So, the zipper on my coat wasn't actually broken. The little zipper-upper is actually in two parts and the top part had migrated upward where I couldn't find it in my haste to zip. And the library book was found in the last suitcase I used on a trip. So I guess there's no need to wait for another shoe to drop. Although as soon as you stop being vigilant, that's when they really get you.

Rebecca had her foot checked today and it turned out she did have several pieces of glass embedded in the wound, which had already healed over. The doctor said a fair amount of scar tissue had formed, making it difficult to determine if he had gotten all of it out. He had to numb her foot and slice it open to get the glass out, although she doesn't seem to be in too much pain now. The bright side is that she gets to sit out gym class for 10 days. (Middle school gym class - mind-numbingly tedious with a side of potentially life-changing humiliation - nothing else compares.)

After having watched many hours of news shows over the holidays (and having been regaled with repeated "stories" about Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Martha Stewart, Scott Peterson, and the like), I am waiting for the day when a news anchor has the balls to stop, look into the camera and state, "Ladies and gentlemen, there simply is no news today. Thank you." and walk off the set.

The first digit of the temperature today was a "1". This is never good, whether there are one or dtwo igits following the "1". I've read that when the temperature drops to -40 you can take a pan of boiling water outside and throw it into the air. It will hiss and then disappear before ever hitting the ground. Do you think it would work with boiling clients? I'm almost willing to put up sub-zero conditions to test the theory.