Octopodial Chrome

I’ve added yet another bachelor recipe; this time the South Padre Island, a cocktail which is pretty much a tequila Cape Cod. I actually invented it on the 26th of August ’03, but I finally got around to writing it down in recipe form tonight.

Driving back from the grocer’s, I passed a Fantastic Sam’s (a unisex salon). There was the most attractive girl who’d just stepped out. For a moment I considered sacrificing my locks (three years’ growth; it’s been more than a year since the last time shears touch ’em) to the end of speaking with her. Perhaps fortunately, she was closing up shop, though, and so I remain a whole man.

But man, was she pretty!

When I stopped in at the supermarket to buy some wood glue to repair my desk, the clerk asked em for ID. Apparently it is the policy of the Albertson’s Corporation, or whatever their name is, not to sell wood glue to minors. Why? Are they afraid to encourage carpentry and woodworking amongst the young?

The only thing I can think of is that it’s a drug. But how does one use it? It’s hardly model æroplane cement.

We like short skirts!

While in Boulder today I saw a gal wearing a pleated skirt shorter than my hat size. ’Twas rather fetching, to tell the truth. All I can say is, we live in a wonderful time, a truly magnificent age.

Back in 1921 Lord Baden-Powell (I believe he was a lord) wrote about the Scouts’ Thanks Badge. Its design may surprise you…