It's becoming a tradition to post pictures of my daughter here.

This is what whe looks like to me when we're out driving together. She invariably falls asleep as soon as I start driving. Just can't seem to keep awake. So I'll watch her in the rear-view mirror.



Since she is facing backwards, I have another mirror between the headrests in the back. Don't ask me why it is surrounded with this strange blue/white elastic band. It just seems like people that design stuff for kids are crazy. And completely tasteless. This was the most subdued rear-rear-view mirror that I could find.

Sheez!

I got a cold sore.

Right after the flu. I used to get them every other month or so, but I haven't had one in almost four years. They used to come when I had had little sleep, was malnurished, and had been exposed to big changes in heat, i.e. strong sunlight or frost. This time around, only the intermittent sleep applies, although I think the flu probably did manage to weaken me.

I used to use Zovir, a lip paste of sorts, but this time I was told that it requires a prescription. So I tried a different one, called Abreva, made by Glaxo Smith Kline. That sounds like the name of a law firm. And it might just as well be. Who else would sell you a tube of paste, the size of a paperclip, that holds only a few drops, and costs more than 17 dollars? Has to be lawyers.

Anyway. This stuff doesn't fight the cold sore. At all. It isn't designed for that. It merely helps it heal quicker, once your lip has become a bleeding wound. Which is perfectly understandable. After all, you wouldn't want to kill off the source of the problem, the impetus for people to go out and buy your stuff, now would you?

Of course not.

And Quincy Jones! Man!

I have become completely, utterly hooked on fifties' and sixties' music. And I mean not the run of the mill pop music of that era. No, I mean lounge music, even elevator music, of the period.

It all began with iN FLiGHT entertainment, a cd that a friend of mine loaned me a while back. I listened to it non-stop for weeks, before moving on too Further In Flight Entertainment.

And now, I've just seen Down With Love.

And I'm hooked, I tell ya. Hooked!