Never let it be said I’m not doing anything with my unemployment. It’s not much, and it mostly involves watching Babylon 5 from the beginning on DVD and playing with the dog, but it’s not nothing. Like today, for instance. I drove my mother to work after we dropped off my parents’ car at the mechanic — it died on me yesterday, pulling out of our driveway but seems okay now — and I picked her up again this evening.

I didn’t, unfortunately, have my camera with me at last week’s small capper get-together in the city. But at least you now have photographic proof that I’m somewhere other than Pennsylvania, right?