Today is hot & muggy. The high-fives the use of that phrase, "hot & muggy," requires are just about the only positive to be derived from weather such as this. Ick.

31/29: The Loot
This small size of this year's haul should not be misconstrued as slim pickings, for this is clearly a case of quality over quantity. Where's Teddy?'s parents forgot to bring my gifts, leaving them behind in *shudder* Ohio, further exaggerating the minuteness of the loot; I shall be given the presents when next I suffer the indignity that is setting foot inside the State of Ohio, the place where happiness goes to die.

{1} Burn Notice season three D.V.D. boxset
{2} Lego Ferrari Truck (set no. 8185)
{3} a suit (ready-to-wear, neither made to measure nor bespoke; yet to be purchased)

The Ferrari Truck—the set consists of an F2008, the car with which Ferrari won the 2008 F1 World Constructors' Championship, the titular truck for ferrying the car from race to race, and sundry crewmembers and equipment—is the first toy I've been given in far too many years and was a particularly auspicious gift on the day when Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro finished one-two at the Grosser Preis von Deutschland. Is a thirty-one-year-old man too old to receive toys for his birthday? I refer you to the words of Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play."

I will report again once I have collected the rest of this year's loot.