Damn, it's hot. I haven't had time to adjust to this heat. Just a week or so ago we were coming out of three weeks or so of March-like weather. It got nice just in time for the Cereal Festival, and now it's downright tropical, in the nineties, hazy, humid, no relief even at night. And the mosquitoes...how in the hell did we end up living in the mosquito sinkhole of the universe? This place puts Fred's Farm, renowned county wide for it's mosquito population, to shame. It's as bad inside the house, what with the kids constantly coming and going, as it is outdoors most places.

I'm in a bit of a dilemma with my business these days. The competition is fierce. My customers mean well; they try to be loyal, but the temptation is too great to head for the mega-store. So what do I do? I took out an ad in the Shopper recently poking fun at their custom framing department, and that was fun, but it didn't result in a sudden surge of business, so I guess it was pointless. Being in business is difficult; I have never liked all the promotional games one must play, and have never been very good at playing them. I really would love to just be able to come in to work, do my job, the things I'm good at, and have everything else fall conveniently into place. But I guess the real world doesn't work that way. I think I would feel better if a truly superior store with great customer service moved into town and cut into my business, (hell, maybe I'd go work for them) but to think I'm being hosed by a giant craft chain store with zero customer service...what is wrong with people? How many of them even care? Why am I knocking myself out?

I have become a fanatic about O, Brother, Where Art Thou? The movie, the soundtrack, the screen saver, I just can't get enough. Very few movies have captured my imagination like this one. Blade Runner is one of the few others. The original Raiders of the Lost Ark did for awhile, as did The Blues Brothers. And a few Hitchcock movies. There are plenty of other movies I have liked a lot, but for one reason or other I just didn't have any particular urge to see them repeatedly. I saw Traffic twice, and that was quite an intriguingly executed piece of cinema, but I doubt I'll be renting it again. Nothing against it, it's just got a certain quantity of imagery I don't particularly care to subject my retina to over and over.

School's out for summer. This will present some interesting logistical problems starting next week. I'll be taking Jessica to work with me sometimes, but Sean is working too, and we gotta get him to and fro. Another car might have to be in the grand scheme soon.

All the wry and witty comments I was going to make have left me. I'll think of them again when it's least convenient, like in the shower.