In Sickness and In Health

So, it appears my blog and I are not married as I have been sick for the last week and in feeling awful, have ignored my precious blog! Although, I shall not divorce you, blog, as I am back and have had an interesting day to report. As I tend to attract strange people and events for reasons beyond me... here is a rendition of what happened early today:

It was around 2pm on the first truly hot day of the year in Boston. A young professional (that would be me) goes out to mail a letter (yes, snail mail!) and encounters a crazed homeless man who proceeds to spit on her, the spit hitting her on the arm. (I figured I'd spare you and get right to the point.) This alone is disturbing, but more disturbing is the fact that she recognized him from an incident almost exactly a year ago when he was harassing a teenage girl, getting in her face and crazily saying extremely inappropriate/dirty things that will not be repeated.

So, I went to the nearby police (or security for a local tourist destination -- I wish I had paid closer attention) and explained to them what happened and that I had recognized the man and advised them they may want to investigate. They explained to me that they knew exactly who I was talking about and that they had just kicked him out of their general area... I stressed in a reasonable manner that the guy was nearby and that he appeared unstable... but they did not seem interested in pursuing the matter... I am beginning to think that maybe strange things have happened to me enough times that I am becoming desensitized to these incidents...

I proceeded to the Post Office, mailed my letter, passed a Starbucks and decided the line was too long, ran into a lady offering $2 for a short survey -- took the survey about paper towels that I apparently could look at but not touch, went back to work and washed my arm extensively and later went out and got a chocolate sundae at McDonald's... because it was the first truly hot day of the year.

Got Bawls?

After a random progression of thoughts on what I should write about --

Let me take walk you through my thought process -- foggy noggin (comes from the fact I am getting sick and sinus issues have made my brain a bit foggy), my foggy noggin led me to at one point during the day look at a clock and mix up the long and short hand causing confusion (it was 2:40 instead of 9:10 -- something irrational like that), I tried to think of neat products -- perhaps clocks that I could feature in my blog, I then found myself at ThinkGeek. and proceeded to see Bawls -- I decided to dedicate this post to bawls/balls as I found myself watching random youtube videos the other day and came across a video blog called fail blog which I found funny, I watched a couple of them (ok I spent like an hour) -- came across toys that are apparent failures -- one being an Elmo doll that seems to be obsessed with --- you guessed it, balls.

So, go balls out. Play ball! Have a ball! Get the ball rolling.

Hopefully, I am maintaining some level of coherency at this point. Perhaps the UFO happy hour drink helped me! Thank's Harpoon!