From ATF, in response to the “Manic Monday” post:

Right now, I am just tired of being a grownup. I don’t know of a better way to put it.

I feel you. I don’t think there is a better way to put it! Still on day-job emergency mode here; hope to get a post up this afternoon, but no guarantees. In the meantime, want to play make-believe? Are you tired of being a grownup, too? Where would you most like to be right now? A cruise? An Australian walkabout? A bouncy castle? A holodeck? The Puppy Bowl?

I get an amazing amount of spam on this blog — really, the spamosphere greatly overestimates my influence with the American reading public, I fear. Many of them are just long links to sites where one can acquire porn or drugs, but some actually attempt to look like a real comment of someone delurking. This one, I simply adored; it came with a link to some (probably designer-fake) Ugg boots:

I all joking aside enjoyed reading your blog and frame it both educational and interesting. I hot pants be unwavering to bookmark it and secure in it as large as I can.

Yes, all writers have a dream, and mine is to have a readership that is both hot pants and unwavering!