smacky and bucky

When a woman like Mary Freaking Worth has shot you down (or gotten her friends to do it, really), there's no real good reason to wait to get home before you start drinking. And drinking it through clenched teeth? What a wonderful combination of sorrow and rage. Once Aldo finishes the bottle, here's hoping the rampage begins!

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It's not a good idea to wait 18 days to mow the backyard, especially if a tropical storm came through 16 days earlier. The grass was so high the mower kept shutting down, and I had to remove wet clumps of grass from under it, waiting for the moment the mower recreates the scene from Maximum Overdrive and starts up and takes my arm off. Luckily that didn't happen, but I inhaled so much dust, pollen, and whatnot, that I got a migraine that called for a three-hour nap. I managed to wake up and catch the new Aaron Sorkin show Studio 60. I'm sure it will get better now that all the characters are introduced, but with the familiar West Wing lighting, and the walking fast down the halls talking at 100 MPH, the dialogue could have been "watermelon, watermelon, watermelon, watermelon, watermelon, watermelon..." (spoken as fast as possible) and it would have been your typical Aaron Sorkin show.