Fashionable sunglasses, Stilly? Hell, no! I wear those jeezly great black goggles that fit over one’s normal walking-out spectacles. They have the great virtue of being both cheap and ubiquitous — every drugstore sells them — and they do, indeed hide the shiner. That, by the way, is slowly improving; after attaining peak purple on Monday, it is now a broad ring around the eye, with the white lids almost shining in the middle. Strange.

The stomach ailment I had is now formally identified as Norwalk virus; outbreaks have been popping up around Perth County and the Kitchener-Waterloo area all summer. My innards are still a bit wonky, but nothing to fret over as long as I drink enough water.

I’m ready for this summer to start being pleasant. Any time now will do.