artificial mystery flavor

1. Today was the Junior Rose Festival parade! It's the oldest/largest children's parade in the country, and it goes right by my work. I got to watch a bit of it from a great vantage point in the meeting room while we waited for meeting attendee #4, who got stuck in a parade morass and never made it. (He was warned but did not heed the warning! HEED IT, PEOPLE. It's all fun and games until someone gets stuck behind a pack of 4th graders on unicycles.)
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3. this picture is from I don't even know when but I took it, I like it, I'm using it. 
4. I'm playing around with the numbers feature here. I don't like it all bunched together, so there may be some blank space.
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7. I left work an hour early today due to incipient migraine. The weather has been whipsawing back and forth between bright/warm and cloudy/rain/cold. In either state my head is fine, it's just when it's moving from one to the other that I have problems.  I am having many problems this spring. 
8. I'm reading a book about the Mitford sisters called, strangely enough, The Sisters. It's SO DENSE and slow going, but totally enjoyable. Things are picking up now that the sisters are old enough to start having disreputable affairs and shocking politics. 
9. It's for book group. 

mermaid migraine cure

Not much to post today because I've had a migraine most of the day. It's going away now because it finally started raining. Thank you, rain! (also: I took a lot of headache drugs.)

Anyway - maybe this mermaid is also post-migraine! Maybe she is smiling because her underwater headache finally dissipated! Maybe that's her mermaid bathrobe and she's just chilling on her mermaid couch which is made out of bubbles!

p.s. I attended a class on e-books today and the side effect is now I want an iPad mini.  It would be a nice companion to my old school keyboard kindle. Do I really need it? hell no. Do I want it anyway? YES I DO.