Ok, no matter what I tried, I can't get that last paragraph of my previous post to be in smaller font. I even retyped it. I'm not shouting, I swear.

In other news, I just picked up my car after its 67.5k service. I had asked them to replace the winshield wiper blade inserts, and on the invoice, the brand is listed as "Assy-Wind". What kind of a marketing genius came up with that one?

I have a like/dislike relationship with the John Mayer song Daughters. On the one hand, I like the tune, and I like acoustic pieces like that. But I find some of the lyrics kind of inspid. First up:

Girls become lovers who turn into mothers

Ok, this bugs me in two ways: one, it's that assumption that all women want and will become mothers. But that's a minor point. Artistic license. It's the "turn into" that gets me--it implies that one cannot be both a lover and a mother. As soon as you're a mommy, nope, no more being a lover for you! It's Mommy time! Mommies aren't sexy.

But it's a different verse that I really dislike:

Boys, you can break
You'll find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong
And boys soldier on
But boys would be gone without the warmth from
A woman's good, good heart

At first I thought he was trying to be ironic or something, but I think he's serious. "Boys you can break"? "Boys solider on"? What is up with that? And give me a break with the "boys would be gone" without "a woman's good good heart". Plays into that whole stereotype about how women are so good and they rescue those poor uncultured men.

Hmmf.

I'm currently reading James Michener's Hawaii. Pretty good so far. Anyway, as I was reading last night, I found a tag in between the pages, from Saks Fifth Avenue, for a "Chartreuse Size 4", $365.

Someone has expensive tastes. And who knows when it got there...this is a used book that was first published in 1959.