Someday I shall learn to eat my lunch without spilling a high percentage of it on my shirt.

Alas, today is not that day.

I am kidnapping my mom on the Saturday before Mother's Day and taking her with us to the LA Zoo. She is totally excited about going. It is really neat that she enjoys going on road trips with us.

I have the same problem with my morning coffee. Even with a lid on the darn thing.

A dream I had last night prominently featured the song "I Don't Wanna Fall in Love" by Jane Child. Don't know why. Haven't heard that song since it was on the radio a long, long time ago.
I'm listening to it now...
:)

Rack up a +1 for living on the Bitter East Coast.

Generally we don't get EATEN ALIVE like you SoCal'ers apparently do.

So now in addition to the standard rule of beach safety:

"If tide suddenly goes out, don't go pickup the fish. Run away. "

We can add a new one:

"If Seals or Sea Lions suddenly beach themselves, it's probably best that you do too."

He didn't get eaten. He was bit. And died from his injuries.

Wasn't the "shark attack" media panic a few years ago mostly driven by attacks on the East Coast?

Perhaps, but shark attacks here in DC are rather uncommon.

Eh... splitting hairs. "It wasn't the gun that killed him: it was the bullet"

Yeah, but you still live in DC. I'll take the chance.

That's true. But even in SoCal shark attacks are also pretty rare in the parts that don't touch the ocean. Unless you live in San Jose, in which case they have Shark Attacks!TM.