this is not a weather report.

I've always told myself i won't report the weather on my blog. "Gosh, it's nice out, so I'm going for a run/ride/squirrel hunting bout." Nope. Instead, I will subject you (or you will subject yourself, since you are reading this out of freewill, unless something has gone terribly wrong) to a tidy list of things that would make today nicer:
1. Margarita.
2. Balcony.
3. A few more hours of sleep, preferably gleaned in the afternoon in a sunny corner.
4. More jokes that involve Barry Wicks.
5. Ben's cold's departure.
6. Molly's broken leg's departure.
7. A full-time assistant to handle all the details.
8. Sunblock.
9. A good reason to need sunblock.
10. That dream job as a travel writer.

As a bonus, for you, my dedicated reader who made it through that grueling list, here are things that will make tomorrow nicer:
1. Enough bodyglide to cover every inch of my skin.
2. A superfast superlight windproof umbrella.
3. A same-day-return roundtrip ticket to somewhere that it's not raining.