That's almost all I have to say.

Would real winners be Monday morning quarterbacking at this point? He is still playing the America is Racist card. This, from the man who said New Orleans would be a "chocolate city". Sure he apologized for that. But he meant it. Come on now.

Here's what he says in a recent MSNBC article:

He said the city is struggling to deliver services and rebuild with a quarter of its former municipal budget. The federal and state aid the city has received is inadequate and comes with too many rules, he said.

"We are being strangled, and they're using the money to set local policies to try to take control of the city to do things that they had in mind all along, and that's to shrink the footprint, get a bunch of developers in the city, and try to do things in a different way," Nagin said.

"We're not going to let that happen. They're going to give us our money, and we're going to rebuild this city."

They're going to give us our money...

Their money.

We're going to give it. To them! To rebuild a "chocolate city" that was already a wreck.

Anyone see a problem here?

I can't wait for tomorrow, to try Morning Spark caffeinated drink mix!

I'm so excited that I think I'll stay up all night!

Woot!

Coffee, eat your heart out.

I've actually thought about this for quite a while...

The day we lose Ron Howard, we'll mourn both Richie and Opie. And a great director. And two ways of life.

One thing that can make you feel really old is losing icons from your youth. But two in one day?

How many young people have ever even heard of The Marx Brothers? They were superstars. And in the 1970s and even later you could see their movies on television. Now you can't even rent a Marx Brothers movie at a Blockbuster store. Sad.

 Funny...

Today I loaded some sort of Google desktop. It was early so I didn't pay a lot of attention.

Anyway, I have a bunch of crap along the right side of my monitor now. Some news, some weather, and then some sort of rolling mini-display of all the pics on my computer! This includes stuff I've sold on Craigslist, David's scar "photo diary", etc. all in mini form!

Anyway, I noticed a photo of what looked like the school of fish I photographed in the tunnel of the San Francisco aquarium. They were anchovies or mackarel or some sort of schoolish fish.

Upon closer examination, it was actually a photo of David's cerebral vortex!

Look at all those damned fish!

Having grown up in California, I did not realize that Sees Candy was a regional item. But it is, and David had never heard of it.

I bought a box of those infamous suckers and a small box of assorted at a kiosk in the San Fancisco airport while we waited for our flight home.

The chocolate suckers really take me back, those were always my favorite. The vanilla must be semi-new, as I had never tried them before. Good stuff, but the slobbering factor is high with the suckers, and the paper stick disgusts me. At least the paper stick doesn't disintegrate as much as I remember as a kid.

The butterscotch are David's favorites and I think we are out of those. Didn't there used to be a peanut butter flavor? I am going to order more on line (but the "minis" with no stick) when the weather cools and the product isn't so likely to be ruined in transit through blistering hot Texas (or California, the way things have been).

The small box of assorted chocolates went to our neighbor who had picked up our mail while we were gone. The neighbor said he didn't want them, but David forced them upon him, dammit. Ah, the snack that "could have been"...

He never said, "Wow, you drove a long way to look at where another guy lived..."

But he did say, after reading about my trek to the north, "I wasn't surprised until you went into the bowling alley - that surprised me..." (or something like that - and he was totally serious).

I love my beautiful and secure husband. And that we don't, so far, bowl. But maybe someday we will.

Nawwwww...