Given that we are seeing a replay of Day of the Triffids around here in the Chicago area, I’d be interested to see if she has found any bugs to play with.

The 17-year cicadias are out in full force. There are billions. Literally. I live near a 2000 acre forest preserve and there’s this low menacing background noise coming from the south like you hear in any science fiction B-movie just before the ugly/nasties rise up and start eating people. At 10:30 AM last Saturday I was working outside and had to go inside and put earplugs in to go back out.

The kids are having a grand time playing with these bugs. They’re big and slow and don’t bite. The next-door neighbor kids had a bowl filled with them. Nanny had never seen them before either. I cautioned them not to bring them in the house. Lots of the kids are walking around wearing them.

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maisnon, that’s how she found the video. She was looking through YouTube for videos of WoW characters dancing, and yes, there are characters who dance just like Mehndi, to the same music.

She looks sort of stern and skeptical to me, like maybe a librarian saying, “Now Mr. Deutsch, you do realize that this book is 463 weeks overdue and you now owe the library enough to pay for a new building, don’t you?” Or maybe a professor saying, “So you’re telling me that this work is all original to you and the five copies I found for sale on the internet with a Google search are just a coincidence?” Or maybe a cop asking, “Do you know how fast you were driving?”