This weekend was North Carolinas' Tax Free Weekend which basically means that there are no taxes on certain items that the state feels are helpful for going back to school.

After opening the notepad on this first day of summer, I fear I'm at a loss for a blog entry. I'm having one of those days when it feels like my head's been Fed-Exed to Hackensack, New Jersey, but my body is still here in North Carolina.

It's Friday in my world, and yours truly just finished vacuuming my little ivory gas burner before the weekend, cleaning out the ashtray, washing the windows with 409, all while stocking the change tray with quarters for my $.50-a-day Coke habit.

That's pretty much my solution to everything ugly -- except for people -- no amount of paint helps ugly people. They just end up being ugly people with paint all over them.

As I have proclaimed today Ugly Wednesday, I'm really quite proud of myself right now after painting the porch steps a light shade of Yosemite Sand. Although my pride was somewhat diminished when I found out the hard way that there is a Consume By date on dairy products for a reason. Paint splattered and disgusted, I left my doomed ice cream in the kitchen until I heard Him yell,

.......is a marked time to reflect
upon a journey we have traveled together, waypoints charted along a romantic voyage of two people sharing the same experience.

An opportunity given to reflect upon memories of great times and poor times in richness and sacrifice; and to measure the distance between our hearts'

I was in the shower this morning, doing showery things -- singing, soaping, pondering the afterlife -- when I realized that I am a terrible, terrible person.

Let me explain.

My understanding of karma is basically this: you do something. If that something is good, you will be rewarded for it later; if bad, you will be punished accordingly, perhaps by being reincarnated as a slug or something equally disgusting.

I can't help but wonder why usually normal human beings have innate superstitions about the impending end of the world on June 6, 2006. (06.06.06).