Well, I finally got my ass in gear and signed up to be a volunteer fireman in my hometown of Tisbury, Mass-ASS-achoo-sits. Only took me 15 years. But I have an excuse. I thought I was too old, because when I was 33 and tried to sign up in Gardner, Mass, they told me I was too old. Now I'm 55 and Tisbury chief seemed delighted to take my application. He only asked two questions: "You ever drive a big truck?" "You got any problem with ladders?".

My answers, "yup" and "nope", seemed to please him.

How I saved the Ineternets.

Full explanation here

Imagine that!

For an odd, odd reason, I found myself reading something on the vestigial k5 site. There was a review of the new Batman movie that I thought was pretty damn good in some ways. Now, because it's K5, it was actually a troll put up to bait gullible people like me. Only, I wasn't born yestaday and I never comment on k5 anymore, so it didn't work, especially since everybody knows that everything on K5 is a troll. Anyway, I thought a lot of the points it makes are actually good, even though the author disowns them.

Olympics

T'other evening I was riding my bicycle through Oak Bluffs. In a quiet neighborhood, three black teenage boys were walking down the middle of the street.

They were pretending to be the USA Women's Gymnastics team, doing balance beam and cartwheels an' stuff. It was funnier than hell. I thought the guy doing cartwheels on the road was going to kill himself. I won't say he had no talent, but I don't think he could have made the team, if you catch my drift. The guys doing balance beam piroettes on the road were safer. I nearly crashed my bike for laughing.

There were a few more things

But I forget.

OH!

New puppy hasn't peed or shit inside for a while, and the garden actually gave us some giant "English" cucumbers. I've never had any luck with cucumbers until this very year. Also, lots of cherry tomatoes.