Went through Costco to pick up a rotisserie chicken for this week, then in the aisle nearby was watching when a bigger boy who was supposed to be pushing a baby carriage leaned all of his weight on the handle and ended up popping a wheelie resulting in the carriage resting on that handle, wheels in the air, and the baby smacking the floor with her head and face. Geez. I froze in place, waiting to see if I needed to be of any help, but adults in the group picked up the baby, and someone asked the big boy if he scared himself, but he in the next minute continued to lean on the bar like that as he moved off. I'd have at the very least given him a quick lesson in physics at that point and told him to walk correctly. Anyway - the baby had a pacifier in her mouth and they never removed it to see if she'd make more noise or how her nose and mouth were doing. She could break her neck in that fall. Particularly incurious adults in the face of an almost disaster. Children die hitting those concrete floors when they fall out of carts.

This chicken will be used for several dishes this week. I'm still doing alternate day fasting but I'm trying to give myself some interesting variety each day to look forward to the modest meals, and I'm zeroing in on 160 (am 162 right now). It has probably been six years since I was that light. The stress at work really packed on the pounds.

The senior-level (double dose) flu shots are in and I'll get mine tomorrow. A sure sign of approaching fall - four weather systems to watch in the mid-Atlantic and flu shots are in.