If I don't ask what time it is, am I still on the clock?

Well, we seem to have survived the Downpour (at one point, looking out the window of the cafe I was sitting in, you couldn't see an inch past the window, much less across the street). We're still clocking strong enough wind to stagger people walking on the street, but the skies are clear and pale blue. I hope everyone's got power, dry basements, and no tree limbs down on anything important....

Having played yesterday, I must pay, today. And try to convince my body that it really is time to work, no matter what my internal clock says (yet another reason to hate the government. Interferring, time-changing bastards. Ugh.).

Goal today is to finish off the rough draft of "Dreamcatcher," and type up an editorial letter. And maybe make chocolate crepes. Mmmmmmm.

EtA: also got hijacked by bright sunshine and a long walk down the Stairs of Doom (and back up again, toting my hunter-gatherer spoils).

You never get headlines like this in New Haven....

Cops Capture Getaway Goat in the Bronx

In a desperate bid for freedom and to avoid a date with a butcher's knife, a goat made a break for it in the Bronx. The 25 pound pygmy goat was spotted yesterday afternoon on 141st St. near St. Ann Ave. in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx and police quickly captured it. A worker with Animal Care & Control believes that the animal probably escaped from a neighborhood slaughterhouse.

Police have named the estimated 18-month-old goat Denny, who was described as being a little shy and cold, but otherwise healthy. Denny will be headed to Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, NY today, where he will join a number of other famous four-legged escapees from the City. Last June, cops picked up Lucky Lady, a young lamb who also was believed to have fled a Bronx slaughterhouse. There's also Joey, a goat found wandering around Brooklyn. And perhaps most famous is Queenie, the cow who escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse in 2000 and evaded capture for 20 blocks before being cornered in a playground and shot with a tranquilizer gun.

(from gothamist.com)


Mmm. Goat. Tasty. Also cute. Oh, the moral dilemma!