Hi Honey, I'm Home!

Well, I'm back from vacation. With the exception of 5 minutes at my stepdaughter's home, I haven't been near a computer in the entire 12 days of my absence and then only to collect something from a saved email pertaining to the vacation. I missed you guys, and I don't just mean the 700+ entries I have to wade through in bloglines, either!

There are over 700 photographs to wade through and winnow down to an even dozen or two that I'll be sharing with you over the coming weeks.

Does anybody know why it always feels so good to come back home?

During our 12 day jaunt to western Pennsylvania, Niagara, NY & Canada, Vermont and New Hampshire, we saw the sun on two of those dozen days. Despite that, I managed to acquire severe sun poisoning on my arm from ultraviolet radiation due to the drugs I take. Oh, and I managed to either break or severely bruise my coccyx (tail bone) on a slide at the Children's museum in Pittsburgh, said moment caught on film by SWMBO, grimace and all. I'll share that one now, for your amusement.

Finally, there was this great email from my brother that I just have to share with you -- the Washington Post Mensa Invitational. Enjoy!

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off these bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

There you have it -- the Snooze is open for business again!