Highlights

...of the week include a walk in the sun con mi hijo. While mi esposa was off running errands all day and el carro numero dos is now officially a lawn ornament- soon to be replaced by another not-very-late model classic, more on that as details become available -we bravely braved the noonday sun and took off a pia for the Dover PO. Might be a two mile stretch, probably no more. But along the way we wet our heads and hats in a conveniently placed shrubbery sprinkler, thank you very much, and stopped on a bridge to watch a few oversized crawdads darting about in the stream below. We were hopeful of seeing one snag a passing minnow or at least get into a knock-down, drag-out claw fight but I guess they just weren't in the mood. So we amused ourselves waving our hands, making shadows on the water's surface, causing the mini-lobsters to dart away seeking shelter under rocks in the streambed.

Another notable moment was station-hopping the car radio and hearing the last verse or two of '99 Luftballoons', huzzah, huzzah. I forget who recorded this 80s one-hit-wonder of a classic but it has a line that goes, 'Everyone's a superhero, everyone's a Captain Kirk!' Hahahaa, so cool! Quite thrilling for this once-and-future Trekkie and card carrying aficianado of cape-and-tights comic book protagonists.

It was probably my favorite wacky Euro-disco-bubblegum ditty- C'mon, honestly, everybody has one, it's just nobody wants to admit to it! -until that little blonde girl came along singing... ohhh, what was that song now?!? Boy, I can see her in the video floating on a raft or an inner tube or something... singing in a breathy, little girl voice, 'Love me, love me, say that you love me...' Well, it'll come to me when I least expect it, I'm sure.

Gosh, I hope none of my erstwhile heavy metal pals read this...

Oh, and the last highlight: Boggle. Y'know, Boggle? The word game where you shake the cubes and have to form the random assortment of letters into as many words as possible before the sand runs outta the hourglass? Well, naturally it's available to play on the web with total strangers from who knows where with even stranger screen names. Oh, and fair warning: It is as addictive as anything known to man. The first night I spent hours playing it and it's drawn me back practically every day since. I can't type so muchas hunt-and-peck with two, sometimes three fingers, so it's hit-or-miss to say the least trying to get as many words down as possible. But I generally manage to end up somewhere in the middle of the pack, not among the brain surgeons or rocket scientists but not the  bottom of the barrel either.

Which, I suppose, makes me just average... yay.

Anyway, here's the link. WeBoggle  And don't say I didn't warn you!