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My last post might have been a snoozer for many of you, but hopefully not. I try to make things interesting around here. But as evidenced by the break from my usual form, I have a lot of things to write about right now. In fact, I have a long list of topics to get to, which is a good thing. If you look back at the archives, you can see that I posted more during the first few years than I have during the past few years. Recently, the occasional brief lull has crept in. I’m not proud of that; I’ve always striven to post regularly. I can’t say that when I started blogging, I did it for the lulls.

Readers, I am outraged. My friend Luke informed me that Sunday’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel stole the title of my blog post from Saturday. Just look at that headline. Like mine, there isn’t even a comma to set off the subject of address!

Okay, so a quick Google search reveals that I wasn’t the only person to think of this clever headline, but is it even appropriate for a newspaper? The Sun-Sentinel seems to be more style than substance these days. Case in point: see the headline at the top? “A Bold New Sun Sentinel.” They’ve apparently redesigned the paper to look less newspapery and more short-attention-span-y. Now, the title of the newspaper can intuitively be found in tiny letters under the giant “S” on the side of the front page.

In any case, this weather has put a damper on some of my plans. I might be leaving for college on Thursday rather than Wednesday. And I was going to play baseball with my friends Nick and TJ today, but that’s not going to happen because we’re starting to get hit by the tropical storm right now. It’s not too bad right now, and maybe it won’t get too much worse.

Fortunately, I did get to hang out with Nick and TJ on Saturday night. We went to South Beach, looking for some fun. Because we were checking out the nightlife, I naturally brought my new sunglasses. But once again, we didn’t plan far enough ahead. Apparently there’s nothing to do there if you’re under the drinking age, which is a puritanical 21. We learned an important lesson: being over 18 isn’t a big deal if you’re under 21.

Yet another Jeopardy!-related link: a contestant describes his recent experience on the show.

You may be a bad speller, but be glad you’re not as bad as this newspaper that misspelled its name on the front page.

Getting around on a bicycle in the United States seems to be a real inconvenience. A reluctant Walmart customer describes her experience having to take her bike into the store because there was no place to keep it safe outside.