It's fairly quiet here today. No police helicopters overhead, only a couple of fire truck calls out on the main road, and CP only wailed for a bit this morning. She overslept this morning with the LW and as a result, skipped her morning nap and went down in between her morning and afternoon nap time slots. This could have ugly implications for the remainder of the day.

I pulled a huge watermelon out of the garden the other day and just cracked it open. It's ripe all the way out to the rind and is very sweet. I wonder if there really is something to that bit of folk wisdome that my dad imparted about planting a hill of cantelope next to watermelons to make them sweeter. Just like the number of licks required to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop, the world may never know.

The knee is quite sore this morning and it hurts on the backside of the knee in the area of the popliteus, which is a strange little muscle, but evidently quite capable of making a grown man wince. I remember learning about it in my A&P classes and not really finding it remarkable - but ohhhhh, how I've remarked about it this morning......

The LW and I have been eyeballing this car this morning and wondering what the scoop is on it. The price is definitely right, although I'm well aware of the saying that there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes. It would be relatively easy to make some money on it if only the transmission holds up. I noted with consternation that the owner leaves the post very vague in the areas of mileage and transmission condition. Replacing a $2000 transmission is a pretty big "quirk". The 78-80 W116 models are supposed to have lower gearing than the later models and this makes them feel stronger. Who knows, the LW and CP might be toodling around in an old Benz that runs on biodiesel someday....

Humor enough for an entire day.