I am a tool-using mammal!

So far, a productive day off.

• Got a solid eight hours of sleep. With both of us suffering colds, that's an accomplishment.


• Nuked Carthage and Mali 'till they glowed in the dark.


• Went to The Auto Supply Store Formerly Known As Kragen's and picked up house-brand fuel system cleaner and a new tail light for Darby.


• Went to Smart and Final for Cokes... and came home with just a bit more than that.


• I was shopping hungry. Sue me.


• Got home, put all the groceries away like a real grown-up.


• Then installed the new tail light.


• Thus renewing my Man Card for another year.

Now considering a post about the mystic possibilities of the Venetian Marriage to the Sea and the surprisingly long lives of the Venetian Doges and nobility. Many of the great medieval Doges were voted into office in their seventies and ruled for two decades. Doge Enrico Dandolo led a successful attack on Constantinople at the age of ninety and while completely blind. When I say "led", I mean he was the first man out of the galleys and the one who raised the banner of St. Mark on the captured walls. Wearing armor. Wielding a sword. Ninety. So yeah, there was something in the waters of the Venice Lagoon...

Or I may vacuum the place.