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May 31, 2007

It was nearly 90 degrees in the Seattle area yesterday, and of course the evening news had a Dire Segment about how if it’s this hot in May, what can it mean for the rest of the summer? As though it’s going to stay consistently hot from here on out, as if it wasn’t rainy and chilly four days ago. I just don’t think a Pacific Northwesterner can be happy unless they’re bitching about the weather.

Riley and I were at our Wednesday playdate in the afternoon and despite multiple slatherings of SPF 714820 I managed to burn my shoulders. Just the tops of my shoulders. Not the rest of my arms. A couple weeks ago, I got a sunburn on the parts of my arms not covered by a t-shirt—you know, the farmer tan look?—so now I have this bizarre strip of whitish, unexposed skin between my reddish shoulders and my somewhat tanned arms. I’m telling myself that it looks tribal, rather than dorky. “Oh, that?” I plan to say, should anyone ask whether or not I’m suffering from an exotic skin-discoloration disease, “I’m, like, totally into body modification.”

Ashley took a picture of Riley yesterday which I feel captures the more challenging side of his personality quite nicely:

It looks quite a bit like the photo at the top of this blog, doesn’t it? That’s because he is ALWAYS TALKING IN ALL CAPS.

Also, when I compare Riley to a howler monkey, you probably think I’m kidding around (just like when I say I’m going to stuff him in a wood chipper, which is, ha ha, obviously not serious at all) (except on days of the week ending in Y). However, BEHOLD:

Eerie, is it not? Ah, mein pint-sized simian Fuhrer.

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