Morning Minutia

Dottles from the brainpan this Friday moanin':
1. First real frost of the season this AM. Down around 33F when I got up. A little early to be that cool but I'll take it. An exceptionally gorgeous morning.

2. Woke up this morning to discover The Baltimore Sun is rerunning two months of The Far Side cartoons. Outstanding.

3. Had my final run before the Army 10-Miler this morning. Felt good and nothing on my body hurts more than it ought to. I'm ready to go. Race is Sunday starting by the Pentagon, then around the Mall, and back across the Potomac to the Pentagon.

4. One year ago last night, Muhammad and Malvo started a 3-week reign of terror and murder in the DC area. The legal wrangling for the snipers will probably continue forever. If they walked the two into the middle FedEx Field, doused them with gasoline, and then set them on fire, I wouldn't lift a finger to stop them. This saddens me but at this point I'm unapologetic about it.

5. I'm giving a seminar at work next Thursday. My employer put large signs in the foyers of the main entrances at work announcing it. They spelled my name wrong.

6. I passed a long caravan (10?) of Corvettes on the way to work today. Don't know where they were going. One of the 'Vettes had a license tag that read "YES OFCR".

7. Tropical Storm Larry churns away erratically in the Gulf of Mexico. Who can take seriously any storm named Larry?

8. I have a dentist appointment today at 2:30. (Get it? 2:30?? Tooth-hurty?? One of my favorite jokes.) I seem not to dread the dentist as much as most people.

9. A- has his "acting" debut during tomorrow's half-time show. The marching band is doing a number based on Phantom of the Opera. He plays the Phantom. I think he dies in the end.

10. I'm thinking Schwarzenegger is on the ropes. He's having to make a lot of apologies. Neophyte.
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