Possumblog

You ever made meatloaf?

And I mean the real way, not with a food processor or blender or mixer, but by digging in with both hands and letting the meat and eggs and bread crumbs and ketchup squish between your fingers? That way?

Well, my head feels like that. I blame having to get up and go to an early meeting, combined with it being one of those gulag-gray days here where the threat of rain is worse than the actual rain. And it's not even a good threat, more like someone nagging you not to go swimming until it's been exactly 30 minutes since you last ate, and they start tut-tutting you if you move toward the pool at 29 minutes and 15 seconds. Really, I would kinda LIKE some rain. Check that--some BIG rain. Lots of lightning and thunder and wind. King Lear and cliffs of Dover sorta stuff.

As it is, I have crap to do I don't want to do, and there's the aforementioned mushiness in my brain that makes even random websurfing less fulfilling than it should be.

Maybe a riddle--this was on Scrubs last night, so if you saw the show (or you already know the answer), don't give it away. Reba missed the show so I drove her nuts with it right as we went to bed last night.

There are two coins, and they add up to 30 cents. One is not a nickle. What are the two coins?

Reba went through the exact same set of answers as the janitor guys on the show, and then walloped me on the arm when I finally gave her the answer.

Thank goodness she didn't have a crowbar.

The answer is in the extended entry, so don't peek until you're ready to know the answer.

Now then, all this talk of meatloaf has me hungry. Maybe there's something interesting at Sneaky Pete's.

It's a quarter and a nickle. "But you said one of them wasn't a nickle!" That's right--one's a nickle, and one of them is not a nickle. It's a quarter.