The Mets have won nine of their last ten games, including a sweep of the Nationals. The Nats also beat the Phillies last night, so now the Mets are 2½ games up.

Why is it so sticky here? Ugh. 80°F is fine, but I'd like to be able to dry off after a shower.

Oh Barb, thanks for that link. Wylie always skated to such heroic music, and his performances were so passionate. Boitano had him beat for power, I think, and rivaled him on line, but I think Paul was a master at interpreting the music into edge and line and form.

The best thing about that video, though? Was listening to Scotty Hamilton. I think he's probably my Olympic hero--not for his Olympic performance, but for a lifetime of overcoming adversity--his own and others'--and persistent good humor.

Runner up would be Petrenko, for his aid to the female pairs skater who had such a ghastly head injury in practice. They were in an Iron Curtain country, hospitals were deathtraps, and she was too ill to transport. He came to the hospital and brought his entire stock of medicines, bandages, sutures, instruments, which he traveled with in case of personal injury, to be used on her. He kept informed and helped arrange transport as soon as she was stable enough to an adequate hospital in her home country.

Plus? He was a damn good skater and he had a sense of humor about himself.

Lots of prima donas and ne'erdowells among Olympic skaters, but some are solid folk.

Late last year, the AFA also went after the movie “Shark Tale,” because the group believed the movie was designed to brainwash children into accepting gay rights.

I don't remember there being gayness in Shark Tale, but it's possible I was distracted by how much the movie sucked...

(Wait, was there cross-dressing? There might have been some shark transvestitism, now that I think about it.)

Boitano had him beat for power, I think, and rivaled him on line, but I think Paul was a master at interpreting the music into edge and line and form.

Well, Boitano also had seven inches in height on Wylie, which is part of what made him so phenomenal with the power. And it was only in the year leading up the 88 Olympics, that Boitano really started to tap into his artistic potential (that was when he began working with Sandra Bezic who really choreographed programs that played to his particular strengths) which is one reason I enjoyed Boitano more after he turned pro. I mean, remember him skating on the glacier in Alaska? Wow.

And Petrenko is truly, truly one of the good guys of the sport. (Although there are times I wish he'd just bop Johnny Weir a good one, right upside his dainty little head.)

remember him skating on the glacier in Alaska?

Was that before or after defeating the robot with his magical fire breath?

Was that before or after defeating the robot with his magical fire breath?

BWAH!!

My wireless router decided to quit and my mobile phone battery will no longer hold any kind of charge. Guess I'll be replacing some tech this weekend.

And shopping for school supplies.

And school clothes.

I am terribly predictable. I stopped for a burger for dinner. When she gave the price, I was all "buh? No, that's not right. It's $3.49." She insisted it was. OK, whatever, it's gone up in a week.

I get to the window and she apologizes "The manager laughed and told me you were right. He knows you come by every Friday to get just the PapaBurger." This, at a high traffic A&W.

It amused me.

sara-- that recently happened to me at a liquor store... I stop by every week to get a bottle of Chardonnay. There was a new clerk and she asked if I wanted a refrigerated one, and I said " Ownersname doesn't refrigerate this Chardonnay, just the sparkling white". She insisted and went to get one for me, but I was right.

Much more embarrassing at a liquor store to be so predictable!