection. Courtesy American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8e03129))