This has been a remarkably awful day. When my caregiver L arrived at 10, I had no color in my face, couldn’t use my hands at all, and was suffering such extravagant joint pain I couldn’t walk. I was able to stutter out that the barometric pressure had nose-dived and I’d start to get better soon. Which happened, though I was pretty much done in by the experience. Meanwhile, the tv news brought me John Morales, veteran South Florida meteorologist, choking up in tears on-screen over the incoming bulletin that Hurricane Milton had advanced to Category 5: “This is just horrific”, he explained in despair, like nothing he had ever seen or imagined.
When I could function some, I retreated into my birthday present to myself: a McVitie’s Penguin bar, imported from the UK. Their virtue — beyond their being pleasant chocolate-covered chocolate biscuits — is that each one comes with a genuine penguin fact on the wrapper, plus a groaner penguin-pun joke, with a question on the wrapper and the answer just inside. Today’s joke to follow, below.
Then Lynne Murphy posted (from Brighton in Sussex) an excellent diversion on Facebook. She’s been writing on soups made from recipes, but announced today:
No recipe tonight, just SOUP
with a photo (also to follow below). Which inspired me to post about Generic Soup.
The rest of the day’s awfulness I’ll just skate over here, though I will admit to filling in my mail-in ballot for this fall’s US elections, as something I could focus on. It will go out in the mail tomorrow. (I don’t think that I’ve mentioned that California has six candidates for President and Vice-President: Libertarian, Green, Republican, Peace and Freedom, Democratic, American Independent.)
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