Coffee; you can sleep when you're dead.

Thursday miscellany:

Snooki has been charged by a D.A. in New Jersey with being annoying. That’s officially a crime in the Garden State. Can we make that nationwide?

6:30 p.m. and 107 degrees. Oh, what a difference a week makes.

This morning's bike ride was the first in over two weeks, and it felt like it.

Cockroaches cannot survive a complete cycle in the dishwasher. (How did he get in there??)

Hollister clothing isn't named after the small ag town east of Salinas. It's named after Hollister Beach which is a major surfing location. That makes sense.

A good vacation should have:

• Slow, relaxing time with not much of anything to do. (check)
• Fast time that get the adrenalin pumping (check!!)
• Time with great friends (check)
• Time alone (check)
• Time for exercising the body (check)
• Time for exercising the mind (check)
• Time for eating great food in wonderful surroundings (check)
• Time for eating barely passable food in wonderful surroundings (check)

While we're on the subject of food, I ate several road meals at McDonalds so I could use their free wi-fi. I'm ready to make some generalizations about body mass and the general life skills of many people who seem to frequent that establishment.

Gas here is $2.73 per gallon. If we required station attendants to pump the gas we could move from an unemployment rate of 9.6% to 10.5% like Oregon. (sarcasm intended)

General Motors will have four presidents in two years. This is the kind of stability you get when the government runs a corporation.

The people are the best part.
The people are the best part.
The people are the best part.

I'm praying that God will surprise Q & D with good news this weekend. I defer to his superior wisdom, but he delights to give us the desires of our hearts. So I pray.

Children are free moral agents. All a parent can do is all a parent can do.