"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em." - Yogi Berra

Why can I scream through a dozen tasks somedays and feel like I weigh 653 pounds on others? That feeling when you get out of the pool after being in the water for an hour or so? That's what I felt like all day.

I did get the inside of the door and the hood sanded this morning, so it's just the tailgate left to go. And once I get the cam shaft bearings out the engine is ready for the machine shop.

I don't like his policies, foreign or domestic, but I almost feel sorry for President Obama.
Gaza, Ukraine, ebola, Iraq, Russia... His morning foreign policy briefings have to include a lot of head shaking.

I went into the outlet mall this afternoon to get some new shorts from the Nike store and ended up getting some cheap shoes from Sketcher's, too. That place was a zoo, and I had trouble finding a parking place. Then I remembered why. The outlet mall is right next to the stadium where tonight the Cardinals are playing their first preseason game. And that stadium is right next to the arena where tonight Justin Timberlake is performing. I think a lot of people decided to spend the afternoon there shopping, eating at one of the many restaurants, and then attending their preferred event.

Who goes to a Justin Timberlake concert? Is that teenage girls?

James Brady was Pres. Reagan's press secretary in 1981 when John Hinkley tried to assassinate Reagan in an effort to gain the favor of Jodi Foster. (She'd just starred in a movie that included the assassination of a president, so it sorta made sense, if you're whacko.) Brady took a bullet to the brain and went through a very long recovery that people say was nearly heroic in its scope. Brady never walked again and his speech was affected, but he became an early leader of the gun control movement. He died this week and the coroner ruled it a homicide, the result of the lingering effects of that wound, 33 years ago.
Hinkley was found not guilty of attempted murder be reason of insanity. A judge has granted him increasingly extended furloughs from the mental hospital where he's confined, something the prosecutor and cops are not happy about. Does this coroner's ruling allow them to file first degree murder charges? That would shut down the furloughs, and some think the coroner ruled that way to facilitate that goal.

That fatigue I've felt all day? It's sending me to bed at an hour that would please the mother of a 3-year old. I don't care.