We're up to my humor blog day here, so please give that some consideration. If you didn't see this already in your RSS reader here's things posted on that blog this past week: MiSTed: The Jovian Jest (part 3 of 4) And Then I Noticed Something About Funky Winkerbean Statistics Saturday: the Most Frequently Snarked-Upon Comic Strips in Another Timeline 60s Popeye: Weather Watchers, and an arguable end to my 60s Popeye Watching I'm Not Saying It's a Bad Mash-Up, Just, It's a Mash-Up What's Going On In Gasoline Alley? Shouldn't Boog be like 18 by now? June - August 2022 Another Instance of Nature Caught Healing MiSTed: The Jovian Jest (part 4 of 4) For pictures now? Some stuff from the day of the Rocket Robin pinball tournament, the summertime charity tournament bunny_hugger runs. It starts somewhere I bet you'll never see coming. That's right, it's the tree in our backyard, the weed maple that used to be a four-trunk tree and has two trunks left! When I was filling the squirrel feeder a tiny grey blur darted out and tried to make herself invisible. So this little mouse tried to make herself very flat and very still until we would go away and stop predding all over her. We did, of course, but we were amazed she didn't make a getaway when we went back inside to get our good cameras. Meanwhile this squirrel came down to see what was going on and why we weren't leaving now that we'd filled the feeder. On to pinball! bunny_hugger made these modest trophies for the Rocket Robin tournament and worried whether the little birds on the side were too much. No; the winners started comparing who got more of the little side birds. (Everyone had two.) Oh yeah, our hipster bar has a crane game for some reason and it's like this. Note that Chuck E Cheese's legs are on backwards. Good luck un-seeing that now. Also this is in the vending machine for some reason, along with more sensible things like at-home Covid-19 tests. Trivia: In 1936 alone, more than 20 American patents were issued for improved screws and screwdrivers, several to Henry F Phillips. Source: One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Witold Rybczynski. Currently Reading: The Sputniks Crisis and Early United States Space Policy: A Critique of the Historiography Of Space , Rip Bulkeley.