I'm planning to go put my deposit on a Cooper in the morning. Wow. First new car in 15 years. I'm so psyched. And I can't believe I'm willing to wait seven or eight months to get it. I am the queen of impulse buyers. So, does anybody want to buy a 15 year old Honda Civic with about a 126,000 miles on it and no air conditioning? If you invested a couple thousand bucks in it, it would go for another hundred thou, no problem. I'll clean out the dog barf.

The whole fam went out to eat at the Brake Pad late Sunday night. We had a great time, good food, and the cutest waitress serving us. On the drive home, Jake and Sara started ragging on me about my route home. They think I'm twisted because I drive a little bit out of the way to avoid turning left on a blind hill in a four lane road without a turn lane. Jake called me a pussy. I slammed on the brakes and yanked up the hand brake. What I was shooting for was a dramatic squealing of brakes and a hearty skrrrrrrrack of the parking brake. But in the Saturn, what I got was a nice, safe quick stop with no squeal and a silent, reasonable setting of the hand brake. Dammit. Just ruined the whole dramatic effect. All of the girls were surprised that I'd even try it, though.

We had a cool front blow in last night, and today was very likely the most beautiful day of this spring. Incomparable. After my walk this morning, I had a cup of coffee, read the comics, and crawled back into bed with my sweetie for about 40 minutes. I woke up so perky I'm sure she wanted to slap me. But as I was hugging and nuzzling her, I was also wagging my tail, and it's really hard to slap me when I'm wagging my tail. Especially when I'm almost naked.

And speaking of my morning walk, I intersected paths with another walker today. He was half a block away from me when I reached the spot where he had crossed the street I was following, and I could smell his Old Spice still lingering. Brother Man, that is way too much aftershave.

To Mulher and Tones, girls, you still have so much adventure cred on the basis of lap dances alone. It's been years since I went to see boys or girls take their clothes off and shake it. But, if either of you ladies want to come visit just to, you know, make sure your adventuring license is current, you just bring it and we'll fix you right up.