Stupid rain.

I needed to get the boy's hair cut again, since it grows ridiculously fast, but it's a bit of a hike over there. Not a big deal, except that the stupid weather prediction was wrong. Again. According to weather.com, there was a 10% chance of rain in the two hours I was planning to be gone. It was raining as soon as I got outside, and it only got harder as I trudged home. Sigh. At least the boy was an angel at the barber's, and didn't complain about his feet getting wet.

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Jerkwad of the day:

Day after Jon gets the boot,

tries to shut it down.

Distracted driving

just as bad as drunk driving.

Please hang up and drive.

Hey, Kanye, I'mma

let you finish, but MJ's

tour's the best EVER!

Um, yeah.

I can't think of anything witty to say today. My brain has been as cloudy as the skies outside, which managed to rain on the boy's stroller after we got home despite the weather report not predicting significant rain before 7PM. Grr.

So I'll do a little shameless self-promotion. If you are on Facebook, this blog now has its own fan page. Some of you have already become fans, and thank you. But if you haven't, there is a widget on the bottom of this page (scroll ALL the way down) to become a fan right from here. I'll update every day after I post the new blog so you don't have to check yourself. My Facebook fan page also has a message thread I started called "suggestion box." Please drop by and let me know what you'd like to see in future posts, or as future regular features, or as future poetry challenges. 

I have also (shudder) joined twitter, as @minervadamama. Feel free to become my follower there; I will also post a link to each day's blog there. So, yeah.

Haiku News

Carrier, not crew,

at fault in tarmac snafu--

six hours grounded.

Columbine-obsessed

school shooter from Hillsborough

gets life, no parole.

Overcrowded jails

prompt early release of some

thirty thousand cons.

Friday Fake-out

Today was one of those days where, after my walk, I cursed weather.com. See, I saw earlier that they predicted at least 50% chance of thunderstorms all afternoon, and naturally I thought it wise to go out in a shirt with sleeves and long pants. WRONG! It was at least 80 but felt a lot hotter thanks to really high humidity. Then the sun came out about halfway through the walk and it was blazing. Luckily I carry the boy's sunscreen with us at all times and quickly applied it, but man, was I sweating by the time we came back. Of course, my dog took her sweet time going to the bathroom afterwards, too. Ughhh. But at least I got out there at all--I was dreading having to stay inside all day.

I will have to closely watch the predictions for tomorrow, as my training schedule calls for a 10-mile run. It will be good to know whether I should try to get up early to get out there before it gets too hot, or if I can risk waiting till naptime at noon to venture out. I have done this distance before, but not since a 10-mile race in May, and for some reason it seems particularly daunting today. Perhaps I will have to actually go to bed early tonight so I will feel better prepared. 

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Assholes of the week:

resold gravesites, kept the cash,

discarded bodies!

Very same bastards

managed to neglect coffin

of poor Emmett Till.

GM plans to sell

L.A. used cars on Ebay;

should start at a buck.

Florida couple

who adopted twelve children

killed in robbery.

First time in ten days

only two Most Popular

stories on Jackson.