for this week's check-in!

Rosie-Joy, good on you for starting the check-in this week!

Steve, here's hoping smooth running for both you and your outboard motor this season.

Jaye, I often can't understand the clock either.

Madelyn, sorry about your contracting the bayou bug. Northwest LA may have a slightly more healthy climate, but look out if you have allergies.

John, steady on! Those twisters seem unusually deadly this year.

Chicory, ditto on Rosie's congrats on your gig.

My latest is a RSD (rem sleep disorder) performance early yesterday morning. I dreamed that someone was throwing a fragmentation grenade at me, so I quickly rolled off the bed, for real! In the process I almost destroyed a floor lamp beside the bed, in addition to alarming my wife, who had already arisen and was in another part of the house. It did wake me up, though, so I survived the attack! Fortunately, my RSD episodes are rare.

best to all
Robert