The Dosage Is The Tricky Part

…or was he always this stupid?
Don’t know if the rest of you caught the reply in that thread, but I thought it too good not to share: “If the aliens are vegan, they surely would have contacted us by now to tell us about it at great length.”
Open thread. Do chat among yourselves.
What I learned on my summer vacation last week:
1) Overnight passages at sail are very dull, and the sleep deprivation will kick your ass.
2) Isle Royale is a truly magnificent place.
3) Meclizine is a wonderful drug. It keeps my breakfast where it belongs (instead of letting it become fish food) and the dry-mouth side effect encourages me to drink lots of fluids.
4) Great Lakes freighters prefer that you not get within five miles of their projected course through the shipping lanes. They don’t care how close you get if you’re abaft their beam.
5) Spending five days with no internet or cell service is tremendously therapeutic. Even though I missed you all terribly.

What I learned on my summer vacation last week:
It must have been cold out on Gitche Gumee in June, no?
I’ve been out fishing on Huron in July and when the wind was blowing it was cool.

Any teenaged child of mine who got a goth makeover or an offensive septum piercing would regret it.