In answer to several reader inquiries, Mrs. R is home safe and sound and recovering nicely.

Earlier today she sent me over to Robek’s to get her a fruit smoothie with all sorts of stuff in it I’d never heard of before.  (She had to give me a note with the names of the ingredients printed phonetically.)  In case you didn’t know, Robek’s is some fru-fru juice joint.  The one closest to us is on Route 7 at Tyson’s Corner, Virginia.  In case you didn’t know, Route 7 at Tyson’s Corner is a good place to get yourself kilt dead by the traffic, both on the roads and in the parking lots.  I actually got so mad at one jackass in particular that I flipped him off, something I simply never do.  Oh, well, I was going to go to Confession tomorrow anyway…. 

Ironically, I seem to have picked up a cold from visiting Mrs. R in the hospital, so when I finally got home, she made me take a nap.