It had to happen sooner or later. Even superintelligent heroines can't win 'em all.

Featured link: BAD BLOOD---excellent bland-and-white art, intriguing storyline for mature readers (some sex, a little nudity, nothing gratuitious), vampires, both as protagonist and opponents. Good stuff.

Now, on to the rest of my summer...

Low-carb.

Low-carb.

Low-carb.

If I hear one more ad for the Atkins diet, and this low-carb silliness, I'll scream. For one thing I can't do that diet...my chloresterol being high is one risk factor I'm coping with.

If I had a lot of money, I'd invest in Lipidor right now. Those hoping to take a low-carb, high-protein diet are just opening themselves up to high chloresterol later...

I don't want a low-carb Coke. Or a new low-carb potato. I've read many people end up in the emergency room for doing the Atkins diet too long or too rigorously. It's great for a few weeks, but that's all.

The pool opened today---it was supposed to open before Memorial Day, but the inspector came just as they were installing the emergency phone, and he was new, and didn't give an inch. But it's open now...and Eric had his usual pool epiphany today...he lives for swimming in the summertime.

I enjoyed it too.

Summertime just isn't summertime without swimming somehow.

Two kids said hi to Eric, who went to his high school....a pretty girl in a pale blue bikini, and a boy friend, or perhaps a boyfriend, who had helped Eric in his class before. He asked if Eric still did the puzzles, and I assured him Eric still did. I've been nominated for the black belt Six Sigma training, and they'll have to give me a laptop for that. I've only used a laptop once before, on a business trip I took to Wisconsin to get trained on some new software.

But I'll get used to it. I adapt quickly.

Someone offered to show me some web editing software today at work, and I demurred. Notepad or at best Editplus is all I really need.

And now, the rain and thunder and lightning is hitting...luckily it held off while we were swimming...giving the entire world a drink.

This morning, I may have had one cicada hit my hand as I held it out the window on my way to work. Other than that, I haven't seen a single cicada. I remember a previous year they came out, and you could barely breathe without inhaling them. David Letterman has made jokes about them...

I'm not sure it was a cicada this morning. If it was, it's the only one I've seen during this cycle...

Which is just as well. If I don't see a single cicada this time, that'll be fine.