CONGRATULATIONS to PT and KG on your recent engagement! I am very happy for the two of you.

Here’s to picking a cool date and making it very easy to remember long-term. I am thinking I may need to stock of on some gifts. . .

I never knew Wes Craven went to Wheaton College. The Wheaton College here in Illinois, that is. Huh. So it seems that a person not only can learn from their own mistakes, but also from those committed by established news persons for network stations.

Some other things I have learned:

• Do not iron a piece of clothing on a glass tabletop.
• Do not mess around with a guy leaning against the glass tabletop on which ironing occurred.
• Use care when reading by candlelight, especially when the candle is sitting on a book that is resting on the bed on which you are lying.
• Put the antenna down on your car when going through a $3 car wash.
• Seriously, save that document after writing some lines of brilliance - or crap - because auto-save may not kick-in at the right time.
• Pop cans explode in the trunk of a car on both very hot and very cold days. Remember this and the fear that someone is shooting at you on the I290 will be lessened (somewhat, depending on where and at what time the driving on the 290 is being conducted).

The completion of exams, papers, tasks, semesters, etc. has increasingly become anti-climactic. In no way does the feeling of relief match the stress and anxiety I feel beforehand. Perhaps I teeter on the edges of apathy too far in the direction and need to move closer to the middle all around? I think this requires a balancing test. In any case, I think there is a drug for it, you know, to give a person an “A” on that balancing test and make everything slide straight down the middle and right off your back.

For $ = tip
If “Miss” then $ > $ if “Ma’am”