Yesterday afternoon I whacked it on the leg of my desk. It appears to still be sensitive as I voiced some choice comments without intending to and then limped home to ice it and take some Tylenol.

We have an unusual weather anomaly outside. The sun is shining. There are actual shadows out there. In other weather news there is a typhoon churning off to the west of us. It's headed for China. There is a tropical storm northeast of us headed out to the center of the Pacific. And there is a tropical storm to the southwest that has a fair possibility to turn into a typhoon that might head for us.

I understand the eastern USA is having some fears of hurricanes right now so I hope I don't hear anyone questioning my sanity about living in the path of typhoons. It's been over twenty months since our last real typhoon.... Am I nuts or what?

Still, in those twenty months my friends in Maine and New Hampshire have shoveled through piles of snow, slopped though buckets of mud, smacked flocks of mosquitoes, shivered through chilly nights and sweated through hot August days, so I still think I have the better deal.