the secretary of labor is hilda solis.

i did not forget how to swim. put in a half mile in the pool & 4 miles on the road. yipee ki yay! things are looking up for the tri. well, if not up-up - at least, things are not looking down-down.

1 minute is not very long if it's the last bit of a massage you're getting, but it's a really long time if you are holding your breath.

we like to watch jay leno's headlines, on monday nights. in case you don't watch it, look it up b/c i am not explaining it. suffice it to say that they're usually hilarious and that they usually involve grammar mistakes and that the audience usually doesn't seem to get them - as signified by their non-laffing-ness. so i yell at the teevee b/c the eejits don't get the grammar jokes. HA!

tonight after swimming & running i went to the liberry and got the first 5 spiderwicks. hoping they are good. not the point. the point is that after all the driving around, the jeep decided to konk out at the liberry. no! no! don't die at the liberry! i'll skip the details, but the problem is not specifically the battery, but the problem became the battery by the time i ran down the battery trying to overcome the actual problem. SO. i got out & raised the hood - which is of course the universal signal for «my car be brokedee». or, in this town, the signal for «hey everyone ignore me over here - that's right - move along - nothing to see here». i have never seen so many scurrying bad samaritans. sheesh. i had made my phone call and was waiting on my help, but they didn't know that - so, you would have thought at least one person would have at least paused to at least ask if i needed to use a phone. buncha wankers.

poor ol' jeep is at 215490. i was hoping she'd hang in there till 215512 for the sheer beauty of it. things aren't looking too good at this point. at least she didn't die there in the liberry parking lot. she had enough dignity to come on home. i want to send her to the happy car farm where the old cars go to rest all day in the mild sunshine & sleep all night in nice clean garages. my old man says probably she'll just have to be smooshed.